"They're targeting children! With...HEALTH INFORMATION!"

Tennessee health department shut down vaccine events for teens after Republicans freaked out: leaked emails https://t.co/pgsa1yXejA

— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 9, 2021

No, I am not making that up:

Shutting down teen-centered vaccination programs came weeks after Republican Tennessee State Rep. Scott Cepicky held a public hearing in which he attacked the department for making fliers encouraging "impressionable" teens to get vaccinated.

"The Department of Health is targeting our youth," Cepicky said at the time. "When you have advertisements like this, with a young girl with a patch on her arm all smiling, we know how impressionable our young people are."

No word on what impression "long covid" and "deaths of friends and family" make on "our young people."  Or just prolonged hospitalization on a respirator, wondering if you're going to live or die, when a vaccine would have saved you all that suffering, if not the suffering of your friends and family.  I'm beginning to think these people really are monsters.

And when you think it can't get any stupider:

"The failure to provide accurate public health information including the efficacy of vaccines, and the accessibility of them to people across the country," Psaki said, "is literally killing people, so maybe they should consider that."

Her remarks came in response to a reporter specifically citing South Carolina Republican Governor Henry McMaster, who has called for a ban on any attempt to go door-to-door to deliver coronavirus vaccine information.

"There's still pushback about the President's comments about going door-to-door to encourage vaccinations. The South Carolina governor said today that 'enticing, coercing, intimidating, mandating, or pressuring anyone to take a vaccine was bad policy that will deteriorate the public trust and confidence in the state's efforts,' and Governor McMaster said he's going to 'prohibit the state health agency from using the administration's targeted tactics.' Can you respond to the governor and explain what it is that is being done and what is not being done in this outreach."

Psaki went further, explaining President Biden's plan to deliver information on vaccines by going door-to-door.

"I would say that what this is, and what is it is not – this is not federal employees going door-to-door. This is grassroots volunteers, this is members of the clergy, these are volunteers who believe that people across the country, especially in low-vaccinated areas should have accurate information, should have information about where they can get vaccinated, where they can save their own lives and their neighbors lives and their family members lives, that's exactly what this is, it's something that's been going on since April, and it's something where we've seen an impact in states where there are lower vaccination rates. So it is something we will continue to, to work with local groups to do, and it's a disservice to the country and to the people who may lose their lives, who may lose family members, to provide inaccurate disinformation at a moment where we're still fighting a pandemic."

Oh, no, we're not done yet:

Madison Cawthorn says today that Biden’s plan to send people door to door to offer vaccines is really a plot to confiscate people’s bibles and guns. pic.twitter.com/h6CPdJwv9t

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 9, 2021

So grassroots volunteers, members of the clergy, neighbors and friends across the country, want to take your Bibles and your guns?  Because what, Biden is a Catholic?  Or because he's a socialist? All that's missing are the black helicopters and the secret tunnels connecting all the abandoned Wal-Marts (whatever happened to those, anyway?  Like Japanese soldiers on abandoned islands, are they still waiting for the signal that will now never come?)

The meek may inherit the earth, but the criminally stupid are making sure there aren't enough of us around to care.