Rep. Jim Jordan covered up his COVID infection

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Jim Jordan blasted after revealing he had COVID and didn’t inform the public

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) made a stunning revelation Tuesday afternoon: he had contracted COVID-19, but appears to have not made any public disclosures of his health status. Jordan is both anti-vaxx and and anti-mask, and still refuses to reveal his vaccination status.

"I've had the virus, I don't talk about my health status with reporters," Congressman Jordan told a Spectrum News Capitol Hill reporter who had asked if he has been vaccinated since saying over the summer he had not been.

You'd think he'd be better at this, with all the practice he's had covering up sexual abuse. Then again, perhaps he understand that Republicans feel about COVID much like they feel about sexual abuse: they support it.

[Torie]

I wonder which of the two is the most perfect sociopath, Trump or Jordan.

[RFK Jr.’s Brain Worm]

I wonder which of the two is the most perfect sociopath, Trump or Jordan.

Trump since he had a TV show and was a household name even before running for President.

[Hermit For Peace]

Thinking about either of them makes my skin crawl.

[Mr. Reactionary]

He may have not revealed he's had hemorrhoids either.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

He could have tested positive for antibodies but never for the virus itself.

[Crumpets]

Gym Germ Jordan

[Green Line]

Wow, scandal!

[junior chįmp]

Finally a title that doesn't include "Jim Jordan," and "covered up" within the context of sexual abuse

[Fuzzy Bear]

Why is his Health Status the public's business?

When was HIPPA repealed?

If he was going around people while contagious, that's one thing.  The article doesn't seem to say that.  But if I had COVID-19 and isolated until the quarantine period is over, whiat business is that of yours?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Why is his Health Status the public's business?

When was HIPPA repealed?

If he was going around people while contagious, that's one thing.  The article doesn't seem to say that.  But if I had COVID-19 and isolated until the quarantine period is over, whiat business is that of yours?

From the fine article:

"I've had the virus, I don't talk about my health status with reporters," Congressman Jordan told a Spectrum News Capitol Hill reporter who had asked if he has been vaccinated since saying over the summer he had not been.

"I've had the coronavirus and recovered," Jordan said, adding that he's had his antibodies tested and is eligible to "donate plasma."

Asked if he knew when he had COVID-19 Jordan said, "I believe it was back early in the summer." It's unclear why he would say he "believes" it was early in the summer.

Hypocrisy and lies are standard Republican MO, but usually they're cunning enough to be a little less blatant. 

Here's a link to video of Jim Jordan in early summer. He doesn't appear to be isolating.

What he does is my business the same way its my business if a cop decides to randomly discharge his firearm at houses in my neighborhood (or at my Representative and their political allies).

COVID is practically the Republican dream in action: irresponsibly killing people around them out of willful ignorance while pretending they're the victims.

[pbrower2a]

Why is his Health Status the public's business?

When was HIPPA repealed?

If he was going around people while contagious, that's one thing.  The article doesn't seem to say that.  But if I had COVID-19 and isolated until the quarantine period is over, whiat business is that of yours?

Because he could make others sick from COVID-19 with resulting bad consequences that include:

1. DEATH
2. organ damage
3. diabetes
4. cognitive loss
5. stillbirths
6. sexual dysfunction

[Hollywood]

This is an outrageously fake news story from a Democrat hack.  They allege Jordan covered up his infection even though it seems pretty evident from the article that he only knew about his infection when antibodies were found in his system, and estimated that he must have contracted it in the early summertime.  The author baseless claims or alludes that Jordan went out in public during the time he was infected in early summer, but fails to investigate whether he was actually in Washington over that time period.  In early Summer, Congress when on break from June 28 to July 9.  But in any case, Jim Jordan doesn't seem to really know when he contracted it, so the author is both stupid and lazy. 

The whole assumption that someone who keeps their medical status and history private is covering it up is incredibly insane.  It demonstrates a complete lack of medical privacy laws.  There's a way the author could have made the argument, but instead just lazily and incompetently attacked Jordan for failing to make a public announcement.  The same story could have been written against Democrats that have kept that information private. 

Apparently, Raw Story is another illegitimate news source that fails to provide facts to support the narratives in their articles that seem to be written by mouth-drooling, sponsored-content losers with untreated rabies.  The fact that this garbage passes as news in Democrat circles should give Republicans a sense of confidence going into 2022, because they clearly don't understand the level of insanity it takes to read this article and decide that it qualifies as news that should be seriously discussed. 

[Fuzzy Bear]

Why is his Health Status the public's business?

When was HIPPA repealed?

If he was going around people while contagious, that's one thing.  The article doesn't seem to say that.  But if I had COVID-19 and isolated until the quarantine period is over, what business is that of yours?

Because he could make others sick from COVID-19 with resulting bad consequences that include:

1. DEATH
2. organ damage
3. diabetes
4. cognitive loss
5. stillbirths
6. sexual dysfunction

And, yet, HIV/AIDS has layers of extra-confidentiality.  In a treatment center, a counselor cannot disclose a client/patient to other members of the clinical team without the client/patient's authorization.

