THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS for a Republican who feels icky after Trump's maskless Hanukkah party

[Miles Archer]

"The vice chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee is battling COVID-19 after attending what he described as a largely maskless holiday party at the White House earlier this month," the Boston Globe reported Saturday. "Mountain, 60, who was hospitalized twice in recent weeks, said he likely contracted the coronavirus at the annual White House Hanukkah party. The event took place amid the worst surge in COVID-19 this country has seen since the pandemic began."

"I didn't listen to the warnings of my own family, and now I'm paying the price," Mountain admitted. ""No one can ever say for sure exactly where they got it, but I'll say this: Before the party, I was in perfectly good health. Three days later, I was in the hospital with COVID, and it was all downhill from there."

"It's not fun," Mountain said." I came very close — not once but twice — to them hooking me up to a ventilator."

"There are good days and bad days, but today I'm having a bad day," he explained. "I have horrible coughing fits, sweating profusely. … I couldn't even talk on the phone last week, but it's getting a bit better."

https://www.rawstory.com/white-house-outbreak/

[woodsprite]

1. Sending

While

[sheshe2]

16. Please double that order.

I was planning on sending the same.

[gratuitous]

2. Gee, I hope he doesn't die surrounded by machines and strangers

Like so many other Americans the White House doesn't give a rat's ass about.

[Arne]

3. This guy looks so familiar,

Joe Blow is that you?

[CatMor]

6. He's a cross between Barr and Pompeo.

[LudwigPastorius]

21. I was going to say Charles Durning and Fat Kenneth Branagh.

[CatMor]

22. Awww ... I love Charles Durning ...

hate to compare him to a repub.

[LudwigPastorius]

23. Just by appearance, of course.

I would never want to imply that the Dean of American Character Actors & and Honest-to-God War Hero was like a filthy Republican.

[Kablooie]

4. The wonderfullness of Trump worship in all it's glory.

[Doodley]

5. He's a human being with a family. He believed in things that are untrue. Not going to wish him bad.

[Miles Archer]

10. No, I don't wish him bad either, I hope it's a learning experience for him.

The key to the whole story is "I didn't listen."

It would still be COVID if he didn't know better, but he had all of the information he needed to avoid it and chose to do the opposite.

I wish him well, and I hope that he learned a lesson.

[Lock him up.]

12. Lessons should be learned between age 5 and let's say 25...

Beyond 25 is... better late than never, but still...

[Mariana]

14. I can't help but think about the other people he might have spread it to.

Has he expressed the slightest bit of concern for anyone he might have harmed by his willful stupidity?

[Miles Archer]

31. And that's the problem, none of them think about it

I know that the people who attend these "events" can read...or at least I assume they do.

They must have heard the term "superspreader"...they must have heard about others who attended Trump events and got sick...and either they went into a state of denial and heeded his "FAKE NEWS!" dog whistle, or they just didn't care.

I don't believe ANY of them were UNAWARE of the fact that "events" without masks or distancing is a bad idea, with potentially fatal repurcussions (just ask the family of Herman Cain). It's all in the way they processed that information...most likely believing whatever Trump told them to believe after his trip to Walter Reed with 24/7 attendance by 14 physicians.

[Iggo]

26. I don't wish him bad. Bad already happened. I wish him brains. (n/t)

[SMC22307]

7. Shoulda listened to your family, dumbass. (n/t)

[sarge43]

13. I hope dumbass didn't infect his family. n/t

[SMC22307]

15. Seriously. He's 60 -- elderly parents could be involved. (n/t)

[Tanuki]

29. His wife, son, daughter-in-law, and mother-in-law have now all tested positive

according to the Boston Globe article linked in the OP. Also, Trump didn't even bother to show up for the event.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/26/metro/state-republican-official-was-hospitalized-with-covid-19-after-attending-white-house-hanukkah-party/?event=event25

[sarge43]

34. Thanks for the update.

Otherwise, I have no words.

[dem4decades]

8. Trump idiot from Central Casting, does we wear his MAGA jacket in the ICU?

[tanyev]

9. I have a little Covid, I caught it from the spray.

[Mariana]

11. I wonder how many other people he's infected.

Did he actually catch it at Trump's Covid party, or was he already infected before that? Was he spreading it while he was traveling? Has he infected his family, after he essentially told them to fuck off with their love and concern for his health and well-being?

I wonder how many people he's infected, and I wonder how many of them will die.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. Nearly a year into this and people are STILL surprised that they get it when

they don't mask and don't social distance.

I'm sorry, he deserves every bit of misery he gets. I will save my sympathy for those who really did do what they were supposed to.

[sfstaxprep]

18. This!

I save my thoughts for the innocent victims people like him will inevitably infect.

[sheshe2]

19. I can't feel a thing for him.

He does not care a wit about his own well being or that of his family and friends. He knew the risks. He was warned.

[LudwigPastorius]

20. Resign your post with the Republican State Committee.

Vow to listen to something other than FOX, Newsmax, ONAN, etc. for news.

Don't question scientific facts.

...and, just generally, stop being an asshole and making the world worse for your having been in it.

Go, and sin no more, and consider yourself lucky.

[Ferrets are Cool]

24. I feel sorry for the hero's having to take care of this asshole.

He does NOT deserve care.

[turbinetree]

28. I second that motion................

[Iggo]

25. See that look on his face? I'm giving him the same fucking look.

You knew! We fucking told you!

It's not political! IT'S A FUCKING VIRUS YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!!

:middlefinger: :middlefinger:

[patphil]

27. Funny how a near death experience can change your prospective.

At least now he knows the pandemic is real, but he would probably still vote for Trump in 2024 if he was on the ticket.

[regnaD kciN]

30. Hate to be a karma-denier...

...but, if he was hospitalized only three days after the party, it's almost certain he was infected before then. And may have infected others while he was there.

[struggle4progress]

32. "Ya just gotta let me out before the New Year's party, Doc!"

[malaise]

33. Not a one

Hoping others in Boston weren't exposed to this fool

[Donkees]

35. Seems like typical impulsive behavior in risk-taking personalities

[Gothmog]

36. Karma can be fun at times