Rubio Gaslights America By Calling Omicron A Sore Throat And Accuses COVID Patients Of Being Hysteri

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/01/01/marco-rubio-gaslights-america-by-calling-omicron-a-sore-throat-and-accuses-covid-patients-of-being-hysterical.html


Posted on Sat, Jan 1st, 2022 by Jason Easley
Marco Rubio Gaslights America By Calling Omicron A Sore Throat And Accuses COVID Patients Of Being Hysterical


Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) rang in the New Year with some anti-COVID pandering as he called Omicron “a sore throat.”

Rubio tweeted:

Link to tweet

Omicron symptoms are mild only if a person is vaccinated and boosted, like Sen. Rubio. For those who are not vaccinated, the Omicron variant can still make them very sick and land them in the hospital. There have been scattered reports of Omicron-related deaths.

Rubio’s comments were the height of irresponsibility from a public official, The people who are getting tested for COVID aren’t hysterical. They are folks who are sick or trying to avoid getting sick after potentially being exposed over the holidays.

It is easy for a fully vaccinated hypocrite like Marco Rubio to call Omicron nothing, while people are testing positive in record numbers in Florida.

Marco Rubio feels Rep, Val Demings breathing down his neck, but has taken his right-wing pandering to a new low while gaslighting America’s COVID patients.

[calimary]

1. What a heartless bastard!

The term “stupid schmuck” comes to mind as well.

[TheBlackAdder]

33. You would think that Liddle Marco would be sensitive to the demographics that COVID hits in Florida.

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https://covidtracking.com/data/state/florida

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[calimary]

44. The scariest thing, to me, about this bastard is - he has presidential ambitions.

And he has plenty of fans and friends with deep pockets...

[Walleye]

2. I can't imagine losing a family member to Covid and then having to read this from a US senator.

Today’s republican party can be summed up as unkind and inconsiderate

[notKeith]

9. Too many words.

Today's republican party can be summed up as evil.

..was gonna go with "assholes", but too many letters.

[calimary]

45. Welcome toi DU, notKeith!

It's sad, and true. They ARE evil. They ARE anti-American. They ARE greedy and selfish and power-hungry. And power - to do WHAT? In my worst nightmares I doubt I could imagine, or anticipate, the depths they'd sink to, for power.

[PatSeg]

15. And the nurses and doctors working short-handed

in overcrowded hospitals because of COVID patients. His words are like a dagger to the heart. What cruel, irresponsible thing to say.

[Rebl2]

18. You are to

kind. Today’s Republican Party is hateful and heartless. They don’t care if people die, even their own supporters.

[Walleye]

21. I was brought up to be kind and considerate I guess Marco's mom didn't care

that goes for the rest of the Republican Party

[MissMillie]

3. every infection creates the possibility for more variants

some of those variants will not be benign

[BlueJac]

4. Do you have to be a moron to be a Republican Senator ?

[Rebl2]

19. Apparently

[Busterscruggs]

5. He is

A disgusting little man that needs to be trounced by a Democrat with a good heart. Just our luck he will be the presidential nominee by the party of fools and villains

[Martin Eden]

6. To discourage testing is to promote the spread of this deadly virus

A disease of the mind, of the heart, of the soul has gone viral in the Republican Party.

[Rebl2]

20. Like trump said

quit testing because it uncovers more cases

[Vinca]

7. Paging Dr. Karma, paging Dr. Karma . . .

[Joinfortmill]

8. What a little worm.

[2naSalit]

10. Support Rep. Val Demmings...

Who is running to replace him.


Oh, and fuck that guy.

[allegorical oracle]

26. Absolutely!

[WHITT]

11. Gee

I wasn't aware one could DIE from a sore throat. Glad a medical specialist like Rubio is sharing his expertise.

[modrepub]

12. From A Person

who probably hasn't set foot in a COVID ward to speak with health-care workers or the families they are caring for.

In the coming weeks we are going to see how much we've learned since this pandemic started. If enough of us have been vaxxed and boosted, then the death rate will look nothing like the pre-vax surges we've already experienced. Not that the M$M would catch on to the pattern and give credit to anyone in particular.

[Botany]

13. Paging Dr. Rubio Paging Dr. Rubio

As of today there has been 62,504 deaths in Florida from C-19 and for the past week an average of 22 people a day
have died from the virus' disease.

[spanone]

14. Kiss my ass, marco.

[jaxexpat]

16. What demographics research outfit did Rubio actually pay to tell him that this is good for him?

Or has he just given up trying? Is it too hard? Is he tired of the "work"? Maybe he needs to waste his campaign money for financial planning. Could it be that there actually is a demographic that would maintain, much less, "swing" their support to a guy who comes out with junk like this? I mean just how many Floridians are, "Yeah, that's my man Rubio, where can I give more money to help his worthy cause?"

That's a lot of questions, I know, but if this guy (or any other like-wise, lazy, presumptuous and condescending candidate) wins again in 2022 it may be the biggest "kiss-off" to one's constituency, as well as the electorate in general, since the south's "chosen one's" broke away to form the CSA.

It's a mysteriously low point in an historical moment where lowness dominates the conversation. And, BTW, where's my sympathy with the poor, downtrodden refugee Cuban American community? I'm sure I put it in someplace safe but I've apparently forgotten where. Perhaps it got laid in the "thanks for enjoying and screwing with American hospitality while cashing the CIA's checks to prevent you from realizing that you're NOT returning to Cuba like neo-conquistadores any time soon", pile. Please pass the Pepto.

[allegorical oracle]

28. It could be a matter of

hubris overcoming compassion and his skimpy supply of little gray cells (as Poirot would've determined). Rubio always seems desperate because he knows he's not up to the job and has been faking it. Just another Repug grifter playing the system and hoping conservative voters won't notice.

