“For those who want to criticize me for lack of quarantine, realize that if the rules on testing had been followed to a tee, I would never have been tested and would still be walking around the halls of the Capitol,” Paul said in a statement. “The current guidelines would not have called for me to get tested nor quarantined. It was my extra precaution, out of concern for my damaged lung, that led me to get tested.”

Paul’s office announced on Sunday that he tested positive for the virus and that he was “feeling fine,” but some senators and aides are angry at him for not doing more to self-quarantine earlier and for potentially exposing senators to the coronavirus. In the wake of Paul’s diagnosis, Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee of Utah self-quarantined on Sunday.

GOP senators told CNN Paul was in the gym with colleagues Sunday morning, and several pointed out how close Paul had sat to others during Senate lunches in recent days. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas said he saw Paul in the Senate swimming pool Sunday, according to a source in the GOP lunch.

The Pauls (father and son) describe themselves as “Libertarian conservative.” And what do some actual libertarians think of that claim? Not much. But I digress.

So why was the Senate gym still open in the face of a viral pandemic? And why was Rand Paul swimming in it while still awaiting the results of the coronavirus test that he had taken? You cannot make this stuff up.

Those two clowns (Rand and Ron) are as *throwed-off* and reckless as they come, which is par for what represents most of the Republican party these days (politicians and base-voters).

[Four senators sold stocks shortly AFTER a January briefing in the Senate on the novel coronavirus outbreak, unloading shares that plummeted in value a month later as the stock market crashed in the face of a global pandemic.

According to financial disclosure forms, Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) each sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in stocks within days of the Senate holding a classified briefing on Jan. 24 with Trump administration officials on the threat of the coronavirus outbreak.] – The Hill, Mar. 20, 2020

No DJ. I don’t buy it. These two snakes are as insidious as the other two snakes.

And frankly, I won’t be a bit surprised to learn- when this crisis is over – that the list of serpents on Capitol Hill, who profited from insider-trading and/or other-related nefarious activities, is even longer.

I just wish they could be all be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and sentenced to real time in a real prison. I know it’s not likely to happen….but I can wish for it anyway.