GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert Suggests Mask Wearing Gave Him Coronavirus

[Arkansas Granny]

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Wednesday suggested that he contracted coronavirus because he wore a mask more frequently in recent days.

“I can’t help but think that if I hadn’t been wearing a mask so much in the last 10 days or so, I really wonder if I would have gotten it,” Gohmert said in an interview with The American Independent.

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The lawmaker was set to travel with President Donald Trump to Texas Wednesday, but his positive result was caught in the pre-screening process. Gohmert said last month that he would not wear a mask around the Capitol because he was being regularly tested for the virus.

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Gohmert, who was in attendance at Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General William Barr, is the seventh representative to contract the virus. He was spotted without a mask on Tuesday speaking with Barr within an arm’s length prior to the hearing. Barr will be tested today for coronavirus following Gohmert’s positive result.

Following his positive test result, Gohmert didn’t immediately isolate and self-quarantine, as health experts advise. He reportedly returned to his office, saying he wanted to inform his staffers of the test result in person rather than having them learn from news reports. Several staffers were already in the process of leaving by the time he arrived.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-louie-gohmert-who-refused-to-wear-a-mask-now-has-coronavirus?

I don't know about the rest of you, but where I come from they refer to this a pig ignorant (my apologies to pigs).

[unblock]

1. Based on the current map, it's more likely that voting republican causes COVID-19

[soothsayer]

2. I really don't think he understands at all how it works

Sincerely doesn’t.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. I don't think Barr understands, either.

He is supposedly getting tested today because of Louie yesterday.

How long does it take from time of exposure to be positive from the anti-bodies? Surely longer than 24 hours.

[soothsayer]

20. It does. Which is why it was puzzling the Tulsa drumpf rally tested VIPs like Cain...

On the way in AND on the way out...!

Well you see how that worked out.

But it shows how little science has rubbed off on Drumpf and pence.

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. I'd really like to know that "tested" definition they are using.

And how many of those VIPs were aware of how it is is supposed to have worked. You test negative on the way in, and 3 hours later, on the way out. Do they think the virus was gonna attack them in 3 hours?
And show instant anti-bodies?

Oh... another thought......were they charged for the tests...hmmm...

[soothsayer]

26. Nah it was free I'm sure

[tanyev]

3. Then every single healthcare worker who works with Covid patients would have it.

What a dumbass.

[bigtree]

4. never would have caught it

...if he hadn't been tested.

[Beringia]

5. These guys must have flunked logic and science in school

[Penn Voter]

6. WOW!

He really is that stupid!

[UTUSN]

7. Note to Doofus/GOHMERT: Drawing wrong conclusions doesn't count as science!1

[niyad]

8. WHEN has this waste of resources worn a mask??? He is even stupider than I thought, which

is damn difficult.

[SoCalNative]

9. Um...

[PunkinPi]

10. Well, he tests positive for stupidity, that's for sure...

Link to tweet

Rep. Louie Gohmert thinks that it’s possible that wearing a mask gave him COVID.

[NightWatcher]

11. Or maybe it was a sex dream with an alien...

has he checked with Sister Batshit?

[tavernier]

12. Well of course he's right.

The Lone Ranger had it, so did Batman. And every Halloween millions of little kids run around with Covid.

How did the rest of the world miss something so obvious?
Louie is another stable genius!

[rurallib]

13. The total crap one must believe to be a Republican today

It could kill you!

[Brother Buzz]

14. And he wants us to believe he caught the clap from a toilet seat when he was in the Army

[JCMach1]

15. You know, I take back wishing him well...

Necessary BS at all times

[crickets]

16. If only Congress had a basic entrance exam. It would get rid of a lot of problems.

...and by problems, I mean idiots. Wow.

[SCantiGOP]

17. If someone gets lung cancer

it's likely because they quit smoking.
If someone gets an STD, it's probably because they used a condom once in the past 6 months.

And if someone voted for Louie they got an asshole in the Congress.

[LisaL]

19. Pigs are actually very smart animals.

[Arkansas Granny]

21. That's why I apologized.

[Brainfodder]

22. R.I.P. Louis Buller Gohmert Jr.

NOT too soon!



J.D. from Baylor and 66, yet we were thinking 86?

[sakabatou]

23. *facepalm*

[Tanuki]

24. The saddest part is that by this time tomorrow there will be a new viral internet hoax

to the effect that another reason for not wearing masks is that they can give you covid instead of protecting you!