A friend of mine told me about this when we were working at the community church this morning. I haven’t seen anything about it yet.
As reported by Joseph O’Sullivan of the Seattle Times, my state senator (facepalm) is stuck in El Salvador after testing positive for COVID-19. He’s vehemently anti-vax, so it’s likely he’s unvaccinated himself...and he’s asking his Republican buddies to pony up some Regeneron to help him out.
“Ericksen told KIRO radio he was “fighting a bad bout” with the virus while in the Central American country.”
Why was he in El Salvador in the first place? That’s not clear yet, but might be related to the times Ericksen missed senate votes because he was in El Salvador observing elections there, according to The Olympian.
“The senator also visited El Salvador with his business partner — former GOP state Rep. Jay Rodne — in October and December of 2020, according to social media posts from that time,” wrote O’Sullivan.
So, two things right here: 1) he won’t take the vaccine but will bet the farm on a cure, and 2) haven’t we fucked El Salvador enough? Why is Eriksen down there and what does he want to observe in their elections? I would not be surprised if it resulted in something like this:
“Ericksen in 2019 registered with the U.S. Department of Justice as a foreign agent to conduct lobbying work on behalf of the Cambodian government, scoring a $500,000 contract for his new firm.
That contract came after Ericksen traveled to Cambodia to observe — and ultimately praise — the country’s widely condemned 2018 elections. Those elections took place as a government crackdown shuttered independent media organizations and dissolved a key opposition party.”
if history does not repeat itself, due to the effects of the virus on Ericksen, I won’t feel the least bit bad about it.