MINERVA PENA GETS ABBOTT'S "COVID-19 IS A HOAX" AWARD

                                                                            

(Ed.'s Note: By a process of elimination, El Rrun-Rrun has learned that Brownsville Independent School District board member Minerva Peña has tested positive for COVID-19 and must self-quarantine for two weeks, giving her fellow board members a welcome respite from her constant sermonizing about Da Lawd and chest-beating over "working for da keeds."

BISD administrators, citing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) Privacy Rule that establishes national standards to protect individuals' medical records and other personal health information and applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain health care transactions electronically, said they could neither deny nor confirm she had been infected with the virus.

However, BISD sources say that the administration has initiated contact tracing in the matter. With summer graduation coming up next month, we are eager to see who attends and who doesn't.

Now, we know that obesity is listed as an underlying condition that increases the possibility for infection, but HIPPA prevents us from learning whether she might have others like diabetes, etc. 

We remember that both Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Peña initially scoffed at and minimized the possibility of people catching the virus. Now both Abbott and Peña – if our sources are to be believed – have reportedly come down with the devil virus they both declared a hoax or non-existent. In BISD's literature classes the term "poetic justice" is defined as an outcome in which vice is punished and virtue rewarded usually in a manner peculiarly or ironically appropriate.

We couldn't think of a more appropriate use of the term as it applies to Peña. 

At top, "Not-so-Mini" gets her award.