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https://www.politicususa.com/2022/01/01/marco-rubio-gaslights-america-by-calling-omicron-a-sore-throat-and-accuses-covid-patients-of-being-hysterical.htmlPosted on Sat, Jan 1st, 2022 by Jason Easley
Marco Rubio Gaslights America By Calling Omicron A Sore Throat And Accuses COVID Patients Of Being Hysterical
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) rang in the New Year with some anti-COVID pandering as he called Omicron a sore throat.
Rubio tweeted:
Link to tweet
Omicron symptoms are mild only if a person is vaccinated and boosted, like Sen. Rubio. For those who are not vaccinated, the Omicron variant can still make them very sick and land them in the hospital. There have been scattered reports of Omicron-related deaths.
Rubios comments were the height of irresponsibility from a public official, The people who are getting tested for COVID arent hysterical. They are folks who are sick or trying to avoid getting sick after potentially being exposed over the holidays.
It is easy for a fully vaccinated hypocrite like Marco Rubio to call Omicron nothing, while people are testing positive in record numbers in Florida.
Marco Rubio feels Rep, Val Demings breathing down his neck, but has taken his right-wing pandering to a new low while gaslighting Americas COVID patients.
calimary
(81,267 posts)The term stupid schmuck comes to mind as well.
TheBlackAdder
(28,201 posts)calimary
(81,267 posts)And he has plenty of fans and friends with deep pockets...
Walleye
(31,022 posts)Todays republican party can be summed up as unkind and inconsiderate
notKeith
(138 posts)Today's republican party can be summed up as evil.
..was gonna go with "assholes", but too many letters.
calimary
(81,267 posts)It's sad, and true. They ARE evil. They ARE anti-American. They ARE greedy and selfish and power-hungry. And power - to do WHAT? In my worst nightmares I doubt I could imagine, or anticipate, the depths they'd sink to, for power.
PatSeg
(47,430 posts)in overcrowded hospitals because of COVID patients. His words are like a dagger to the heart. What cruel, irresponsible thing to say.
kind. Todays Republican Party is hateful and heartless. They dont care if people die, even their own supporters.
Walleye
(31,022 posts)that goes for the rest of the Republican Party
MissMillie
(38,557 posts)some of those variants will not be benign
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Busterscruggs
(448 posts)A disgusting little man that needs to be trounced by a Democrat with a good heart. Just our luck he will be the presidential nominee by the party of fools and villains
Martin Eden
(12,867 posts)A disease of the mind, of the heart, of the soul has gone viral in the Republican Party.
Rebl2
(13,507 posts)quit testing because it uncovers more cases
Vinca
(50,271 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,420 posts)2naSalit
(86,612 posts)Who is running to replace him.
Oh, and fuck that guy.
allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)WHITT
(2,868 posts)I wasn't aware one could DIE from a sore throat. Glad a medical specialist like Rubio is sharing his expertise.
modrepub
(3,495 posts)who probably hasn't set foot in a COVID ward to speak with health-care workers or the families they are caring for.
In the coming weeks we are going to see how much we've learned since this pandemic started. If enough of us have been vaxxed and boosted, then the death rate will look nothing like the pre-vax surges we've already experienced. Not that the M$M would catch on to the pattern and give credit to anyone in particular.
Botany
(70,504 posts)As of today there has been 62,504 deaths in Florida from C-19 and for the past week an average of 22 people a day
have died from the virus' disease.
spanone
(135,832 posts)jaxexpat
(6,828 posts)Or has he just given up trying? Is it too hard? Is he tired of the "work"? Maybe he needs to waste his campaign money for financial planning. Could it be that there actually is a demographic that would maintain, much less, "swing" their support to a guy who comes out with junk like this? I mean just how many Floridians are, "Yeah, that's my man Rubio, where can I give more money to help his worthy cause?"
That's a lot of questions, I know, but if this guy (or any other like-wise, lazy, presumptuous and condescending candidate) wins again in 2022 it may be the biggest "kiss-off" to one's constituency, as well as the electorate in general, since the south's "chosen one's" broke away to form the CSA.
