SCOOP: Tennessee Department of Health halts all vaccine outreach to kids - not just for COVID-19...

[demmiblue]

SCOOP: Tennessee Department of Health halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not just for COVID-19, but all diseases – amid pressure from GOP. Staff ordered to remove the agency logo from any documents providing vaccine info to the public, per internal dox.

The agency will also end all COVID-19 vaccine events at schools, even though they've mostly served adults. And, if teens get a two-dose vaccine, it won't remind them to go back for their second dose. Teens are intentionally stripped from the mailing list for reminder postcards.

Link to tweet

This is nuts!

(No excerpt, there is a paywall at the link.)

[rickyhall]

1. Headline: GOP DUMMER THAN ROCKS

[getagrip_already]

2. no polio, tetanus, mumps/rubella/smallpox... ?????

They have completely lost their shit.

[IL Dem]

11. Smallpox is no longer a vaccination.

Not since sometime in the late 60s or early 70s. My oldest daughter was born in 72 and never had it.

The disease was eradicated.

[getagrip_already]

14. ok, you are correct, I'll give you smallpox but take hepatitis and hpv...

Regardless of smallpox, their are still a battery of childhood vaccinations that are still required by most public health organizations worldwide.

To not offer even information on them in schools is nuts.

[Yavin4]

3. We may be nearing a point where Biden will have to declare a state of emergency

and override these Republicans on the vaccine. These people do not get the right to endanger an entire nation.

[NQAS]

4. No vaccines for abject stupidity

Please extend a warm re-welcome to measles, mumps, rubella.

And, if this continues, possibly the end of day care and public education.

[Botany]

6. Didn't one of those diseases cause Helen Keller's blindness and deafness?

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This madness.

[Botany]

5. ATTN American People Fox News and the GOP want to kill you.

ATTN American Voters the GOP has made the political calculus to keep the pandemic going as a way
to get back into or keep power. "They" want to kill you or make you sick. "They" know what they're
doing in stopping vaccines, testing, and vaccine passports. There is no other way to look at this madness
and come up with any other rational.

We need to pound this message 24/7/365 even though a % of mouth breathing dumb fucks will refuse
to hear and or believe it.

[GoodRaisin]

18. How long? And how far do they get to go

before their evil aggression toward America is met head on? Have they crossed the line yet?

[Botany]

19. Who is funding this anti vax madness and why?

example: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016296824

BTW I am calling for a million person march on Fox News for spreading these anti vax, anti max,
and and anti science toxic lies.

[GoodRaisin]

20. A "visit" to Fox News is long overdue.

That place, those evil people, need to be shut down, some way, somehow. They are destroying America from the inside out. They are Putin's army. So, my guess is that he is funding it.

[Botany]

21. Fox is a cancer on America and needs to be called out for what they do and what they have done*

* Calling Florida 2000 for w gave us President bush who gave us 9/11, wars in Iraq & Afghanistan,
and so on and up to now having on air people telling their viewers that one of the most distinguished
scientists in the world, Anthony Fauci is wrong and that vaccines don't work.

[unblock]

7. pro-covid biological terrorist republicans strike again. they hate americans, they love covid.

[Metatron]

8. Is this a violation of the teens' right to equal protection under the law? n/t

[Peppertoo]

9. Make polio great again

[PortTack]

10. Just now read 12 children in MS, in ICU, 10 on vents, all delta variant, all unvaccinated

What is wrong with these ppl??!!

[spanone]

12. my state is fucked beyond repair.

[Hugin]

17. ...

You have my sympathies. I know how much it hurts to see something you care about go wrong.

[hlthe2b]

13. They may as well just line them up and shoot them since they are adopting Russian Roulette

as their public health philosophy.

Some days I just can't deal with the idiocy. How many have to die, Trumpsters?

[misanthrope]

15. The Deep South continues its rush back to the 19th century

If they could widely disenfranchise anyone but landed white males, many would do so.

Alabama isn't going to take this loss of ground in the devolution race lightly. They will need more extreme measures and quickly.

[3catwoman3]

16. If you walk thru an old cemetery, you will see any number...

…of family plots with half a dozen or more tiny headstones belonging to very young children - a few days, a few weeks, a few months, less than 5 years. People did not expect that all their children would live.

Does Tennessee want to go back to this?