GOP Rep. Crawford Says 'Don't Know' If COVID-19 Worse than Common Cold Amid Delta Surge

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Arkansas Congressman Rick Crawford has said that he doesn't know if COVID-19 is worse than the common cold.

The Republican congressman told Fox News host Alicia Acuna that he was "not downplaying the severity of the pandemic" with his comments, which he prefaced by clarifying that he believes the virus is real.

Link to tweet

"I believe that the COVID virus is real," he said. "However, I don't know that it's any worse than the common cold, and we somehow managed to get through the common cold as we developed overtime vaccinations and herd immunity and things of this nature."

He added: "We have to learn to live" with the virus.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-crawford-says-dont-know-if-covid-19-worse-than-common-cold-amid-delta-surge/ar-AAMNnb6

[dalton99a]

1. Hypocrite got the vaccine in December:

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/dec/19/2-us-representatives-from-state-given-shots/

2 U.S. representatives from state given shots
by Frank E. Lockwood | December 19, 2020 at 3:34 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Steve Womack of Rogers received his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine on Capitol Hill on Friday afternoon, becoming the first member of the all-Republican Arkansas congressional delegation to do so.

U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford of Jonesboro got a shot soon thereafter.

The follow-up shot will be required in 21 days, Crawford said.

Getting vaccinated now, in his view, was the right thing to do.

[SergeStorms]

2. If you're vaccinated, maybe not.

If you're NOT vaccinated...... kiss your ass goodbye.

[Doodley]

3. His career should be destroyed by playing ads with that quote & quotes from folk who lost loved ones

[bahboo]

4. then he's an idiot and an asshole....

in other words...a republican...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. How many people die every day from a common cold?

Just wondering.

[Moosepoop]

6. He thinks there are vaccines for colds?

"However, I don't know that it's any worse than the common cold, and we somehow managed to get through the common cold as we developed overtime vaccinations and herd immunity and things of this nature."

This is the most idiotic statement I've heard in a while... and that's saying something.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. I know that every winter the ICUs overflow with people suffering from colds.

I don't think that he's stupid. I think he just thinks that large numbers of Americans are extremely stupid, and I think he's probably right about that.