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July 08, 2021 08:44 PM UTC

Boebert Appears Unconcerned About COVID Outbreak at Concert She Attended in June

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  • by: Jason Salzman

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Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) isn’t showing any signs of worry about rising COVID cases in her district–or about a COVID outbreak that occurred at a music festival she attended during the last week of June.

“Great night at the Country Jam in Grand Junction, Colorado!” tweeted Boebert June 26, along with photos of herself and the crowd at the concert.

Country Jam, an annual event, is where Boebert was arrested in 2015 after telling arresting officers that they would be hearing from her “friends” at Fox News and after she encouraged juveniles to flee police custody at the scene.

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Today, as first reported by Westword, Colorado public health officials are calling Country Jam a COVID-19 outbreak site, with four staff members and 13 attendees contracting the virus there so far.

Boebert has been largely unconcerned about the pandemic in her district, essentially campaigning on a platform of downplaying the danger of the virus.

Her behavior during the campaign was criticized by public health officials.

RELATED: Read the Police Report on Boebert’s 2015 Arrest at the Country Music Jam

Both before and after this year’s music festival, health officials were concerned about the spread of the COVID-19 in Mesa County, where the festival took place, as hospital emergency rooms were filling up and local residents were lagging getting vaccinated in comparison to other parts of Colorado.

Yet, despite attending the concert and the alarming news reports about Covid in Mesa County, Boebert hasn’t acknowledged the seriousness of the situation in her district.

The Congresswoman’s most recent tweets on COVID took a shot at President Joe Biden for deploying his “Needle Nazis to Mesa County” and accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of “bullying” people into getting vaccinated against COVID.

“The people of my district are more than smart enough to make their own decisions about the experimental vaccine and don’t need coercion by federal agents,” Boebert tweeted today. “Did I wake up in Communist China?”

The Biden Administration is launching a program targeting areas, like Mesa County, where the virus is spiking and vaccine hesitancy is high. The vaccination rate in Mesa County has stalled at about 45%.

The surge is due, in part, to the rise of the Delta variant, which is considered to be a 50% more contagious variety of COVID-19 than the strain of the virus that previously dominated Colorado.

RELATED: Public Health Expert Says Beobert ‘Stoking Mistrust’ of ‘Heroes’ Who Work in Public Health

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14 thoughts on “Boebert Appears Unconcerned About COVID Outbreak at Concert She Attended in June”

  1. Nice of her to show up at the scene of one of her crimes.  Perhaps the Sheriff will finally execute the arrest warrants against her…

  3. NPR story:

    "We're making national news for our COVID variant and the CDC is here investigating, but we have a huge festival where people aren't masking," said [Dr. Rachel] LaCount. "Are we going to get herd immunity over here just because everyone's going to get it? I mean, that's probably going to happen at some point, but at what cost?"…

    At her hospital, LaCount has put in orders for more rapid COVID tests as the caseload has grown. She's seen the intensive care unit start filling up with COVID patients, so that hospital officials are placing two in a room against normal practices.

     

  4. The GJ Sentinel found it necessary to run a story on the front page this morning contradicting Boebert's contention about needle Nazis. The paper quoted local health officials.

    Meanwhile, the crazies attended a GJ City Council meeting to demand the city be declared a constitutional sanctuary city, whatever the hell that is.

     

    1. Here's hoping the shithead's reckless Needle Nazis comment doesn't get a bunch of door-to-door solicitors and/or random people on sidewalks shot, beaten, dog-attacked, etc.

      1. It’s no joke.  GJ is a surprisingly violent city.  Mix together Trump supporters, out of work drill workers, and meth.  And the hot hot sun.  Wooboy, it’s like Florida without the comic relief.

         

        (I’m not saying it’s a war zone, but it definitely punches above its weight).

  5. She's absolutely going to end up with Covid just like Trump and becoming a superspreader on the floor of the House. Typhoid Mary, meet Covid QBert.

    1. As long as everyone on the D side of the House floor has been fully vaccinated, who cares if she infects the rest of her screwball House conference. It will cull the herd.

  6. What I want people to see is the contrast between our pretend legislator and the women of Afghanistan.

    While Pew-Pew struts around in her high heels spewing self- promoting hatefulness, the women of Afghanistan are picking up AK-47s and forming brigades to fight alongside their men for freedom from oppression by the Taliban.

    Lauren Boebert is nauseating in her petty cowardice. She is a disgrace to the office she serves and people she is supposed to represent. Instead of defending democracy, she promotes the theocratic mission of the American Taliban.

     

  7. And speaking of bravery and cowardice, career State Department and D.H.S. career personnel are dragging their heels about getting Afghanis who helped the coalition forces in the war the hell out of the country before they're killed as traitors by the Taliban as they take the country back. This infuriates me since my brother-in-law served there and worked with a lot of those guys. They're good people who've earned their place here.  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-admin-still-debating-internally-how-evacuate-afghan-interpreters-n1273405

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