US senator from Mississippi 'fed up' with masks contracts COVID

[riversedge]

Source: alternet




August 19, 2021

The state of Mississippi has the one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, and is averaging over 3500 new coronavirus cases per day.

That number just went up.

U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, 70, Mississippi's senior senator and a Republican, just contracted COVID. He has been vaccinated, his office said in a statement.

Wicker infamously was captured on camera on a Delta flight refusing to wear a mask last year. He has been an ardent anti-masker........................

Read more: https://www.alternet.org/2021/08/roger-wicker/

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shucky darns.

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[PortTack]

1. Could care less! They get the best treatment and then go back to their anti science BS

[Ferrets are Cool]

24. I "couldn't" care less

[WhiteTara]

2. I wonder if he got vaccinated.

If not, he's in for a very rough ride.

[LisaL]

8. He is vaccinated.

You know what could have helped to prevent infection? Wearing a mask.
Of course he doesn't like wearing masks, so...

[soldierant]

26. 3 vaccinated Senators have tested positive this week (maybe just today) -

this Republican, Independent Angus King (ME), and Dmocrat John Hickenlooper (CO).

King's not so bad, and, though Hick is not the Senator Bennet is, I don't wish him any ill. At least he's oin our caucus.

[Botany]

3. Do not give him any medical treatment outside of palliative care and stick his ass in a tent out ...

... in a field someplace.

[Moostache]

10. I'll help pitch the tents... (n/t)

[Botany]

14. something like this should be fine (except the people would need PPE)

[gohuskies]

4. Hypocrite and science denier needs to man up

what a fool, in a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates, he is willing to spread this to his own vulnerable constituents and kids. he needs to his his butt kicked for this irresponsible attitude.

[peppertree]

5. Longtime (former?) member of the CCC

The rebranded KKK.

[ShazzieB]

23. What's the CCC?

Not the Civilian Conservation Corps, I'm sure.

Seriously, most of what Google pulled up on a search for "CCC" was about that. I also got (equally unhelpful) stuff on the City Colleges of Chicago.

[peppertree]

29. That would be the Council of Conservative Citizens

It was formed by KKK members and sympathizers as part of their effort to re-insert themselves into Southern elected politics in the 1980s (many had been forced out by the Kennedy/Johnson-era Justice Dept's crackdown on the KKK, as well as the more moderate Southern politics of the 1970s).

During the Trent Lott scandal in '02 (remember that one?), most of the white Southern GOP congressional and senate delegations were said to be CCC.

They try to stay low-key - but pop up in the news from time to time (usually related to a hate crime).

Most recently, after the 2015 Charleston Massacre, when it was revealed that Dylann Roof belonged.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1060116

[ShazzieB]

37. I see! Thanks for the info.

When I googled the name just now, a lot of stuff popped up. I shall now proceed to do some research!

[peppertree]

38. You're welcome

The CCC is a common denominator in most of today's Southern GOP - and helps explain the party's radicalization as a whole.

Naturally, they like to keep a low profile.

[irisblue]

6. FAFO in action. Covid believed in him

newish internet slang, fucked around, found out.

[riversedge]

7. NEW !! Two Vaccinated U.S. Senators Test Positive for Covid-19

Two Vaccinated U.S. Senators Test Positive for Covid-19
By Laura Litvan
August 19, 2021, 12:05 PM CDT Updated on August 19, 2021, 1:12 PM CDT

GOP’s Wicker, independent King both had been vaccinated
Five members of Congress have reported recent infections



Two U.S. senators tested positive for Covid-19 despite being vaccinated, bringing to at least five the number of members of Congress to report recent infections.

GOP Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi and independent Angus King revealed getting positive tests Thursday.
Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing On FCC And National Security
Senator Angus King
Photographer: Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg

King, 77, said he has taken “all precautions necessary” against the virus -- including getting vaccinated, wearing masks and social distancing.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/gop-senator-wicker-tests-positive-for-covid-in-breakthrough-case-ksj6chba?srnd=markets-vp


.....................Wicker joined several other Republican senators in June calling for an end to mask requirements on public transportation, including airplanes, buses and trains. In a Facebook post in June he called such mandates “hogwash.”

