Oh look, another Trump cultist get the virus:
The co-founder of a Maryland group that protested the state’s stay-at-home order and has pressured Republican Gov. Larry Hogan to ease restrictions amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic says he has tested positive for Covid-19.Tim Walters, the organizer for Reopen Maryland, said in a Facebook live video posted Thursday that he is quarantining in his home.
The US Navy veteran and former Republican candidate for Maryland’s House of Delegates also said that his wife and son would get tested and they would be following the 14-day quarantine.”I did have a hard day yesterday. I told you guys I wasn’t feeling really well. I crashed later in the day, had to go to the emergency room. I thought I was actually having a stroke … turns out I had Covid,” he said in the video, continuing later: “As you can see, I’m not dying. It’s uncomfortable. I would make it akin to having the flu.”
In April and May, Reopen Maryland, a grassroots group, organized rallies in Annapolis and across the state to push Hogan to reopen the state’s economy. The group in May also joined a handful of religious and business leaders and state lawmakers in suing the governor over his stay-at-home order.
Walters first shared he was diagnosed with coronavirus earlier this week in a series of Facebook videos, according to The Capital Gazette, which first reported on Walters’ diagnosis. Walters separately told The Daily Record on Friday that he had deleted some videos in which he discussed his diagnosis because of backlash his family received.
Walters, according to the Capital Gazette, urged those he has recently come in contact with to assess their health, but said he will not provide information to state public health officials for contract tracing — an epidemiological tool that public health officials say is key to understanding coronavirus and stopping its spread.
I’ve had a couple of very bad cases of the flu in my life. Never once did I think I was having a stroke and I never went to the emergency room. Maybe I was just lucky, but I think this guy is still blowing smoke. I hope he recovers nicely and doesn’t have any of the long-term effects people are starting to see.
However, his unwillingness to help with contact tracing is despicable and I fully expect that as this epidemic continues to explode it will be a big problem among the MAGA folks. Even if they get sick they will continue to deny reality and refuse to cooperate with the public health officials. These are not rational people even when confronted with their own lives being at risk.