Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal Has Tested Positive for Covid
Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal of Washington has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus after being sequestered for several hours during last week’s siege on the Capitol building in a room with mask-less Republican colleagues.
After armed, pro-Trump insurgents stormed into the Capitol building on Wednesday, January 6, many congressmembers and their staffs — including Jayapal, who had initially been stranded in the gallery of the House chamber — were evacuated to a secure location; though over 100 people were crowded into a poorly ventilated room for hours, several of them refused to wear masks.
In a statement noting the “selfish idiocy” of fellow House members who refused to take basic safety precautions in the midst of a pandemic claiming the lives of more than 3,000 Americans a day, Jayapal said, “Too many Republicans have refused to take this pandemic and virus seriously, and in doing so, they endanger everyone around them. Only hours after President Trump incited a deadly assault on our Capitol, our country, and our democracy, many Republicans still refused to take the bare minimum COVID-19 precaution and simply wear a damn mask in a crowded room during a pandemic — creating a superspreader event on top of a domestic terrorist attack.”
In an interview with The Cut last Thursday, Jayapal had predicted this exact outcome. She said she was already quarantining, “because I am convinced that where we ended up, in the secured room — where there were over 100 people and many were Republicans not wearing masks — was a superspreader event.”
https://www.thecut.com/2021/01/rep-jayapal-tests-positive-for-covid-after-capitol-riots.html
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Those maskless thugs need the law to come down on them,
K&R for attention to this news (am avoiding the word ‘exposure’)
I only hope that who is ever walking around and spreding this to others so carelessly eventually dies a painful, misearble death becuase of their actions.
Please get well soon, Rep. Jayapal! We wish you and your family all the best. 
I am so fucking pissed right now!
