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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump PPE-producing PA factory visit scuttled: plant officials expressed concerns re: health risks
Trump visit to Pennsylvania factory that produces PPE materials was scuttled after plant officials expressed concerns about health risks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-visit-to-pennsylvania-factory-that-produces-ppe-materials-was-scuttled-after-plant-officials-expressed-concerns-about-health-risks/2020/05/11/10aa97ec-917a-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html
President Trump was pushing to get out in the public eye in recent weeks and tout his leadership during the pandemic, and White House staff thought they had hit on the ideal event: a presidential visit to thank the Pennsylvania factory workers who had recently taken herculean steps to ramp up U.S. supplies of protective equipment.
Workers had received national attention after dozens of them lived for 28 days inside their factory so they could ensure they were virus-free and their production was not contaminated or disrupted by illness.
White House officials pressed to hold an event at the Braskem factory, initially scheduled for last Friday. But after extensive back and forth, factory officials ultimately asked to postpone, worried that a visit from Trump could jeopardize both the safety of the workers and the plants ability to produce special material for masks and other medical gear, according to two people familiar with the decision and documents reviewed by The Post.
The White Houses efforts to set up an event at the Pennsylvania factory came as Trump and Vice President Pence have made a number of public appearances in recent weeks to showcase the administrations work combating the health crisis gatherings that health experts say have created heightened health risks for both them and those around them.
Workers had received national attention after dozens of them lived for 28 days inside their factory so they could ensure they were virus-free and their production was not contaminated or disrupted by illness.
White House officials pressed to hold an event at the Braskem factory, initially scheduled for last Friday. But after extensive back and forth, factory officials ultimately asked to postpone, worried that a visit from Trump could jeopardize both the safety of the workers and the plants ability to produce special material for masks and other medical gear, according to two people familiar with the decision and documents reviewed by The Post.
The White Houses efforts to set up an event at the Pennsylvania factory came as Trump and Vice President Pence have made a number of public appearances in recent weeks to showcase the administrations work combating the health crisis gatherings that health experts say have created heightened health risks for both them and those around them.
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Trump PPE-producing PA factory visit scuttled: plant officials expressed concerns re: health risks (Original Post)
hlthe2b
May 2020
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lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)2. A line from M*A*S*H (film version) comes to mind.
Hawkeye Pierce: Someone get that dirty old man out of this operating theater.
Col. Wallace C. Merril: [taken aback] Dirty old man? I'm Colonel Merrill.
Hawkeye Pierce: I don't care if you're Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy. If this kid's chest gets infected, I will tell the congressman who did it.
Trump is a dirty old man in more ways than one.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,812 posts)3. Full article is behind a pay wall, alas.
But I gather the factory is saying that he wears a mask or he doesn't get to visit?