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In reply to the discussion: An email from a Gohmert aide: [View all]patphil
(6,172 posts)Jake Sherman's got that one right.
It only takes one idiot to spread the virus to many people. But, in the Capitol we have hundreds of idiots who are busy spreading the virus to perhaps thousands of people.
And, of course, these people live all over the nation. So, when they leave Washington they can carry the virus back to their hometowns and sow more seeds of the covid fruit in their back yards.
It's the latency of the virus that is the big problem. It can take a couple weeks for symptoms to show up, and, even when tested, there can be several days before the results come back.
This is a perfect example of a superspreader event that never ends...as long as our Congressmen and women fail to take the pandemic seriously.
Louis Gohmert is a perfect example. Unfortunately, one of many.