Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene defended her decision not to wear a mask when locked in a safe room with other members of the House during the Capitol riots and the Georgia Republican opposed Democrats who are now blaming her and other members of the Republican Party without a mask. for his recent positive coronavirus tests.
Greene said he tested negative for COVID-19 on January 4 at the White House and does not believe that healthy Americans should be forced to wear a mask.
“It is absolutely ridiculous and insane to blame us,” Greene told Fox News. “[We] had no COVID or any symptoms. “
The newly elected House member stated that “Healthy people don’t propagate COVID” and noted that “Positive COVID people propagate COVID.”
Asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic people can still transmit COVID-19 to other people, even when they don’t feel sick. That is why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that you keep 1.8 meters away and wear a mask to prevent it from spreading.
Greene was one of six House Republicans captured on video by the Punchbowl News huddled – and without a mask – during the blockade as pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6. Democratic MP Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware approached members of the Republican Party offering the masks, but they refused.
After the prolonged blockade, the Capitol’s assistant physician told Congress on January 10 that members who were confined for hours in the security room during Wednesday’s riot may be at risk for coronavirus.
“The individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection,” Dr. Brian P. Monahan wrote to members of the House on Sunday.
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Since then, at least three Democrats have tested positive for coronavirus and blamed time in the safe room for their exposure: Reps. Brad Schneider from Illinois, Pramila Jayapal from Washington and Bonnie Watson Coleman from New Jersey.
On Tuesday, Schnieder criticized his Republican colleagues for being without a mask in the same room as him and called his “selfishness” and “contempt for decency”.
“Today, I am in absolute isolation, concerned about having risked my wife’s health and angry at the selfishness and arrogance of anti-maskers who put their own disdain and disrespect for decency ahead of the health and safety of their colleagues and ours. employees, “Schneider said in a statement.
Jayapal also criticized his unmasked GOP colleagues for the COVID-19 test result, saying that they “cruelly refused to wear a mask, but recklessly mocked colleagues and employees who offered them one”.
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Congresswoman Grace Meng, DN.Y., posted the video of Republican Party members without a mask in the safe room and criticized them for “recklessly putting the lives of my colleagues, employees and reporters at risk”.
Greene has vehemently opposed the restrictions on coronavirus and previously called the masks “oppressive”. She wants states and companies to reopen and believes the outages are very severe 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 on the Capitol, it is mayor Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., For leaving Dep. Gwen Moore, DN.J. come to the Capitol and vote in the House plenary for your speaker after the positive coronavirus test. She said Pelosi put other members at risk of winning a small vote for mayor.
“It is absolutely stupid that people blame us when Dep. Moore and others entered the chamber, the Capitol building and the city with COVID,” said Greene.
“The blame lies entirely with Nancy Pelosi and the positive members of COVID who brought COVID to the Capitol,” Greene added.
Deputy Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Also called Pelosi.
“Nancy Pelosi put us all at risk by bringing a positive member of COVID to the House’s chambers,” said Boebert.
Moore was not in the security room during confinement with the other members who were recently diagnosed with coronavirus, according to his office.
Moore said she tested positive for coronavirus 11 days before the speaker ‘s vote and said she was authorized to travel to the Capitol by her doctor. Moore, who appeared to vote for Pelosi as mayor on January 3, said she was diagnosed with the virus on December 23.
Moore released a statement about her diagnosis on December 28, six days before the mayor’s vote – which probably aroused the initial fervor that she might be traveling to DC in the middle of a quarantine.
Moore, who was seen wearing a mask on the floor of the House, said she did not put her colleagues at risk.
“I would like to reassure all my colleagues, constituents and people who work at the Capitol complex that I have followed all the doctor’s and CDC’s guidelines following my COVID-19 diagnosis and isolation, and that I am recovered and safe from COVID working and voting on behalf of the people of Wisconsin’s Fourth Congressional District, ”Moore said in a statement at the time. “Although I was quarantined immediately after the exposure on December 22 and tested positive the next day, I was diligent in working with doctors to put my health and public health first.”
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The CDC recommends staying at home for 14 days after exposure to the coronavirus and isolating for 10 days after the first symptom develops, or 10 days after a positive test if no symptoms develop. Sunday, January 2, would have been the tenth day since Moore’s positive test, although she did not say whether the symptoms had appeared.
A Democratic aide told Fox News that the attending physician released Moore to join the House and that the leadership does not interfere with the doctor’s work. “There is no way the source of this could be Gwen Moore,” the aide told Fox News.
“If a doctor authorized Gwen Moore to fall to the ground, she would not be a risk.”
Meanwhile, three other members of Congress were able to vote for Pelosi for president through “special deals” because they were still in their quarantine windows, despite the negative test for the virus, according to Politico.
In addition to Greene, the other GOP members seen in the security room refusing to wear masks in the video were the Reps. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Michael Cloud of Texas. Fox News reached out to all congressmen about why they did not wear masks and when the last test was negative for coronavirus. They did not respond to requests for comment.
A sixth member of Congress, Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., Is also seen in the video without a mask, but his office said it was because he had just sat down at the table to eat.
“He was clearly eating and drinking at the time of this video and his mask was next to him on the table,” Mark Spannagel, LaMalfa’s chief of staff, told Fox News.
Like Greene, LaMalfa’s office appealed to Pelosi and the Democrats for hypocrisy.
“Given that President Pelosi pressured positive Democrats from COVID to come to Washington and place them in the House chambers to secure his election as President, Democrats should look closely at the hypocrisy of his caucus before attacking Republicans,” he said. Spannagel, who refused to name specific members.
Spannagel also released the video leaked from the safe place for the purpose of “party arrogance”.
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At least 64 current and future members of Congress have tested positive for coronavirus since last year. A new member, deputy-elect Luke Letlow, R-La., Died on December 29 after contracting the virus.
The House leadership responded to the latest outbreak on the Capitol with a crackdown on masks. The House was due to vote on a rule Tuesday night that would impose a $ 500 fine on members who did not wear masks in the House floor and $ 2,500 for a second offense, according to a leading Democratic aide to the House.
Fox News’ Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.