Utah Sen. Mike Lee tests positive for coronavirus

[Dr. Jack]

Source: Market Watch

Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican, said Friday that he has tested positive for COVID-19. Lee said in a statement on Twitter that he'd tested positive on Thursday and would be working from his home while isolating for 10 days. Lee's statement came as news of President Donald Trump's and first lady Melania Trump's positive tests shook U.S. stocks SPX and upended the presidential campaign, with Trump scrapping a planned Florida rally.

Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/utah-sen-mike-lee-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-2020-10-02

[Bayard]

1. Its coming for all of you, rethuglicans!

Covid is on a mission from god.

[lagomorph777]

18. It's got a cop engine, cop tires, cop steering, cop transmission, and cop brakes.

You can't outrun it.

[CaptYossarian]

20. Thanks Elwood.

[Dr. Jack]

3. The only thing I can say is Jesus fucking Christ

Republicans are so fucking stupid. And from what I read, people at the White House are still walking around without masks today.

[beachbumbob]

4. Positive test is one thing, having symptoms is another

[Sneederbunk]

5. He sits on the Judiciary Committee.

[WhiteTara]

11. did he wear a mask at meetings?

[maddogesq]

6. Getting to be the whole Hee-Haw gang.

This is what happens with cults. Just ask Mr. Jones or Mr. Koresh.

[Walleye]

7. It's almost like it's contagious or something

[klook]

8. Come on, Mike! Don't you care about the economy?

Now, get out there and go to some bars and football games!

[Faygo Kid]

9. +1

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Saw a WaPo breaking

And they said he was at the SCOTUS nomination ceremony.

12:09 p.m.
GOP Sen. Mike Lee tests positive for the coronavirus
By Colby Itkowitz


Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) announced that he, too, has tested positive for the coronavirus.

The senator was at the White House on Saturday for Trump’s Rose Garden event announcing Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court nominee where there was virtually no one wearing masks and no social distancing.

In a statement, Lee said he tested negative at the White House ahead of that event but began experiencing allergy-like symptoms Thursday. He got tested again, and it came back positive.

Lee, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, met with Barrett on Tuesday on Capitol Hill, and the two were photographed together not wearing masks. Lee has also had close contact with the committee’s chairman, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/10/02/trump-biden-live-updates/#link-7MIFEOBTOJCX7M5UG2LZT2HUCY

Link to tweet

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Mike Lee
@SenMikeLee

11:42 AM · Oct 2, 2020

[getagrip_already]

14. thoughts and prayers sent.. but...

they are definitely NSFW.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. You could always post it with some of this --

[nattyice]

12. And the karma hits keep coming

[IronLionZion]

13. McConnell, Graham, and other GOP Senators should visit him

and meet with him in person to work on important GOP stuff without any masks or social distance getting in the way.

[CaptYossarian]

21. He's Ted Cruz's only friend.

The gift that keeps on giving.

[NotASurfer]

15. Never underestimate the power of stupid

The same mentality that manages to accidentally shoot themselves in the foot, or comes to a raised drawbridge and thinks it's a good idea to try to jump the gap driving a 2007 Corolla, or otherwise demonstrate full worth of the moniker "Moran", is on full and terrible display right now. Not just this, with a major political party committing pathogenic self-immolation, but their embrace of right-wing extremism and antidemocratic measures, and the amplification of foreign disinformation designed to disrupt our country and institutions

We have to keep focused on the vote. Every vote is critical, every candidate needs to campaign like they mean to win, if the polls say it's a 5% lead work to push it to 10%, and if the polls say 10% work to push it to landslide. But stupid is a powerful wildcard and I think it is juuuust starting to ramp up as we come down the stretch!

[CaptYossarian]

22. And they're going to a lot of trouble owning the libs.

[Judi Lynn]

17. Republican Senator Pictured Maskless with Amy Coney Barrett Just Days Ago Tests Positive for COVID-1

Republican Senator Pictured Maskless with Amy Coney Barrett Just Days Ago Tests Positive for COVID-19
MATT NAHAM Oct 2nd, 2020, 12:45 pm





Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced on Friday that he tested positive for COVID-19—just days after he met with Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in person.

Lee said he started experiencing symptoms on Thursday morning, symptoms he believed were “consistent with longtime allergies.”

“Out of an abundance of caution, I sought medical advice and was tested for Covid-19. Unlike the test I took just a few days ago while visiting the White House, yesterday’s test came back positive,” he said. “On advice of the Senate attending physician, I will remain isolated for the next 10 days.”

Lee also said he has “assured” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that he will be “back to work in time” to consider Judge Barrett’s nomination in Committee. Hearings are expected to begin on Oct. 12, which is, indeed, 10 days from today.

More:
https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/republican-senator-pictured-maskless-with-amy-coney-barrett-just-days-ago-tests-positive-for-covid-19/

[lagomorph777]

19. Well well, looks like Amy Conehead Barrett has great judgment.

[CaptYossarian]

23. What if she's the carrier?

She did meet with Trump first.

[roamer65]

24. 🦠

Repukes find me so lovable, I’m just infectious.