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In reply to the discussion: On edit: Rick Scott's office is saying he misspoke and does not have coronavirus. [View all]DFW
(59,575 posts)Two more, and that makes more than ten per cent of their caucus.
Still one must consider: these are REPUBLICAN Senators. Their consideration for their fellow humans is not at what you might call fever pitch (no pun intended). If they are at all functional, and want to demonstrate how faithful they are to their own nonsense, they could easily continue to show up, maskless, at their luncheons, even after their diagnosis. Like all games of Russian Roulette, some will sure get away with it, but if even a fifth of them get seriously ill over the next month, and Graham and McTurtle are NOT among them, they will be in some kind of pickle when their confirmation of Justice Lucretia Borgia comes up for a vote. Of course, if either McTurtle or Graham are incapacitated, they have their out and get a free ticket to call off the war they declared with her nomination.