Lock him up!

I’ve got this little pain right here, and a slight cough, but I’m fine, really — I’m fine! Cough cough, sniffle.

Did Chris Murphy bring home the bacon from his secret spy trip?

This year’s Munich Security Conference may go down in history as the COVID-19 viral super-spreader “event of the century," if not in all of recorded history.  That’s because the Munich 2020 event took place from February Friday 14-Sunday 16, and Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif attended. 

Unknown to apparently all the high security-minded attendees, FM Zarif was likely carrying much more than the dark secret that the COVID-19 virus had already begun rampaging through the highest echelons of the Iranian government and society.  FM Zarif , or one of his minions, was likely carrying the actual COVID-19, and infected who knows how many of the world’s highest and most influential politicians at the Munich event. 

In fact, US Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut, not only met FM Zarif, but met him in Zarif’s hotel suite where there was likely a rat’s nest of COVID-19.  Unless drastic steps are taken, Sen. Murphy may become the Typhoid Mary of COVID-19, and infect the entire US Senate and House of Representatives.

Which brings us to Sen. Murphy’s fateful Saturday February 15 close in-person meeting in FM Zarif’s actual hotel suite.

The meeting was actually very extensive and detail and went on for a significant amount of time because Sen. Murphy wrote that he discussed numerous complex and serious issues with FM Zarif.  They talked Yemen, hostages held by Iran, and what Sen. Murphy describes as the “assassination” of of Iran’s arch-terrorist Soleimani.  Such deep and weighty issues must have taken at least an hour.  That means Sen. Murphy and his staff were in FM Zarif’s personal quarters, where all Zarif’s staff was circulating, for at least a full hour. 

To make matters worse, Sen Murphy admits he was “exhausted” the next morning. Sen. Murphy goes on to say, “Sunday morning[the day after the hour-long Zarif evening meeting], exhausted, I climb onto a plane for the long ride back to the United States. My extended family always takes a vacation together during the kids’ February school break, and I am a day late in joining the rest of the Murphy clan. To do this job right, it takes immense amounts of time away from family. That’s the worst part of this job. But on trips like this, when you feel like, even as just a rank-and-file Senator, you made a difference for the security of the country, it makes the time away a little easier to endure.”

In other words, not only has Sen. Murphy probably caught the deadly COVID-19, he has also likely infected his entire “extended family.”  If Sen. Murphy, or one of his staff, has contracted COVID-19, expect Washington DC to go into a total panic. 

Okay, all of the above is hysterical claptrap from an Israeli source, but is this any time to take chances? I suppose we can’t lock the sorry bastard away forever, but could we quarantine Murphy for say, twelve years, when the world’s going to end anyway? That’s got my vote.

(Related, from Clouds, silver lining Dept. of: yet another top Iranian drops dead.)