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US Senator From Mississippi ‘Fed Up’ With Masks Contracts COVID
The state of Mississippi has the one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, and is averaging over 3500 new coronavirus cases per day.
That number just went up.
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, 70, Mississippi’s senior senator and a Republican, just contracted COVID. He has been vaccinated, his office said in a statement.
Wicker infamously was captured on camera on a Delta flight refusing to wear a mask last year. He has been an ardent anti-masker.
I’ve seen enough Republican senators test positive to tweet this photo. @SenatorWicker — because you refused to wear a mask on our @Delta flight last night, please let your fellow passengers know your status once you’ve been tested. pic.twitter.com/j2TW6g1gwO
— Matt Harringer (@MattHarringer) October 3, 2020
GOP senators not too concerned with lifting of their states’ mask mandate.
Sen. Roger Wicker said he’s supportive of Mississippi’s move to lift mask mandate.
Asked about CDC warning states not to ease up, he told me: “I disagree.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 3, 2021
Just last month Wicker penned an op-ed demanding an end to mask mandates, declaring – falsely – “Americans are getting fed up with these overbearing rules that have no basis in scientific fact.”
49 studies prove masks work.
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