Rep. Don Young (R-AK) poked fun at the fatal COVID-19 outbreak and dismissed the notion of taking cautionary measures to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.
He’s nuts. I am not attempting to be hyperbolic. He’s just plain nuts. Why do people of his district keep employing this irrational buffoon to make public policy?
“This ‘beer virus’ I call it – they call it a coronavirus, I call it a beer virus, how do you like that? – it attacks our senior citizens,” he said. “Now I’m one of you. I still say we have to as a nation, as a state to go forth with our everyday activities.”
Edited to add: Incoherent. Intellectually lazy. Dangerous with his misinformation. Did I miss something?
go forth with our everyday activities
His everyday activity is being as stupid as a bag of hammers, so at least he’s being consistent.
Hahahahahaha!
Don Young is here all week…or at least until he’s intubated!
“we are at war now” - Don Young
“I’m a war president” - Bush the Lesser
“I look at it, I view it as, in a sense, a wartime president." - DJT
“We’re truly and totally fucked” - COimmigrant
Yup, he’s xenophobic. Corona is a Mexican beer, hence the beer virus. Young’s Variation on a Theme By Trump.
alas, the virus does not only infect the stupid
Nuts, or an unspeakable idiot? Tomay-to tomah-to.
He’s in the age group that has a 1 in 6 chance of dying.
Eh - he’s old and so are the people listening to him - he’ll get what’s coming to him.
Funny coming from Don Notso Young…
I really don’t have a problem with people making jokes about this. Humor is an important way we deal with stress. MASH is one of my favorite TV shows and had a very effective anti war message while making jokes about life in a war zone. Humor is good. What is not good is telling people to not follow medical advice. We should stop shaming people for the obvious beer jokes or other humor attempts even if we don’t think they are funny and focus on the actual message they are sending. In this case a pretty bad one.
Hmm…let’s assume that one of his staffers was diagnosed as positive. Wonder how old ‘Party Don’ would react…?
He should have no platform to influence people. Just like his chosen one.
he is a nutty unspeakable idiot. that is his function.
humor, yes; dismissing the need for coordinated measures like social distancing, no.
Alaskans have one shot at electing a Congressman, and this is who they came up with. Decade after decade.
Don Young: proudly serving up stupidity to proudly stupid voters who won’t get rid of him, for 47 years.
“We can overcome this mess if we just be calm,” the congressman said. “Whether you realize it or not we are at war now, but mostly because of the presentations by the mass media.”
Chuck Todd alone has killed 211 people. Sneezed the virus right through their flat screens.
Well, I am starting to see hints that those numbers may not be as solid as they seem.