Posted on 02/01/2022 10:27:04 PM PST by SeekAndFind
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) announced on Tuesday he has tested positive for COVID-19.
“This afternoon, I tested positive for COVID-19, and I am experiencing mild symptoms,” the 82-year-old congressman said in a statement. “Thankfully, I am fully vaccinated and already received my booster shot.”
He continued, “I’m very grateful to the researchers, scientists, and medical experts who worked hard to develop the COVID-19 vaccines and to all the extraordinary public health workers and volunteers in our communities who have tirelessly worked to get shots into arms.”
Hoyer said he will be working from home for the upcoming week during his isolation period and will be using proxy voting to “protect the safety” of other Congress members at the Capitol. Proxy voting was approved in May 2020 in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and involves a lawmaker authorizing another lawmaker to vote on their behalf.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has called proxy voting a “patently unconstitutional practice” and mounted a legal challenge to such rules set by the Democrat-led House. The Supreme Court on Jan. 24 declined to take up the challenge.
Hoyer is the second House Democrat leader to have tested positive recently for COVID-19—House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) had tested positive in December 2021.
Other Democrats who have tested positive include Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), each of whom announced they had tested positive for the virus in January.
He is among at least 54 House members who tested positive for COVID-19 after having had the COVID-19 vaccine. At least 12 U.S. senators have also contracted breakthrough cases of COVID-19. More than half of the breakthrough cases have been from December 2021, when the Omicron variant became the dominant strain in the United States.
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Get jabbed, get Covid. What zombies.
MD 'Freak State' Ping!
Let me know if you want on/off this list.....
He has at least 2 comorbidities, age and stupidity.
“Other Democrats who have tested positive include Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)...”
They got that one right!
They’ll all get it and they’ll be fully jabbed. Then it saved them. Everyone here that believes this $hits hold up your hand. Come on don’t be bashful here don’t be sheep hold them up. 😾,s
Isn’t it stunning how people went from believing the vax is effective to accepting that it’s not AND lining up for boosters, which aren’t effective either .... and they’re not even a little angry that they’ve been yanked but demand you do the same?
Ooooooo, we all had a cold this year!!!!
What a bunch of sissys.
I’ve been saying that we’re living in the ST episode “Patterns of Force”, with people behind the scenes injecting our figurehead “leader” with drugs to control him. Question is, who is the real Melakon?
Hoyer is Deep State.
“but but but, if I do get covid a half dozen times at least I wont die” no stupider a statement that is the narrative of all the vaxxed
“Thankfully, I am fully vaccinated and already received my booster shot.”
Continue the flogging until morale improves....
But a Big Pharma check in an offshore account always makes the victim feel a little better.
“They’ll all get it and they’ll be fully jabbed. Then it saved them.”
And then there are those of us who didn’t get jabbed, got sick, took Ivermectin, and believe that saved US.
Liz — they’re in a cult; they can’t help themselves when it comes to ridiculous and illogical conclusions.
Hoyer is a POS and always has been.... We’ll see how well his jab BS is for him.
In addition, the term "fully vaccinated" is nothing but a marketing and propaganda term. One is either vaccinated or they are not, like being pregnant.
If he hadn’t been Jabbed/boosted, the Omicron scrathy throat/sniffles would have been much, much worse.
If it was a PCR test then he could be positive for anything. WuFlu, common cold, having had a soft drink...
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