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Anti-vaxxers shut down Georgia vaccination event
Aug 31, 2021 1:27pm Eastern Daylight Time
by Laura Clawson, Daily Kos Staff
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/31/2049360/-Anti-vaxxers-shut-down-Georgia-vaccination-event
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COVID-19 vaccination rates rose in August after dipping down earlier in the summer. But anti-vaxxers remain a danger not just to themselves but to everyone around them. We see the danger to individual anti-vaxxers in one story after another about their miserable deaths. We see the danger to the population as a whole as the pandemic continues to rage because we havent reached the vaccination levels that would tamp it down.
The damage anti-vaxxers are doing doesnt end with their own personal refusal to be vaccinated, though. Dr. Kathleen Toomey, the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, recently revealed the ways anti-vaxxers are making it hard for other people to be vaccinated if they want to. After Toomey described a vaccination event being shut down by protesters, The Atlanta Journal-Constitutions Patricia Murphy and Greg Bluestein reached out to her office for details.
Local public health workers, Toomeys office said, have been harassed, yelled at, threatened and demeaned by some of the very members of the public they were trying to help. And no surprise, when members of Congress have compared public health workers to Nazis.
One north Georgia mobile vaccination event was canceled when protesters showed up because, 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.
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Dorian Gray
(13,469 posts)and hear me out... they don't believe in the freedom of choice regarding vaccines.
They're evil jerk wads.
Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)It has been low grade for decades.
Now it is heating up.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)And that is crazy Trumpsters types.
Were headed to a reckoning I dont see any other way this will go.
OhioChick
(23,218 posts)FakeNoose
(32,328 posts)This is how they're going to behave EVERYWHERE from here on out.