'It’s called eugenics': GOP congressman blasted for 'obscene' minimizing of COVID deaths of children
A Republican U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania with ties to a racist former Trump official came under fire Tuesday for minimizing the more than 1000 deaths of children who died from COVID-19.
“Many of these children had pre-existing – I’m sorry, had underlying medical conditions,” said Rep. Guy Reschenthaler on the House floor, “making them more vulnerable to COVID-19 than the average child, meaning that many of these children died with COVID, not of COVID.”
“But again,” Reschenthaler wrongly snarked, “that’s real science, not political science.”
Rep. Reschenthaler tries to downplay the deaths of children from COVID saying many of them died with COVID not from COVIDpic.twitter.com/wSyyzqmv2v— Acyn (@Acyn) 1644343197
Congressman Reschenthaler for several years was the co-host of a radio program with Carl Higbie, a Trump administration appointee who was forced to resign over “anti-gay, anti-Muslim, racist and sexist remarks he had made on his radio program,” CNN reported in 2018.
On Tuesday his remarks about children who died from COVID-19 angered and upset many.
“Rep. Reschenthaler, the phrase you’re casting about for here, as you try to minimize the deaths of children with preexisting conditions from #COVID19, is not ‘real science,’ but ‘Nazi science.’ It’s called eugenics. You’re a eugenicist,” charged New York Times best-selling author Steve Silberman.
Lincoln Project senior advisor Jeff Timmer responded saying: “Republicans: Dead kids are no big deal. Get over it. Fight ‘tyranny’ and shit.”
“The fact that children with disabilities and underlying medical conditions are the ones dying of COVID isn’t a point of comfort — it’s a stain on a society that is failing to protect its most vulnerable members,” said Philadelphia Inquirer opinion writer Abraham Gutman.
Others:
They had underlying conditions and lived.\n\nThen they found themselves \u201cwith\u201d COVID. And dead.\n\nsCiEnCe!https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1491109560072896513\u00a0\u2026— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC\u2122 (@David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC\u2122) 1644344015
"Some of the children at Sandy Hook were obese and had diabetes. They died *with* a gunshot, not *from* a gunshot. Now that's real science!"\n\nYou are a special kind of shit-head @GReschenthalerhttps://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1491109560072896513\u00a0\u2026— bob clendenin \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@bob clendenin \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1644346483
"The bathers died due to loss of blood but not because of shark attacks that ripped them open"....MichaelBGowans1https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1491109560072896513\u00a0\u2026— Shlarg Gregory (@Shlarg Gregory) 1644348679
And I truly mean this...\n\nRep. Reschenthaler can go f*ck himself ad infinitumhttps://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1491109560072896513\u00a0\u2026— Operative_X (@Operative_X) 1644345421
Jesus Christ this is obscene.https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1491109560072896513\u00a0\u2026— robert is boosted (@robert is boosted) 1644344179
This is the first thing it says in the "values" section of his website https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1491109560072896513\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/s7OJ7uiY4v— Thor Benson (@Thor Benson) 1644347531
Just like some people dying with cancer.https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1491109560072896513\u00a0\u2026— Paul van der Meer (@Paul van der Meer) 1644344922
