Georgia anti-vaxxers shut down mobile vaccine event
Source: The Hill
Anti-vaccine protestors in Georgia have disrupted several mobile COVID-19 vaccination drives and caused one to shut down completely... The office of Georgia Public Health Commissioner Kathleen Toomey told the newspaper that public health staff at vaccination drives "have been harassed, yelled at, threatened and demeaned by some of the very members of the public they were trying to help." Toomey said they had also received hostile and harassing emails.
"This is wrong. This is absolutely wrong," Toomey said, according to the Macon Telegraph. "These people are giving their lives to help others. We should be thanking them for trying to get life-saving vaccines to our state."
The mobile vaccination event that was shut down was set to take place in north Georgia, where a group of protestors showed up to harass public health professionals, according to the Journal-Constitution. Nancy Nydam, Toomey's spokeswoman, told the newspaper that "aside from feeling threatened themselves, staff realized no one would want to come to that location for a vaccination under those circumstances, so they packed up and left."
The confrontations in Georgia are the latest in a series of incidents in which anti-vaccine and anti-mask protestors have publicly harassed and berated health care workers. The reports also come as Georgia faces a COVID-19 surge, with a 35 percent increase in cases reported over the past 14 days.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/570221-georgia-anti-vaxxers-shut-down-mobile-vaccine-event
Gov. Brian Kemp (R) issued an order last week deploying more than 100 National Guardsmen to hospitals around the state to support staff amid the rise in cases.
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rdking647
(5,113 posts)these nuts cases are a direct threat to lives......
Traildogbob
(8,726 posts)End them!!!!!!
Lonestarblue
(9,980 posts)Protesters cannot legally occupy a private business as part of the right to protest. Big and even medium employers need to require vaccination and then arrange for teams to be on site until every employee is vaccinated.
I wonder if these protesters are just paid hacks who move from state to state to protest.
femmedem
(8,201 posts)What the hell? They're not even consistent.
Grokenstein
(5,722 posts)"It's all about ME!!"
UGADawg
(501 posts)Taylor Greene represents half of my county. Andrew Clyde the rest of my county.
Elessar Zappa
(13,974 posts)Orrex
(63,203 posts)Treat them as such.
catrose
(5,065 posts)Orrex
(63,203 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,448 posts)at hospitals and ERs?
hadEnuf
(2,189 posts)It should be a crime to harass healthcare workers or vaccine events like this. People's rights are being taken away by thugs.
The things carrying out these harassments are non-human vermin. Call the exterminator.
TheFarseer
(9,322 posts)Let other people have to choice to get the shot. Too bad this isnt in Florida or the mobile vax van could just run them over.
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)Sogo
(4,986 posts)its no longer my body, my choice with these people; its your body, my choice.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Gets wheeled in with COVID-19 symptoms.
The reason they do asshole things and we don't is because we're not assholes.
sellitman
(11,606 posts)I am forced to visit but if it was my choice they would leave that miserable state.
hadEnuf
(2,189 posts)but maybe people who are being put in these situations need to start arming themselves if they so choose. At the very least have some type defensive apparatus to defend themselves.
These RWNJ's are very violent and are capable of anything.
Initech
(100,067 posts)bluestarone
(16,924 posts)Was this REPORTED to law enforcement? Charges filed?
ffr
(22,669 posts)Why is the American Taliban preventing others their Freedom? Double standard a bit?
deizo
(59 posts)The number of Republican voters is going down. To hell.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)They used to hide in the shadows but thanks to twump they all think they are credible opinions, even though they are not.