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posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 23 2020, @01:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the What-goes-around-comes-around. dept.

"Kentucky Republican Rand Paul is the first US senator to test positive for coronavirus, throwing an even greater sense of urgency into Senate negotiations over a massive stimulus package that had yet to come together Sunday afternoon.

A statement from Paul's office posted to his Twitter account Sunday said he was "feeling fine" and was "tested out of an abundance of caution." But some senators and aides are angry at Paul for not doing more to self-quarantine earlier and for potentially exposing senators to the coronavirus.

[...] Senate Republicans, emerging from their closed-door lunch where they received the news, were extremely unsettled.

GOP senators told CNN Paul was in the gym with colleagues Sunday morning, and several pointed out how close Paul had sat to others during Senate lunches in recent days. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas said he saw Paul in the Senate swimming pool Sunday, according to a source in the GOP lunch.
"This is a different ballgame now," one Republican senator told CNN."

If one ignores the guidelines for social distancing like the above Senator, as well as the President in his daily briefing such as 6 foot separation and avoiding gatherings of more than 10 people, one may well expect to become infected. One's status and position will not provide protection.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/22/politics/rand-paul-coronavirus/index.html


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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday March 23 2020, @03:40AM (1 child)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday March 23 2020, @03:40AM (#974301)

    No, the problem is that a lot of younger and healthier people also require hospitalization and ventilator support. I think I read somewhere that 20% of those hospitalized were under 40. So if we infect everyone, we'll completely overwhelm the hospitals in most countries (esp. America, where we really don't have very many beds for the size of the population), and then tons of people will be dying from all kinds of other ailments because there's just no capacity to treat them all.

    But you might be onto something: if things get that bad, they'll enact severe triage measures, which means that older people (esp. men) will be lowest-priority, so we'll lose a large chunk of the population older than 50 or 60 years old. This will probably result in a massive change in the electorate, the GOP being killed off very quickly (because they won't have that many voters left), and Bernie-loving voters taking over and finally getting single-payer healthcare in this country for the 200 million people who survive.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @03:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @03:46AM (#974304)

    Cause, like South Korea lost half its population, you know.