Masks are antifa
A Michigan Republican who spoke out against former President Donald Trump and was hospitalized with COVID-19 after a GOP committee meeting has lost his position as the group’s treasurer.
The 6th Congressional District’s executive committee voted 26-0 on Saturday to remove Jason Watts, 44, of Allegan, as its treasurer. The vote occurred less than a month after Watts attended a district committee meeting at a Portage restaurant where he believes he contracted the coronavirus.
Maybe because the people at the meeting weren’t wearing masks.
Republican officials have linked at least four COVID-19 cases to the March 25 gathering. Watts, one of the four, was hospitalized for five days. He told his story publicly, drawing criticism from fellow committee members ahead of Saturday’s vote.
Yes you’re supposed to keep it secret when your fellow party-members infect you with the covid.
Watts has been a member of the Republican Party for more than two decades.
He drew criticism from fellow executive committee members after he told The New York Times in February that he had never voted for Trump. In 2016, he cast his ballot for independent candidate Evan McMullin and in 2020, he voted for Libertarian Jo Jorgensen, according to the article.
He’s lucky they didn’t torture him to death.
Some of the Republicans in the 6th District wanted Watts removed after those comments. His revelations about the March 25 district committee meeting at Traveler’s Cafe in Portage added further fuel to the fire. Watts told The News earlier this month that about three of the 70 people in attendance for the gathering were wearing masks at one point.
67 maskless people at a meeting. Oh well, what are ya gonna do.
“Most of them in that room are not believers in the vaccine,” McGraw said. “That’s something we’ve got to contend with.”
Michigan has been leading the nation in new COVID-19 cases per population since the beginning of April.
It’s Freedom Covid, wear it with pride.
I had my first dose of vaccine yesterday. While my wife waited in the carpark, she was accosted by one of the parking attendants, who informed her that COVID was just flu, really. Remember, this was one of the people directing traffic at the vaccination centre.
it’s just flu, he said. He’d been hospitalised with it earlier in the year and he still can’t walk up a flight of stairs, but it’s just flu. His brother was on a ventilator and is still reliant on oxygen at home weeks later. But it’s just flu. And do you know what the second dose is? It’s just a booster! You see! Like flu!
But at the same time as it being just flu, he explained, it’s also a culling. There are too many people on Earth and some are being culled. He didn’t know whether anyone in particular was doing the culling or whether it was some mysterious power of the Earth itself fighting back, but mark his words, we are being culled.
This didn’t go down well with mrs latsot. I didn’t warm to him much myself, since he refused to talk to me, instead talking to her about me while I was right there, presumably because of the wheelchair.
“Does he like to be independent?”
At least I can get up the ramp by myself, wheezy.
Oh, good grief Iatsot! How you refrained from decking him, I shall probably never know. At the very least, I would have reported him when I got indoors. I certainly would have been tempted to run over his toes ‘accidentally-on-purpose’. People who try to ignore me because of the chair are soon disabused of that notion. When I’m in the manual one, with hubby pushing, as soon as anyone who is supposed to be dealing with me addresses him instead I say “Ignore him; he’s just the motor.” If they persist in trying to talk to him, he has been known to turn around and look pointedly at something else, or even walk a short distance away.
People are scared, and often too under-educated to understand what is actually happening. Certain conspiracies appeal to them, because it means that someone else is in control. Many people, in my experience, don’t really want to grow up and take on adult responsibilities. They want other people to be in charge, so they don’t have to make the hard decisions. Oh, they’ll take it as given that they have a right to grumble about those decisions, but the relief at not having to make them themselves more than compensates for the ‘wrong’ decisions being made. Where they can get away with it, they’ll not even vote, whilst still grumbling about the ‘wrong’ politicians getting voted in by the people who did. See, that means that they can absolve themselves of all culpability whenever anything goes wrong. So, he caught COVID. It must have been pre-ordained by someone/something (why think about it? Thinking is hard!) and nothing to do with anything he did. Besides, it’s just (!) flu, nothing scarier than that. No need to be afraid! Yet he is seeking reassurance from other people that he has drawn the correct conclusion. Scared, ignorant, rendered infantile by a patriarchal, capitalist society.
I still would have run over his toes, though.
Wo! That is…quite extraordinary behavior.
Wow, what an asshole, on multiple levels. We’ve got a family member in their late 20’s who’s had it (and who, even after a year, is still easily fatigued), and others who are steadfastly refusing to be vaccinated.
I think we (as a global community) were damned lucky that this was not much, much worse. If the Earth ever decides to “cull” us, there will be no mistaking it.
I remember, much earlier in the crisis, a graphic posted somewhere online that went something like this:
Humanity: “We can’t shut down the economy because of climate change!”.”
Earth: “Okay, here’s a pandemic. Practice.”