McEnany calls state coronavirus restrictions for Thanksgiving 'Orwellian'

[left-of-center2012]

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday called state restrictions meant to slow the spread of coronavirus around Thanksgiving "Orwellian" even as she acknowledged the Trump administration has ceded power to the governors to impose such measures.

"A lot of the guidelines you’re seeing are Orwellian," McEnany said in an appearance on "Fox & Friends."

"The American people know how to protect their health. We’ve dealt with COVID for many months," she added. "

McEnany pointed to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, which are urging Americans to avoid holding Thanksgiving gatherings with people who do not live in their household in order to minimize the risks of spreading the coronavirus.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/526476-mcenany-calls-state-coronavirus-restrictions-for-thanksgiving

[ananda]

1. Irony is dead, for sure.

Does she even know what Orwellian means?

[gratuitous]

2. Obviously she doesn't know what "Orwellian" means

The value of an Ivy League education.

As for the American people knowing how to conduct themselves in this time, it's pretty obvious they don't. The number of infections and deaths keeps climbing, nearly out of control at this point. A quarter million dead, far more than any other country and far out of all proportion to our percentage of the world's population.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

3. Irony caught COVID...

It was not a very good outcome.

[ananda]

17. Sure did.

...

[OilemFirchen]

11. While not realizing that the WH guidance is Randian.

What a maroon.

[ananda]

16. Agree.

She is very ignorant... but I think that's
a job requirement for Trump.

[DBoon]

12. I don't think she knows what "dead" means

given her opposition to restrictions that would prevent further deaths.

[ananda]

15. Point well made.

And very sad.

[Me.]

4. What Is Wrong With McEnemy?

[Politicub]

8. I was asking myself, "Where did this nutcase come from?"

She has lost touch with reality, and has yoked herself to a sinking ship. I don’t get it.

[captain queeg]

5. The MAGAs have destroyed superlatives

Every little thing is off the charts, comparisons to Hitler, Orwell, etc. because you are asked to wear a mask or question their god-king. Adjectives that describe things have lost meaning.

[MineralMan]

6. MAGANinny Says Some Crap.

[MissMillie]

7. A wedding in Maine

has been attributed to at least 18 deaths (at least 2 of those were people who were not in attendance at the wedding) as well as outbreaks in a nursing facility and a prison.

People go to these get-togethers, and they catch it, and then as they are asymptomatic, they spread it (because, you know, a mask violates their "rights" ) .

People OBVIOUSLY do not know how to protect their health. This current wave is evidence of that.

What's worse is that people don't care that they could spread this to someone else.

[grumpyduck]

9. Yeah, like the people she wants to reach

ever read Orwell.

She might as well say Democratic factories are dumping dihydrogen monoxide into the rivers. 😉

[underpants]

10. Don't let the door knob hit ya where the good Lord split ya

Bye now

[NightWatcher]

13. But prisoners loading bodies into refridge trucks is...... 250,000 dead, there's your dystopian hell

[tanyev]

14. Well, yes, if 1984 was a novel about dedicated public servants desperately trying to save

millions of idiots from their own idiocy. But it's not.

[Vinca]

18. Hey, if you hate your family now's the time to do them in. Right, Kayleigh?

No worries about a Christmas get together.