Sunday, July 5, 2020

Speaker & Several Reps Have Covid-19

 Speaker of the House Phillip Gunn and several representatives contracted the Covid-19 virus.  Speaker Gunn announced in a Facebook video he tested positive for the virus this morning*  He said he is suffering only light symptoms.  

Several State Representatives contracted the Covid-19 virus as well.  State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs sent the following email to the members:


Dear Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives:

The Mississippi State Department of Health is in the process of investigating several cases of COVID-19 among House members. We are still in the process, but several members have confirmed diagnoses and more may be forthcoming. There is a possibility that you or others in the House have been exposed to COVID-19. While we are obtaining additional information, please follow the following steps.

If you are diagnosed with COVID-19

Based upon the risk to others you will need to restrict activities and movement in the community.

Stay at home for 14 days from the day your symptoms started. If you had no symptoms, stay home for 14 days from the date you were tested.
Do not go to work, under any circumstances, until your isolation period has passed.
Stay away from all persons at home.  Do not leave your house. You should not be in contact with anyone, including the people in your home.
If you do have household contacts, limit exposure to them. Stay in a specific room away from others in your home.  You should use a separate bathroom if available.  If you need to be around others in your home, you should wear a facemask. This is very important to minimize the risk of spreading the disease and to your family and friends. Instructions for limiting exposure to your household contacts can be found on the CDC website at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/guidance-prevent-spread.html.
Please let the people in your household know that they should be testing for COVID-19.
Please contact the MSDH Office of Epidemiology at 6015767725 (601-576-7400 after hours, weekends, and holidays) to inform us of your diagnosis.

Please expect a call from public health professionals who will provide additional guidance and collect critical information.

If you were a close contact to someone with COVID-19

If you spent > 15 minutes within 6 feet of someone with known COVID-19 during their infectios period (2 days prior to symptoms or during symptoms) you are at high risk of contracting COVID-19.

For 14 days following potential exposure:

Self-quarantine at home (or an appropriate alternative location) and self-monitor for symptoms for a minimum of 14 days from your last exposure.

You may be allowed to continue to work if absolutely necessary if you have no symptoms, undergo symptom and temperature monitoring by your facility and wear a surgical mask while you are at work until 14 days after exposure.

If you do return to work under these conditions, you should continue to self-quarantine at home at all other times.

Please get tested for COVID-19 following your exposure even if you do not have symptoms. MSDH maintains a list of testing sites on the website at https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/14,21912,420,874.html . (Please let your provider know you have been exposed if you do go in for testing.)

Check your temperature and self-assess for symptoms twice a day.

If at any point you find that your temperature is 100.4°F, or more, feel like you are developing fever, or that you have started having any of the symptoms (e.g. fever, cough, shortness of breath), contact your healthcare provider for evaluation and testing if indicated. Please make sure you contact your healthcare provider prior to being seen and let them know of your exposure to COVID-19.

All Other Members of the House of Representative

If you have symptoms of COVID-19 (fever, cough, shortness of breath, loss of taste or smell, muscle aches, fatigue) - please contact your physician or clinic and get tested for COVID-19. Also - follow the Isolation guidance above until your test result is obtained.

If you do not have symptoms of COVID-19 - please get tested as a precautionary measure. Monitor for symptoms and contact your physician or clinic if you become ill.

Thank you.

Thomas Dobbs, MD, MPH 
Attempts to contact the Health Department as well as House leadership were unsuccessful. 

The media reported yesterday State Representative Bo Brown has the virus.

* Here is the video.

31 comments:

searchingforreason said...

Well WTF did they expect to happen?

Anonymous said...

They will find some way to compensate themselves because of their negligence.

Anonymous said...

How many of this bunch was partying up river yesterday?

I thought I recognized five or six at a party-barge
celebration at a sand bar south of "flag Island".

Anonymous said...

Revenge of the Covid.

Anonymous said...

Many thanks to Speaker Gunn and others that saw the State Flag removal successful. Sorry that Speaker Gunn and others were exposed and now in quarantine/recovery. Since the governor had his entire family exposed I guess they are quarantining also. Best wishes to them all.

Anonymous said...

Note to the KF: From your mouth to God's ears on June 27th...

Be sure and let the esteemed gentlemen know that should they desire sympathy from those of us who know better than to do the, in Dr. Dobbs words, "silly things" that they can self-isolate and use the Webster's dictionary, to locate some for themselves, right after s*** and before syphilis.

