AOC cut in line for the COVID vaccine.
Posted on 12/21/2020 10:20:58 AM PST by conservative98
Former Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard blasted young members of Congress for taking the coronavirus vaccine before American seniors — and declared she wouldn’t receive the vaccine until the elderly could.
The Hawaii congresswoman made the remarks in a Monday morning tweet as members of Congress receive the Pfizer drug as part of a “continuity of governance” plan, vaulting them to the front of the line before at-risk seniors and other frontline workers.
On Friday, NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bronx) recorded herself receiving the vaccine live on Instagram and encouraged her millions of followers to ask questions about the drug.
“Heartless, arrogant, unelected CDC bureaucrats have decided that the lives of elderly Americans just don’t count,” Gabbard said.
“For months the CDC has been telling us that the elderly are the most vulnerable. But now they are recommending that 100 million so-called essential workers, which means healthy people working in everything from liquor stores to telephone companies can get the vaccine before our grandparents can,” she went on.
Tulsi Gabbard Tulsi Gabbard AFP via Getty Images “That members of Congress, like me, we can get the vaccine before at-risk seniors,” she said, railing against what she called an “immoral and bad health policy.”
Gabbard, 39, announced she was boycotting the vaccine until the more vulnerable had received it, and encouraged other young members of Congress to do the same.
“I planned to take the vaccine but will now stand in solidarity with our seniors by not doing so until they can. I urge my colleagues in Congress who are under the age of 65 and healthy to join me.”
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Tulsi May be the only Dem left with a soul
There’s something to be said with Congress getting the vaccine. If it doesn’t work then we don’t lose anyone important.
The study of 10,000,000 the pro-COVID lobby won’t talk about
By Monica Showalter
Make no mistake, there are people out there who love COVID, people who view it as manna from Heaven, people who can’t get enough of COVID and would extend it forever and ever.
Most, of course, are not restaurant or gym owners, ordered to shut down and wait. They’re the overclass and they’re about amassing money and power.
Which may be why a gargantuan study on COVID transmission by asymptomatic individuals, from the city of Wuhan, China, is getting no attention, at least not here in the states.
According to the American Institute of Economic Research:
In this case, the carrier of rationality is a gigantic study conducted in Wuhan, China, of 10 million people. The article appears in Nature Communications, published November 20, 2020.
The conclusion is not that asymptomatic spread is rare or that the science is uncertain. The study revealed something that hardly ever happens in these kinds of studies. There was not one documented case. Forget rare. Forget even Fauci’s previous suggestion that asymptomatic transmission exists but not does drive the spread. Replace all that with: never. At least not in this study for 10,000,000.
The World Health Organization has also found as much, noting that asymptomatic spreading is extremely rare. They posted a video here.
Now why would anyone listen to anything coming out of Wuhan, given the Chinese record on the matter? Quite simply, because the city was where the problem started, and the city has since gotten back to normal. Over in America, things are another story. The lockdowns extend and extend, with some so-called experts saying there won’t be relief until 2022. The vaccine won’t do it, the masks and stay-at-home-orders, the business shutdowns and the school closures have got to remain in place forever.
AIER notes:
We keep hearing about how we should follow the science. The claim is tired by now. We know what’s really happening. The lockdown lobby ignores whatever contradicts their narrative, preferring unverified anecdotes over an actual scientific study of 10 million residents in what was the world’s first major hotspot for the disease we are trying to manage. You would expect this study to be massive international news. So far as I can tell, it is being ignored.
Now, we know the experts and political leaders know this. If they didn’t why would they, like Dr. Deborah Birx, so gladly gather for Thanksgiving, while telling the public it was just too, too, dangerous and therefore not to do it? Leftist political leaders from Gov. Gavin Newsom, to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to the mayors of Chicago and Austin and more have all yelled about the importance of extending lockdowns and forcing the wearing of masks, while not bothering to obey such commands themselves. They don’t believe this stuff. They just want you to.
The bad part about this is that this study reveals the truth of the matter — that asymptomatic transmission is not a thing, it’s not even a fact, and if the Chinese study is correct, it’s simply never happened.
So all the talk and warnings about asymptomatic transmission, used as and therefore, the entire rationale for locking down the country — closing the beaches, shutting the gyms, shuttering the schools, ending the sports events, cancelling theatre productions, saying ‘no’ to dance performances, destroying the bars and restaurants, cutting air travel, closing down churches, shutting down museums, quarantining incoming airline passengers — is nonsense, strangling the substance of everyday American life for nothing.
The Chinese study is by far the biggest, but there are numerous other indicators suggesting the same, as the WHO official’s statement indicates. The evidence is even empirical: How many of us have gone to Walmart, Costco or Target, wearing our flimsy masks, and catching nothing? We have been doing this for months, and just the law of averages would suggest we should eventually get it. But there really aren’t any cases that I know about where it happened. Stores, not wanting bad publicity about superspreader events, have forced customers to wear masks and kept people with symptoms out. That mere experience would empirically confirm the Wuhan study, too.
It not only shows that the extended lockdowns have been a waste, it confirms the villainy of the Democrat officials who insisted on lockdowns, and continue to vow to extend them. Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, Andrew Cuomo, Phil Murphy, Tom Wolf, I’m talking about you. Like three-card monte operators, they always have a new excuse to extend the lockdowns, while many have not followed it themselves. What it’s looking more and more like is a bid to destroy America’s entrepreneurial small business class, an important driver of America’s phenomenal growth, a leg up for the poor, the immigrant, and the less educated, and a reliable source for Republican votes. These creatures are villains, the people who love COVID, the COVID lobby and it’s time to put the out of business. (Before it turns into a new religion)
Look, I like Tulsi. Some of her positions are pretty whacko, but she seems sane. Which makes her a distinct minority in the Democrat party. And, lets face it, she’s smokin’ hot. Thats gotta be worth something.
If wearing a mask is done to protect others, getting the vaccine protects others even more.
Conundrums of COVID life.
Meh, as an elderly person myself, I say let them have it. We’re all gonna die of something, and this is the weak sister of the flu anyway. We are not as easily duped as are young people.
She is worrisome though. She has a lot going for her and she is likable. It does make people forget she is liberal. That said, she has been pushing all the right (pun intended) buttons lately.
I don’t agree with Gabbard’s political view but she sure does put throw some good stuff around at times.
Thanks for posting this.
I like everything about Tulsi except her policy prescriptions. She is the most decent Democrat, as far as I can see, and the most sensible.
The only people that should be getting the vaccine right now are those over 60 or 75 years old. It is immoral than anybody younger gets it until these older citizens have had it. AOC you should resign from Congress in shame
Tulsi is a rare find. A democrat whose brain still works. Plus she’s definitely hot stuff!
She’s their McCain, Romney, Flake, Murkowski, Collins, etc.
Did they really take the vaccine?
Is Gabbard virtue signaling or just encouraging old people to take the vaccine?
Do you trust what they say? Sadly, that is where we are.
So how does a COVID mRNA vaccine work, anyway?💉
And how does it compare to a traditional vaccine, or just getting COVID?
Well, it comes down to a story of spikes🦠 & burglars 🦹🏻♀️
Here’s a layperson stab at an explanation: (Docs, feel free to weigh in!)pic.twitter.com/hneHYxML3p— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 20, 2020
Except sometimes she is correct.
Yikes!
She went from almost cute, to well on her way to being just another Democrat Hag — seemingly overnight.
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