First Lady tests positive for COVID

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First Lady tests positive for COVID
thehill.com

First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday night, according to a statement. Jill Biden is experiencing mild symptoms and will stay at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., her commu…

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Man I thought both women and men were getting this the whole time. I was way off.

Can someone explain this to me?

If you remove the capital letters, "the first lady" got Covid could imply that only men have gotten it up to this point

Maybe this is just the first woman who is hoity-toity enough to be called lady

Yeah, I know your mom's had it lots of times. No one calls her "lady" though, for good reason.

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Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is a pretty harmless joke. My guess is people didn't read thoroughly and thought you got political.

Right, I upvoted them because I felt bad. Unless I'm missing something, it seems like they were just adding to the first joke. I think you're right that people probably mistook it for being political.

Probably because the fediverse has an unusually high amount of sticks up butts relative to its userbase.

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