Maine lawmaker who reportedly lost wife to COVID attends anti-mandate rally [View all]
Rep. Chris Johansen, a Monticello Republican who reportedly contracted COVID-19 in mid-July and lost his wife to the virus, attended an anti-mandate rally in Augusta on Tuesday.
Johansen, who had been outspoken against pandemic restrictions and mask mandates, joined a rally against Maine’s new vaccine mandate for health care workers where Rep. Heidi Sampson, R-Alfred, compared Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and her sister to Nazi doctors who performed experiments on Jews during the Holocaust, The Daily Beast reported on Friday.
Neither Johansen, nor his late wife Cindy Johansen, had received a coronavirus vaccine, according to Facebook posts made in mid-July.
Cindy Johansen made a number of Facebook posts in alluding to COVID-19, and on July 16 she posted that she was “feeling like I’m going to pass out” and that her “legs were like rubber.” She later shared on July 21 that it was “horrible to be alone.”
Chris Johansen posted to his Facebook page on Aug. 7 that “It was all bad news today. Cindy has suffered several major set backs.”
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