Live updates: Third Mar-a-Lago guest tests positive for coronavirus; Apple closing stores to 'maximi

[riversedge]

Source: wash post




Live updates: Third Mar-a-Lago guest tests positive for coronavirus; Apple closing stores to ‘maximize social distance’



March 14, 2020 at 7:44 a.m. CDT


The Washington Post is providing this story for free so that all readers have access to this important information about the coronavirus.

With startling speed, the coronavirus pandemic has extended its tendrils into the halls of power around the world. Three people who visited Mar-a-Lago last weekend have tested positive for the virus. The first was the Brazilian president’s spokesman. The latest is a Brazilian ambassador who sat at President Trump’s table during a dinner.

Meanwhile, Trump has declared a national emergency over the outbreak as public life in America continues to grind to a halt.


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/14/coronavirus-latest-news/

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goodness, a third case has been reported.

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https://people.com/politics/nestor-forster-brazilian-diplomat-who-had-dinner-with-donald-trump-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/



Brazilian Diplomat Nestor Forster, Who Had Dinner with Donald Trump, Tests Positive for Coronavirus
By Gabrielle Chung March 13, 2020 11:58 PM

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Brazilian diplomat Nestor Forster, who dined with Donald Trump last weekend, has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a tweet from the Embassy of Brazil in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

“Brazil’s Chargé d’Affaires Ambassador Nestor Forster has learned tonight that he has tested positive for Covid-19,” the statement read. “Following medical advice, Amb. Forster will extend his self-quarantine, which he had already placed himself into as a precautionary measure, for another two weeks.”

The ambassador dined with Trump, 73, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro during a visit to the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday, according to the Palm Beach Daily News.
Nestor Forster
Nestor Forster
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Fabio Wajngarten, the communications director for Bolsonaro who also attended the diplomatic dinner, tested positive for coronavirus earlier this week, according to Brazilian newspaper Estadão and the Associated Press.

[dewsgirl]

1. Be crazy if the POTUS was one of those asymptomatic

super spreaders they keep talking about.

[riversedge]

2. That might shake up some non believers.

[dewsgirl]

4. It certainly may.

[marble falls]

7. That got Typhoid Mary locked up, she ignored 'social distancing', too! Maybe .....

[dewsgirl]

8. One of my favorite series ever, the Knick starring Clive Owen

covered Typhoid Mary, she seemed like many of these people I am seeing breaking quarantine.

[marble falls]

9. She didn't feel sick, so she thought the authorities were full of malarky ...

she spent 20+ years locked in a hospital unill she died of pneumonia..

[dewsgirl]

11. Crazy, I can't imagine being her back then, I doubt the public

had ever heard of anything like that. Wasn't she an immigrant, Irish? I imagine they had a healthy distrust of those with authority.

[marble falls]

17. Reading about it is a big story. Finding her was part the development of epidemiology ...

and the Public Health Services in NYC.

She was an immigrant and she was known as a very good cook and especially a good baker known for her cream pies. She would lick the knife when slicing them and this how she spread the disease. Until she was identified scientists did not know one could carry the disease and be asymptomatic. It had to with where the disease sets up in a person's body. Washing hands after using the "facilities" and its importance to disease control was another discovery.

Its worth looking it up and reading all of it during your downtime this coronavirus season.

[dewsgirl]

18. I had never heard that about her licking the knife.

No wonder she thought they were lying or after her, I didn't realize she was the very first one. Kind of makes me feel a little bad for her. In the Knick and a few other portrayals of her, they really play up the hand washing aspect. Her story is very interesting.

[marble falls]

20. I do feel bad for her, but she also had a stubborn streak a mile wide ...

she was released a couple of times and told to stay away from kitchens and food. And she wouldn't do it, she felt she had no part in the epidemic.

[dewsgirl]

23. Yes. I remember hearing about that, the way people

got jobs in wealthy households without any real references is almost frightening.

[marble falls]

25. And the pay was not wonderful. The wealthy hired anyone because there were always more ...

if someone skipped out.

[dewsgirl]

29. I thought they were coveted jobs? I watched a documentary

on the people Downton Abby was based on, it was very interesting, in some instances they were loved like family. Of course that is England, probably very different.

[marble falls]

30. New York was never Downton! There were too many good cooks.

[dewsgirl]

31. LoL..I didn't figure.

[IronLionZion]

10. Dude shakes a lot of hands

and refuses to get tested so it's possible

[dewsgirl]

24. I believe there may be 4 now that were at Mar A Lago,

the news is moving so fast right now, I can barely keep up. I did see that somewhere.

[GopherGal]

36. Compare to the Biogen Cluster

which was 3 cases on March 6. A week later 82 cases. Now 94. From a 175-person meeting on Feb 26-27. (plus the contacts of people who were at the meeting.)

So about 2 weeks after the party should be the time to watch for his circle to drop from sight.

[dewsgirl]

37. Yes indeed I'm anxiously waiting. The way they keep bunching together

in these conferences there will be no one left.

[sunnybrook]

39. This isn't even counting the CPAC exposure

And those who are quarantined from that.

[Squinch]

3. It's almost as if God is closing in on him.

[cureautismnow]

5. If he does get it and then recovers...

...he'll be bragging about it non-stop.

[bdamomma]

14. hopefully

he will get it, the idiot boy is infecting others too and probably doesn't know it.

[marble falls]

6. but I thought cell phones already maximized social distancing.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Mar-a-Lago has the bug? Must be the place to socialize now. Is Trump going back?

Mar-a-Lago has the bug? Must be the place to socialize now. Is Trump going back?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. tRump properties have had bedbugs. Chinese visitor was carrying bugging equipment

A year or two ago (time flies) a Chinese woman was found at Mar-a-Lago on dubious pretenses with sophisticated electronic equipment. She was taken into custody and later deported.

tRump Doral had bedbugs in recent years.

[wishstar]

13. Repubs have been playing Russian roulette and narcissistic Trump doesn't care

since they knew before the Mar a Lago events that Repubs had been exposed at CPAC and even after knowing their exposure at Mar a Lago he has no concern about others and has continued shaking hands everywhere, even at yesterdays presser. All that matters to him is that he is not sick.

[bdamomma]

15. this virus

is non discriminatory it will affect everyone who has come in contact with a carrier.

[EmeraldCoaster]

16. Poe

And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held unlimited dominion over all.

[marble falls]

21. Don't tell me, I think I know the book - "The Masque of ...

the Orange Shitgibbon."

[Dem2theMax]

33. Awwww.

You used my favorite name for him.
The orange shitgibbon.

[marble falls]

34. Mine, too. Some kid in England should be knighted for coining it

[Dem2theMax]

35. Lol!

[Sancho]

19. Ground zero for coronavirus!!! Mar-a-lago...

Shut it down.

[sandensea]

22. Note also that the Brazilian delegation is ALL white - in a country that's mostly black/mulatto

Says a lot about Bolsonazi - and why Cheeto is so giddy over him.

But Covid's like the honey badger: it don't care.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. I do not want him to die in office. I want him to die in prison. . . . nt

[jberryhill]

28. Apple practically invented social distancing

[bucolic_frolic]

32. Sounds like a virulent strain

Anyone taking odds on the Trifecta?

[BluesClues]

38. Yuck

He would've screened everyone before they entered