Maine lawmaker who downplayed pandemic's risk contracts COVID-19

[Nevilledog]

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Maine lawmaker who downplayed pandemic’s risk contracts COVID-19
Rep. Chris Johansen, a Republican from Monticello, has been cited twice for breaking mask-wearing rules at the State House.
pressherald.com
11:13 AM · Jul 24, 2021

https://www.pressherald.com/2021/07/23/maine-lawmaker-who-downplayed-pandemics-risk-contracts-covid-19/

A state lawmaker who has flouted the Legislature’s rules on mask-wearing and downplayed the pandemic says he has contracted COVID-19.

Rep. Chris A. Johansen, R-Monticello, on Friday told the Press Herald only that he wasn’t feeling well and didn’t stay on the phone long enough to be asked whether he has the virus. However, a reporter for Mainer News, an alternative weekly, contacted Johansen and recorded him saying that he has COVID-19 and is “really, really sick.”

Johansen’s wife, Cindy Johansen, who is an officer for the Aroostook County Republican committee, posted on Facebook that she has COVID-19 as well.

Contacted by the Press Herald on Friday afternoon, Chris Johansen said, “I’m not doing well. I’m not feeling well, and I’m not talking to people right now,” and then he hung up. He did not reply to a text message seeking more information.

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[LisaL]

1. Delta don't know, it is an equal opportunity offender.

As far as I can tell, this dude didn't wear masks, presumably didn't vaccinate, and so he was an easy target for delta.

[bottomofthehill]

2. Gee, that's too bad.

Moron.

[NCjack]

7. Perhaps they will reject the Shingles vaccine and ...

[comradebillyboy]

3. How sad for them

[dalton99a]

4. "Don't let it dominate your life"

Relax ... take a deep breath

[NCjack]

5. Maybe they can find a GQP hospital and get vaxxed.

[LisaL]

6. Too late now.

NT

[NCjack]

8. Not too late to get the jab IF they can find a GQP (quack) hospital that will

jab them with the vaccine. Would that provide a benefit? From all that I read about that, it will not.

[Nevilledog]

12. 👇

[barbtries]

20. after they recover

it will help.

ETA assuming they will both recover.

[DURHAM D]

9. Vacinne 2 - Losers 0 nt

[vanlassie]

10. Well at least he did waste all that time living in fear.

[magicarpet]

11. Gulp down three shots of bleach,... then two shots of bourbon. Trump's guarantee to cure Covid.

[hatrack]

15. Don't forget the ivermectin, hydroxychloriquine and turmeric!!!!

[Maru Kitteh]

22. And the lightbulb up your nether regions.

Don't forget that. Essential.

[Phoenix61]

13. Am I supposed to feel bad about this because I don't.

He had a responsibility to keep his constituents safe and decided to push anti-vax bs. I have zero fucks to give for him or his wife.

[world wide wally]

14. What kind of a twisted ego does it take to think, Sure, maybe 600,000 other people have died from it

but surely, I can't get it.

[Takket]

16. This is about the 1000th time I've seen a similar story like this

And it never changes anyone rethug’s mind. Sad

[SidDithers]

17. I have zero sympathy for Covidiots...

Nada.

Nature doesn't care if you're Democrat or Republican, conservative or progressive.

If you're unvaccinated and get the disease, you've got a 1%-2% chance of dying.

Roll them dice, dumbass.

Sid

[sop]

18. How many of these types of stories will have to be published before anti-vaxxers see the light?

It's abundantly evident the only people becoming seriously ill now are imbeciles who have denied or ignored the dangers of Covid-19 and refused to be vaccinated. Surely it should have already dawned on them they're the only ones being hospitalized and dying. The stupidity is shocking, it defies understanding.

[barbtries]

19. it's almost enough to make you believe in karma.

but then there's all the innocent people being infected by covidiots and their covidiocy.

[UpInArms]

21. I feel so owned

Speaking to the Guardian, Fiscus admitted the conservative backlash against the vaccine was something she had not expected. “I think I really underestimated the political divide,” she said, noting that like many states Tennessee’s initial vaccine outreach had been focused on Black and minority communities with historic distrust of medical systems.

“We were all really surprised that [conservative rural white men] ended up being our most vaccine-hesitant population, and it’s not necessarily because of mistrust of government, it’s because of an ideology – that if I get this vaccine I am somehow placating the left wing of the political spectrum,” she said.

“To see people sacrificing their own health and wellbeing and that of their families and community to spite this perceived political benefit to the left is just really dumbfounding.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/24/tennessee-coronavirus-covid-delta-variant-cases-vaccines