Anonymous said...

Could it be the members of this group? Timing would be just about right.

http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2020/06/do-as-i-say.html

If so then they deserve everything they brought on themselves.

Anonymous said...

He's nothing to fear. He is part of insuring God knows that he trusts him by demonstrating it on our flag. Surely he wouldn't be struck down after such an act devotion.

Anonymous said...



Just like myself and the rest of the 99% who catch it and experience the nothingburger. I had a worse cold through Thanksgiving.

Anonymous said...

And where were they congregating for the last week. In Lumumbas wonderful city.

Anonymous said...

Couldn't happen to a better bunch- hats the matter there Phillip? Didn't you tell coved who you were and that you'd quash them if she messed with you and your lapdogs? Karmas a bitch

Anonymous said...

Well, does that make it easier or harder for him to chair the ALEC conference in Florida in just about two weeks:

https://www.alec.org/meeting/47th-alec-annual-meeting/

At one time Gunn's picture was on the main page - guess they took it off after the diagnosis.

Still, he gets credit here (along with some other familiar faces):

https://www.alec.org/about/leadership/





Anonymous said...

I have yet to see a photo where Gunn wore a mask.

I feel sorry for Tate's wife and children, that they have to be tested.

Anonymous said...

Mild symptoms. That's either the best or the worst COVID news we could get, depending on what side of this thing you are on....a state leader getting the virus and all of the "I told you so's" coming out of the wood work. "See! Its no worse than a cold!"

What's the odds that he goes unseen for 14 whole days?

Anonymous said...

So, is everybody who was at Martin's that day going to quarantine? And their families?

Anonymous said...

KF, please link to your recent story of Gunn eating shoulder to shoulder at Martin's with his posse. He probably had it back then, the symptoms don't present overnight.

Anonymous said...

State Department of Health will love to count every single person in the legislature as a "probable case" now, aka "confirmed case". The issue is so dire, we can't waste time with actually testing people. That would be reckless!

Everyone said...

Who cares? These fools flout every rule and now its catching up with them and the consequences could be severe.

Anonymous said...

So, the flag ban bill was signed without masks on, what, Tuesday? 4 or 5 days before this announcement.

So, Guv, his family, Reuben Anderson age 77, Et Al, now have to be quarantined because no mask party boy Gunn was careless and then stood smack dab in the middle of them?

Oh, but, symbols...... Gotta have your effin priorities.

Absolute failure of leadership. By Gunn and Tater. Tater, why the hell DIDN'T you have effin masks on? Oh, it might make me "look weak."

Failure of leadership by the leadership.

Anonymous said...

It saddens me to read where people are chastising people for getting sick and politics is the driving force behind it.

Anonymous said...

I hate Speaker Gunn has contracted Covid but cozy indoor quarters at the Capitol and hanging out at Martin’s is a recipe for disaster. You can’t fix stupid.

Anonymous said...

@%:26- I had the impression that one party made a political point of minimizing and denying that there was any need to take any significant government or personal action, such as wearing a mask to help reduce the spread of the virus.

Sad but true.


Now they are hoist on their own retard apparently.

Anonymous said...

Good. Keep the positives coming. This is just going to be a flash in the pan when all is said and done. Just get it over with.

Anonymous said...

Look, I don’t know who gave the virus to whom, and you don’t either. But you need to realize this: the men and women at the Capitol did not have the option to stay home. They were expected to be at the Capitol doing their job. Like most folks, some were more responsible than others, but it is ludicrous to expect a “safe” environment with all the mixing that is an essential part of their jobs. It is foolish to assume someone caught COVID because of bad behavior; you can’t possibly know that. I do know that especially toward the end of any regular session, it is part and parcel of the Speaker’s job to confer closely (usually in his office) with many, if not most, members, ironing out the many moving parts of the budget. Same for the Lt. Gov. and the Senate. You can be judgmental all you want, but it is not reality.

Anonymous said...

"They were expected to be at the Capitol doing their job."

Part of the job of a leader is to lead by example, and other than in warfare, the job of a leader is to lead from the front. What is not part of their job is gathering at restaurants, bars, etc. And it is most certainly not part of their job to do so in the midst of a global pandemic while not practicing any sort of common-sense guidelines to avoid transmission of the virus. The fact that several of them have tested positive is very strong evidence that they were, in fact, absolutely not doing their job. And how are they going to be "at the Capitol" to do their job now? Their conduct while NOT doing their job has led to their inability to actually do their job. Good job!

