Missouri Leads The Nation In Covid. Only 38% Vaccination Rate.

[FelineOverlord]

Link to tweet

[SheltieLover]

1. Unbelievable!

[uponit7771]

2. Asshole gov took his time getting vax administered

[xmas74]

18. More to the story.

I live in Missouri. As a state employee who works for DMH I was considered front line. I received my first Moderna on Dec 28 and followed up 28 days later.

I say this because only 20 percent of my fellow DMH colleagues chose to vaccinate. Most decided it wasn't necessary. Many said it was a harmless virus even though we had a coworker and several individuals pass on.

Last week my kid was in the ER for a burn. Her nurse said we didn't need masks, even though it was policy. She then stated that she refused the vaccine and has told everyone she knows to refuse it.

If medical and mental health workers are refusing it for stupid reasons what do we expect from the rest of the public?

[LisaL]

23. Did you tell her she was a moron?

NT

[pstokely]

25. What ER was this?

they aren't mandating it?

[xmas74]

30. Western MO

In Warrensburg.
Maybe when it becomes fully authorized they might but right now there are so many RW nurses working there that post about covid all over social media- they won't do anything, especially since one of the worst is a Daisy award winner.

Also, the local health board just had elections and a woman who swears clay will Cure covid was elected. Pettis County has a similar problem with its board.

[pstokely]

34. are they part of a larger chain of hospitals?

I assume they are suffering the problems as other rural hospitals and they'll be sending everyone to the big city hospitals after they reach capacity, and the local schools are now mask optional

[xmas74]

35. Not a chain nt

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Pretty sure simple statistics will soon prove beyond any doubt that lower vaccination % means higher

rates of infection and death.

But hey these people 'want to live their lives', to paraphrase NFL'er Cole Beasley.

Because, ya know, investing maybe an few hours of your time for 2 vaccinations REALLY gets in the way of doing that

[LisaL]

6. One of the anti-vaxxing conspiracy theories is that somehow vaccines

will kill people in 3 years. How about covid is killing them now? I guess that doesn't concern them.

[SoCalDavidS]

9. repub MORONS Don't Believe In Statistics

Why would facts or death totals matter to these Idiots now?

[Blue_true]

15. In Florida earlier this week, six people worked in a county government office.

Two of them are now dead from COVID19, three had to be hospitalized (don’t know their status). One person in the office didn’t get sick, that person was the only vaccinated person out of the six people. The office was on the seventh floor of a building that housed several hundred county employees. My guess is more people from that building will be getting sick and some will likely die. The county is a red county.

[LisaL]

17. I bet they got delta variant going on there.

NT

[Blue_true]

19. Maybe. Whatever it is seems to work fast at killing people.

One person died two days after getting diagnosed. A second died at home (the article didn’t say anything about the circumstances other than the person had COVID19 and that killed the person).

According to the article, NONE of the five people (two dead and three in the hospital) had any comorbilities. They were in their fifties and forties, the youngest was like 38 or 39.

The county is sterilizing the entire building (at least 7 stories) and trying to do contact tracing for a building that has several hundred people working in it. Normally buildings that have that many people in one spot have common areas like cafeterias, vending areas or coffee service areas, that makes me believe that there are many more infected unvaccinated people at this point who have not gotten sick yet.

[LisaL]

20. Per this article, the Board voted to stop covid protocols a month before the outbreak.

So, there likely a lot more covid infected individuals in there.
"Friday’s shutdown comes a little more than a month after the Board of County Commissioners voted 6-1 to remove COVID-19 safety regulations that had been in place for over a year."

https://www.bradenton.com/news/coronavirus/article252212853.html

[Blue_true]

21. Yes.

I believe that the mild spring lured them into a trap. Now that AC is running full blast, we are going to see this replicated across the highly unvaccinated areas of southern states and places like Missouri, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, ect.

[LisaL]

22. Yep.

Board voted to remove covid protocols since covid vaccine was available. Well, vaccine does no good when it's just sitting in the freezer.
Sounds like there were a whole lot of un-vaccinated people running around without any safety protocols left in place.

[Blue_true]

24. On that 6-1 vote, the only Democrat on the Commission was the vote to

keep protocols in place. One of the republicans is a freaking Nurse. I don’t know whether you read the last paragraph of the article you posted (which was much more complete than the national one that I first read), but one of the republicans went to get vaccinated after finding out about the outbreak, that person had been a resistor.

Surprisingly, 55% of people over 18 have gotten at least one shot, which likely says the fully vaxxed number is in the 25%-30% range, a perfect hunting ground for a virulent variant like Delta or Gamma.

The building where the dead and sick people worked has 700 people daily working there. Also, the seventh floor is a pretty big floor, around a block square. With that many people, the five sick and dead people HAD TO have some daily contact with people from the 7th floor and other floors and a building with that many people likely had a pretty good sized cafeteria and several vending areas. I continue to believe there are a lot more sick people who will soon start showing symptoms.

[Sherman A1]

4. Courtesy of Governor Do Nothing

[LisaL]

5. You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. I'm completely out of fucks.

[Blue_true]

16. That is about where I am.

There is enough evidence that if people want to avoid serious illness, they should get vaccinated. As far as I am concerned, any person that doesn’t have a medical reason for not getting vaccinated is responsible for whatever happens to him or her.

[malaise]

8. Ca;;ing Josh Hawley

Please mingle

[CanonRay]

10. The show me state

Show me a virus, I cain't see none.

[LiberatedUSA]

11. A good amount of people here just have never taken it seriously from day one.

[WarGamer]

12. smdh... n/t

[roamer65]

14. Hopefully killing off the Dump lovers.

🤞

[pstokely]

26. places that still need mask mandates in place have never had them

and the places that can actually remove them were the last to do so

[Yavin4]

28. Actually. My guess is that COVID-19 deaths may have helped Biden in swing states like AZ

and GA. The average age of COVID deaths are close to the average age of Trump supporters.

[roamer65]

29. Very possible.

[lagomorph777]

31. Welp, this may help elect some Dems to clean up the carnage.

Pukes are killing themselves off. All the more votes for us.

[ShazzieB]

32. The stupid, it burns.

[SmartVoter22]

33. Change the state song to Suicide is Painless

M.A.S.H. had a good theme song, it applies well to this mess of a state.