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Republican Congressman reports COVID diagnosis (Original Post)
brooklynite
Oct 2020
OP
JimGinPA
(14,811 posts)1. My Useless Congresscritter
Indivisible Metro East posted it earlier on FB.
ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)6. who is his opponent?
JimGinPA
(14,811 posts)7. Ray Lenzi
I think it's rated "Safe R' here.
napi21
(45,806 posts)2. Well, at least he's doing the right thing for all those he could have exposed. Must be one
of the few decent Pubs.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,857 posts)3. Frequent testing is no substitute for wearing a mask
and social distancing.
Somehow these clowns don't seem to understand that testing isn't a magic ritual that keeps the Covid away.
Shermann
(7,413 posts)4. Right. Each mitigation is a layer
No one layer protects enough. Not even all layers together protect absolutely.
It's not about absolutes, it's about maximizing the chances of a good outcome.
Statistics, science, all that shit.
BComplex
(8,051 posts)5. That would take cognition, and reptillian republicans don't do that well.
The people who are currently in the republican party are snakes, or something worse. Actually, some snakes are really cool, but there aren't any cool republicans. And all republicans are cognitively impaired. They do not learn from literature or experience.