Democrats Diana and Francis Sparagna prayed when they learned that President Donald Trump had tested the virus because they were labeled COVID-19.
Francis Sparagna, a lawyer from Ventura, has become very strong and spent more than 3 weeks on a ventilator after testing positive for the virus. He was “on edge,” said his wife, Diana Sparagna, also Ventura’s lawyer and president. Democratic Club.
The suffering affected his reaction to Thursday night’s news that COVID tests were for the president and his wife, Melania Trump.
“I’m afraid for him, ” said Diana Sparagna. ” I don’t need anything bad to happen to him, but he brings you a house. He sees how insidious and frightening this disease is. “
As Democrats and Republicans in and around Ventura County reacted to the news weeks before the November 3 election, Diana Sparagna recalled how the president mocked Joe Biden this week for dressing up in a mask.
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“He’s coming to realize that, in spite of everything, he’s seeing the severity of the disease,” he said.
Mike Osborne, chairman of the Ventura County Republican Party, said the news would replace any facet of the republican electoral crusade at the local level. The local party will continue the crusade by the president.
“In California, we’re realistic. We perceive demographics,” he said, referring to the state’s Democratic majority and saying that the component will also be in races where Republicans have invested seats, such as Congressional District 25 that includes the Simi. Valley component.
“We have to check to stop them, ” he said.
He, the Ventura County GOP organization, follows COVID protocols.
“There are other people who don’t make up the component that are components of the crazy group for lack of a higher term,” he said of Trump supporters protesting against protocols, adding any masks.
He assumed that the president would possibly have contracted a member’s virus.
“It’s one of those things. It just happens,” he said. ” You can (get) a contract even if you take all the precautions you’re prescribed. “
Dr. Robert Levin, Ventura County’s head of public aptitude, criticized the president for “mocking” non-pharmaceutical tactics to fight the virus, adding social estating, masking, and avoiding giant gatherings.
“I wouldn’t criticize him for having a COVID. Anyone can have a COVID,” he said. “It’s a game of probabilities.
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Dale Thomas, president of the Westlake Village Federation of Republican Women, said Trump’s positive check would replace the one who acted.
“I’ll be a little less arrogant now about the precautions to take for COVID,” Oak Park resident said, noting that she only wore a mask when she had to and wondered if some facets of the pandemic were exaggerated.
Now he feels vulnerable.
“If this can happen to the president of the United States, it can happen to me,” he said, adding that Trump’s place will “double. “
Steven Auclair, president of the Greater Oxnard Democratic Organization, said he was not surprised by the positive evidence and that the president had not taken the pandemic seriously enough in terms of habits such as dressing in a mask or directing the burden of mandatory resources.
“It’s not something we like to see, especially when you see that you’re now experiencing something that nearly 13,000 other people in Ventura County have experienced,” Auclair said. “We hope he takes things seriously and turns 14 days of quarantine. “and it won’t put other people at greater risk. “
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At least one Republican said her activities would replace at all: Deborah Baber, a Trump supporter who protested COVID restrictions on Ventura County board rallies and meetings, said she would continue to wear a mask or stick to requests for social esttainment.
The resident of Port Hueneme sees no explanation as to why to change.
“I don’t reduce deaths at all, like the president, I think too many,” Baber said. “The disease is real. But the government’s overreaction to our freedoms is repugnant, unacceptable and unconstitutional. “
Some in Ventura County said COVID tests underscored what they already knew.
“This is a fitness crisis, and the president has treated it from the beginning as a crisis,” said Henry Montalvo, president of the Ventura County Democratic Party. “Our reaction is that we identify with all the families that have been affected by Array . . . And we are applying to elect leaders who have answers to get us out of the fitness crisis. “
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It is difficult to assess the effect coVID positive tests will have on voters, said Tim Allison, a CSU Channel Islands political scientist, noting that this at least for now diverts the attention of white supremacists and other problems that have arisen in the presidential election. debate towards COVID.
“This fits the challenge today,” he said. “It is useless to check and wait what the challenge will be tomorrow. “
Allison claims a lesson from the positive tests.
“It just tells us never to wait for what will be maintained in 2020,” he said. “It’s a year like no other, in politics and in life. “
Tom Kisken covers physical care and news for the Ventura County Star. Contact him at tom. kisken@vcstar. com or 805-437-0255.