Many GOP lawmakers shrug off Statehouse mask-wearing rules

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Many Republican legislators in states where coronavirus cases have surged are rejecting mask-wearing requirements, even in their own capitols.

Pfizer files for emergency authorization for COVID-19 vaccine as the U.S. continues to hit records with new COVID-19 cases.cases and hospitalizations have surged are not only rejecting statewide mask mandates. They're also resisting rules requiring them in their own capitols.

Missouri's Legislature postponed a special session focused on virus relief after a COVID-19 outbreak among lawmakers, and a Tennessee lawmaker said she won't be able to spend Thanksgiving with her mother after attending a hearing where legislators weren't wearing masks. Twelve Arkansas lawmakers have tested positive for the virus over the past month, the second largest known outbreak in a state legislature.

“We aren’t having a big family Thanksgiving dinner mom due to COVID, but I was going to eat with her at a distance,” Johnson wrote, adding that being around her legislative colleague for the past two days will now mean she’ll “leave her food on the steps.”

 

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It’s only because they will make themselves fools to wear it now after rejecting masks for Trump. But that is how the devil tricks a nation into a wreck.

Have you ever seen your reporters before and after a Whitehouse press conference? They don't seem to take mask wearing too seriously either...

IN MY OPINION DONNY BOY HAS COMPROMIZING VIDEOS FROM MARALAGO OF SOME PEOPLE, AND HES HOLDING THAT OVER THEM

ID LIKE TO HERE HOW THEY EXPLAIN TO THEIR GRANDCHILDREN WHOS LIVES THEY ARE INDAINJURING?

Hold up!!! We have to wear masks all day at school teaching both virtual and in-school but our legislators don't have to? WTF!!!

Just my opinion...they are Idiots.

People who don't wear masks are nasty. As someone else stated its personal hygiene.

Idiots! When they get Covid, do I wish them well? Nope. I pray for those THEY infected. Pure ignorance, or willfully spreading disease. 😡

Don’t wear mask. HaHa

That's because they are idiots.

Time to thin the herd...

Good, let em get sick

Gavin Newsom, dinner party, indoors, large crowd, violation of all his rules. Rules for the not for me!

ABC/CCP. You get emails on this from CCP

Then they get what they get.

I'm having a peaceful protest on Thanksgiving day with my neighbors and friends and family with their guests. Your welcome to attend. BYOB.

They do right. If King-President knows about this, they would be fired. The King wants many, many cases and many, many deaths. Why? I have no idea ...

IDIOTS

What idiots. And we actually elected these buffoons.

And they are Touching.....Elbow bumps are not 6' apart

Foolish 🤡s

Idiots.

Just GOP senators? Wow! All the dumborats are rule followers🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Assholes

Covidiots.

Just utter stupidity

Killing their own constituents

We must thank all GOP members for their volunteering to get infected so we could have herd immunity.

They don't work or it wouldn't be spreading like this...

Idiots! MAGA is the laughing stock! They got their asses kicked at the polls. And judges are kicking out their fraud claims all over the place! 🤣😂🤩

Yep. Masks aren’t the answer.

It is a genocidal cult, the trump party. Republicans are gone. Only trumpers remain.

the biggest threat to AMERICANS there is is REPUBLICANS REPUBLICANS are destroying our COUNTRY and profiting massively from it

I mean it's really not surprising Look who they picked to lead the GOP And who they are backing when there's nothing left to argue about he lost it's all over but the crying which Donald Trump will do for the the next 4 to 8 years or until he dies whichever comes first

King David Healing Holy Oil, A miracle healing balm for all disease and illness Dm if interested

'Stupid is as stupid does' - Forest Gump COVID19 COVIDIOTS

Hope for their love ones sakes, they don’t end up in an ICU.

Well, they can stay out of our medical facilities when they get it.

Mask's should be illegal. It's up to me whether I wear a mask, not the government!

It’s a travesty that trump turned mask-wearing into a political statement. The first pandemic in a hundred years and these assholes can’t wear an effing mask until we develop vaccines and get some 75% of the population vaccinated to save hundreds of thousands of lives. Pathetic.

'I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.'

