Nurses Denounce GOP Lawmaker For Wearing N95 Mask Upside During Vote To Reopen Businesses

A Pennsylvania nurses group has condemned GOP State Rep. Bob Brooks on Thursday for wearing a critically needed N95 mask upside down during a photo op taken “while voting to reopen businesses immediately, instead of working to get healthcare workers the PPE we need.”

The group Nurses of Pennsylvania took to Twitter on Thursday to denounce to the lawmaker, tweeting: “Meet #PALeg Rep. Bob Brooks (R-45). Here you can see Bob wearing an N95 mask upside down in the #PAHouse while voting to reopen businesses immediately, instead of working to get healthcare workers the PPE we need.”

Meet #PALeg Rep. Bob Brooks (R-45)

Here you can see Bob wearing an N95 mask upside down in the #PAHouse while voting to reopen businesses immediately, instead of working to get healthcare workers the PPE we need.

☎️Here you can see Bob's office number: (717) 260-6129#GetMePPE pic.twitter.com/eqkXgydrzk

— Nurses of PA (@nursesofpa) April 16, 2020

Labor economist Mark Price tweeted: “PA Representative Bob Brooks @RepBobBrooks Wearing a N95 respirator mask upside down on the PA House floor. Brooks voted to send ALL non-essential PA workers back to work this week as ESSENTIAL PA nursing home workers pictured below are still wearing homemade masks.”

PA Representative Bob Brooks @RepBobBrooks Wearing a N95 respirator mask upside down on the PA House floor. Brooks voted to send ALL non-essential PA workers back to work this week as ESSENTIAL PA nursing home workers pictured below are still wearing homemade masks. pic.twitter.com/QOAM4xaxM6

— Mark Price (@price_laborecon) April 16, 2020

Many Twitter users noted that Brooks’s vote came as an ice rink in Pennsylvania had been refrozen so that it can be used as a morgue for the bodies of coronavirus victims, according to reports.

#BREAKING Beaver Co. Commissioners tell me they’ve refrozen Brady’s Run Park Ice Arena as a contingency morgue. PEMA tells them there are 104 confirmed and suspected cases of #COVID19 at Brighton. This move is part of a mass fatality plan the county made 20 years ago. @KDKA pic.twitter.com/XCeA7oMZQc

— Nicole Ford (@NicoleFordTV) April 16, 2020