In the 1990s I worked in a treatment facility as a counselor.  It was a co-ed facility, and I was the assistant Program Director, in that I covered for the Program Director when he was out (which became progressively frequently).  One of the biggest problems at the facility was keeping the male and female clients from engaging in sexual activity.  We were faced with a promiscuous female wishing to involve herself with a willing (but unsuspecting) male.  We could not do anything to warn the male individual of this particular individual's disease status; all we could do was reiterate the rules (in a very general way) that sexual activity between clients/patients was against the rules and that staff could not, for reasons of confidentiality, inform people of the disease status of others.  All we could do if someone had a concern about themselves was refer them for testing if they were concerned, and in a way that would not give the slightest hint of someone else's disease status.  I had to tell two (2) counselors under me that, no, they could not warn the client explicitly in this case (even though they would have a Duty to Warn that client if that other client was threatening harm to them or killing them with, say, a gun or a knife).    Had the ill client's confidentiality been violated on this charge, our jobs would likely have been lost, and that would not have been the least of it.

So stop the Pearl Clutching.  Medical Confidentiality is either a right or it is not.  If it is a right, it is a right for Jim Jordan as much as anyone else. 

One of the questions about Constitutional Rights is whether or not they apply EXCEPT in estraordinary circumstances, or ESPECIALLY in extraordinary circumstances.  I believe the latter is true; that the Constitution was made to protect people from "not letting crises go to waste" by trashing our Enumerated Liberties when the going got tough.  And one of the ways I evaluate people is how much respect they have for the rights of other people whom they neither like nor agree with.  I certainly think little of Darrell Brooks and the way he's lived his life, but he's as entitled to a truly fair trial as is Kyle Rittenhouse and others here that people don't like.  Jim Jordan, no matter how smarmy you may find him, is as entitled to confidentiality under HIPPA as is Cori Bush.  I don't believe anyone here would have started this thread if it was Cori Bush or a Squad member who kept their COVID-19 status to themselves, and not Jim Jordan.  It's a sign of the personal character of people here as the degree to which they acknowledge the RIGHTS of people whom, for whatever reason, they don't care for.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Why is his Health Status the public's business?

When was HIPPA repealed?

If he was going around people while contagious, that's one thing.  The article doesn't seem to say that.  But if I had COVID-19 and isolated until the quarantine period is over, whiat business is that of yours?

From the fine article:

"I've had the virus, I don't talk about my health status with reporters," Congressman Jordan told a Spectrum News Capitol Hill reporter who had asked if he has been vaccinated since saying over the summer he had not been.

"I've had the coronavirus and recovered," Jordan said, adding that he's had his antibodies tested and is eligible to "donate plasma."

Asked if he knew when he had COVID-19 Jordan said, "I believe it was back early in the summer." It's unclear why he would say he "believes" it was early in the summer.

Hypocrisy and lies are standard Republican MO, but usually they're cunning enough to be a little less blatant. 

Here's a link to video of Jim Jordan in early summer. He doesn't appear to be isolating.

What he does is my business the same way its my business if a cop decides to randomly discharge his firearm at houses in my neighborhood (or at my Representative and their political allies).

COVID is practically the Republican dream in action: irresponsibly killing people around them out of willful ignorance while pretending they're the victims.

You could say the same thing about HIV/AIDS patients, particularly about being eligible to donate plasma.  Are you going to apply this position to HIV/AIDS patients?

Jim Jordan has every right to medical confidentiality.  He has no obligation to share that private information with anyone else.  Like it or not.

[Badger]

That asshole was once my Congressman. Ugh.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Why is his Health Status the public's business?

When was HIPPA repealed?

If he was going around people while contagious, that's one thing.  The article doesn't seem to say that.  But if I had COVID-19 and isolated until the quarantine period is over, whiat business is that of yours?

Because he could make others sick from COVID-19 with resulting bad consequences that include:

1. DEATH
2. organ damage
3. diabetes
4. cognitive loss
5. stillbirths
6. sexual dysfunction

You forgot the main symptom, loss of smell and/or taste.

[Thank you for being a friend...]

Isn't this guy gone from Congress?  Gee I thought there was a scandal with the wrestling team...

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

A literal plague rat.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Why is his Health Status the public's business?

When was HIPPA repealed?

If he was going around people while contagious, that's one thing.  The article doesn't seem to say that.  But if I had COVID-19 and isolated until the quarantine period is over, whiat business is that of yours?

From the fine article:

"I've had the virus, I don't talk about my health status with reporters," Congressman Jordan told a Spectrum News Capitol Hill reporter who had asked if he has been vaccinated since saying over the summer he had not been.

"I've had the coronavirus and recovered," Jordan said, adding that he's had his antibodies tested and is eligible to "donate plasma."