[soldierant]

28. You can add Democrat John Hickenlooper to that list.

CoViD doesn't care about politics.

Yes, Hick is also vaccinated.

[turbinetree]

12. Looks like his shit eating grin will not be a shit eating grin anymore....

and he is on a flight with his mask pulled down.....fine his fucking ass....and put him on a no fly list....

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

25. I especially would love seeing him on a no-fly list.

These assholes need to realize there are serious consequences for starting shit on FAA-regulated airline flights.

[turbinetree]

31. As a former Aircraft technician or mechanic and having to deal with the FAA....

him not having that mask on just pisses me off.....I would have reported him, and I would ask that he not be allowed to fly again...he has no, none, zilch, principles what so ever....as a passenger I would have asked or said something about his willful endangering of everyone on that flt.....

[SamKnause]

13. Good.

[ffr]

15. Good riddance, a--hole!

Fuckers like you need nature to teach you a lesson you won't soon forget.

[gab13by13]

16. A mask would improve his face.

[COL Mustard]

17. Come On, Rona!!!!

Do your thing. This guy's taunting you...he was even on a Delta flight.

[JohnnyRingo]

18. I think a lot of the republican politicians lie about being vaxxed.

I don't think they are and they keep getting the virus more than democrats.
They probably say it so their fellow congressmen don't get on their shit.

My grandkids try the same thing.

[jaxexpat]

21. I'm with you on that. I don't think they vac, mask up or soc. distance away from the cameras.

They REALLY are just that stupid. Stupid like that is the evil of it.

[ALBliberal]

32. Say he is vaxed as he says then dies

It gives their side ammunition to say vaccine allowed breakthrough case and the guy died (even tho the vaccine should have given him a milder case).

No matter how it turns out they will twist it to their warped rationale.

[OnDoutside]

39. Presumably the coroner can test for that ?

[lastlib]

19. Call me mean, unfeeling, whatever....

but I DO kinda hope it's the fatal variety....He paid his money, took his chances......if he loses, one less GOPher in Congress (for the time being, til his replacement arrives).

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

27. What pisses me off is

He has the gold-plated Cadillac health care plan as a member of Congress. Too bad they can't make him pay out-of pocket for his carelessness and stupidity.

[Ford_Prefect]

20. Is anyone keeping score on the GOP infected?

How many Senators and Congress people? How many of the high, the mighty, and the ultra-wealthy hiding behind them? How many Governors, GOP "advisors", staff, talking heads, RW think tank nabobs, conservative media "personalities"?

We get almost hourly updates on the numbers of citizens who've been bitten or succumbed. We hear in dramatic tones how TFG, DeSantis, Abbott, and the entire conservative "news" sphere sanctimoniously attack common sense and intelligent responses to COVID. But we're never offered a sense of proportion in regard to their distain and calumny as they sneer at COVID and those who cope with the damage and the danger.

I think it is time for the nation to have an accurate picture of just how many of "them" have been bitten by this bug.

[Missn-Hitch]

22. Oh no! I hope he's okay. Wait for the 90's reference.....

NOT!!!!!

I hope he spread it to his family and neighbors.

Cheers everyone!

[Jetheels]

30. He should be put on the no fly list. N/t

[GB_RN]

33. No Sympathy For Wicker

I don’t wish him ill, but if he dies, I won’t shed a tear.

[Beacool]

34. All three senators who tested positive for COVID had been vaccinated.

Aside from Wicker, Angus King (I) and John Hickenlooper (D) also tested positive.

[Sgent]

35. Wicker

is a much more Trent Lott or Thad Cochran republican at heart than a Marsha Blackburn. I wish him well because any replacement will be much, much worse. For instance his kids went to an integrated public school in black neighborhoods, and all his potential replacement possibilities will have gone to white Christian acadameys.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

36. Ain't that a shame