Last month in the Washiington State county where I live our State Senator, Doug Ericksen, went MIA also.

He was vehemently anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-lockdowns to the point of calling for the resignation of Gov. Jay Inslee for taking measures to try to save lives across the state.

Throughout his political career Ericksen was pretty much nothing more than a Trumpster and Republican talking point.

Turned out Ericksen was in El Salvador ill from Covid. We learned this when he sent a message to his fellow Republicans in the legislature begging them to send him some "Regeneron." Eventually he was flown to DeSantis' state and disappeared again for four weeks while his district had the biggest flooding in its history (the town of Sumas had 80% of its homes destroyed or damaged) with nothing but silence from its State Senator.

Then Ericksen, 52, died from Covid-19 last month. In Florida.