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"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
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 24 2020, @10:48AM (9 children)
It didn't work for you, why is it supposed to work for me?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 24 2020, @02:10PM (8 children)
"Nuh uh, no u" hasn't worked since second grade. You are very clearly a sociopath as your post history shows, and I am not. Non-sequitur as well as childish.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Tuesday March 24 2020, @04:16PM (7 children)
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 25 2020, @01:58AM (6 children)
See, your problem is that since you *are* a sociopath, you have no actual moral backdrop against which to make those judgments. I understand; you're fundamentally broken, a grim parody of a human being, and what's worse is that you might not have started that way. But that doesn't make any difference now, does it?
I wish you the suffering necessary to break your arrogant heart of stone. It's a shame there's no other way, but you chose this path.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 25 2020, @04:37PM (5 children)
Let's dwell on this accusation for a bit. First, words have meaning. Sociopath doesn't mean completely devoid of morality, though that can be the case. Like all things psychological, it is a matter of degree. You are including in your statement here a number of people who aren't completely morally crippled, and thus, your stereotyping is false.
Second, I have demonstrated on numerous occasions the moral backdrop you choose to ignore (for a few examples, here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], and here [soylentnews.org]).
Third, you acknowledge that it is possible for a sociopath to fix themselves through experience and learning in your last paragraph. When have you last tried?
Finally, the ad hominem, begging-the-question nature of the label gets in the way again. Even if it really were the case that I was a sociopath, it still doesn't mean I'm wrong, even on matters of morality, and can be so casually dismissed. Well, you can dismiss peoples' opinions and knowledge on any spurious, arbitrary, and negligent basis you wish, but it's not a good idea, just saying.
It looks to me at present like you fall in the shallow side of this sociopathy pool, with a sense of morality, but unable to properly apply your morality to others due to some degree of narcissism and antagonist behavior. Should we wish you suffer some more in order to fix that?
I consider this the ultimate abdication of your argument. You have nothing to say, productive or not, so you hope bad things happen, and that somehow, contrary to millennia of known, very contrary experience, this will be a learning experience rather than a continuation of the status quo.
For example, consider the revolutions of France (1789) or the Chinese and Russian civil wars of the last century. People who had suffered for generations turned to ruthless evil when it was their turn at power. Suffering hadn't enlightened them a bit.
And there is the ultimate futility of the "wish". You hope I'm wrong and you hope that reality will punish me via karma for having these beliefs and opinions. That ignores both that reality doesn't seem interested in karma nor that my beliefs are mostly moral as well, and hence, would not be subject to karma.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 26 2020, @12:23AM (4 children)
That is a lot of words to say "yeah I'm evil, what are you gonna do about it?" To which I've already said "nothing, it's not my beat." Keep whistling past the graveyard...you'll be in it soon enough.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 26 2020, @01:31AM (3 children)
You remind me a lot of fustakrakich. The same willful blindness. The same strange inability to back your words with anything.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 26 2020, @02:48PM (2 children)
The irony is off the charts. You and he make a perfect couple, you know that? And I love watching you two fight!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 26 2020, @03:42PM (1 child)
Perhaps some day you'll figure out why.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 27 2020, @12:49PM
Oh, I *know* why. You, on the other hand, appear to be stubbornly putting off any personal growth until it's much too late.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...