The White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is not used to asking sharp questions. When she gets these questions, she often responds with a sneer while sitting on her unearned high horse. This happened again today, but I don’t think her communication ended better.
Some brave reporters — they may now be on a naughty list — decided to put pressure on Psaki to explain why the government refused to announce the number of people infected with COVID in the White House.That outbreak seems to be mainly due to Texas Democrats who fled the state Stop voting on the Integrity Act only to trigger a super-spreader incident in Washington, D.C.
This is Psaki’s grumpy response today.
Reporter challenge @PressSec Regarding the non-announcement of the number of breakthrough Covid cases among WH staff:
Reporter: “Why don’t you provide the number directly, what do you want to hide?”@PressSec: “Why do you need this information?”
Reporter: “Transparent…” pic.twitter.com/POVmqkzEFr
-Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 23, 2021
Siri: If it happens during the Trump administration, please tell me something will be a two-week news cycle.
Looking back, we had multiple breakthrough COVID infections in the White House, probably people who were vaccinated. Psaki claimed that the American people do not need to know how many cases there are. When the issue about the 2020 outbreak occurred, her excuse for the different standards applied by the Democrats in the Trump White House was that the situation was “different” now. So that’s it, right?
It is commendable that the reporter followed up, but to no avail. Instead, Psaki turned to the CDC’s data on breakthrough cases across the country. This obviously did not provide information about the White House, just an attempt to change the subject. Throughout the communication process, Psaki’s hostile tone showed that she was frustrated because she even encountered any problems with the Democratic Party criticizing Trump, the so-called lack of transparency in White House testing and infection.
So where exactly are Biden and his government hiding? It seems common to say that “we have 15 breakthrough cases” at the moment. This leads me to believe that this number may be astronomical, so much so that they feel that providing real numbers will weaken their vaccine information. But this is ultimately their own problem.
As I said before, the best way to communicate information about vaccines is to be honest. Tell honestly what it does and don’t do, how effective it really is, and who really needs it. Any slack in vaccines in the past will only lead to distrust. This is how all these breakthrough cases we are seeing now undermine the credibility of vaccines. The number of infections should not be a barometer from the beginning. quite, The result should be, And vaccines can indeed prevent serious illness and death (although nothing is completely reliable).
However, for example, Democrats hope to be able to yell about cases related to Florida so that their information will be scattered. If the case is important, then what happened in the White House is important. Psaki keeps secrets here because it is not good for himself and the government. The real numbers will come out, and when they come out, they may be more embarrassing than the situation where the White House was honest from the beginning.
