(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Ex-senator from Oklahoma now admits Long COVID led to his retirement [1] ['Daily Kos Staff', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-24 According to Inhofe, “Five or six others have (long COVID), but I’m the only one who admits it.” Whatever Inhofe means in the scheme of things, this is a far more believable statement than his stances and statements as a climate-science denier “numbskull.” And as Huffington Post reports, Democratic senator Tim Kaine has been pretty open about dealing with the lasting ill effects of COVID-19. Even when he’s bragging about what a dunderhead hypocrite he is, Jim Inhofe is sort of a liar. Part of what makes this news is that in February of 2022, when he announced his retirement, Sen. Inhofe claimed that he had just tested positive for “a very mild case” of COVID-19. But if he had just gotten a mild case of COVID-19, how would he have long-term effects? Clearly, that “very mild case” was either the long-term effect surfacing, or a new case, or a case from the past that he was pretending was happening now that he was announcing his retirement. During an interview with Tulsa World, back in March of 2020, when Inhofe was making sure he didn’t vote to help Americans with coronavirus legislation, he did say he believed in the virus being real. For a man that doesn’t believe in climate change, it was something. Of course, with still little-known about the COVID-19 virus, Inhofe was pretty sure it wasn’t worth getting all protect-y about. “I try to be careful, but I have to be reminded to do things like wash my hands. I have to do things I’m not used to and that’s difficult sometimes.” [...] “A woman came for a meeting this morning, and without thinking, I came out from behind my desk to shake hands,” said Inhofe. “She practically ran away from me.” Is that a true story? Probably not. I mean, I doubt Jim Inhofe ever remembered to wash his hands even before a pandemic made it a front-of-the-mind kind of activity. What Inhofe’s long-term COVID effects are he did not expound upon. The rest of the interview is about how he likes to hang around planes and how he’s really powerful in Oklahoma politics, even though he’s never been a particularly popular person (compared to other conservative politicians in the Sooner state). The answer to that latter question, not covered in the Tulsa World piece, is oil money. I’d say good luck and listen to your doctors, but Jim Inhofe will do what he’s always done: What the money tells him to do. RELATED STORIES: He never got his monorail: A look back at GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe's decades in Oklahoma politics Republicans hate this part of COVID-19 relief because it works, this week in the war on workers 'Inhofe brigade' of climate-science deniers and program slashers settle in as EPA's top staffers [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/24/2154798/-Ex-senator-from-Oklahoma-now-admits-Long-COVID-led-to-his-retirement Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/