Seattle Rep. Pramila Jayapal tests positive for coronavirus after being locked down with lawmakers

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Seattle Times

Seattle Rep. Pramila Jayapal tests positive for coronavirus after being locked down with lawmakers who wouldn’t wear masks
UPDATED: Mon., Jan. 11, 2021

By David Gutman
Seattle Times

Rep. Pramila Jayapal tested positive for coronavirus Monday night, her office said, after she was in lockdown during Wednesday’s siege of the Capitol with “Republican lawmakers who cruelly and selfishly refused to wear masks.”

Jayapal’s office said she was locked in a secure room, as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, for “multiple hours” and several Republican colleagues “not only cruelly refused to wear a mask but mocked colleagues and staff who offered them one.”

Jayapal, a Democrat from Seattle, began quarantining immediately after the attack, her office said, fearing that she may have been exposed. In an interview with The Cut, published last week, she said she was quarantining because she was convinced the room she’d been in, “where there were over 100 people and many Republicans not wearing masks, was a superspreader event.”

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Jayapal is the second Democratic member of Congress to test positive since the siege on the Capitol. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., announced a positive test earlier Monday.


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[judesedit]

1. Just wow. What a bunch of selfish cocksuckers to put it mildly

And we're supposed to believe they care about their constituents? They don't even care about their families.

[catbyte]

2. Damn it. She needs to name those assholes who mocked the masks.

[Tanuki]

5. Yes...they need to be named and shamed!

[lagomorph777]

20. They need to be prosecuted for assault.

[DURHAM D]

11. Saw this one on film laughing about the masks -

https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-refuses-to-wear-mask-at-congressional-swearing-in

[electric_blue68]

3. God damn them! May her case be mild and uncomplicated!

[LisaM]

7. Agreed.

It does seem that she was able to get diagnosed early, which is a good thing.

[elleng]

4. ;-(

[DURHAM D]

6. I believe she is just 6 weeks out from a knee replacement.

It is so important to do the physical exercises every day. It is the key to getting back to normal.

Hope she has a light case of the virus so she can keep up the exercises.

I wish she could sue those fucking Repugs that would not wear a mask. Have not heard who among them has covid 19 and spread it around.

[Liberty Belle]

8. Pelosi needs serious retribution against those who refused masks and put members in danger.

Censure at the very least, removal of committee assignments perhaps.

Should any member die because of this exposure their heirs should file wrongful death suits against those members who refused to wear masks.

In some places it's a crime to knowingly expose people to a potentially fatal disease. Is it in DC?

[Grasswire2]

9. OMG

She is two degrees of separation from me, in my family.

[catrose]

10. In the aids years, wasn't it against the law to expose someone to a fatal illness?

[Cha]

12. I hope she heals fast.. another

malicious effect of the Terrorist Attack, incited by trump, on the Capitol.

[pfitz59]

13. She is my Congresswoman

I am very unhappy. Washington currently has one of the lowest infection rates because mask compliance is high. Shame on her colleagues.

[emmaverybo]

14. They know not what they do. Except they do.

[Blue Owl]

15. Please take care and recover quickly Rep. Jayapal...

[still_one]

16. I am hoping our Congress people had at least one vaccination because that might lessen the

symptoms, and give them some protection from serious disease

Those who refused to wear masks need to be penalized for endangering others

[Dem forever]

17. No mask no science no brains

Make it a requirement to wear a mask indoors in the freakin capital.
That new congresswomen from northeast GA is a freakin Qnan conspiracy freak. Those people that live in that area are just ignorant hicks. Hillbillies that worship guns god and the Bible . Non science and conspiracy theories galore. I travel through that area and see all the toothless cigarette smoking fools in their pickup trucks and trump flags.

[LaMouffette]

18. Those Republicans not wearing masks in the undisclosed location should have been ejected

from that room and thrown to the mob! No protection for you, super spreader!

[cannabis_flower]

19. In case you don't know who she is:

More than 1,000 women marched through Washington, protesting the Trump administration's policy of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington, was among the hundreds arrested, according to Capitol Police.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/us/dc-police-previous-protests-capitol/index.html

[Corgigal]

21. Again,

name the selfish jerks, swab them, run to see if the same variant, sue them.

Why not, someone has to try.