Anonymous ID: 913907 Nov. 16, 2020, 10:29 a.m. No.11669825   🗄️.is 🔗kun

New House Republicans rip mask mandate, Marjorie Taylor Greene says mandate is 'draconian' and 'tyrannical'

 

For anybody who thought the new class of House members planned to be quiet and watch from those more senior at the start of their service, the answer came in the first orientation for new members about the coronavirus and mask requirements.

 

The members were told that masks will be required around most of the Capitol Hill campus. They were also warned against big lunches and dinners and told that there would be a limit on how many constituents could cram into their offices.

 

And those caught without a mask on would be escorted off the grounds, including members, and they were warned about the potential of a $1,000 fine for not wearing masks.

 

At that point in last week’s orientation, a new Democrat member wearing a mask got up, sneered at some new House GOP members not wearing their masks properly, and asked the physician to describe how to wear a mask.

 

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One of those Republicans, outspoken Georgia conservative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who kept her mask below her nose because “I believe it’s unhealthy to wear a mask all day.” Said she “was boiling inside" because she feels the mandate is "draconian … tyrannical."

 

After the House doctor described how to wear a mask, she got up and told the group, “In Georgia, we’ve been open. I go to a gym, and I work out nearly every single day in a Crossfit gym. And I sweat right next to people, and we share equipment. And then we clean everything, and we leave. I go to grocery stores without a mask. I go to restaurants without a mask. I eat dinner with large groups of people, all the time, without a mask.”

 

She added, “I want to do things that keep those people safe. But the rest of the extremely healthy working population of adults, who have a very low risk of dying from COVID-19, and our healthy children, who have an extremely low risk of dying from COVID-19, need to be living full and open lives. And I said masks are oppressive, and I’m uncomfortable wearing one.”

 

After she sat down, she said four other new Republicans followed her to the podium and made similar statements. “They were fired up,” she said.

 

In an interview, Greene said she wears one when she feels it is needed but is new to the type of mandatory requirement she heard on Capitol Hill. And she has made her anger at the mask mandates and other COVID-19 rules in Washington, D.C., well known on her Twitter feed.

 

She argued that masks are not needed when socially distancing and among healthy groups. She also said that the rules have negatively impacting children, especially their learning, and that the media and Democrats are hyping the issue.

 

“They’re trying to tell us, if you wear a mask we do these shutdowns. If we stay far away from each other, if you cancel your Thanksgiving dinner, if you close your business down, if you get on a government paycheck, if you agree with our socialist policies, if you do things the way we want you to do things, you’re not going to die. You’re going to be safe from COVID-19,” she said.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/new-house-republicans-rip-mask-mandate-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-draconian-tyrannical