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A Republican state senator who has proven to be one of Wisconsins most virulent critics of mask and vaccine mandates became sick enough to be hospitalized last week after contracting COVID-19, his office confirmed to The Daily Beast.
Whats more, a possibly infectious Sen. André Jacque, who testified maskless during a Joint Senate and Assembly Education Committee meeting last Wednesday at the statehouse in Madison, neglected to inform his colleagues about their potential exposureand theyre not happy.
In an email sent Monday evening to a reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jacque said he and some of my family tested positive for COVID at the end of last week. Jacque, a father of six with a new baby, sought treatment on Monday at the hospital for pneumonia, but said he did not know when he contracted the virus.
At the time I tested positive, I was largely asymptomatic with the exception of fatigue, which I had been feeling more of since the baby arrived, Jacque wrote in the email, a copy of which Jacques communications director provided to The Daily Beast in lieu of a statement or comment.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wisconsin-state-sen-andre-jacque-accused-of-hiding-covid-diagnosis-from-dem-colleagues?ref=home
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Doesn't care that he exposed his family, including the new baby, either, apparently.
magicarpet
(14,146 posts)Achew,.. Achew,... cough,... Cough,...
Does somebody have a tissue handy ?
I think I might have Covid.
Who cares.
lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)I'm not gonna say it I'm not gonna say it
I'm not gonna say it I'm not gonna say it
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... and this son of a bitch certainly deserves everything that's coming to him. (And more.)
Jilly_in_VA
(9,966 posts)I did look at his picture though and it's no wonder he has constant fatigue.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I hope the kids don't catch it.