Asked if he knew when he had COVID-19 Jordan said, "I believe it was back early in the summer." It's unclear why he would say he "believes" it was early in the summer.

Hypocrisy and lies are standard Republican MO, but usually they're cunning enough to be a little less blatant. 

Here's a link to video of Jim Jordan in early summer. He doesn't appear to be isolating.

What he does is my business the same way its my business if a cop decides to randomly discharge his firearm at houses in my neighborhood (or at my Representative and their political allies).

COVID is practically the Republican dream in action: irresponsibly killing people around them out of willful ignorance while pretending they're the victims.

You could say the same thing about HIV/AIDS patients, particularly about being eligible to donate plasma.  Are you going to apply this position to HIV/AIDS patients?

You are directly comparing a disease spread by breathing with a disease spread by sex.

If Republicans had any self awareness... they wouldn't be Republicans.

Jim Jordan has every right to medical confidentiality.  He has no obligation to share that private information with anyone else.  Like it or not.

He is claiming he doesn't share his medical information with reporters... while sharing his medical information with reporters. I know Republicans are, well, Republicans, but this ought to be beneath anyone with speck of self-awareness or self-respect.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Why is his Health Status the public's business?

When was HIPPA repealed?

If he was going around people while contagious, that's one thing.  The article doesn't seem to say that.  But if I had COVID-19 and isolated until the quarantine period is over, whiat business is that of yours?

From the fine article:

"I've had the virus, I don't talk about my health status with reporters," Congressman Jordan told a Spectrum News Capitol Hill reporter who had asked if he has been vaccinated since saying over the summer he had not been.

"I've had the coronavirus and recovered," Jordan said, adding that he's had his antibodies tested and is eligible to "donate plasma."

Asked if he knew when he had COVID-19 Jordan said, "I believe it was back early in the summer." It's unclear why he would say he "believes" it was early in the summer.

Hypocrisy and lies are standard Republican MO, but usually they're cunning enough to be a little less blatant. 

Here's a link to video of Jim Jordan in early summer. He doesn't appear to be isolating.

What he does is my business the same way its my business if a cop decides to randomly discharge his firearm at houses in my neighborhood (or at my Representative and their political allies).

COVID is practically the Republican dream in action: irresponsibly killing people around them out of willful ignorance while pretending they're the victims.

You could say the same thing about HIV/AIDS patients, particularly about being eligible to donate plasma.  Are you going to apply this position to HIV/AIDS patients?

You are directly comparing a disease spread by breathing with a disease spread by sex.

If Republicans had any self awareness... they wouldn't be Republicans.

Jim Jordan has every right to medical confidentiality.  He has no obligation to share that private information with anyone else.  Like it or not.

He is claiming he doesn't share his medical information with reporters... while sharing his medical information with reporters. I know Republicans are, well, Republicans, but this ought to be beneath anyone with speck of self-awareness or self-respect.

I'm comparing a disease with a relatively miniscule death rate to a disease that was spread by blood to blood contact and which, in the 1980s, was a death sentence, with death coming after years of declining health and (in many cases) social ostracism, based on fear of the then-unknown.

That extra-confidentiality exists to this day.  Why is that?  You tell me.

People's COVID-19 status is none of anyone else's business.  Jim Jordan has that right, and he doesn't owe you crap.  (He doesn't owe me crap, either, but you're the one acting like he owes yer.)

I will tell this forum here and now:  I am far more afraid of losing my freedom and my constitutional rights than I am of any germ.

[ProudModerate2]

... I will tell this forum here and now:  I am far more afraid of losing my freedom and my constitutional rights than I am of any germ.

You say that, knowing the Republican party (your party) is stripping people of their rights to easy access to voting, and to degrade the systems we have in place to properly count and make decisions when votes are disputed.

[Pericles]

I'm not sure if this is what's being alleged, but if he did not self-isolate while knowing he had Covid, that could have killed other people and should be a crime.

[Fuzzy Bear]

I'm not sure if this is what's being alleged, but if he did not self-isolate while knowing he had Covid, that could have killed other people and should be a crime.

There's no allegation that he did.  And you would not insinuate this if Jim Jordan was a political leader you believed in.  But if you really believe this, why don't you start by using Chris Cuomo as an example?  After all, he went outside of his home during the 14 day quarantine and got into a verbal altercation with another person on Eastern Long Island.  Why not use Chris Cuomo as an example of someone who actually did this?

[Mr. Reactionary]

I'm not sure if this is what's being alleged, but if he did not self-isolate while knowing he had Covid, that could have killed other people and should be a crime.

There's no allegation that he did.  And you would not insinuate this if Jim Jordan was a political leader you believed in.  But if you really believe this, why don't you start by using Chris Cuomo as an example?  After all, he went outside of his home during the 14 day quarantine and got into a verbal altercation with another person on Eastern Long Island.  Why not use Chris Cuomo as an example of someone who actually did this?

Its like the Dems forgot they recently decriminalized internationally infecting someone with AIDS in Cali and cane close in VA.