Posted on 05/09/2020 7:11:22 AM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus
WASHINGTON — Multiple members of the U.S. Secret Service have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, according to Department of Homeland Security documents reviewed by Yahoo News. In March, the Secret Service, which is responsible for the protection of President Trump and other leaders, acknowledged that a single employee tested positive in March.
However the problem is currently far more widespread, with 11 active cases at the agency as of Thursday evening, according to a daily report compiled by the DHS. This report comes as a pair of cases among White House staffers close to Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have put the West Wing’s coronavirus security procedures in the spotlight. According to the DHS document, along with the 11 active cases there are 23 members of the Secret Service who have recovered from COVID-19 and an additional 60 employees who are self-quarantining. No details have been provided about which members of the Secret Service are infected or if any have recently been on detail with the president or vice president.
The DHS, which oversees the agency, referred all requests for comment to the Secret Service, which declined to comment on the number of coronavirus cases among its employees. “To protect the privacy of our employee’s health information and for operational security, the Secret Service is not releasing how many of its employees have tested positive for COVID-19, nor how many of its employees were, or currently are, quarantined,” Justine Whelan, a Secret Service spokesperson, said. While the Secret Service is best known for providing security to the president and vice president, it also protects other leaders, including presidential candidates, former presidents, and visiting dignitaries. The Secret Service also conducts investigations, including most recently, scams involving the coronavirus.
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Good to see the Department of Homeland Security telling the world that COVID-19 is impacting the Secret Service.
That’s a great homeland security strategy.
If you look at the data from worldometer you see that the virus is increasing in Va. Md.and DC. The Beltway. Might be a good time for POTUS to spend a week somewhere. Unfortunately Mar a Lago is in Palm Beach, one of the South Fl hotspots.
Dr. Loveless could be the mastermind.
He hated the Secret Service.
23 have recovered, more than twice the active cases.
The 11 active cases are likely recovered or recovering. Maybe they’re taking HCQ + Zn + Zpak. If so, they’ll be clear within a week.
In late March, 11 people on the fire department that I retired from tested positive. Two weeks later they were all negative. Only 1 developed any symptoms, and they didn’t go away when he tested positive. His symptoms were from his seasonal allergies.
This maybe more that the tests are getting better, fewer falses, positive or negative.
Aw crap. I wish they’d back off on this. ,p>It’ll all be fine by Easter anyway. Fake News.
Remember that among other things, it is the Secret Service that interviews individuals who publicly threaten the POTUS, the VPOTUS and their families.
“Permanent protectees, such as the President and Vice President, have special agents permanently assigned to them. Temporary protectees, such as presidential and vice presidential candidates/nominees and foreign heads of state, are staffed with special agents on temporary assignment from U.S. Secret Service field offices.”
Ah, but I bet the majority of infections are coming from the endless stream of the thousands of dirtbags and radicals they have to interview every year. There are so danged many of these screwballs and kooks that the FBI and Federal Marshals also have to help out.
So how many FBI and Federal Marshals Service field agents also have coronavirus?
As of 2019, the Secret Service had over 7,000+ personnel.
Might be a good time for POTUS to spend a week somewhere
My home is available and if he is concerned about protection, I can supply it in spades. One thing such an event would do, it would probably cause a few of my neighbors to expire from heart attacks. Then again, given he would be here to get away from CCP Virus, it would be considered a virus related death. Our county of 88000 has had 60 cases, one death so it is relatively safe.
So, WHICH White House staffer was doing back-channel negotiations with the Red Chinese?
For a self-described germophobe like Trump it has to be driving him up a wall. And whoever’s job it is to keep the President safe during these times is not doing his/her job.
Oh Noes! Not High Alert!
One of the best kept secrets around is BHT short for butylated hydroxy toluene. Too bad the people who could use it for protection don’t know about it.
It has been around for the better part of thirty years or more, has been approved as a food additive by the FDA as safe for human consumption in small quantities and using common sense. Without going into all the details which would fill many pages some of the benefits are difficult to ignore even so pharmaceutical as well as the medical profession does their best to do so. As a prophylactic it would serve its purpose very well until the right vaccine comes along, without any undesirable side effects, besides being inexpensive and is safer than alcohol consumption, use of tobacco or many other unhealthy eating habits, as well as many prescription drugs with strange side effects
Some of the reasons are that that there is no money to be made by pharmaceutical companies as patents related to BHT ran out long time ago and in order to have it approved for medical application it would require an immeasurable amounts of human tests with expenditures in the millions of Dollars which most likely will never be recovered.
On the other hand many doctors may know about it but will refrain from suggesting it as recommending anything which is not approved by the FDA would leave them wide open to lawsuits, as it is pretty well known that one of the American dreams is, to fall on your neighbors property and then sue them for what ever they can get.
Over the years enough information about BHT has surfaced that if used in small quantities to achieve a particular result, such as from 100 mg to about 1g (one gram or 1000mg) and in most cases 250mg to 450mg may do a nice job for some of the things suggested, it may be less harmful than an equivalent amount of Aspirins. Again do your own research and use common sense which appears to be in short supply these days.
Even so if you still apprehensive or hesitant, use it only when one of those nasty viruses appears on the scene and use it as a prophylactic in a small quantity perhaps up to 450 mg and once the danger subside stop taking it. The catch is that in order to do its job BHT works better before you get sick, as BHT will NOT REPAIR ANY DAMAGE which may already have been done by an infectious disease such as the corona virus. Even so if taken afterwards BHT will still continue to disable lipid covered viruses, but to repair any damage already caused may require different medications.
So why to take BHT on the firs place? It has been long known that BHT will damage the lipid layer or cover from LIPID COVERED viruses and the coronavirus happens to be just such a virus and by doing so will prevent such a virus from attaching itself and do its dirty work.
The Principal Benefits of BHT
In order of importance, supplementing with BHT can help with:
Reduce and prevent viral infections such as herpes, thus terminating their outbreaks. Also BHT is effective against many different human and animal viruses including CMV (cytomegalovirus),9 pseudorabies,10 genital herpes,11HIV,12 and some strains of influenza.13 A few of the viruses that have a lipid envelope and may be treated by BHT include herpes simplex I, herpes simplex II, herpes zoster, CMV, West Nile virus, HIV virus, influenza virus, hepatitis B and C viruses, avian flu influenza virus and the SARS virus. However, BHT has not been clinically tested to treat these infections.
The CORONAVIRUS is also a lipid covered virus and BHT affects the lipid covering and in turn prevents the virus from attaching itself and do its damage. Now keep in mind that very few things in life are perfect and this holds true for vaccines as well. So when everything comes down to being cut and dried, do you prefer risking being infected with a nasty virus with all kinds of unpredictable side effects or take a chance with some substance which overall has a very good safety record.
Besides most viruses will mutate over time, and by the time someone may come up with the proper vaccine it may no longer match the virus which is currently making its round. But BHT doesn’t care if such a virus mutates or not. As long as such a virus has a lipid coating it will damage it and disable such a virus.
Herd immunity WILL NOT BE DENIED!
bkmk
Herd immunity WILL NOT BE DENIED!No, but herd thinking could kill you.
Interesting article on herd immunity:
While it sounds good as a sound-bite, the devil is in the details....
Also his valet and Pence secretary. Makes me wonder if this is being spread among purposely in the White House.
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