As we reported earlier, a photo released by the White House of President Joe Biden purportedly talking to Pennsylvania politicos and apologizing for having to miss an event due to his COVID diagnosis raised eyebrows over the fact that Biden was not wearing a mask even though a photographer obviously had to be present in the room in order to take the picture.

For those who missed it, here’s the photo:

Folks, I'm doing great. Thanks for your concern. Just called Senator Casey, Congressman Cartwright, and Mayor Cognetti (and my Scranton cousins!) to send my regrets for missing our event today.

Keeping busy! pic.twitter.com/uf7AsOg571

— President Biden (@POTUS) July 21, 2022

We also noted that CDC guidelines stipulate that if you are COVID-positive you should “Wear a well-fitting mask if you must be around others in your home” and “Wear a well-fitting mask for 10 full days any time you are around others inside your home or in public. Do not go to places where you are unable to wear a mask.”

Obviously, Joe Biden is not following the CDC’s guidelines, something that Republicans have relentlessly been raked over the coals for not doing over the last two and a half years of the Wuhan virus pandemic, with Democrats suggesting they were “putting lives at risk” as a result.

But when White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked during the Thursday press briefing about why Biden was not wearing a mask, she proclaimed that the photographer in the room was safe because they had been wearing an N-95 mask and that the maskless Biden was trying to do the presidential thing by demonstrating to the American people that he was in fact working though he’s under the weather.

Because apparently, you can’t do that while you’re wearing a mask or something:

.@PressSec says the photographer wore an N95 mask and were at least six feet away.
As for why Biden isn't wearing a mask here, she said: "he took off his mask so that the American people could see him and see directly that work he is doing." https://t.co/bfsR9m9fox

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) July 21, 2022

This reminds me of some of that infamous Democrat “logic” we saw during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. According to their unstated rules, it miraculously didn’t spread when Democrats including Joe Biden were caught maskless in situations where the CDC said they should be wearing one but it did when Republicans were out and about not wearing a mask. As it always is, the rules they touted never applied to them (and still don’t), only to everyone else.

What we’re seeing out of the Biden White House today more of the same old BS mask theater garbage, just a different day. And people are just fed up with it.

Oh, and something else people are fed up with? Being told Joe Biden, who has to be monitored and managed by handlers whenever he appears in public, has more stamina than the average person:

Karine Jean-Pierre: "You guys saw him yesterday … It was incredibly hot. He was feeling fine. Where most of us were looking for water and trying not to pass out, the president was delivering remarks on a very important issue." pic.twitter.com/oRyDCZne6C

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 21, 2022

You have got to be kidding me. No one who isn’t being paid to lie for Joe Biden can honestly look at how he was Wednesday during his climate change presser and say that with a straight face.

I honestly didn’t think the Baghdad Bob-style press conferences that came out of this administration could get any worse than the displays that were routinely put on by Jen Psaki. But Karine Jean-Pierre has proved me wrong by a country mile.

It’s just pathetic how often the intelligence of the American people gets insulted by this administration. Unfortunately we still have two and a half years of this to contend with, but hopefully no more after that.

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