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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mentioned Sunday that she has examined optimistic for COVID, has signs, and is recovering from house.
The transient assertion posted to Twitter—together with a plea that everybody get their booster shot—is for certain to rile up conservatives who final week seized on pictures of her maskless in Florida.
Proper-wing author Brendon Leslie instantly jumped on the announcement, noting that AOC had been contaminated although she is totally vaccinated in opposition to the coronavirus.
“Their vaccination narrative is collapsing earlier than our eyes,” Leslie tweeted.
After all, public well being officers have lengthy mentioned that being vaccinated doesn't cease folks from being contaminated with the coronavirus, significantly the extremely transmissible Omicron variant.
It does, nonetheless, seem to stop extreme sickness within the overwhelming majority of circumstances. Ocasio-Cortez obtained her booster shot within the fall.
The Democratic congresswoman traveled to Florida over the vacation break, and pictures of her having an outside meal together with her boyfriend and showing at an outside drag occasion have been cited as proof of hypocrisy by Republicans like Gov. Ron DeSantis.
There is no such thing as a masks mandate in place in Florida, and CDC steering requires masks to be worn “in public indoor settings in areas of considerable or excessive neighborhood transmission.”
After a tweet from former Trump marketing campaign adviser Steve Cortes that took goal at her boyfriend’s Birkenstock sandals, Ocasion-Cortes tweeted a withering response to the backlash.
“If Republicans are mad they will’t date me they will simply say that as a substitute of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s ft. Ya creepy weirdos,” she wrote.
“It’s beginning to get outdated ignoring the very apparent, unusual, and deranged sexual frustrations that underpin the Republican fixation on me, girls, & LGBT+ folks normally.
“These folks clearly want remedy, received’t do it, and use politics as their outlet as a substitute. It’s actually bizarre.”
Three dozen members of Congress have examined optimistic for COVID for the reason that summer time.