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Marco Rubio Says Fear of Covid is an “Irrational Hysteria”.
Oh, is it?
We are officially heading into the third year of dealing with Covid-19, and the numerous ways it has impacted lives across the world. It has revealed some of the deepest, brutal failings of the American government and its unwillingness to protect its own people, and served as a reminder — if nothing else —that the desire to protect capital for the elite at the expense of everyone else runs deeper than many of us imagined. While I’ve certainly had my fair share of critiques in the ways Democrats have handled the pandemic over the past year, every once in a while a GOP lawmaker seems to step out and remind the American people of just how detrimental their policies are as well.
Recently, Florida Senator Marco Rubio decided to fill that role, tweeting:
“Record numbers testing positive for a sore throat isn’t a crisis, and people in the hospital for car accidents testing positive isn’t a surge. The real crisis is the irrational hysteria which has people with no symptoms waiting hours for a test or missing work for 10 days.”
