Republican governors urge vaccine-hesitant residents to get Covid shots
Source: Guardian
Leaders of Arkansas, West Virginia, and Utah describe high stakes as Delta variant poses threat
Governor Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas warned of trouble ahead without more vaccinations. Photograph: Staton Breidenthal/AP
Edward Helmore in New York
Mon 5 Jul 2021 14.02 EDT
Several Republican governors with lagging vaccine rates in their states have urged residents to accept the shots as the Biden administration comes under pressure to reopen US borders to overseas visitors.
The Arkansas governor, Asa Hutchinson, West Virginias Jim Justice and Spencer Cox of Utah warned against vaccine hesitancy, which some disease experts, including the White House chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, said could create two types of America.
We are in a race, Hutchinson said on CNNs State of the Union on Sunday. About 32% of people in Arkansas are fully vaccinated, compared with 47.9% nationwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. If we stopped right here, and we didnt get a greater per cent of our population vaccinated, then were going to have trouble in the next school year and over the winter. The solution, he said, is the vaccinations.
In a Fourth of July address on Sunday, Joe Biden called vaccination the most patriotic thing you can do, saying the US had moved into a new phase of virus response. But he also warned that while the country is closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus, the effort was not complete. Weve got a lot more work to do, he said.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/05/us-coronavirus-vaccinations-republican-governors-states
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,770 posts)mpcamb
(2,855 posts)NullTuples
(6,017 posts)durablend
(7,414 posts)They need to "own teh libs"
liberalgunwilltravel
(314 posts)Freedom isnt free and neither is stupid!
Chainfire
(17,304 posts)and then they wonder why their people aren't getting vaccinated?
Turbineguy
(37,206 posts)ladym55
(2,577 posts)So apparently these governors (after pretending Covid is no big deal) realize that Covid will do some big-time damage to their people and their health care system.
Why Covid has been a partisan issue rather than a unifying public health issue has never made sense. Destroying your health to "own the libs" just doesn't seem to be a good payoff.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)that piece of shit extreme narcissist didn't like being upstaged by a VIRUS so he politicized it
ladym55
(2,577 posts)moose65
(3,164 posts)And the great irony is that he sadly would have won re-election if his administration hadnt been so half-assed in their response to the pandemic. It is amazing to me that this has become politicized. The virus doesnt give a shit about your political beliefs.
I know what Trump SAID, but he also had the virus and also got the vaccine. Do his disciples not see what he DOES, as well as what he says??
IronLionZion
(45,250 posts)I bet Tucker Carlson has been vaccinated while telling his idiot audience not to trust it