It Is A Suicide Cult!

SCOOP: Tennessee Department of Health halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not just for COVID-19, but all diseases – amid pressure from GOP. Staff ordered to remove the agency logo from any documents providing vaccine info to the public, per internal dox. https://t.co/PX0Rvpc6Ot

— Brett Kelman (@BrettKelman) July 13, 2021

Just without the kool-aid.

Missouri's GOP governor lashes out at hospital for 'scaring' people into getting vaccinated as state faces COVID-19 surge https://t.co/s1HI8Aw45T

— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 13, 2021

This one is a variation on a theme:

On Tuesday morning, at a ceremonial bill signing in Kansas City, Parson responded to an announcement from Mercy. which operates hospitals across the region, saying it will require workers to be vaccinated beginning in September. Missouri currently has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country.

"We just need to make sure that people are not scared thinking they're doing something wrong going to a hospital," Parson said. "And I think the message you're seeing out of southwest Missouri is more people just trying to blame somebody for this virus. The virus itself is to blame. .... We just got to figure out how we deal with it and I think health care, especially health care leaders, really need to be encouraging people the importance of the vaccine, instead of trying to force people to take a vaccine or literally just scare them into taking a vaccine because we know that doesn't work."

See?  People in Missouri aren't angry about the vaccine; they're scared!  Because requiring hospital staff to immunize is going to scare people out of....going to the hospital?

Do people in Missouri imagine the vaccine is the contagion?  I lived in St. Louis for four years; I never met anyone there who was that dim.

We can blame the messenger; or we can change the message.  Which do you think will be more effective? The Governor of Missouri had made his decision:

Last week, after President Joe Biden mentioned the possibility of door-to-door promotion of vaccinations, Parson wrote on Twitter: "I have directed our health department to let the federal government know that sending government employees or agents door-to-door to compel vaccination would NOT be an effective OR a welcome strategy in Missouri!"

Jeff Zients, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, responded to Parson by saying that the outreach would be conducted by "local trusted messengers," adding that mischaracterizing the effort amounted to "doing a disservice to the country," according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Yeah, he's not trying to help.