Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defended her decision not to wear a mask when she was locked in a safe room during the riots in the Capitol, and the Republican in Georgia pushed back against Democrats blaming her and other maskless GOP members for their recent coronavirus-positive tests.
Greene said she tested negative for COVID-19 in the White House on Jan. 4 and does not believe healthy Americans should be forced to muzzle themselves with a mask.
“It’s absolutely ridiculous and insane to blame us,” Greene told Fox News. “[We] did not have COVID or any symptoms. ‘
The newly elected member of the House said that “Healthy people do not spread COVID” and pointed out that “COVID-positive people spread COVID.”
Asymptomatic and presymptomatic people can still spread COVID-19 to others, even if they do not feel sick. Therefore, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends keeping six feet apart and wearing a mask to stop the spread.
Greene was one of six Republicans of the House captured on video by Punchbowl News – and without a mask – as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6. Democratic President Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware approached the GOP members with their masks, but they refused.
After the lengthy lockout, the Capitol’s attending physician told Congress on Jan. 10 that members who had been in a safe room for hours for hours were at risk for coronavirus.
“Individuals may have been exposed to another resident with a coronavirus infection,” said Dr. Brian P. Monahan wrote to House members Sunday.
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Since then, at least three Democrats have tested positive for coronavirus and blamed their time in the safe room for their exposure: Representatives Brad Schneider of Illinois, Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey.
Schnieder, on Tuesday, indulged his GOP colleagues as they went into the same room as him without a mask and expressed their ‘selfishness’ and ‘disregard for decency’.
“Today I am now in strict isolation, worried that I have risked my wife’s health and angry at the selfishness and arrogance of the anti-maskers who put their own contempt and contempt for decency above the health and safety of their colleagues and our colleagues. “staff,” Schneider said in a statement.
Jayapal also blasted her maskless GOP colleagues for her COVID-19 test result, saying they “brutally refused to wear a mask but recklessly mocked colleagues and staff who offered them one.”
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Rep. Grace Meng, DN.Y., posted the video of the maskless GOP members in the safe room and shot them for “recklessly endangering the lives of my colleagues, staff and reporters.”
Greene was stubbornly opposed to coronavirus restrictions and had previously called the masks ‘oppressive’. She wants states and businesses to reopen and believes the shutdowns are too harsh compared to the survival rate of those who contract the virus. She says she wears a mask around her father who has cancer because it is important to keep people in extreme risk groups safe.
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Greene said that if anyone is to blame for the coronavirus outbreak at the Capitol, it’s Nancy Pelosi, D-California,’s home chairman because he Rep. Gwen Moore, DN.J. comes to the Capitol and votes on the House floor for her advocacy after testing positive for coronavirus. She said Pelosi put fellow members at risk of winning a close vote for speaker.
“It’s absolutely stupid that people blame us when Rep. Moore and others enter the room, the Capitol building and the city with COVID,” Greene said.
“The blame lies squarely on Nancy Pelosi and the positive COVID members who bring COVID to the Capitol,” Greene added.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Also called Pelosi.
“Nancy Pelosi put us all at risk by bringing a COVID-positive member into the living rooms,” Boebert said.
According to her office, Moore was not in the safe room with the other members who were recently diagnosed with a coronavirus.
Moore said she tested positive for coronavirus 11 days before the speaker’s vote, saying she would travel to the Capitol through her doctor. Moore, who arrives on Jan. 3 to vote for Pelosi as speaker, said she was diagnosed with the virus on Dec. 23.
On December 28, six days before the Speaker’s vote, Moore issued a statement about her diagnosis – which probably caused the initial zeal to travel to DC in the middle of a quarantine.
Moore, who was seen wearing a mask on the house floor, said she was not endangering her colleagues.
“I want to assure all my colleagues, voters and the people who work within the Capitol complex that I have complied with my doctor’s and CDC guidelines after my COVID-19 diagnosis and isolation, and that I am COVID repaired and safe. to work and vote on behalf of the people of Wisconsin’s Fourth Congress District, ‘Moore said in a statement at the time. “While I was immediately exposed on December 22 and tested positive the next day, I was eager to talk to doctors. working together to put my health and public health first. “
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The CDC recommends staying home 14 days after coronavirus exposure and isolating it ten days after the first symptom develops, or ten days from a positive test if no symptoms develop. Sunday, Jan. 2, would be the tenth day since Moore’s positive test, though she did not say whether symptoms developed.
A Democratic assistant told Fox News that treating physician Moore had refined to be on the floor and that the leadership was not interfering with the physician’s work. “The source of this was not Gwen Moore,” the assistant told Fox News.
“If a doctor left Gwen Moore on the floor, it was no risk.”
Meanwhile, three other members of Congress were allowed to vote for a speaker for Pelosi via ‘special arrangements’ because, according to Politico, they were still in their quarantine windows.
In addition to Greene, the other GOP members seen in the safe room refusing to wear masks in the video were representatives Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Michael Cloud of Texas. Fox News asked all congressmen why they did not wear masks and when they last tested negative for coronavirus. They did not respond to requests for comment.
A sixth member of Congress, Representative Doug LaMalfa, R-California, is also seen without a mask in the video, but his office said it was because he had just sat down to eat.
“He was clearly eating and drinking during this video and his mask was on the table next to him,” LaMalfa chief of staff Mark Spannagel told Fox News.
Like Greene, LaMalfa’s office called on Pelosi and the Democrats for hypocrisy.
“As Speaker Pelosi has put COVID-positive Democrats under pressure to come to Washington and put them in the House of Representatives to secure her election as Speaker, Democrats must investigate their hypocrisy over their caucus long before attacking Republicans,” he said. Spannagel said, who refused to name specific members.
Spannagel also blew up the leaked video of the safe place for the purpose of ‘biased adult’.
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At least 64 current and incoming members of Congress have tested positive for coronavirus since last year. One incoming member, Election Committee Luke Letlow, R-La., Passed away on December 29 after contracting the virus.
Home leadership has responded to the latest outbreak at the Capitol by combating masks. According to a senior Democratic assistant from the House, the House will vote Tuesday night on a rule that would impose a $ 500 fine on members who do not wear masks on the house floor and $ 2,500 for a second offense.
Fox News’ Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.