It is not my style and I don't think I'm good at this but can I get a wee bit ranty about the COVID situation at the Capitol?
NO ONE is:
a. Enforcing standards for quarantining after exposures.
b. They need to wait for negative test results before doing things like, oh, voting.
NO ONE is:
a. Enforcing standards for quarantining after exposures.
b. They need to wait for negative test results before doing things like, oh, voting.
Cap Hill COVID.
c. Members are saying the Attending Physician is fine with them going on the floor before getting results. And NOT quarantining if they've already had COVID.
d. It seems clear *most* everyone is finding a reason that *they* don't have to quarantine.
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c. Members are saying the Attending Physician is fine with them going on the floor before getting results. And NOT quarantining if they've already had COVID.
d. It seems clear *most* everyone is finding a reason that *they* don't have to quarantine.
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Cap Hill COVID.
Example: Granger was on the House floor extensively when she was COVID positive. (Just had not gotten results yet.)
She arrived early for her attendance vote, chatted, sat near others. Was there significant time.
But no one else has quarantined.
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Example: Granger was on the House floor extensively when she was COVID positive. (Just had not gotten results yet.)
She arrived early for her attendance vote, chatted, sat near others. Was there significant time.
But no one else has quarantined.
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And Congress, BTW, here is the CDC guidance.
If exposed to someone COVID positive (w/in 6 feet for 15 minutes or more), you should quarantine and ---> "this is irrespective of whether the person with COVID-19 or the contact was wearing a mask"
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If exposed to someone COVID positive (w/in 6 feet for 15 minutes or more), you should quarantine and ---> "this is irrespective of whether the person with COVID-19 or the contact was wearing a mask"
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@KenCalvert has a gd point - CDC says if you recently had/recovered from COVID and do not have symptoms you need not quarantine.
But that is about 27 members. There were *427* in the chamber Sunday. Surely one of them was near enough to Granger, or now Brady, to quarantine.
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But that is about 27 members. There were *427* in the chamber Sunday. Surely one of them was near enough to Granger, or now Brady, to quarantine.
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It was clear watching the House chamber on Sunday that there was an en masse ignorance of the reality of risk of hundreds of people from all across the country gathering, hugging and chatting at length.
Sure it is hard to not greet colleagues. But you are our leaders.
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Sure it is hard to not greet colleagues. But you are our leaders.
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@KenCalvert Most of Congress has asked, sometimes begged, constituents to be careful and safe.
Yet they showed that many of them are not playing it safe. (Glad you are wearing masks, but see earlier tweet.)
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Yet they showed that many of them are not playing it safe. (Glad you are wearing masks, but see earlier tweet.)
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Congress.
These are people privileged and lucky enough to get a fast pass to a vaccine that most Americans have no idea when they will see.
They are getting health privileges. But many are refusing to personally take responsibility.
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These are people privileged and lucky enough to get a fast pass to a vaccine that most Americans have no idea when they will see.
They are getting health privileges. But many are refusing to personally take responsibility.
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If the country takes longer to recover, if the infection and death rates stay high, members of Congress who find reasons to not quarantine and to fraternize before test results - things others are told not to do - should look to their own example for the blame.
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