Trumpist Antivaxxers gallop backwards

[JohnD]

"High-profile Republicans this week lined up to call for their supporters to be inoculated in a sharp break with the loud vaccine scepticism expressed by many party members.

Party strategists said the sudden sense of urgency reflected a dawning realisation among Republicans that they risked being blamed for not doing enough to head off a surge of infections in red US states where vaccination rates are stubbornly low.

“We as a Republican party have decided that we have to be all in on the vaccine, even though we’re not sure where our followers are,” said John Feehery, a partner at EFB Advocacy and a former Republican congressional aide. “There’s real political risk in the idea of re-shutting down the country. I think Republicans don’t want to be blamed for it.”

Republican governors that had made headlines in recent months by banning officials, companies and colleges from cajoling people into having a jab were this week instead touting the benefits of vaccinations to hesitant residents of their states."

https://www.ft.com/content/fc3db449-b312-4d1d-8acd-58cee1bce594

And we thought Darwinism in action would help cleanse the gene pool.

 

[JohnD]

"Jeff Zients, the head of the White House Covid-19 task force, said on Thursday that 40 per cent of Covid-19 infections now come from just three states, all with Republican governors: Texas, Missouri and Florida.

The sudden shift in the Republican party’s tone has been mirrored at Fox News, the rightwing television news channel where hosts have frequently raised doubts about the safety of the vaccines. This week the outlet broadcast a public service announcement urging viewers to have their shot."

 

[JohnD]

"Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who is widely tipped as a 2024 presidential candidate, in May signed a bill that banned the state’s businesses from asking customers to provide proof of vaccination. He also legislated to prevent colleges from mandating inoculations for students. But this week DeSantis urged Floridians to get inoculated. “These vaccines are saving lives,” he said. “They are reducing mortality.”

His counterpart in Arkansas, Ada Hutchinson, signed a bill banning vaccine requirements in April, yet has embarked on a tour of the state to try to overcome deep-seated scepticism towards inoculations."

 

[noseall]

The USA branch of the RWR are gymnastically contorting themselves over risking giving Biden and his party credit for vaccine take-up v's saving Republican voter's lives. To date they have sacrificed many voters to the virus in favour of politics, but are alarmed by the recent surge in hospitalizations and deaths amongst the unvaccinated.

The stupidity of the RWR knows no bounds especially the American ones.

 

[Tigercubrider]

Trump is still congratulating himself on the vaccine (although all he did was provide some start up money, which didn't necessarily go to the most successful ones) while simultaneously suggesting that he doesn't trust "The government" and the vaccine programme.

So claiming credit for the vaccine while suggesting it's dangerous?
Many Republican Politicians and Fox staff are also claiming that it would be illegal for them to disclose whether they have /have not been vaccinated under HIPPA.

HIPPA is a medical data protection rule that ensures that your own medical records are confidential. It's intended to stop the press or other interested parties looking into confidential information, for privacy. It does not prevent someone publicly saying "I have been vaccinated" (or not) Yet the RW are seeking to imply that they\d love to comply but...you know...the law says....
And their fans are daft enough to believe it.

 

[transam]

It would seem going by reports on the radio that trumps claims of a possible lab leak in china for this virus caper

are now being taken more seriously

report on the news this morning China are no longer going to co operate with the W H O on any further investigations into the origin of this virus

no surprise there than

 

[noseall]

And their fans are daft enough to believe it.

You can not underestimate them enough. The UK RWR must be so proud.

 

[fillyboy]

JohnD, for balance, how about a mention of Biden re-commencing the construction of the Mexican wall a few months back having cancelled it in January. For extra balance, we could discuss all the other Trump policies that Joe has adopted.
The LWW must be so proud.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

"High-profile Republicans this week lined up to call for their supporters to be inoculated in a sharp break with the loud vaccine scepticism expressed by many party members.

Party strategists said the sudden sense of urgency reflected a dawning realisation among Republicans that they risked being blamed for not doing enough to head off a surge of infections in red US states where vaccination rates are stubbornly low.

“We as a Republican party have decided that we have to be all in on the vaccine, even though we’re not sure where our followers are,” said John Feehery, a partner at EFB Advocacy and a former Republican congressional aide. “There’s real political risk in the idea of re-shutting down the country. I think Republicans don’t want to be blamed for it.”

Republican governors that had made headlines in recent months by banning officials, companies and colleges from cajoling people into having a jab were this week instead touting the benefits of vaccinations to hesitant residents of their states."

https://www.ft.com/content/fc3db449-b312-4d1d-8acd-58cee1bce594

And we thought Darwinism in action would help cleanse the gene pool.

“There’s real political risk in the idea of re-shutting down the country re-electing Donald Trump in 2024. I think Republicans don’t want to be blamed for it.”

 

[noseall]

JohnD, for balance, how about a mention of Biden re-commencing the construction of the Mexican wall

You mean carrying out repairs to holes in the existing wall, much like Trump did?

 

[fillyboy]

You mean carrying out repairs to holes in the existing wall, much like Trump did?

Biden administration to finish 13-mile section of Trump's border wall in Texas (msn.com)

The Biden administration will allow a short stretch of former President Donald Trump's border wall in southeastern Texas to be completed following a three-month freeze on all projects up and down the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, according to a report.

A 13.4-mile stretch of slatted border fence in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas will be completed, the Army Corps of Engineers told Fox News on Wednesday. The decision to continue wall construction was the result of "pressure from local residents [and] politicians," reporter Bill Melugin wrote on Twitter.

 

[noseall]

Biden administration to finish 13-mile section of Trump's border wall in Texas (msn.com)

The Biden administration will allow a short stretch of former President Donald Trump's border wall in southeastern Texas to be completed following a three-month freeze on all projects up and down the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, according to a report.

A 13.4-mile stretch of slatted border fence in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas will be completed, the Army Corps of Engineers told Fox News on Wednesday. The decision to continue wall construction was the result of "pressure from local residents [and] politicians," reporter Bill Melugin wrote on Twitter.

January 2021...

Most of the wall constructed to date has been replacement for existing dilapidated or inadequate fencing, despite earlier plans to build new barriers where none existed before. In 2018, an administration official testified that his agency would build 316 miles of new pedestrian barriers “in addition to what is there now.” But to date only about 40 miles of such new fencing have been built.

 

[JohnD]

Hey, filly, how about throwing in some irrelevant off-topic nonsense to distract attention?

Look!

A squirrel!

 

[fillyboy]

 

[fillyboy]

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