Public fitness officials are sounding the alarm and urging Americans not to restrict meetings this holiday season amid a re-accumulation of coronavirus cases.
But that doesn’t stop the White House from planning a series of festivities, adding up to the holiday season, which began on Monday with the arrival of the White House Christmas tree.
“Attending the holidays will be a very private election,” said Stephanie Grisham, spokeswoman and leader of First Lady Melania Trump. “It is a long-standing culture in which other people stop and appreciate the joy and iconic decoration of the Annual. Christmas celebrations at the White House. “
The resolve to move forward with indoor events and other meetings comes when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House’s most sensitive advisers, and public fitness professionals across the country have begged Americans not to spend Thanksgiving or spend the holidays with outsiders.
As the weather cooled, the virus spread uncontrollably, with cases and hospitalizations spreading across the country and more than 250,000 people were killed.
The White House has already been the scene of several suspicious occasions of “supercasting” and dozens of members, as well as the president, first child and her son, have been infected, as well as a long list of crusader assistants and other advisers. .
Grisham said the White House would take precautions to provide “the safest environment imaginable” for event participants, including lists of smaller guests, requiring masks, encouraging social estating on White House grounds, and hand disinfection stations throughout the State Floor.
“Customers will be able to enjoy dishes prepared separately through chefs at Plexiglas-protected food stations. Anything beyond drinks will be covered. The entire workers’ service corps will wear masks and gloves to meet food protection guidelines,” he said.
On Monday, U. S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams eluded questions about new year-end celebrations planned at the White House while calling in-house meetings of other Americans “potential superdifusors. “
“I need other Americans to know that we are at a critical point in our fight against this virus, regardless of the measure: case, positivity, hospitalizations, deaths,” he said in ABC’s “Good Morning America. “Then I ask the Americans, I beg you, to wait a little longer, to keep Thanksgiving and the modest and wise celebrations this year . . . Do it outdoors if you can, keep it small, preferably less than 10, and get ready in advance.
“These apply to the White House, they apply to the American people, they apply to everyone. We need you to stay so we can get a vaccine,” he said.
Soon after, the first attended a small rite to commemorate the arrival of the White House Christmas tree, in a horse-drawn carriage, an occasion that historically usrid the White House holiday.
Ms. Trump inspected Fraser’s spruce, smiled, greeted the cameras, and chatted with masked drivers as the U. S. Navy Band’s metals segment played carols.
The National Christmas Tree Association said that, in general years, “the White House Christmas tree ion is a media occasion at NCTA Champion Grower Farm, assisting a hundred or more people to see the White House team the best tree for the Blue House. “
“But 2020 is a general year, there have been no variety occasions this year. “
On Tuesday, the occasions will continue when President Donald Trump participates in the annual National Thanksgiving Turkey Grace in a rite at the Rose Garden.
Trump has remained largely behind closed doors since he wasted his candidacy for re-election; he refused to give in and filed unfounded accusations of voter fraud with the aim of reversing the effects and undermining one of the basic defenders of democracy.