With the coronavirus pandemic hammering the US economy, while the disease has killed nearly fifty-eight thousand people and suddenly left twenty-six million Americans out of work, it’s not too much to ask for our leadership to take COVID-19 seriously. While Americans are self-quarantining to flatten the coronavirus curve, Vice President Mike Pence defied a simple rule from the Mayo Clinic: Wear a face mask, Mr. Man, while visiting the clinic in Minnesota on Tuesday.
Pence was there to discuss a partnership with the Mayo Clinic, the state, and the University of Minnesota to increase testing. But by flouting the rule, Pence put others at risk, and that’s just irresponsible behavior from a vice president. Everyone around Pence was wearing a mask, but not the vice president. Maybe he was trying to be edgy in that cardboard cut-out kind of way.
Here’s a photo of Pence being a douche canoe:
Seeing Mike Pence without a mask at the Mayo Clinic, while every other human in the room wore one, and he was WARNED about the policy, tells you everything you need to know about WHY we have 1 million cases and over 57,000 dead. pic.twitter.com/2JUkqi4Poj
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) April 28, 2020
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That was weird enough; then the Mayo Clinic deleted the following tweet after Pence’s meeting.
the @MayoClinic has deleted this tweet about face masks and the @VP‘s visit. pic.twitter.com/0OJTwdy6x0
— Eli Yokley (@eyokley) April 28, 2020
It’s campus policy to wear a mask amid the pandemic.
Mayo Clinic requires all visitors to wear a mask. Will Mike Pence do so today? Famed hospital punted Qs about the visit from the VP, who has avoided wearing a mask in photo opps. pic.twitter.com/u4iAtjTJGn
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) April 28, 2020
This is odd because out in public, instead of shaking hands, the vice president always partakes in an elbow bump with his colleagues. So Pence is aware of how not to spread the disease, he just didn’t give a shit today. But the Mayo Clinic was likely a good campaign stop for him to take part in a photo-op. We don’t know why the famed clinic deleted the tweet, but we do wish we could see more balls or ovaries after each blunder from this administration amid the national crisis.
Personally, if I met Pence before the pandemic, I’d still want his face covered.
Featured image via Political Tribune gallery
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