Mike Lee Tested Positive for Coronavirus 10 Days Ago. Why Was He Not Wearing a Mask

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As the Senate Judiciary Committee began its hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett today, all attention was initially focused on Barrett, the Circuit Court of Appeals judge picked by President Trump to fill the vacancy created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last month.

But shortly after the hearings began, it wasn’t Barrett who grabbed the first day’s headlines. Instead, it was one of the panelists on the Judiciary Committee: Utah senator Mike Lee.

It was not what the Republican senator said or didn’t say that caused him to be something of a narrative flash point on Monday. Instead, it was what he chose not to wear as he made his 10-minute opening statement: a mask.

That’s because less than two weeks ago, Lee tested positive for coronavirus shortly after he attended the Rose Garden ceremony where President Trump announced his nomination of Barrett to the Supreme Court. The ceremony has since been identified as a super-spreader event, with nearly a dozen attendees, including Lee and his fellow Judiciary Committee member Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, later testing positive.

https://www.vogue.com/article/mike-lee-no-mask-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-hearings-coronavirus

Why? Because he's a selfish asshole.

[BusyBeingBest]

1. I don't understand how this is allowed in a federal building.

I don't know why people didn't walk out--I'm not willingly sharing indoor airspace with someone who isn't even 14 days out from their diagnosis unless they are family members and I have an N-95 mask.

[soothsayer]

2. It's maddening. He looked sweaty too.

[CanonRay]

3. Rules don't apply to Republicans

Haven't you learned that? Seriously, he had a note from his doctor or mother or some such shit.

[BusyBeingBest]

5. It's baffling--he shouldn't have been allowed inside even WITH a mask if

there's a chance he's still contagious. Inside WITHOUT a mask is insane--Capitol police should have escorted him out.

[Nevilledog]

4. Because he's a dick.

[Mike 03]

6. Because he wanted to give it to John Cornyn

just because.

[budkin]

7. Because "FAKE NEWS"

I'm sure that's his rationale.

[durablend]

8. "Just the floooooooooooooooo"

[asiliveandbreathe]

9. How do we even know he tested positive..because he said so? Their reputation

for lying and playing victim precedes them...put me in the skeptical column, as this all plays out, distraction?? Deception?

[subterranean]

14. I don't blame you for being skeptical.

I was just thinking about that this morning...more than a dozen Republicans were said to have tested positive 1-2 weeks ago, yet none of them, other than Chris Christie, seem to have suffered any ill effects, and now they're amazingly all back to normal!

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I can't help but wonder if it's not a coordinated attempt to convince Americans that COVID-19 is nothing to worry about. I want to believe no politician would lie about something like that, but this is the Trump administration we're talking about.

[IcyPeas]

10. because their goal is HERD IMMUNITY

they want people to get it.

[The Magistrate]

11. From The Picture I Saw, Sir, Because He Wants Grassley Dead

He was talking loudly just behind and above the old bird, gave him several good lungfuls....

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Oh boy,where to start.

Had a call this morning from my Trumper Brother. Yupper,Fox News it telling all those folks in South Dakota and Western Minnesota this Covid Thing is not as bad as the Dems make it out to be. Yup,just wait out the ten days and you are good to go,can't be reinfected. Yup,nothing to worry about. Make sure your help out your local Bar and Restaurants,cause if you don't,well those people will be on the unemployment roles.

And to think,there are seven people infected in his Neighborhood.

[C_U_L8R]

13. Same reason he doesn't wear a condom

He think's he it doesn't affect him.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Because he's a selfish, self-centered, sociopathic asshole.

Just like every other Republican.

[WyattKansas]

16. Like all Republicans, Mike Lee is annoyed his stupidity got him infected, but:

As long as he got it and it doesn't kill him, then he is going to make damn sure he infects as many others as he possibly can. After all, if people do not have the resistance to it like Mike Lee, then they deserve what they get and eliminates competition for him.

Republicans really have a fucked up way trying to game everything to their advantage above all else.