Last Wednesday was a chaotic day on Capitol Hill. Emotions are high. Platforms are being deplatformed. Colleagues are flinging rhetorical feces at each other. Some, if they had their druthers, might even throw actual feces. It's been a rough week, is what I'm saying. Though most people are focusing their anger on the events of January 6, Rep. Pramila Jayapal is sticking with ol' reliable: blaming colleagues for not wearing masks.
The congresswoman recently was diagnosed with COVID. Take a guess who she blames for it.
I just received a positive COVID-19 test result after being locked down in a secured room at the Capitol where several Republicans not only cruelly refused to wear a mask but recklessly mocked colleagues and staff who offered them one.https://t.co/wVmgroKsdf
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) January 12, 2021
Say what you will about masks (far be it from me to contradict the CDC), but don't you think elected officials trapped in the Capitol with an angry mob outside maaaaaaaybe had other things on their minds? Possibly the angry mob outside. If a congressman refused to wear a mask, I doubt it was cruel, and I have a hard time believing anyone mocked anyone. Also, in a somewhat related note, here's video of Rep. Jayapal not wearing a mask.