Following D-N.S. Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington State also announced the coronavirus test on January 11 local time.
Positive, becoming the second member to be recruited after last week’s congressional riots.
Jayapal issued a statement on the 11th, saying that she learned that night that she had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The statement pointed out that after Trump supporters attacked Congress on January 6, many Republican lawmakers refused to wear masks, and even laughed at colleagues and staff who gave them masks.
Because Jayapal had been hiding in a room with many colleagues who did not wear masks at the time of the riot, out of fear and “presight”, Jayapal has taken quarantine measures since the riot.
In the statement, Jayapal scolded Republicans and President Trump in a large margin, saying, “There are too many Republicans who refuse to take this virus seriously, and doing so will endanger everyone around them.”
Jayapal noted: “Just hours after President Trump incited deadly attacks on our Congress, the nation and democracy, many Republicans still refuse to take the most basic COVID-19 precautions, even if they wear ‘damn masks’ in crowded rooms, which are based on domestic terrorist attacks.
It also creates super-communication events.”
She went on to say: “I will quarantine as directed by the congressional doctor, but I will continue to do my best to work…
I share my voters and people across the country in anger to see Trump’s inability to fight against the novel coronavirus and refuse to take care of Americans who are suffering, death and sorrow everywhere. Now, we see him openly seditioners who attacked the Capitol and our democracy on January 6, and I will not stop until I do everything possible to oust the president.”
Jayapal also called for an immediate and huge fine for those who refuse to wear masks in the mountains of Congress.
She also suggested that members of Congress who refuse to wear masks should be removed from the parliament. “This is not a joke.
Our lives and livelihoods are in danger.
Anyone who refuses to wear masks should be selfish fooled for them. The act of stupidity endangers our lives and assumes full responsibility.
Earlier on the 11th, New Jersey Democratic Congressman Coleman also announced that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Coleman was vaccinated with the first dose of Pfizer/BioNTech before the riots in Congress.
A group of representatives were taken to a room to “refuge” when the riots in the United States Congress on January 6, but videos leaked showed that several of them refused to wear masks handed over by Democrats.
Congressional physician Brian Monahan sent an email to lawmakers on January 10 reminding them that some might have been exposed to a “COVID-19 person” and advising lawmakers to get tested for COVID-19.
