Sen. Rand Paul tests positive for coronavirus
Source: Axios
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office announced on Twitter Sunday.
Why it matters: He's the first U.S. senator to test positive. According to his office, Paul is asymptomatic and was not aware of direct contact with any infected person.
Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.axios.com/rand-paul-coronavirus-847b3df1-92bc-4ee6-833b-952d16f3ee3f.html
still_one
(92,219 posts)PNW-Dem
(244 posts)Diagnosis comes days after his father said the pandemic may be a hoax. "Thoughts and prayers" for Senator Paul
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,512 posts)infullview
(981 posts)Like a good republican he probably wont suffer any ill effects from it and will spread it to people who can't get tested and are too poor to get good medical coverage. When these people are dying he will say no to healthcare and tell to die and decrease the surplus population - because tha's they way it works with social Darwinism.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,435 posts)Arthur_Frain
(1,853 posts)I find Im okay with this.
Probably building up a little bad karma myself. Welp.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)I don't think that many Democrats are going to feel sorry for the sorry ass bastard.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Especially older ones. They've all been in close contact in meetings and lunch. Also Paul worked out with others in Senate gym this morning!
Why gym open??? That's what their asking.
DarleenMB
(408 posts)to practice social distancing? No wonder our government is falling apart.
Smackdown2019
(1,188 posts)I bet his neighbor does not feel sorry for him as well... remember he was arrested year or two ago....
Hekate
(90,714 posts)And Trump had such a smirk when he said it -- he was just holding back a laugh at all us little people who believe in fairness.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)moonscape
(4,673 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Let's spare ourselves the disgusting details and just say that many orifices were involved.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)In this case, one of the orifices involved was a different one.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Yuck to have his tongue in another's mouth.
IronLionZion
(45,452 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)" O, what men dare do ! what men may do ! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! "--Shakespeare
drray23
(7,633 posts)Submariner
(12,504 posts)RIP rand.
quakerboy
(13,920 posts)and pretend hes fine.
Its not like it would be a big difference from the real rand, on behavior or intelegence. Though some might note it was behaving in a more ethical way than he usually does.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,011 posts)Maybe Mr. Detestable will be sick enough to think that this is not a hoax. Of course, as a US senator he will have access to the best medical care while many people cant even be tested because they arent sick enough yet.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Maxheader
(4,373 posts)wish the little brown and smelly a full recovery...
HAB911
(8,904 posts)malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)Doesn't the virus require a human host??
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Apparently pond scum is a suitable host as well.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Anybody else see a resemblance?
Politicub
(12,165 posts)I think he's making it up so he can eke out some sympathy from aqua buddha.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)ahimsa
(426 posts)Asymptomatic with no known contact with an infected person... it seems theres more to this story than what we see here.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,749 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)Simply because they can?
Otherwise, yes, it's very fishy.
quakerboy
(13,920 posts)Id bet that the secret service has priority test access and is testing anyone who is likely to have contact with the president or vp or anyone in their circle.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)moonscape
(4,673 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)KWR65
(1,098 posts)It must be a hoax result.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)"It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach President Donald Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the Administration grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans."
Opps.........
Mike Niendorff
(3,462 posts)"People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus pandemic could be a big hoax, with the actual danger of the disease massively exaggerated by those who seek to profit financially or politically from the ensuing panic."
-- Ron Paul (father of Sen Rand Paul), **6 days ago**
Just, WOW.
MDN
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)33taw
(2,444 posts)Raven123
(4,849 posts)Yavin4
(35,441 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,390 posts)mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)Stallion
(6,476 posts)in fact entire Republican Caucus might want to take a 14 day break so we can impeach the Orange Anus
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/special/Desks/chambermap.cfm
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)ariesgem
(1,634 posts)n/t
helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)durablend
(7,460 posts)Or is being a heartless asshole one of the symptoms?
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)paid $1,300 cash others must pay.
AC_Mem
(1,979 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,181 posts)Journeyman
(15,036 posts)SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)We have symptomatic people with confirmed contacts that can't get tested here in Los Angeles!!
qwlauren35
(6,148 posts)I hope you shook Mitch's hand and coughed on the president.
A woman can dream.
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)Did you ever stop to think that if Mitch or the president gets it they could pass it on to other innocent people? It is very short sighted of you to hope that anyone should get it.
durablend
(7,460 posts)totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)then yes, I hope he doesn't get it and I hope that anyone else doesn't get it.
