CNN: Ohio GOP state lawmaker calls for people to stop getting tested

[TomCADem]

This is why cases are once again going through the roof. Basic efforts to fight the disease have become a partisan test.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/ohio-lawmaker-nino-vitale-coronavirus-testing/index.html

(CNN)An Ohio state lawmaker called for people to stop getting tested for coronavirus as he railed against a state health order requiring people in seven Ohio counties to wear masks in public spaces starting this week.

"Are you tired of living in a dictatorship yet?" Republican state Rep. Nino Vitale wrote in a post on Facebook Tuesday after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, announced the mask mandate. "This is what happens when people go crazy and get tested. STOP GETTING TESTED! It is giving the government an excuse to claim something is happening that is not happening at the magnitude they say it is happening."

Vitale called into question why the new order wouldn't go into effect until Wednesday evening, saying "if this is such an urgent matter, why wait almost 30 hours? They make no sense. Stop listening to these frauds."

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Although health officials have consistently stressed the importance of testing to identify those stricken with the virus and areas where it is spreading, several elected officials -- most notably President Donald Trump -- have downplayed the need, with the President going so far last month as to suggest he asked for testing to be slowed down. As Trump put it, "by having more tests, we have more cases."

[Tribetime]

1. This asshat needs to catch the virus

And do the world a favor and leave

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. Another freakin' Republican maskhole!

[LisaL]

3. This guy is something else.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. please tell us divine one, how you know nothing is happening....

arrogant prick is assuming that Americans are swarming to testing centers without symptoms. Is that possible? I suppose, but I have not seen any info that says that is the case.

[Alliepoo]

5. OMG-this flippin' nut job again?

He is about as radical and crazy as they come. I hate what Ohio has become over the last decade or so. We have effin idiots like this jerk and Gym Jordan (just to mention a couple)-what must people think of us?

[luvs2sing]

6. Another nutcase from Urbana..

just like Gym Jordan. You have to wonder if there’s something in the water there that breeds assholes.

[struggle4progress]

7. "That's why I'm introducing the Americans Suddenly Safer bill. Let's end highrise apartmennt fires

by removing sprinklers from buildings! No more plane crashes once we eliminate radar! You know what causes most wrecks on the highway? It's those damn DMV vision tests!"

[still_one]

8. The majority of people get tested because they believe that they have been exposed, or have symptoms

They are not doing it because they have nothing better to do