The Trump administration is a floating superspreader event

One of the worst people in America contracts terrible disease:

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for the coronavirus, and told others not to disclose his condition, according to an official with knowledge of the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity. Meadows was at the White House early Wednesday as President Trump spoke about the election.

The diagnosis comes a little more than a month after Trump and other members of his family and inner circle also tested positive for coronavirus. Two weeks later, at least five aides or advisers to Vice President Pence were infected.

The repeated infections within the White House underscore the attitude with which the administration has handled the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed at least 235,000 Americans since February. Trump and his allies, including Meadows, have frequently flouted public health guidelines and continued to hold large indoor gatherings where few people wear masks or socially distance.

Meadows has fought with the doctors about the severity of the virus, argued about the effectiveness of masks and has repeatedly sought to move the president away from focusing on the virus, officials say.

After the outbreak in Pence’s office, Meadows appeared on CNN to say the administration had effectively given up on trying to slow the virus’s spread.

“We’re not going to control the pandemic,” Meadows said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Oct. 25. “We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigations.”

And needless to say he doesn’t give a shit who else gets exposed:

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, maskless, was at the election night party in the East Room attended by hundreds of people. pic.twitter.com/LYcMwkN9nJ— The Recount (@therecount) November 7, 2020

You beat these remorseless sociopaths and you’re still stuck with them for more than two months.