“The virus wasn’t taken as seriously as it should have,” says one Democratic staffer told me. “Nobody was ready for this situation to evolve the way that it is”
knee-deep in denial over the threat of the coronavirus, dismissing the highly contagious virus as nothing more than a media hoax that a little sunlight could fix until two days ago, the onus fell to other elected officials to fill the messaging vacuum and put together emergency legislation intended to stymie the impending health and economic crisis.
Capitol Hill is inherently susceptible to contagion, by its nature a viral hotbed. “We are the worst-case scenario. We have 535 people, disproportionately older, who almost on a weekly basis fly to 435 districts and 50 states all around every nook and cranny of the country, shaking hands relentlessly, meeting with hundreds, if not thousands, of people in the course of a week,” said Minnesota congressmanwhose office shifted to teleworking at the start of last week.
“Everyone else in the world is quarantined to their homes, and Congress is literally walking around with signs that say, ‘We’re not shaking hands, so we’ll also be fine,’” this person said. “I think this is one of those times where we’ve gotten less information than we get on, like, a snow day.”on both coronavirus and House teleworking policies.
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