Traildogbob
(8,752 posts)Its her flu. Her families ships. Sarcasm here. I hate the GOP racist shit too. He should be slapping trump to defend her, even if she is a corrupt asshole. Stealing from the country that pays her.
qwlauren35
(6,148 posts)Right now, he is a threat to the American public.
The things that I have wished would happen to him are unprintable.
But yes, I am an ugly person in some ways, and if innocent people have to get sick for our president to catch COVID-19, I consider them casualties of war. Collateral damage.
I accept that you think I am an ugly person. And that you are a gentler person.
Go ahead and pray for Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, so that the innocents who surround them will be spared. Others will pray for those in ICU on ventilators. Personally, I think, if prayers are in scarce supply, the people in the hospitals are more innocent than those who gather around the president.
spudspud
(511 posts)scrabblequeen40
(334 posts)yeah. It's a hoax. And then, he's dead. How will we carry one without such evil?
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)sellitman
(11,607 posts)But I'm not complaining either.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)n/t
vapor2
(1,248 posts)one of the Coronavirus bills and not sure why but he was holding it up.
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)sick and die. I would not wish that on anybody.
scrabblequeen40
(334 posts)BadGimp
(4,015 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Karma is a fucking BITCH
machoneman
(4,007 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)pnwmom
(108,980 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)Thoughts and prayers though, you miserable SOB!
machoneman
(4,007 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,172 posts)Under The Radar
(3,404 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,015 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)My wish is that he doesn't die too soon from it, bless his granite heart. I mean, I wouldn't want his lungs to feel like ground glass and have him struggling and gasping to breath.
question everything
(47,486 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)I wish him no ill, but it's good if it keeps him and his obstructionism away from the Senate while they work on serious legislation.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Blue Owl
(50,420 posts)n/t
40RatRod
(532 posts)one!
qanda
(10,422 posts)What an idiot. Didn't he know that he was being tested?
MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)Rand Paul is just the kind of self-entitled weasel to not bother wiping down the gym equipment he's just used.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)BunnyMcGee
(463 posts)sop
(10,193 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Jim__
(14,077 posts)I hope they gouged him on the price for the test.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Traildogbob
(8,752 posts)Trump, his spawn, Kelly Anne, Hannity....I can go on, Rusty Limpballs, I would say Alex Jones but he has magic toothpaste to save himself and all that buy it.
little, two little, three little repubelicans
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)The tweet from his account went out at 1:36PM today. I assume that he had been tested before he went to the gym.
Senate Republicans expressed their concern after emerging from a closed-door lunch where they received news that Sen. Rand Paul had tested positive for coronavirus.
Three different GOP senators told CNN that Paul was in the gym with colleagues this morning and several pointed out how close the Kentucky senator had sat to others during Senate lunches in recent days.
Paul apparently had part of a lung removed in 2019, as an eventual complication of the brawl with his neighbor. That may have put him into a 'testable' category.
My gosh, I had no idea that he was hurt that much. What a great world we live in.
And I dislike him about as much as any of them.
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)smb
(3,471 posts)Traildogbob
(8,752 posts)No socialized medicine to cure a damn hoax.
Bayard
(22,099 posts)We already have enough people infected here.
I am also wondering why he was tested.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,005 posts)still_one
(92,219 posts)Fla Dem
(23,690 posts)bluescribbler
(2,117 posts)Can you say, "karma"?
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)Really.
How is small government working for you Paul.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)I am pretty sure it took a plane ride over from China in November or early December.
Its about a 12 hr ride over.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)No more of this "China Virus" shit.
Pass it on.
uncle ray
(3,156 posts)it must be torture being quarantined with such a flaming asshole.
generalbetrayus
(507 posts)I heard he's on a road trip right now to Ayn Rand's grave site where he'll get down on his knees and sing, "Nearer My God to Thee".
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)heckles65
(549 posts)as to why he went into politics, as part of the leech State, instead of business where he could have been the next Howard Roark or John Galt?
no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)Sen. Sinema (D-Arizona). No republican Senator has put out a public statement about how Paul's exposure of the CV to other Senators has endangered them. None.
Hav
(5,969 posts)I think a Dem senator raised the question yesterday why he would do that and how irresponsible it is. I wouldn't go so far and claim intent but he's an idiot who acted recklessly.
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)but him, and his cronies.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)They are mostly elderly and at highest risk for death.
There are no plans for remote voting at all.
Let me say that again, Paul is a PHYSICAN. "First do no harm", anyone????
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)I think it's concerning that there have been no medical updates on the condition of a sitting Senator. Remember he had part of his lung removed after his neighbor beat the crap out of him a couple of years ago.
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)are in use!!!