{"id":45229,"date":"2020-11-23T01:40:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T01:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45229"},"modified":"2020-11-23T01:40:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T01:40:20","slug":"why-do-gop-pols-keep-getting-sick-from-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45229","title":{"rendered":"Why do GOP pols keep getting sick from COVID?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%40JoeBiden%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43342\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>OK, don&#8217;t hate me because I am going to ask this question, given that I recently called for an end to the politicization of the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>I gotta ask: Why are Republican politicians and political operatives &#8212; not to mention members of Donald Trump&#8217;s family &#8212; keep getting infected by the virus? Why aren&#8217;t more, um, Democratic pols and key aides to President-elect Biden getting the disease?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I think I know. It&#8217;s because GOP pols and key aides keep dismissing the measures the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention keep urging us to take to avoid getting sick; Democrats, meanwhile, are taking these measures seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Could that be it? Oh, sure it is!<\/p>\n<p>Is there a lesson to learn here? You bet there is.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%40JoeBiden%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com OK, don&#8217;t hate me because I am going to ask this question, given that I recently called for an end to the politicization of the COVID pandemic. I gotta ask: Why are Republican politicians and political operatives &#8212; not to mention members of Donald Trump&#8217;s family &#8212; keep getting infected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45229\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why do GOP pols keep getting sick from COVID?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9236,1424,1941,2505,9261],"class_list":["post-45229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-joe-biden","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45230,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45229\/revisions\/45230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}