Posted on 03/31/2021 9:26:58 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Sarah Palin has tested positive for COVID-19, and she's urging others to continue taking the pandemic seriously.
The former governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee-turned-TV personality confirms in a statement to PEOPLE that she contracted the coronavirus as did some of her family members, including 12-year-old son Trig. Of her diagnosis, Palin explains that it began when "one of my daughters awoke to having lost her sense of taste and smell [and] immediately had a positive COVID test, then was quarantined in isolation.
"I then observed symptoms in my son Trig, who curiously is the most enthusiastic mask-wearer, and after our numerous negative tests over the year, he tested positive," Palin says. "Children with special needs are vulnerable to COVID ramifications [Trig was born with Down syndrome], so with a high fever he was prescribed azithromycin, which really seemed to help, and I increased amounts of vitamins I put in his puréed food."
Palin says she and her son "buckled down in isolated quarantine" and she "still tested negative." However, "symptoms started overnight with a slight fever and sore muscles."
She adds that she had some of the "bizarre" symptoms characteristic of the virus, like a loss of taste and smell, leading her to assume it was "unmistakable COVID caught me."
Palin tells PEOPLE that COVID-19 can "really knock you down," encouraging everyone to remain vigilant about public health amid the ongoing pandemic.
Palin, who announced in January that her mother, Sally, had died, says that dad Chuck Heath "just got" his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
"I'm more concerned about him and his peers, and this beautiful older generation's health and quality of life should be a national focus and priority," she says.
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You win the day!!!
You’re absolutely right. I’ve never understood the humanly impossible pristine standards most conservatives have for their politicians.
Post something positive about Ted Cruz & watch the onslaught of curses, attacks on you, & the always reliable “he’s not American” bullshit. Oh & Cruz said some mean things about Trump. Do these morons understand Cruz is fighting for us daily while they bitch on a website?
Criticize Trump on anything. I posted my opinion that building the wall was going too slow & during impeachment was baffled by Trump’s lack of hiring people, competent lawyers.
I was called a troll. Told to leave the board & shut up “being negative”. And when I said facts don’t matter that no court in America would hear the election cases, boy did people get pissed!! 😄 Guess who was right...
Fact is NOBODY is above reproach. We all have a past, a history something we’re not proud of. We’ve all failed we’ve all sinned. Let them cast their stones.
For those who may not know, all you need to do is put "sss" (no quotes) in front of the full link above to be re-directed to a site that asks which resolution you want the clip to download in.
here's the full link just click, choose which resolution you want and download.
“This isn’t twitter or FB where members ridicule/ insult others who do not think like you.”
That’s news to me!
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Lost of taste. Terrible! Prayers up for Sarah Palin that she recovers from this bizarre frightening condition. Surely a miracle vaccine can save her from this malady.
You forgot to mention: driving in a car, by yourself, windows up and wearing a mask! Sheesh!
Never had a fever or lost my sense of taste or smell but my hair hurt
FreeRepublic is a shell of what it once was. I’m not sure if it’s due to an infiltration of conservative pretenders, or just an overall dumbing down of the population. Why anyone who is allegedly on our side would strive to become more like the intolerant left is beyond me. I’m all for using the techniques of the left against them, but using it against conservatives is moronic. It’s sad and pathetic really..
People magazine must be one of the newspapers she reads.
You hug the nail in the head.
Too bad we lost Rush. His spin on this would have been worth a listen.
People,
People
Who Eat People.
Are the Luckiest
People in the world.
Sarah (karen) Palin now.
LOL!
I’ve been around this site for 20 years and watched membership go for various reasons. Election seasons divide people and some leave. Some people love to argue and leave in various ways—or some don’t want to argue and leave anyway. I think places like Twitter and Facebook pulled people away in the early days of those platforms. A few early FReepers with the ability to do so left to set up competing sites. Finally, I get the impression that most FReepers nowadays are older and retired and leave when their number is up.
I wish Free Republic had a way to issue likes and edit posts. But I’ve been to sites with those features, too, and people still go after one another and drive membership away.
Kind of like Bush and your namesake.....Sarah’s star has dimmed here
Man do we get betrayed a lot by folks man here once adored....
Or are we stupid
Or a bit of both
I am not a health care professional.
All the natural cv19 protocols that I have seen indicate that one should take 30-50 mg/day zinc. Possibly more if one is sick. I personally take a chelated version AND an ionophore (daily quercetin and red onion). Zinc is poorly absorbed, so the ionophore is important.
Can you say A-Hole?
I knew you could.
LOL. I’m nondiscriminatory when it comes to maskers/vaxxers.
If that makes me an a-hole, I wear that badge proudly.
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