Founder of Re-Open Maryland gets Covid-19, won't participate in contact tracing

[Anonymous]

https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/ac-cn-tim-walters-coronavirus-20200626-5l3epvbptng4dn4ys5btb5zika-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2hh3xG3saqpav4TwZ4QbC-lBhxatFV20Gk1Zcio8Pnkw0LzvhgfBp5DxQ

Tim Walters, a two-time Republican candidate for the General Assembly from Linthicum, said in a series of Facebook videos starting Tuesday that he has come down with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.

“I was diagnosed yesterday at the ER with COVID-19 and here I am months after not wearing a mask at rallies, churches and so on and so it’s funny how capricious this thing is,” he said.

Walters helped organize ReOpen Maryland protests in Annapolis, on the Eastern Shore and elsewhere in Maryland to challenge state and local measures put in place by Gov. Larry Hogan to slow the spread of the virus.

In the first of what Walters described as a series of planned daily videos about his illness, he described himself as a 53-year-old man with diabetes who hasn’t maintained good health habits since he left the Navy.

He said he has had a dry cough since March, that in recent days has worsened and expanded to include a headache, fever and loss of focus in one eye.

Walters urged people who have come in contact with him in the past two weeks to pay attention to the symptoms he described but he said he would not provide any information to public health officials trying to trace the spread of the disease.

Anne Arundel County was among the first counties in Maryland to establish a robust tracking system. The state of Maryland has also set up a contact tracing program.

Walters was having none of it.

“I will not share anybody’s information with the government. I will not do it,” he said.

I know it's bad karma and I'm really trying to hold back from saying it.... but.... you know, something about Darwin and I told you so.

[Anonymous]

Karma is certainly a b1tch. Completely selfish of him to not share information for contact tracing. There is a limit to "don't read on me". This is about public health safety.

[Anonymous]

How come I don’t feel sorry for him?

[Anonymous]

I don’t think he knows what capricious means.

[Anonymous]

Oh dear. He has lost focus in one eye -- there is neuromuscular involvement. This will not end well.

[Anonymous]

Got what he deserved. I’m only surprised that he’s admitting it.

[Anonymous]

You missed this key quote at the end:

‘I just want to educate people,” Walters said. “Don’t live in fear, chances are that everyone is going to get this.”

What an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Why or why do we breed such self centered fools in this country?

[Anonymous]

This guy gives such a bad name to anyone that thinks there are ways to responsibly and safely reopen more things in the state.

If you're not wearing face coverings when appropriate, maintaining physical distance when possible, and participating with contact tracing, then you should STFU.

[Anonymous]

Why is this not headline news in our region?

People need to see what happens when you take multiple risks and also see this man for the selfish person he is.

[Anonymous]

Colossal as$fock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think he knows what capricious means.

+1 This is a very stupid man. Get well soon, dummy.