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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Tue Dec 29, 2020, 07:55 AM Dec 2020

GOP official hospitalised twice with Covid since attending White House Hanukkah party


‘I didn’t listen to the warnings of my own family, and now I’m paying the price,’ says Tom Mountain

Oliver O'Connell
New York
14 hours ago

The vice chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee has been hospitalised twice since contracting Covid-19 at a White House holiday party in early December.

Tom Mountain told The Boston Globe: “I didn’t listen to the warnings of my own family, and now I’m paying the price.”

Mr Mountain attended the annual White House Hanukkah party on 9 December at which very few people wore a face mask, despite surging cases of the coronavirus.

“No one can ever say for sure exactly where they got it, but I’ll say this: Before the party, I was in perfectly good health,” he said. “Three days later, I was in the hospital with Covid, and it was all downhill from there.”

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gop-official-hospitalised-twice-with-covid-since-attending-white-house-hanukkah-party-b1779718.html



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GOP official hospitalised twice with Covid since attending White House Hanukkah party (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2020 OP
The air there was anything but Kosher. dubyadiprecession Dec 2020 #1
--- and turn off Fox. 3Hotdogs Dec 2020 #2
And points deducted for that ridiculous jacket. badhair77 Dec 2020 #3
People who dress up in flag and Trumpie clothing will be laughed at in the coming years. katmondoo Dec 2020 #5
Let's hope he hasn't been taking hospital beds from people thucythucy Dec 2020 #4
If just once one of these 'woke' people'd explain why exactly they didn't believe Covid was bad. marble falls Dec 2020 #6
WHO ELSE IS PAYING THE PRICE -- nurses, son, daughter-in-law, and mother-in-law lostnfound Dec 2020 #7
Fuck him. (nt) Paladin Dec 2020 #8
he should have listened to his family? RicROC Dec 2020 #9
Major COVIDIOT Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2020 #10

thucythucy

(8,069 posts)
4. Let's hope he hasn't been taking hospital beds from people
Tue Dec 29, 2020, 09:36 AM
Dec 2020

equally as ill but he took precautions because they weren't locked into the Trump cult.

lostnfound

(16,180 posts)
7. WHO ELSE IS PAYING THE PRICE -- nurses, son, daughter-in-law, and mother-in-law
Tue Dec 29, 2020, 09:58 AM
Dec 2020

The nurses? Family members? Staff? Insurance company?

“No one can ever say for sure exactly where they got it?”
Yeah, because your dickhead party doesn’t fund TRACING, doesn’t contain the virus by WEARING MASKS, hasn’t funded a decent public health program in decades, doesn’t push for DNA SEQUENCING like other ADVANCED countries, and has dumbed down respect for science.

Mother-in-law. I feel sorry for your daughter’s choice in husbands.

But HE is paying the price. He says HE is paying the price. Sociopath.

RicROC

(1,204 posts)
9. he should have listened to his family?
Tue Dec 29, 2020, 12:09 PM
Dec 2020

How about listening to MDs and scientists, like Dr. Fauci, Dr. Gupta..and even Gov. Cuomo (not a scientist).

Even though his family might have been correct in their recommendation, what do they know?
They just listened to logic, like he should have and he's in power to make positive changes in the life of Americans. But he didn't.....

If I was the CEO of his insurance company, I might consider withholding my approval of insurance funds to treat him. (Sorry, this kind of story that I read day-after-day about converted antiCOVID people, disgusts me).

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