Larry Elder: California recall contender makes misleading claim that young people don't need vaccine

[TomCADem]

Source: CNN

Larry Elder, the leading GOP candidate vying to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom, said he doesn't think it's necessary for young people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or for children to wear masks at school, and he vowed to repeal any mask or vaccine mandates for California's state workers if he is elected to replace the Democratic governor in the September 14 special election.

"I don't believe the science suggests that young people should be vaccinated. I don't believe the science suggests that young people should have to wear masks at school," Elder told CNN's Joe Johns during a wide-ranging interview Monday afternoon in Los Angeles.

Even though some pediatric ICUs faced a shortage of beds in areas that were hard hit by Covid-19 this summer, he went on to make the misleading assertion that "young people are not likely to contract the coronavirus, and when they do, their symptoms are likely to be mild, and they're not likely to be hospitalized, and certainly not likely to die."

The conservative talk radio host's statements stand in sharp contradiction to the patterns that many doctors and medical officials are warning about as the highly transmissible Delta variant has spread across the country, sickening more young people who are unvaccinated than the earlier phases of the virus last year. At a time when coronavirus infections are surging in children across the United States, the Biden administration has engaged in an intensive campaign to get teens and young adults vaccinated.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/larry-elder-california-recall-contender-makes-misleading-claim-that-young-people-don-t-need-covid-19-vaccines/ar-AANXa0M?li=BB141NW3

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This is why Trump supporting Republicans pushed for a off-schedule, low-turnout recall election. Because this is the only way to get an anti-science, climate change denying, misogynistic, anti-vaxxer to be California's governor.

[turbinetree]

1. And now he's a doctor.....where did he get his license....

[Turbineguy]

2. To get elected as a republican

killing people is a campaign tool.

[byronius]

3. What a speed bump in history.

He’s as stupid as a stump, but we’re not.

Republicans shall remain nameless in California as long as they stand for misogyny, racism, and primitivism.

So like, forever.

[BootinUp]

6. Good analogy. Wa-womp! Nt

[FBaggins]

11. Not if CA voters let him in the door

Particularly if he gets to replace Feinsten.

[byronius]

12. This dude is not ready for prime time.

Schwarzenegger squeaked in by the fame door. This guy's an Idiot.

Plus, criminal.

[Grins]

13. She should have stepped down before the 2020 election

And yes; I can’t stand her.

[Moebym]

4. California, PLEASE vote no

For everyone's sake. The very last thing we need in this struggle against COVID-19 is another anti-science GOP governor...

[BootinUp]

5. This is his 15 minutes, tick tock. Nt

[certainot]

7. some democrat or media peep needs to ask elder what he thought of rush limbaugh, the guy who

he likely based his talk radio career on, who taught him everything he knows about politics, the guy who said global warming and COVID were hoaxes, and who spent much of 30 years denying smoking caused cancer - before croaking of lung cancer

trick question

if he praises limbaugh he has that, and if he drops him he pisses off the dittoheads and talk radio blowhards who are responsible for the recall and his 'popularity'

[Rhiannon12866]

8. What about the children who are now getting sick and dying of Covid??

[royable]

9. They're all crisis actors, doncha know...

The malignancy present in the repub party today puts to shame any examples I encountered in my youth of the limits of free speech, shouting "fire" in a crowded theater, for example.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Well, if the tragedy at Sandy Hook didn't move them, then nothing will.

They appear to have an agenda that includes no empathy for anyone, even small children.