Rep. Pramila Jayapal tested positive for coronavirus Monday night, her office said, after she was in lockdown during Wednesday’s siege of the Capitol with “Republican lawmakers who cruelly and selfishly refused to wear masks.”
Jayapal’s office said she was locked in a secure room, as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, for “multiple hours” and several Republican colleagues “not only cruelly refused to wear a mask but mocked colleagues and staff who offered them one.”
Jayapal, a Democrat from Seattle, began quarantining immediately after the attack, her office said, fearing that she may have been exposed. In an interview with The Cut, published last week, she said she was quarantining because she was convinced the room she’d been in, “where there were over 100 people and many Republicans not wearing masks, was a superspreader event.”
“Too many Republicans have refused to take this pandemic and virus seriously, and in doing so, they endanger everyone around them,” Jayapal said Monday night. “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.”
Jayapal, in a prepared statement, did not say if she was feeling ill or experiencing symptoms. She said she would continue to work “to the best of my ability” while in quarantine.
“I will not rest until I do everything in my power to remove this President from office,” she said.
Jayapal is the second Democratic member of Congress to test positive since the siege on the Capitol. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., announced a positive test earlier Monday.
In a video posted shortly after the attack, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., can be seen trying to give masks to her colleagues while they’re locked down together during the siege. At least six Republican representatives can be seen in the video, posted by Punchbowl News, refusing the masks.
“I am also calling for serious fines to be immediately levied on every single Member who refuses to wear a mask in the Capitol,” Jayapal said. “Additionally, any Member who refuses to wear a mask should be immediately removed from the floor by the Sergeant at Arms. This is not a joke. Our lives and our livelihoods are at risk, and anyone who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives because of their selfish idiocy.”
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Hey Rep. Pramila Jayapal, everyone wears masks in supermarkets, Walmart and the businesses that are allowed to be open and the corona virus has spread, Sweden has kept their society open and they have 4,000 less deaths than Michigan, with Sweden having a bigger population than Michigan and the Swedish people did not wear masks. So much for masks preventing the spread of the virus.
And she interviewed …EVERYONE…. and all the people that didn’t wear a mask are Republicans. Of course picking and choosing what junk “science” this lunatic just love to sight… she overlooks hard facts. Here in Michigan, 88.6% of mask wearers who were tested was found positive. Of all the people who did not wear masks less than 61% tested positive. These are actual numbers recorder by a county health department worker who was instructed …NOT… to officially record them. Here’s an example of the kind of junk science these useless, overpaid government scum use to shove up our keesters… Every single person …I mean 100% of people who tested positive eat carrots… so eating carrots will give you CHINA virus. The deception and lies “people” in our government is so in your face arrogant I’m positive will earn them a very special place hell…. and I pray they find out soon.
That makes me wonder, HOW MANY OTHER Health depts, saw EXACTLY THE SAME THING< where those NOT WEARING a mask, had fewer folks catching Covid, vs those who were MANDATING FOLKS WEAR THEM?? AND as such, SQUELCHED such facts.
what a hagg she should wear a dam mask so i dont have to see her ugly mug.
a mask is not gonna stop it you idiot.
next you will blame your looks on the gop.
How about a paper bag? I think that would work much better…
How about a plastic one with zip ties.
Only if we can superglue it on permanently.
There is no protection from, or cure for, willful stupidity. This ignoramus should donate her brain for medical research, effective immediately, since she obviously isn’t using it anyway.
With our luck.. Dr. Frankenstein would wind up with it! It kinda looks like he may have.
IT would get returned “UNFIT For medical science”.
Hey, what happened to all the comments from the last couple of days articles? Have we already been censored?
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Of course all Democrats were wearing masks, NOT!, according to the pictures I’ve seen.
oh come on joe23006… next you’ll tell me Numb skull Nancy doesn’t wear one at the hair salon… Or governor Nuisance doesn’t wear one while dinning out.
More of the fear mongering of the left.
She’s been working on getting Trump out of office since 2017 when she was one of the representatives who challenged the electoral college vote. Since the Democrats are calling for ALL of the Republicans who challenged the electoral vote inn 2021 to be removed from office I suggest she go first since she did it in 2017.
And since inciting violence is grounds for removal we better start cleaning house and getting rid of EVERY Democrat who did so the last four years. Waters is on record and tape from 2018.
BUT those “incitement to violence” rules/laws, WILL ONLY ever be applied to Trump.. NEVER to anyone in the Commucrat party.. Just like always.