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BumRushDaShow

(129,636 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 05:35 PM Jun 2020

Co-founder of ReOpen Maryland says he has tested positive for coronavirus

Source: Washington Post




A Maryland man who organized rallies to pressure Gov. Larry Hogan (R) to lift the state’s stay-home order says he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and does not plan to provide names of people with whom he had contact to public health officials for contact tracing.

Tim Walters, a co-founder of ReOpen Maryland, said on social media this week that he has had a dry cough for months but it recently worsened. He then began to experience an excruciating headache, a fever and the inability to focus with one of his eyes, which led to vertigo.

Walters, 53, a diabetic who has had mini-strokes, said he went to a hospital emergency room Monday and was diagnosed with the virus. “Here I am months after not wearing a mask at rallies, churches and so on, and so it’s funny how capricious this thing is,” he said in a Facebook video. He did not respond to an interview request.

A Republican and Navy veteran who twice lost races for the Maryland House of Delegates, Walters led rallies in Annapolis, on the Eastern Shore and across the state demanding that Hogan lift restrictions he imposed to slow the spread of the virus. The demonstrations were part of a national movement to reopen states where shutdowns were in effect.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/reopen-maryland-coronavirus-walters/2020/06/26/677caa02-b7b7-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html



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Co-founder of ReOpen Maryland says he has tested positive for coronavirus (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 2020 OP
He expects medical professionals to save his life, but still acts like a dick. Doodley Jun 2020 #1
And once his life is saved, he'll praise Jeebuz for saving him. stopbush Jun 2020 #7
Won't supply a contact list. marie999 Jun 2020 #2
Selfish Prick ... his had a cough for over a month ace3csusm Jun 2020 #3
He acts like it's funny. dawg day Jun 2020 #4
Simple. Deny him any medical treatment until he cooperates with contact tracing. erronis Jun 2020 #5
I agree Rebl2 Jun 2020 #8
His deep deep racism, his deep deep hatred of all liberals and democrats, his deep deep Eliot Rosewater Jun 2020 #6
A Full-Blood Christo-Fascist Loon, Ma'am The Magistrate Jun 2020 #9
... BumRushDaShow Jun 2020 #11
... Initech Jun 2020 #10
What a prick. nt jrthin Jun 2020 #12
Good job dumbass!!! Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 #13
I hope he wins the Darwin award. dreamland Jun 2020 #14
Walters is steadfast in being a major asshole RhodeIslandOne Jun 2020 #15
He is diabetic and has a history of mini strokes JI7 Jun 2020 #16

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
4. He acts like it's funny.
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 05:45 PM
Jun 2020

But also like, who would think it! I got this disease after refusing to take any precautions! And ha ha, I infected dozens of people, friends probably! Take that, libs!

erronis

(15,373 posts)
5. Simple. Deny him any medical treatment until he cooperates with contact tracing.
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 05:47 PM
Jun 2020

And keep him in isolation for as long as he is positive or non-cooperating (whichever is longer.)

No way we should expose medical personnel to this type of dick-head.

Rebl2

(13,571 posts)
8. I agree
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 06:24 PM
Jun 2020

No ventilator for you. Give it to someone who deserves it. He should be last on the list.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,125 posts)
6. His deep deep racism, his deep deep hatred of all liberals and democrats, his deep deep
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 05:49 PM
Jun 2020

hatred of all LGBTQ and Muslims and Latinos and Asians and Women is why he will purposely try to see them infected and die.

GOP which supports rump is killing us, on purpose and they are not going to stop until we stop them.

The Magistrate

(95,257 posts)
9. A Full-Blood Christo-Fascist Loon, Ma'am
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 06:31 PM
Jun 2020


"I personally believe that this is just a component of spiritual warfare that we’re all in and Satan is trying to stifle my voice and it won’t work because Jesus has told me that just rest, I got this for ya."


https://thedailyrecord.com/2020/06/26/reopen-maryland-organizer-covid-19/

BumRushDaShow

(129,636 posts)
11. ...
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 07:13 PM
Jun 2020


And from your link, these excerpts are rich -

Walters pointed to his work in construction where he has put up drywall, wearing filtration masks, only to find particles in his nostrils. The dust, he said, is larger than the virus.

“If we’re sick and I’m not wearing a mask and you are but I am more than six feet away, what does it matter?” he said.




If he is somehow digging up his nose to find "particles", then obviously he is not wearing the mask correctly.


Walters, a government consultant and Anne Arundel County resident, reiterated in an interview Friday that he objected to giving the government personal information...

https://thedailyrecord.com/2020/06/26/reopen-maryland-organizer-covid-19/


Darwin award for someone who feeds off the government trough as a "government consultant" who hates government.
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