Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has contracted coronavirus and says she has no idea where she might have contracted the disease. Perhaps she forgot that she appeared at a BLM protest without wearing a mask. She attended a second protest and although she was wearing a mask many of the protesters weren’t. Perhaps that’s how she contracted it.
Bottoms says she has the disease but is not suffering from any of the major symptoms of the disease. She claims that the symptoms she and her husband had were the same one they got were similar to seasonal allergies. I wonder how many people she and her husband have infected with the disease. Bottoms says she was shocked when the test came back as positive.
Bottoms said:
“It leaves me for a loss of words because I think it really speaks to how contagious this virus is. We’ve taken all the precautions that you can possibly take. I have no idea when and where we were exposed.”
“It’s enough. We are all angry. This hurts. This hurts everybody in this room. But what are you changing by tearing up a city? You’ve lost all credibility now. This is not how we change America. This is not how we change the world.”
Bottoms later joined the Black Lives Matter marches – wearing a mask – but surrounded by thousands of people, many of whom were not wearing a mask. A photo of the mayor attending a protest – without wearing a mask – from a few weeks ago has been circulating social media.
CBS News, however, left out of its report any mention that Bottoms had attended the protests, as national media outlets continue to downplay the risk of contracting the coronavirus at protests.
NPR went so far as to claim “parties – not protests – are causing spikes in coronavirus.”