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TexasTowelie

(117,533 posts)
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 10:02 AM Jan 2022

Rep. Massie, Notoriously Unvaccinated, Tests Positive For COVID-19

The famously unvaccinated U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie is COVID positive.

Massie announced the news on Twitter today. Back in October of 2020, he told the Courier Journal that he would not be getting the vaccine because, “I’m not in a high/risk category and I trust my natural immune system response over a pharmaceutically stimulated response.”

Massie has said that he has tested positive for COVID antibodies in the past, implying that he has had the virus before.

The CDC says that a previous COVID infection does offer some protection for individuals. But, a study from August of Kentucky residents shows that people who do not get vaccinated after their recovery are more than two times as likely to get COVID-19 again as those who did get vaccinated after being sick.

Massie told the Twitterverse on Thursday that he had cold and allergy-like symptoms for one day and later took an at-home and PCR COVID test that confirmed his infection. Still, he said, he will not be voting, meeting in person or making public appearances until next week. And for once he had a sensible piece of advice: “Seek doctors advice if you find yourself sick, because every case is unique and some cases are very serious.”

https://www.leoweekly.com/2022/01/rep-massie-notoriously-unvaccinated-tests-positive-for-covid-19/
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Rep. Massie, Notoriously Unvaccinated, Tests Positive For COVID-19 (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2022 OP
Rand Paul lookalike cuz Massie say 'D'oh?' CurtEastPoint Jan 2022 #1
As For His Advice Me. Jan 2022 #2
Probably because he's being treated with state of the art monoclonal Tanuki Jan 2022 #4
the vaccine causes a natural immune sytem response Blues Heron Jan 2022 #3
Another musclecar6 Jan 2022 #5

Tanuki

(15,396 posts)
4. Probably because he's being treated with state of the art monoclonal
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 10:24 AM
Jan 2022

antibodies and the other most efficacious therapeutics, after claiming he'd rely on his own immune system.

Blues Heron

(6,228 posts)
3. the vaccine causes a natural immune sytem response
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 10:20 AM
Jan 2022

so he is full of it on that as well. And if he had sought doctors advice at any time since vaxx was introduced they would have said get vaxxed ASAP.

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