So no one’s talked to Mitch McConnell in two weeks?

Sorry, Mitch McConnell can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Because his cell died and he doesn’t have a charger? Because he’s focused on finishing today’s Washington Post “Sports” section? Beause he’s … well, you know?

It’s unclear! And the Kentucky senator’s colleagues don’t have a clue either. It’s now been 37 days since McConnell was hospitalized and two weeks since someone at least claimed to have spoken to the former majority leader.

A little over a week ago, McConnell did share a statement and proof-of-life photo. The senator said he was hospitalized on June 14 after a fall in his home left him “briefly unconscious.” Over the past few days, elected officials from both parties have called for more updates on McConnell’s condition, but he hasn’t shared a lick of new information.

During phase one of the McConnell health mystery, his spokesperson would only confirm that he was hospitalized on June 14 and “continues his recovery.” As morbid conspiracy theories swirled, three of McConnell’s colleagues and friends occasionally claimed they’d spoken to him on the phone. CNN pundit Scott Jennings posted this tweet that launched a thousand memes on July 7, but no one has said anything about speaking with McConnell since:

Phase two began on July 12, when McConnell put out a photo and health update hours after we learned that another Republican senator, Lindsey Graham, had died unexpectedly. The Kentuckian said he was moving from the hospital to a rehabilitation center and made it sound like doctors were still trying to determine the cause of his fall:

My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia.

I can assure you that I’ve been a good patient. At my age, I tend to do what my doctors tell me to do. I’ve submitted to every test they can think of to help figure out what caused this incident. And I’m continuing to do everything they ask to speed my recovery. In fact, with signs of continued progress, I’ve been able to move from hospital care to a rehabilitation center where I’ll keep regaining my strength.

McConnell closed by saying he was “working hard” to “get back on the Senate floor as soon as possible” and promising to “keep you posted on the progress of my recovery.” But the Daily Beast reported on Tuesday that the senator’s office declined to answer questions about his cognitive state, his recovery, his return to the Senate, or even whether they’d spoken with him recently:

Mitch McConnell’s staff have declined to answer basic questions about what work he is doing — 37 days after he was loaded into the back of an ambulance and vanished from public view.

His staff, led by $226,000-a-year longtime aide Terry Camack, refused to even say if the senator had spoken to any of them in recent days.

… But when confronted by the Daily Beast on what had happened to those claims, his staff offered no comment on when he would return to work.

All the outlet was able to confirm is that Capitol Police are still stationed outside the hospital McConnell was taken to on June 14:

Despite the silence, the Daily Beast has established that taxpayer funds are being spent on a semi-permanent guard on the Washington D.C. hospital where he was taken on June 14 after a 911 call which said he had apparently had a heart attack, was unconscious, and had received CPR.

The row of black Capitol Police unmarked SUVs sitting outside the George Washington University Hospital is now the nearest thing that exists to proof of life.

Now, several officials are calling on McConnell to provide his constituents with a more thorough update.

In a June 16 interview with Katie Couric, Kentucky governor Andy Beshear urged McConnell to say more about his condition. The Democrat said that despite publicly requesting more information, he’s heard nothing from McConnell or his staff beyond the July 12 statement. And prior to that, he’d heard from two “agencies” that McConnell had died (the governor did not explain who exactly said this).

“It had been a month before anything had been put out, not even an official statement from Senator McConnell,” he said. “In fact, I’d gotten two calls from different agencies — not state agencies — suggesting he’d passed. So this rampant speculation that was out there. It needed to end.”

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the McConnell situation is “not normal” and questioned how he and other members of Congress are allowed to simply go missing for weeks at a time.

“I really don’t even know how this is legal at this point, and it’s — I just find it shocking,” she said.

On Sunday, July 19, fellow Republican senator Josh Hawley said that while he wishes McConnell the best, “at a certain point, you do have an obligation to your constituents and the country to tell them what’s going on.”

Of course, everyone’s been having fun with their imaginary 20-minute phone conversations with Mitch McConnell. But if anyone actually does talk to the senator, they should mention that the single proof-of-life photo isn’t cutting it.