Gaetz and Meadows didn’t just get special treatment relative to the average person; they got special treatment relative to other members of Congress exposed at CPAC: Reps. Paul Gosar and Doug Collins and Sen. Ted Cruz were told not to get tested, as was Democratic Rep. Julia Brownley, who was exposed to a coronavirus carrier in a non-CPAC setting.

Even some other Republicans were curious about what’s going on here. “I find it interesting that when my colleagues were in contact with someone who later tested positive [they] were able to get tested almost immediately and quickly receive their results while folks in my district and across Washington state are unable to get their testing results back,” Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler told the CDC’s Robert Redfield at a congressional hearing.

If Gaetz and Meadows were tested out of an abundance of caution for Trump’s health, since both men have interacted with him, that might make some sense—except Trump himself hasn’t been tested. As it is, it looks like privilege at work, pure and simple, while people who actually have and may be spreading COVID-19 are reduced to practically begging for tests.