IA-SEN: As Election Nears, Iowa Senator Under Pressure For COVID-19 Remarks

[RandySF]

While campaigning in Waterloo recently, Ernst said she was "so skeptical" about the United States' total COVID-19 death count after someone in the crowd raised the question.

"These health-care providers and others are reimbursed at a higher rate if COVID is tied to it, so what do you think they're doing?" Ernst said, according to an account by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. More than 193,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, but Ernst said, "They're thinking there may be 10,000 or less deaths that were actually singularly COVID-19."

Her comments echoed conspiracy theories that have been pushed by QAnon followers and debunked by public health experts who note that the number of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 is likely an undercount. Medical professionals have called Ernst's comments dangerous, and Greenfield called out Ernst in a video.

"Today I am calling for a statewide mask mandate and Senator Joni Ernst should join me. I don't think she will," Greenfield said. "She should also apologize to our health care heroes and explain why she supports these lies."



https://www.npr.org/2020/09/13/912055824/so-skeptical-as-election-nears-iowa-senator-under-pressure-for-covid-19-remarks

[Cha]

1. Phony joanie Baloney has a big ugly Stupid mouth..

not surprising to read this.

[madaboutharry]

2. She is a dumbass who thinks she's clever.

She has zero self awareness. When she was elected to the Senate, she was supposed to be the next best thing. It didn’t take long for her republican colleagues to figure out she was a fucking moron. In no time at all she became a back bencher in the Senate. She is a stupid person who has no business being in Washington . She needs to go back to Red Oak and cut the balls off her pigs.

[mobeau69]

3. Breadbags is only good for a laugh now and then. She's like a circus clown.

[UTUSN]

4. K&R

[IADEMO2004]

5. Sen. Ernst is a Guardian of Putin's Proxy in the White House nothing else