Joe Biden is flying to Belgium later this week and he’s then going on to Poland to talk about the NATO alliance, given concerns about Russia’s aggression in the region with the war on Ukraine.

But one person who will not be going with him is White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. She just announced that she will not be accompanying Biden overseas because she has tested positive for COVID.

Today, in preparation for travel to Europe, I took a PCR test this morning. That test came back positive, which means I will be adhering to CDC guidance and no longer be traveling on the President’s trip to Europe.

— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) March 22, 2022

She said that she only had “socially distanced” contact with Biden so she wasn’t considered a “close contact” of his. He was tested and he’s tested negative, Psaki said.

I had two socially-distanced meetings with the President yesterday, and he is not considered a close contact as defined by CDC guidance. I am sharing the news of my positive test today out of an abundance of transparency. The President tested negative today via PCR test.

— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) March 22, 2022

Thanks to the vaccine, I have only experienced mild symptoms. In alignment with White House COVID-19 protocols, I will work from home and plan to return to work in person at the conclusion of a five-day isolation period and a negative test.

— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) March 22, 2022

How long has the Biden administration pushed masks at the American people? Yet, Jen Psaki doesn’t wear a mask during her briefings and generally not even when leaving them. And when she has pulled on a mask, it’s generally a cloth one. The Biden team claimed that the reporters who attended the briefing on Monday aren’t considered “close contacts” but that they are doing contact tracing with anyone that might fall within that ambit.

White House press briefing is held after White House press secretary Jen Psaki says she has tested positive for COVID-19 on the eve of Pres. Biden’s trip overseas. 

"We are currently conducting contact tracing," deputy press sec. Chris Meagher says. https://t.co/lH5ASyqZAn pic.twitter.com/6VVtg9WqL8

— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) March 22, 2022

I have a few questions here. Didn’t she just have COVID a few months ago? Yes, indeed she did. She announced that she was positive for it on October 31, 2021. She had just pulled out of another foreign trip with Joe Biden because of a family “emergency” — the emergency was people testing positive for COVID and then she tested positive as well.

So even after getting it, allegedly being double vaxxed and boosted, she got it again? Is she the unluckiest person ever? Or does she just not want to have to deal with Joe Biden’s gaffes overseas, not to mention all the flack that she’s getting over the Hunter Biden laptop? Doubtless, she will still be all-in for the fourth shot and if she gets it again, will praise that shot.

But having to always be on the spin patrol for Joe Biden and cover-up after his lies has to be a wearing job. Now, with the Hunter Biden questions to which there is no reasonable answer, it must be even harder. So maybe she just wants to avoid it altogether and what she knows in advance will likely be a disaster overseas for Biden.