It's a mysteriously low point in an historical moment where lowness dominates the conversation. And, BTW, where's my sympathy with the poor, downtrodden refugee Cuban American community? I'm sure I put it in someplace safe but I've apparently forgotten where. Perhaps it got laid in the "thanks for enjoying and screwing with American hospitality while cashing the CIA's checks to prevent you from realizing that you're NOT returning to Cuba like neo-conquistadores any time soon", pile. Please pass the Pepto.
allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)hubris overcoming compassion and his skimpy supply of little gray cells (as Poirot would've determined). Rubio always seems desperate because he knows he's not up to the job and has been faking it. Just another Repug grifter playing the system and hoping conservative voters won't notice.
jaxexpat
(6,828 posts)70sEraVet
(3,501 posts)who CAN'T get vaccinated and who are apparently landing in hospitals in much higher numbers with this variant.
But then, I guess I'm not 'pro-life' like him!
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Then he rushed into the White House and watched it on television.
paleotn
(17,913 posts)Irredeemable and unsalvageable. The sooner they're all "kicked to the curb" the better.
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)in a state with lots of COVID deaths from people who thought the same
edhopper
(33,579 posts)that fixes the election for him.
texasfiddler
(1,990 posts)Support Val Demings.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)Throat's all better and good as new! Marco knows that Ron Johnson's self-proclaimed gargle fix was WAY overboard.
RAB910
(3,501 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,083 posts)That would be the ventilator tube that gets shoved down your throat to help you breathe.
malaise
(268,998 posts)That is all
jaxexpat
(6,828 posts)Nicely played. Happy New Year.
jaxexpat
(6,828 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)The problem is corporate America is upset because their slaves are missing work.
Yea I think I have it right. So just send them some more socialist corporate welfare.
Jon King
(1,910 posts)His words suck but he is correct about most of it. A lot of the current staffing shortage is indeed people with no symptoms staying home according to guidelines. That is why the CDC shortened the guidelines.
First, testing is pretty much worthless. Waiting hours for a test is worthless. If you have symptoms that are progressing, seek medical attention. Testing with no symptoms is worthless.
The Miami Heat test 4 times per day. They have an entire staff for the process. They tested after a game and before boarding a flight, negative. By the next morning's tests, 6 guys were positive.
Public testing is worthless. By the time you get results, you could have been exposed 10 more times. Omicron is everywhere. Now if you tell me you will test, isolate yourself from all people, wait for results, then stay isolated forever, fine. But that is not what 99.99% are doing.
Again, if you have symptoms that are getting worse and you are compromised, seek medical attention. Better off waiting 4 hours in the ER if you are getting sicker than waiting days for test results.
Now for the sore throat part, again he is rude, but correct. For vaxxed people who are relatively healthy, that is what Omicron is. Doctors say almost every single person in the hospital is both unvaxxed and already unhealthy, obese/diabetic/heart disease.
So yes we should wear masks to slow the spread and ease the burden on health care workers. We should wear masks to protect the unvaxxed and unhealthy. But in the long run we will all get Covid over and over again and get the latest vaccine that is available for each season of Covid. The only alternative would be to live as an immunocompromised person is forced to, isolated and breathing filtered air.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)COVID is basically going to be another cold/flu going forward. It's never going to just go away. If you're healthy and have prior exposure+vaccinated you'll be fine and it will probably hit you like a minor cold. Everyone is getting this, and many have probably already had asymptomatic cases. Unless you live like the literal bubble boy for life you're getting exposed.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)... canned.
We're not LIVs here and stupid punk ass Rubio isn't asking for Floridians to do their best to stop the CV spread.
Fuck antivaxer bullshit, its killed too many of my friends and family ... fuck em
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)... disinformation by claiming
1. "...testing is worthless..." when its been proven by studies that even antigen home test will pick up asymptomatic and spreading. Your other paragraphs in regards to testing are wrong thinking on its face; testing works and is better than the alternative.
2. Rubio wasn't talking about vaxed people and there are tests that pick up Omicron strain now so even the unvaxed claim of "sore" throat in context is beyond uninformed. It's not the vaxed cramming hospitals now its the unvaxed and they should get tested and get the vaccine which ... to 3rd point
3. Rubio OVERALL in his stupid fuck asd tweet isn't pushing for people do the best they can do stop CV by getting vaxed, tested and NPIs he's whining about shit after he's done all of aforementioned already.
Fuck antivaxer bullshit, it's killed too many of my friends and family .... fuck em
FlyingPiggy
(3,384 posts)moondust
(19,981 posts)uponit7771
(90,339 posts)... because the state shut down so many programs for in home and PCR.
Death Sentence is an asshole
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Kierkegaard
Or - There are two ways to be a fool...
Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)NowISeetheLight
(3,943 posts)They have no redeeming value to society, they're idiots, they do nothing to promote the good of civilization.