Anonymous said...

Attn 7:13 If you think anything going on in that laughing stock Capitol is essential, you are delusional.

Anonymous said...

@7/5, 2:18
Compensation with a SLURP Covid fund, or hazard pay working in dangerous conditions....who knows what they will come up with to additionally line their pockets with taxpayers money.
On a list of Mississippi’s jobs based on salary and retirement benefits, where would state elected officials fall?

Anonymous said...

Is it everyone that was huddled in GOP headquarters for the planning session on the flag vote? You know none of them had mask in their back room secret meetings... maybe their alcohol consumption at Martins wasn’t enough to kill the COVID?

Anonymous said...

I am stunned.
Since when does a person not have " the option of not going to work"?
Is Dr. Dobbs and some of the commenters suggesting that " sick days" are no longer available?
If those who test positive are contagious. So, people with contagious diseases should contaminate a work place? Are you kidding?
Add to that that these " leaders" aren't doing their homework or they'd know that Lancet has published a study ( so peer reviewed) that herd immunity cannot be achieved for CV-19. Not enough of those who contract it developed sufficient anti-bodies.
In a day and age of easy access to the best available information, not being informed is either deliberate ignorance or a lack of comprehension ability.

Anonymous said...

11:55:

(1) elected officials have a duty to fulfill the obligations of their office, and for legislators, that means personal attendance of sessions;
(2) if legislators are not working at the Capitol when the Legislature is in session, their constituents are unrepresented and have no voice;
(3) staff people have sick leave, I assume, but legislators (appropriately) are not paid when not “on duty” during sessions;
(4) “Contagious” people are required to quarantine, that is not the question when people have no symptoms are are not confirmed;
(5) Not sure about your “peer reviewed literature” comment. No one denies the disease, if it is present, is highly contagious.
(6) your “herd immunity” comment, which possibly valid (I don’t know), does not speak to the duty of non-diagnosed, asymptomatic officials;
(7) “Ignorant”of what? “Lack of comprehension” of what?

Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, and yours may or not be as valid as anyone’s, but unless you are prepared to cancel the legislative session altogether (not an option under the Constitution), Then I’d respectfully say that your comments really do not bear on reality. No offense intended, and, I hope, none taken.

Anonymous said...

In response to 11:55 AM

If the Lancet study you are referring to is the Spanish study, it did not say that herd immunity cannot be achieved, it said it appeared very unlikely based upon the data gathered _exclusively in Spain_. This isn't the time or place to go into the minutiae, but a couple of general tips for readers:

1. "Peer-reviewed" is significant insofar as it means that others in the field have vetted the contents. It does not guarantee the accuracy of anything or "prove" the contents are true. For the average reader, peer-reviewed can be assumed to mean, "this is important information and should be considered," not "these are the absolute facts - count on them."

2. Use common sense. Yeah, I know, for some it's hard, but seriously, most of what the average person needs to know about this virus and stopping it they pretty much already knew:

Most folks know that being around someone with a cold or flu almost guarantees that someone will catch it from them and most folks have caught a cold and know from whom they caught it.

Common sense says that masks work, at least to some extent. You even see folks on "pre-pandemic" remodeling shows wearing them to rip out drywall. Most folks know that those in the medical and research fields have been wearing masks (including n95s) long before this. Painters, etc., have been wearing them for years. The idea that masks don't work at all or make you sicker is just wrong and most people, if they think about it, know it from their own experiences and observations.

We all "do science" every day. If we observe that it is raining, we calculate that if we go outside we will get wet. We observe that if the wind is blowing strongly, we understand that our hats, tents, whatever, will be blown by the wind because we have observed and recorded in our mind it doing so. We know that even a small rock will make a ripple in water because we have personally observed and recorded in our mind that phenomenon. So if we would use what we have observed in the past with transmittable illnesses like colds and flu and apply it to this transmittable illness, we all know that things like masks and distancing will help stop the spread. It has nothing to do with politics, liberty, "rights," state borders, or other such things, it's just plain common-sense observational science. To do otherwise is simply to deny what all of us have plainly observed and experienced in our everyday lives.



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