Tonight we will see Senator Kamala Harris face-off against current Vice President Mike Pence in the 2020 vice presidential debate and a lot has changed in a very short amount of time.
Firstly, we now have a White House that has more new COVID cases than in some countries and somehow Pence has managed to escape the clutches of the virus. Pence’s last coronavirus test came back negative on Tuesday afternoon but doctors are claiming that may not be enough.
Dr. Neeta Ogden exclaimed on CBSN Wednesday:
Just because he’s had a daily antigen test, intermittent PCR tests, is meaningless if he continues to interact with other people on his team or anybody else in the world — we don’t know what their COVID status is.”
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So, if Pence or anyone that is traveling to the debate has contracted the virus since his last test it could be dangerous, to say the least. The Biden campaign has argued for accommodations to be made, such as plexiglass separation and 12ft distancing which was reluctantly agreed to, while the other side oddly argued for a seated debate. Ogden goes on to call the Trump-Pence campaign’s resistance to the precautions “ridiculous” and claimed even those weren’t enough.
“We need to make sure there’s good ventilation in that auditorium — ideally this debate should have been over zoom or should’ve been outside,” she stated. “I think there’s still definitely a risk here.”
Further cause for concern is warranted now that the debate stage set up has been revealed and it definitely doesn’t look like 12ft between their stations:
And here’s a preview of what those plexiglass barriers look like inside the debate hall. VP Pence will be seated stage left, with Sen. Harris seated stage right pic.twitter.com/YxrH1nrpAW
— Amanda Golden (@amandawgolden) October 7, 2020
It definitely makes us wonder if Pence has something to hide.
Featured image via screen capture
