A Missouri health official is the latest vaccine proponent to be pushed out.

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

Missouri’s top health official, a Republican who opposes mask and vaccine mandates but spoke approvingly of the Covid vaccine, was supposed to have been confirmed by State Senate by Friday.

Instead, conservative state legislators stonewalled the process earlier this week and Donald Kauerauf resigned on Tuesday, becoming the latest public health leader to be forced from office, as the politicized fight about masks, mandates and pandemic response rages on.

Mr. Kaeurauf had been appointed by Gov. Mike Parsons, a Republican, in July to lead the state’s Department of Health and Senior Services and had served in the position since September.

At a Monday hearing, Mr. Kaeurauf emphasized his opposition to mandatory masking and vaccination, but repeated his desire to see improvement in Missouri’s sluggish vaccination rate. Only about half of the state’s population has received two doses.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/us/donald-kauerauf-missouri-covid-vaccine.html

[erronis]

1. Eating their own. (r)epuglicons have no positive values.

Eventually they'll poison their well, alienate their children, rebrand and re-infect.

Late last year, The New York Times identified more than 500 top health officials who left their jobs in the prior 19 months. They have drawn ire from state leaders and the public for their decisions, and faced other hurdles including mass staff departures, inconsistent funding and dwindling trust in their authority.

Adriane Casalotti, chief of government and public affairs for the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said that the fallout from the departures will have an impact that lasts beyond this pandemic and will leave the country less prepared for the next public health crisis.

“What we want out of our public health leaders is to tell us the truth whether or not it’s politically popular,” Ms. Casalotti said. “We’re going to lose those voices and those are the voices that we need to keep our communities safe and secure.”

If the (r)s and pluto/auto-crats want to crater this country, they're being obvious about it.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. These republican idiots, even while holding all of the reins of government in MO, are still

trying to kill us all here in Missouri! At least the republicans are all infighting amongst themselves. I hope that they end up eating themselves and showing the rest of Missourians on how to govern the state responsibly, but they are failing here in that regards too.

Kind of a Laurel and Hardy show here in MO. Maybe if I shut my eyes, count to 100, and then reopen them, that sensible people will be back in control of state government again, and that all we went through was just a bad dream?

[turbinetree]

3. I tell ya the Midwest states especially this state is really the most dandgerous state to live in..

whatever happens in that state usually spreads to other states, like they use the entire population like a petri dish....

[Rebl2]

4. Now I

don’t like parson, but he blew up apparently over the fact they wouldn’t approve him. I think there is a faction of republicans in MO state house who don’t think parson is conservative enough. If he runs again, I think another even more conservative wing nut will run against him.

[Pas-de-Calais]

5. Misery state house wouldn't approvr

Pardon wanted him
Weird aint it?