Rep. Pramila Jayapal tests positive for coronavirus after being locked down with lawmakers who wouldn’t wear masks (Seattle: homes)

[homesinseattle]

Absolutely amazing, article here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sea...masks/%3famp=1

“Rep. Pramila Jayapal tested positive for coronavirus Monday night, her office said, after she was in lockdown during Wednesday’s siege of the Capitol with “Republican lawmakers who cruelly and selfishly refused to wear masks.”

Jayapal’s office said she was locked in a secure room, as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, for “multiple hours” and several Republican colleagues “not only cruelly refused to wear a mask but mocked colleagues and staff who offered them one.”

Jayapal, a Democrat from Seattle, began quarantining immediately after the attack, her office said, fearing that she may have been exposed. In an interview with The Cut, published last week, she said she was quarantining because she was convinced the room she’d been in, “where there were over 100 people and many Republicans not wearing masks, was a superspreader event.

“Too many Republicans have refused to take this pandemic and virus seriously, and in doing so, they endanger everyone around them,” Jayapal said Monday night. “Only hours after President Trump incited a deadly assault on our Capitol, our country, and our democracy, many Republicans still refused to take the bare minimum COVID-19 precaution and simply wear a damn mask in a crowded room during a pandemic — creating a superspreader event on top of a domestic terrorist attack.”

Jayapal, in a prepared statement, did not say if she was feeling ill or experiencing symptoms. She said she would continue to work “to the best of my ability” while in quarantine.

Jayapal is the second Democratic member of Congress to test positive since the siege on the Capitol. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., announced a positive test earlier Monday.

In a video posted shortly after the attack, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., can be seen trying to give masks to her colleagues while they’re locked down together during the siege. At least six Republican representatives can be seen in the video, posted by Punchbowl News, refusing the masks.

“I am also calling for serious fines to be immediately levied on every single Member who refuses to wear a mask in the Capitol,” Jayapal said. “Additionally, any Member who refuses to wear a mask should be immediately removed from the floor by the Sergeant at Arms. This is not a joke. Our lives and our livelihoods are at risk, and anyone who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives because of their selfish idiocy.”

[Rombus]

Masks are part of the safety system. Shame on those Republicans who don't wear one when asked, and put others at risk.

And shame on Jayapal for jumping the Covid vaccination queue and getting the vaccine while many much older and vulnerable people in her own district still don't know when and where they will get their vaccine. She also put others at risk by taking the vaccine for herself and leaving the more vulnerable at risk.

[usernametaken]

@homesinseattle always forgets the inconvenient parts when it comes to Covid-19 related scams. He would make a great salesperson!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem...-capitol-chaos

[fassopony]

She lied about the whole thing lol. She was the one without a mask, the video and pics of her are all over the internet. And there were no Rs near her to begin with.




Such a miserable cow.

[87112]

Democrats and Liberals are a scary bunch. The tolerant left's idea of being tolerant is to quiet Republican free speech rights and ruin the careers of anyone in the Trump administration. Its all in the open, you worked for Trump in the past you will be blacklisted in many areas.

America is welcoming this. I have never witnessed anything like it.

If this continues it will end up in two words. PURE HATE between 2 groups and the end results may be a America divided in 2 regions. Red or Blue, you have your land and I have mine. Just like North Korea and South Korea, hatred with differences never going to be settled.

Congrats Liberals you win happy now??

[Sockeye66]

Originally Posted by fassopony

She lied about the whole thing lol. She was the one without a mask, the video and pics of her are all over the internet. And there were no Rs near her to begin with.




Such a miserable cow.

I'm no fan of Jayapal but a quick google has only show her mask-less when they were advising congressional members to don the "gas masks" during the insurection. If you have a good link, please share.

[homesinseattle]

Originally Posted by usernametaken

@homesinseattle always forgets the inconvenient parts when it comes to Covid-19 related scams. He would make a great salesperson!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem...-capitol-chaos

See Sockeye’s comment below.

[Sockeye66]

Originally Posted by 87112

Typical response, from the left. When you can't defend the hypocrisy call them a name.

I'm not from the left.

Explain to me how this is on topic?

[Rombus]

Originally Posted by Sockeye66

I'm no fan of Jayapal but a quick google has only show her mask-less when they were advising congressional members to don the "gas masks" during the insurection. If you have a good link, please share.

I think that has pretty well been determined.

Alas, people take one photo, comment, action out of context and construct an entire narrative around it. That is silly at best, willfully dishonest at worst.

[rjshae]

Apparently she got her first vaccine dose on Jan. 4th, but that wouldn't have been enough time for her body to build the necessary defenses. I frequently disagree with her politics, but hopefully she gets better. She's a good, eloquent speaker and I enjoy hearing her talk.