Libertarian candidate scraps rally appearance after being bitten by bat

[left-of-center2012]

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Source: The Hill

Libertarian presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen had to cancel a planned campaign rally appearance set for Saturday after she was bit by a bat.

"I will not be able to attend the campaign rally tomorrow morning. I will be getting a rabies vaccine as a precaution after having been bitten by a bat near the start of this campaign tour," Jorgensen tweeted Friday.

Jorgensen's campaign wrote on Facebook that she would get a rabies vaccine on the advice of her doctor, though she later tweeted that she did not believe the bat was rabid. The candidate indicated she was still planning on attending events for her campaign on Saturday afternoon in Mississippi.

Jorgensen, who has registered around 3 percent support in recent state polls, appeared to be taking the incident in stride, tweeting multiple bat-related posts Friday night.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/511157-libertarian-candidate-scraps-rally-appearance-after-being-bitten-by-bat

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Link to tweet

[LisaL]

1. Bat could be rabid and not show any signs.

Bats have very high metabolism and thus can live with viruses that kill other species.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Is that how libertarians get to be the way they are?

[SheltieLover]

19. 🤣🤣🤣

Good question!

[CBHagman]

3. "...after she was bit by a bat."

I see proofreading is a luxury beyond the budget of The Hill.

[left-of-center2012]

4. I googled "after being bitten"

Nothing wrong with using it.

[Chrysanthemum]

29. The first sentence

The first sentence of the actual article has the error: "...after she was bit by a bat." It should be "after she was bitten by a bat."

[Codeine]

5. Libertarians are batshit crazy at the best of times. nt

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. I hope the bat is ok!

[Gore1FL]

7. I wonder if she'll be able to come out during the day now. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. She's under the impression that doctors are imprisoned in their offices and hospitals

Link to tweet

Twitter thread:

"One bat bite is all it takes to stop you 🤔
Can’t they come to you with the shot."

"Not with the health care system we have now!
And I'm not stopped...I'm just pausing for a few hours."

"Hmm. Maybe we should have Single Payer healthcare"

"Or maybe we should have a free market in which doctors could travel to the patient outside of a hospital or their offices."

[Grokenstein]

18. Maybe we could take a chicken to the doctor!

[Srkdqltr]

9. That is not something you hear of everyday. Things are very strange lately.

[bluedye33139]

10. A libertarian is a rightwinger who doesn't go to church

In the past few years, they've gone from supporting LGBT rights to promoting the idea that the government should not recognize marriages in any form whatsoever.

Not a single libertarian has spoken up against the use of military force against American citizens in Portland and other cities.

Libertarians enthusiastically applauded anti-choice judges being appointed to the Supreme Court.

I'm with the bat.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. A libertarian is a Republican who wants to smoke pot.

[Polybius]

27. Absolutely not true

They are very anti-police. I have a few kook libertarian acquaintances. They all were protesting police violence in June - all without masks, because they believe that's against their freedom. These people are insane. Oh yeah, they smoke a lot of weed too (not that there's anything wrong with that).

[Bayard]

11. Where has she been hanging out?

[brush]

17. Hahahaha! Good one, and upside down, I imagine.

[chia]

12. Didn't have "libertarian presidential nominee bitten by bat" on my 2020 Bingo card...

[bluedye33139]

22. lol

[DavidDvorkin]

13. Medical care not required. The market will take care of it.

[Chrysanthemum]

30. LOL, good one! n/t

[relayerbob]

14. Rabies is a hoax

The bat was probably released by the Obama/Clinton/China coalition to take over the world

[safeinOhio]

15. Well if the bat wasn't showing any signs....

she should wait until she starts to show signs before seeking treatment.




By the way, I'm not that dumb, but she is.

[SWBTATTReg]

16. How in the world does one get bit by a bat? Sleep in the attic at night (or daytime) or hang around

the light posts at night when all of the bugs are flying around the lights?

Maybe she really does have bats in the belfry...

[Baclava]

21. Just feel lucky this isn't Vampire bat territory

[paleotn]

20. Poor bat.

[RainCaster]

24. I hope the bat is OK

Libertarians have so many infections, and no inoculations. I feel for the bat.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. What I find most peculiar is that bats almost never bite

humans unless provoked. So what exactly was she doing?

Also, they almost never have rabies.

There is something just a bit off here.

[Kali]

34. advice if contact with a bat, especially indoors and/or asleep is get the shots

their bites can be extremely difficult to find

[Karma13612]

38. Never? Ok, I guess I'm mistaken.

I thought you always assume they are rabid.

In NYS, our local board of health always recommends the immune globulin shot series as well as the vaccine.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

39. I didn't say the never bite. I said the almost never bite.

And they are likewise almost never rabid. For some reason there's a very popular misconception out there that bats bite humans every chance they get, and usually have rabies. Just not true.

So again, I wonder what in the world that woman was doing to get bitten by a bat. Or did she simply offer that as a weird excuse to cancel the campaign appearance.

[Karma13612]

41. Ah! Ok.

[ret5hd]

26. Maybe she needs to schedule all future appearances after the sun goes down.

Just sayin'.

[Kid Berwyn]

28. Jo still doesn't reflect in the mirror.

Nuttin’ to do with rabies.

[dalton99a]

31. Rabies builds character.

[not fooled]

32. That's an "Only in America" headline

if ever I saw one.

She might be Patient Zero for the next bat-to-human virus.

[Raine]

42. or only in Transylvania! 🦇 nt

[Kali]

33. hope she has enough cash to pay for that

just went through the same for a rabid skunk, total bill for two of us is close to $10K. Private ins co. is balking (even though bought on Obamacare marketplace).

[denem]

35. Rabies incubation period is 20+ days.

The poor bat will take that long to show signs if it got infected by biting Jorgensen.

[marble falls]

36. Coulda been worse ...

[Karma13612]

37. Jo, I have news for you:

#1) you ALWAYS assume the bat is rabid.
#)2 your local board of health would have recommended that you get the immune globulin as well as the vaccine. The immune globs are Some nasty Painful shots that will SAVE YOUR LIFE.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

40. One half of one percent are rabid and that's enough to

always assume the bat is rabid? Wow.

A quick check shows that about 1 to 3 people get rabies each year in this country. 25 cases in between 2009 and 2018.

More people get Plague each year in New Mexico. We had our first plague death this year just recently.

[applegrove]

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