They’re still trying to spread the virus. Do they KNOW the election is over, Trump lost and it’s time to start taking this thing seriously?

That’s a shame, because the GOP has a whole bunch of older white males and they don’t tend to fair well with CV.

No hospital beds for them!! Stay home when you get sick!

I hope TN Governor Bill Lee enjoys his “non-mask-wearing” last term in office.

At their own peril, but this poor decision making imperils many, many more innocent victims. The GOP needs to go away and reinvent itself. The GOP is harming Americans and American democracy. =

Well masks don't work so why wear them? I got covid and wore a mask Everytime I left the house. Washed hands and distancing. Still got covid. So no matter what any so called scientists say masks don't work.

This is what Trump did to them when he decided to go against the science and make masks a political issue rather than a scientific issue.

Personally I hope they get the virus. Until it happens to them or someone they love they will continue to be stupid. I'm over having sympathy for any of them

Stupid is as stupid does. Damn her mentality.

What about all the mask wearing legislators who got the virus?

Red state moronic leaders 😂😅🤣

The Washington Examiner calls for Trump to Concede and move on : Do not concede! Trump and American people won this election 'LEGALLY' with 75 Million of us Voters!! We have to stand up!

Super spreaders Darwin’s theory of evolution only the smartest will survive the ignorant tRump followers good luck on your ventilators.

Guess they will follow their fearless leader Chairman tRump the dictator and tyrant. Andrew Giuliani and tRump jr are infected because they believe that the virus is a hoax. Infect majority of the secret service and other tRump supporters and inner circle are infected.

Fauci allegedly wrote a paper in 2006 about how masks killed more people during the Spanish flu pandemic than the flu through bacterial pneumonia.. He knows the risk so makes you wonder why he’s promoting masks

Oh there you go again You’re sooooo predictable.

Cause and effect don’t care if you are stupid

Is that the secret handshake? My man on the left’s obvious fav part of the day

Republicans are dangerous bio-terrorists. StandYourGround

Thats because wearing a tshirt on your face does not help. If you want to be serious mandate n95 masks not cut up def leppard tshirts.

The World especially in Europe is looking in shock at US loosing any respect for USA Govt

Bob marley once said there is a Natural Mistake flowing thru'the Air many more will have to suffer &die (Covid-19). don't ask me why.

Idiots

Do they hate doctors and scientists that much? Or is it they don’t want to be told what to do? How would we ever fight a war with that thinking?

And we can thank trump! These people know what they are doing! WHAT WE AS VOTERS SHOULD KNOW IS THAT THESE KINDS OF PEOPLE DON'T NEED TO BE IN OFFICE. THEY ARE WANTONLY SPREADING A DEADLY VIRUS! IF COVID HAS NOT TOUCHED YOUR FAMILY YET IT'S COMING AND IT KILLS. DON'T WAIT MASK UP

Mileg

Stupidity to the max!! Wearing a Mask is as simple as Wearing a seatbelt it saves lives!!

Living la vida loca I guess? Unless they’re fortunate to have the Monica Lopez show antibodies like Trump did so they’re not too concerned unless they have an intubation tube down their throat then and only then will they care or it affects someone close to them

“they’re not getting with the scam program!”

Complete and utter negligence on the part of these “leaders”

Pride is a poor substitute for intelligence.

Republicans breached the rule and must remove from the office or US Capitol because it is a massive epidemic dangerous contact. JoeBiden

So are Democrats. Do you close your eyes for them?

It’s sad when you get sick and die of a Hoax. Why don’t people get real are start doing the right thing?

Too bad America has yet to reject stupidity.. You're wallowing in it

That's right! Be defiant, stick your chin out. Show the world you're not afraid. Then later from your hospital bed you can make a tearful plea.

Idiots

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They should all reject hospital assistance then if needed 🤷‍♂️

Imagine being so brainwashed that you are willing to put your party ahead of your health and life. If you can't follow science, you can't be a leader.

😫

IT DOESNT TAKE A GENIOUS OR A REPORT TO KNOW THAT FACT.

Any public official that denies the virus and causes death through their negligence should be prosecuted for manslaughter if not mass murder

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