[jaxexpat]

34. "hubris overcoming compassion", yer' onto something, there.

[70sEraVet]

17. Unlike Marco, I would worry about spreading the Omicron to toddlers,

who CAN'T get vaccinated and who are apparently landing in hospitals in much higher numbers with this variant.
But then, I guess I'm not 'pro-life' like him!

[left-of-center2012]

22. Trump said "meet me at the Capitol"

Then he rushed into the White House and watched it on television.

[paleotn]

23. He's simply evil and so are his followers.

Irredeemable and unsalvageable. The sooner they're all "kicked to the curb" the better.

[IronLionZion]

24. He might have fewer voters next election

in a state with lots of COVID deaths from people who thought the same

[edhopper]

25. He is lucky to come from a State

that fixes the election for him.

[texasfiddler]

27. A lot of Florida MAGATs don't like Rubio

Support Val Demings.

[Zambero]

29. Marco's COVID cure: Just a quick swig from a water bottle

Throat's all better and good as new! Marco knows that Ron Johnson's self-proclaimed gargle fix was WAY overboard.

[RAB910]

30. Did everyone go to Twitter and report this misinformation?

[GoCubsGo]

31. Little Marco fails tmention the actual cause of the sore throat.

That would be the ventilator tube that gets shoved down your throat to help you breathe.

[malaise]

32. Cain this asshole

That is all

[jaxexpat]

36. Were I only Abel.

[malaise]

37. DUzy!😀

Nicely played. Happy New Year.

[jaxexpat]

40. I bask in the light of your pellucid shadow.

[malaise]

41. Hehehe

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. Lot of people who are dying are dying of Delta. . . . nt

[The Jungle 1]

38. Let me see if I have this right. People are missing work.

The problem is corporate America is upset because their slaves are missing work.
Yea I think I have it right. So just send them some more socialist corporate welfare.

[Jon King]

39. Sorry, he is a jerk but is mostly correct.

His words suck but he is correct about most of it. A lot of the current staffing shortage is indeed people with no symptoms staying home according to guidelines. That is why the CDC shortened the guidelines.

First, testing is pretty much worthless. Waiting hours for a test is worthless. If you have symptoms that are progressing, seek medical attention. Testing with no symptoms is worthless.

The Miami Heat test 4 times per day. They have an entire staff for the process. They tested after a game and before boarding a flight, negative. By the next morning's tests, 6 guys were positive.

Public testing is worthless. By the time you get results, you could have been exposed 10 more times. Omicron is everywhere. Now if you tell me you will test, isolate yourself from all people, wait for results, then stay isolated forever, fine. But that is not what 99.99% are doing.

Again, if you have symptoms that are getting worse and you are compromised, seek medical attention. Better off waiting 4 hours in the ER if you are getting sicker than waiting days for test results.

Now for the sore throat part, again he is rude, but correct. For vaxxed people who are relatively healthy, that is what Omicron is. Doctors say almost every single person in the hospital is both unvaxxed and already unhealthy, obese/diabetic/heart disease.

So yes we should wear masks to slow the spread and ease the burden on health care workers. We should wear masks to protect the unvaxxed and unhealthy. But in the long run we will all get Covid over and over again and get the latest vaccine that is available for each season of Covid. The only alternative would be to live as an immunocompromised person is forced to, isolated and breathing filtered air.

[Calculating]

42. Exactly, thank you

COVID is basically going to be another cold/flu going forward. It's never going to just go away. If you're healthy and have prior exposure+vaccinated you'll be fine and it will probably hit you like a minor cold. Everyone is getting this, and many have probably already had asymptomatic cases. Unless you live like the literal bubble boy for life you're getting exposed.

[uponit7771]

52. Not exactly, start an op with this bullshit and see how fast this disinformation about covid gets

... canned.

We're not LIVs here and stupid punk ass Rubio isn't asking for Floridians to do their best to stop the CV spread.

Fuck antivaxer bullshit, its killed too many of my friends and family ... fuck em

[uponit7771]

51. This is false, Rubio is not "mostly" correct in the bases of his stupid tweet. You're spreading dis.

... disinformation by claiming

1. "...testing is worthless..." when its been proven by studies that even antigen home test will pick up asymptomatic and spreading. Your other paragraphs in regards to testing are wrong thinking on its face; testing works and is better than the alternative.

2. Rubio wasn't talking about vaxed people and there are tests that pick up Omicron strain now so even the unvaxed claim of "sore" throat in context is beyond uninformed. It's not the vaxed cramming hospitals now its the unvaxed and they should get tested and get the vaccine which ... to 3rd point

3. Rubio OVERALL in his stupid fuck asd tweet isn't pushing for people do the best they can do stop CV by getting vaxed, tested and NPIs he's whining about shit after he's done all of aforementioned already.


Fuck antivaxer bullshit, it's killed too many of my friends and family .... fuck em

[FlyingPiggy]

43. They're just killing their own. What a soulless bastard!

[moondust]

46. Florida Covid cases up 948% in last two weeks

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-us-maps-and-cases/

[uponit7771]

53. +1, and that's of those who can get tested. A loved one was in FL last week and couldn't get tested

... because the state shut down so many programs for in home and PCR.

Death Sentence is an asshole

[Solly Mack]

47. ...

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

Kierkegaard

Or - There are two ways to be a fool...

[Judi Lynn]

50. Have never seen that comment by Kierkegaard. So glad you took the time to share it.

[NowISeetheLight]

48. I'm just so over these guys

They have no redeeming value to society, they're idiots, they do nothing to promote the good of civilization.

[roamer65]

49. LET'S GO, DARWIN!

[uponit7771]

54. +1