Iowa governor resorts to filthy racism re: community spread of Covid

[bullwinkle428]

As the more transmissible Delta variant causes COVID-19 cases to rise in all 50 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control changed its guidance for fully vaccinated individuals on July 27. The CDC now recommends that they “wear a mask indoors in public” in areas “of substantial or high transmission.” In addition, anyone living with unvaccinated or immunocompromised household members, or those at higher risk of severe disease, “might choose to wear a mask regardless of the level of transmission.”

Despite having no science background, Governor Kim Reynolds bashed the new guidance as “not grounded in reality or common sense.” Only a few hours earlier, she had absurdly suggested that immigrants entering Texas might be to blame for accelerating community spread of COVID-19.

Once upon a time, Republican insiders depicted Reynolds as someone who “studies really hard” and devours “extensive briefing material” to be better informed. That supposed penchant for intense research was nowhere to be seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The governor preferred to stick with comfortable talking points, and her administration ignored input from Iowa’s top public health experts as well as strongly-worded advice from the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2021/07/27/governor-bashes-cdc-blames-immigrants-for-covid-19-spread/

[Bettie]

1. I live in Iowa and I can tell you she

is truly a vile excuse for a human being. She's worse than Branstead, which is saying something.

[leftieNanner]

3. She and Noem seem to be birds of a feather

Toxic and dangerous.

[madaboutharry]

2. She is "such a moron."

She is a poorly educated unworldly backwater bumpkin with a love of twisted libertarianism soaked in authoritarianism. And that is a charitable assessment.

[dalton99a]

4. Nothing but hateful trash from that dirty moron

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. So she's just a typical RePutinican. Not bright and

constantly pandering to the Deplorable base.