Washington state senator escorted from Capitol after 'testing' COVID protocols

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A state senator was escorted out of the Capitol building in Olympia after intentionally defying coronavirus protocols Monday as the Legislature met to convene the 2022 legislative session.

Sen. Phil Fortunato, in a statement on his legislative website, said he purposefully entered the building without first submitting a negative test, which is required of all senators who wish to work on-site.

Fortunato, a Republican from Auburn, said in his statement that the Senate’s coronavirus protocols “don’t pass constitutional muster.” He also argued that such protocols aren’t needed because, in his view, the virus will eventually become endemic.

“We have now been in an ‘emergency’ for nearly 700 days and it’s becoming clearer that this virus is something we are going to have to live with,” he said. “It is time to return to normal proceedings and Zoom is not a substitute to being able to represent my constituents on the Senate Floor.”

https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Washington-senator-escorted-from-capitol-16771123.php

[lapfog_1]

1. The virus mutated and will likely become endemic

largely because of the failure to test/trace/isolate at the start and the failure for all of us to vaccinate ( at least tp 90 percent) when the vaccines first became available.

Lets hope it doesn't mutate again

[RainCaster]

2. How soon will those Repukes become endemic?

Asking for a friend