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Jilly_in_VA

(9,966 posts)
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 12:29 PM Aug 2021

GOP Senator Railed Against Vax, Caught COVID, Then Hid It From Dem Colleagues

A Republican state senator who has proven to be one of Wisconsin’s 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.

What’s 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 exposure—and they’re 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 Jacque’s 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.

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GOP Senator Railed Against Vax, Caught COVID, Then Hid It From Dem Colleagues (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 OP
No worse than a common cold,... magicarpet Aug 2021 #1
I'm not gonna say it lindysalsagal Aug 2021 #2
People who know me will also know what I'm thinking... NurseJackie Aug 2021 #3
But his family doesn't Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 #4
His choice. NurseJackie Aug 2021 #5
Probably better off without the asshole. lagomorph777 Aug 2021 #7
Republicans love their hate more than they love their children. nt CottonBear Aug 2021 #6

magicarpet

(14,146 posts)
1. No worse than a common cold,...
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 12:54 PM
Aug 2021

Achew,.. Achew,... cough,... Cough,...

Does somebody have a tissue handy ?

I think I might have Covid.

Who cares.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
3. People who know me will also know what I'm thinking...
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 01:03 PM
Aug 2021

... and this son of a bitch certainly deserves everything that's coming to him. (And more.)

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