The White House has announced that everyone coming into range of President Trump will be tested for COVID-19. Trump, meanwhile, insists that he won’t wear a mask when meeting other leaders — or, as he put it in order of reverse dignity, ‘presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens’.
Unfortunately the worst-case scenario — that a physically unfit 73-year-old might catch a dose and get seriously ill — no longer seems outlandish.
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