Republican Congressman Announces He Has COVID After Suing Pelosi Over Mask Mandate

Republican Representative Ralph Norman announced this past week that he had tested positive for COVID, and will now be quarantining for 10 days. Norman also happens to be part of a group of 3 Republicans suing Nancy Pelosi over the mask mandate in the House of Representatives. The irony is apparently lost on people like Norman, as he has no intention of dropping the lawsuit after becoming ill. Farron Cousins discusses the idiotic thinking of people like Norman.

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Republican Congressman Ralph Norman announced late last week that he has tested positive for COVID. He does have symptoms and he will now be quarantining for 10 days. Ralph Norman is and has been since February fully vaccinated against COVID-19. However, the reports say he got the breakthrough infection, which is pretty much media code for he's got the Delta variant much like Lindsey Graham who liked Norman is also from South Carolina. So South Carolina delegations got some problems there going on with COVID. But Norman has a couple of other problems as well. The most obvious one is the fact that Norman is part of a group of three Republicans. So him and two others who are actually suing Nancy Pelosi

In federal court

For the mask mandate that the house of representatives had earlier this year. And of course, now they have it back again.

And Norman has no

Intention of ending this lawsuit, even

After he caught COVID.

So you screwed around whatever it is, ignoring mask, uh, advice, I guess you'd call it because I'm not saying you got this on the house floor, but you know what the CDC has been saying recently,

Mask up again, even

If you're vaccinated, you chose to not listen, just like you chose to not listen. When you got fined for not wearing a mask on the house floor, which is actually why he and these other Republicans are suing Nancy Pelosi,

And he's not going to give it up. You know,

We are seeing far too many instances of this and I'm fairly confident Norman's going to pull through this. You know, he has been vaccinated at least. So he's not going to die from this most likely. I mean, it's a very, very, very tiny, tiny chance that that would even happen. So good for him. He's going to recover. He's going to live to fight another day. Unfortunately, his fight is going to be against the people trying to protect us. Last week. There was a story. Um, Scott Apley, Republican official county commissioner, um, from the state of Texas 45 years old, huge anti-vaxxer anti masker. His stuff was all over social media accounts, attacking boasts, both vaccines and masks.

He died of COVID. He

Was admitted to the hospital actually two days after he trashed vaccines again on a social media, he died last Wednesday,

Leaving behind a wife and a very young son, a son who's

Now going to grow up without a father because his father bought into all this anti mask. Anti-vax propaganda, partisan propaganda, that

Norman did the right thing by being vaccinated.

He's gonna live to fight another day. As I said, people like Scott Appleby are not people like the anti-vaxxer who texted his wife before he died. I wish I'd gotten the vaccine. Those people aren't going to live to fight another day. Dang. And those people might still be around. If we didn't have these performance artists like Norman, trying to make political statements by not wearing a mask on the house floor. See how it all circles back to the same thing. Folks, when you see Republicans out there saying I'm not wearing a mask, that's tyranny, we can't have mandatory vaccinations. That's oppression. Somehow all of these people, rallying railing against safety precautions, they're protected, but they're convincing the individuals who are not yet protected to put their lives at danger because they know they're going to be fine. So what does it matter to a guy like nor a Norman in South Carolina, if the Texas man dies, what does it matter to Norman? If a Florida man dies, what should matter to Ted Cruz? If a South Carolina and dies,

Eventually it'll hit home for these people. In the case of Norman.

I don't think it's going to make a difference with him. I think he is who he is. He's going to continue their performance art. Hopefully I'm wrong. Hopefully he comes out and says, listen, thank God I was vaccinated. Please go do the same. I'd be dead. If I wasn't vaccinated. That's what he needs to say.

But I have little hope that he will. There are people out there

Who are basing their decisions solely on partisan politics, not on science, not on conversations with their healthcare providers, but just because they think I'm a Republican Republicans are against this.