Congress Attending Physician Warns Of Potential COVID Exposure From Taking Shelter Amid Siege | Talking Points Memo

Attending Physician of Congress Dr. Brian Monahan on Sunday warned that members of the House community may potentially have been exposed to COVID-19 after having to huddle together in a secure location during last week’s deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.


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These people really need to be “quarantined.” Forever.

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I said this in another post but I’ll say it again.

Sitting there with shit eating grins on their faces like children who got caught but still proud of the fact that they have shit smeared on their faces.

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Of course they were exposed.
Rep. Jake LaTurner, [R] KS, tested positive for covid-19 a few hours later.

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Why did it take this long for the fucking physician to say something?

We all saw the videos…heard the stories of the smug repubs who declined to wear masks.

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I wonder how many of them have been vaccinated. Even so, they should have masked. Their blatant disregard for others is hideous and typical, simultaneously.

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Masks aside, they all seem to be enjoying themselves. Cocktails would not be out of place in this photo. They look like they feel completely safe. What did they know that others cowering in rooms did not?

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Too Bad. May he be put on a ventilator for six weeks and then be a long hauler.

Fucker

ETA: I realize that sounds harsh and it’s not my normal take…but I am so fucking sick of these assholes that have egged donnie on as he killed over 350,000 (and counting) Americans…then led an insurrection.

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I was thinking corralled, like made to sit outdoors on the lawn or steps, then they can participate remotely. Damn the weather, their actions should have consequences.

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The Republicans were smiling, comfortable in their knowledge that their compatriots outside had broken in and would soon set them free from the shackles of an oppressive government that wanted them to wear a mask.

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I just watched the video. So many punchable faces, so few fists. And, honestly, I’m really not a violent person. Just near the end of my rope with these people. They are directly responsible for an insurrection and hundreds of thousands of Covid related deaths. What more?

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If he was not wearing a mask, can the others in the room sue him for knowingly endangering them? He cannot say that he was not told to wear a mask.

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I hope all the maskless douche canoes catch it from him. And I am not even remotely apologetic about it. Fuck em all.

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people in the safe room during the riots may have been exposed to the coronavirus.

So much for there being a “safe room.”

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You can’t fix stupid. They vote GOP above country.

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So … just to be sure I understand … you’re not going to join in the calls for “bipartisanship”?

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The convergence between Trump’s two great crimes — criminal negligence with respect to COVID, and the serial annihilation of the Constitution to amass political power — was inevitable. Trump will be responsible not only for more deaths among members of Congress but also in the maskless mob and among those charged with controlling them. Impeachment is an immediate concern, but a proper investigation will take down Giuliani and a host of complicit congresspersons. Treason is sadly too amorphous to be widely accepted as a descriptor of what is likely mainly a domestic insurrection. But in the final analysis, Trump, as an ally of the virus, as an enemy of justice, and as a ruthless exploiter of his office to monetize and profit by cannibalizing the public good, is the ultimate weasel of treason.

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Who are the selfish pricks in the picture?

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It is even worse than that. Laughing at the time is gruesome. These malicious, self serving criminals are the worst of human beings and they sadistically enjoy their positions of power. They deserve the harshest end to their macabre adventure into ruthless rage making. Hateful seditionists.

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Yes.

And that’s only this morning.

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