GOP congressman tells states to be 'grateful' for vaccines and stop 'complaining'

[turbinetree]

By Oliver Willis -February 3, 2021 10:15 AM

States don't have enough vaccine doses as a result of purchasing failures by the Trump administration.

On Tuesday, Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) told local officials testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight Subcommittee about vaccine shortages that they should be "grateful" for Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration program intended to promote the development and distribution of vaccines against the coronavirus.

State health officials had asked Congress for more funding for the rollout of the vaccine, citing problems in getting doses to marginalized communities. States have reported shortages of vaccine stemming from the Trump administration's decision to turn down purchases of millions of doses, which Pfizer then sold to other countries.

But McKinley praised Operation Warp Speed and said, "Complaining about not getting enough vaccine is like complaining about the size of your meal. You should be grateful to have food on the table."

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/gop-congressman-david-mckinley-west-virginia-grateful-coronavirus-vaccine-operation-warp-speed/

First off food is a right not some fucking privilege, as for vaccines, you got your vaccines shot, did you or did you not.......................

[DFW]

1. Here's a kernel of corn, now stop complaining you're hungry

Grateful for WHAT vaccine? Those doses that covered 1.74% of the people in my state?

That's not Warp Speed, that's Wimp Speed.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Wimp speed in Missouri, too.

Head wimp wants us to beg, apparently.

Why can’t they figure out that doing the right thing will guarantee their reelection quicker than bribes and payoffs?

[DFW]

5. Doing the right thing involves getting off their asses and doing something

Bribes and payoffs involve fancy dinner dates and parties. It's called the path of least resistance.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Is it really, though?

Maybe just me, but the whole dinner party with bribes life seems like a terrible bore. More like work, than work.

Seems a very sad, empty life.

Just me, I guess.

[DFW]

9. It seems boring to those who have better things to do. Lazy people don't have better things to do.

I have a few friends in Congress (3 in the Senate, and one in the House), and NONE of them are on the dinner party circuit. But, then, none of them are Republicans, either.

[Under The Radar]

3. They just can't shake that country club mentality

Be grateful that we hard working privileged few tip you 15% when we feel that you deserve it and then expect you to pay 25% in taxes that we do t have to pay. It would be nice if you thanked us as well.

[Irish_Dem]

4. This is how they see us. Whining, ungrateful peons. Who should be glad for any crumbs they throw us.

In their minds they have given us enough of everything.
We should be happy.

[Zoonart]

6. Wallowing in their own crapulence.

[Autumn]

8. There is something obscene about that picture.

WV actually votes for people who seem to despise them. If that's what they want let them have it. Forget that place and focus on somewhere else.

[turbinetree]

10. That picture say's it all about the obscenity

[Thomas Hurt]

11. Shorter version...Ignore my incompetence and lack of concern....peasants!

[Laelth]

12. That's truly vile. n/t

-Laelth

[Grins]

13. "...grateful" for Operation Warp Speed"? Really?

The 20-million doses Trump promised that were to be give IN DECEMBER that never happened?
Still not happening?

Maybe putting a conflicted tri-state slumlord in charge of logistics wasn't such a great idea? Ya' think?

(Love the look on Manchin in that pic.)

[Vinca]

14. I just read a story of a new problem here in New Hampshire. It seems people are getting

their first dose, but can't schedule their second dose within the proper time frame. One person complained there was a 90 day lag before their second appointment. I've been vaccine shy since my horrible experience with the flu vaccine last fall and had kind of decided to wait for the 1 dose J & J vaccine. One dose overall seems to make much more sense for the goal of getting everyone properly vaccinated.

[gratuitous]

15. McKinley continued

"When I was a boy, people were crippled or killed by polio all the time, and we liked it that way!"