POSING for a photo at a party may seem harmless enough in ordinary times, but in the COVID-19 era happy snaps taken at a New Year's Eve party at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago have cost a US pharmacist his job.
Instagram posts featuring failed US Congressional candidate, George Santos, and his pharmacist fiance alongside Trump allies drew criticism after being published in The New York Times.
The photos showed guests ignoring COVID-19 restrictions, however the would-be politician hit out at the publication in a tweet on Sat night, claiming it had exposed his family to "danger" and led to his fiance losing his job, The Daily Mail reported.
"My fiance and I had to leave our home this evening with our four dogs thanks to @nytimes publishing of my Instagram showing me attending the Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve party," Santos said.
"My fiance - a pharmacist - who worked 12 hour seven days shifts for nine months was fired.
"The violence against us is real."
Santos did not elaborate on what danger prompted him to leave his home in the wake of the republication of the photos from his Instagram account.
However, while the would-be Congressman has learned a valuable lesson from the incident, and made his Instagram account "private", we have yet to discover whether he is now social distancing.
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