Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who is suspended from Twitter for a week for spreading Covid misinformation, is having to use other means to spout her anti-vax warnings.
Greene has been particularly worked up over the FDA granting full, final approval of the Pfizer/biotech Covid-19 vaccine. The FDA previously granted emergency approval for use to help tackle the pandemic and is now on the verge of granting full approval. Emergency approval can be used to speed up the distribution of medication/vaccines in times of crisis.
Yesterday, Greene spoke to the right-wing network, Real America’s Voice. She says she believes officials were inflating the figures of those being hospitalized with Covid. Why? Because she’d spoken to someone in a hospital who said that wasn’t the case where they worked.
Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene on COVID case surge: “Yes, the waiting rooms get full. But guess what? The waiting rooms are full of all kinds of things, not just COVID,” adding “we’re human, we can’t live forever” pic.twitter.com/cA13oU7kAV
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) August 12, 2021
“I don’t think the FDA should approve a vaccine that it doesn’t seem to be that effective, especially with COVID-19 raging all over the country. At least that’s what the media tells us every single day,” she claimed.
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“I’ve talked to local hospitals here in my district in here in my state. Yes, the waiting rooms get full, but guess what? The waiting rooms are full of all kinds of things, not just COVID,” Greene said. “But they’re seeing about 30 percent of those numbers being COVID cases.”
“Everybody needs to get back down to common sense and remember that, you know, we’re human, we can’t live forever, we’re going to catch all kinds of diseases and illnesses and other viruses, and we get hurt sometimes.”
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Greene’s claim that the Covid vaccine “doesn’t seem to be that effective” is false. Earlier this week it was announced that more than 99.99% of people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 have not had a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization or death.
According to a CNN analysis of CDC data, as of August 2, “more than 164 million people in the United States were fully vaccinated against Covid-19 … Fewer than 0.001% of those individuals — 1,507 people — died and fewer than 0.005% — 7,101 people — were hospitalized with Covid-19.”
The Pfizer vaccine will not necessarily stop you from contracting Covid, but it should lessen the symptoms: a fact Greene takes issue with because…. Well, she heard of someone where that wasn’t the case.
Earlier in the week, before her Twitter suspension took effect, she tweeted: “A distant family member, who is vaccinated, got covid. Her symptoms were worse than her unvaccinated husband & brother in law, who both got covid as well. The covid vax did not stop her from catching it & did not make her case more mild. Stop Vaccine Mandates!”
A distant family member, who is vaccinated, got covid.
Her symptoms were worse than her unvaccinated husband & brother in law, who both got covid as well.
The covid vax did not stop her from catching it & did not make her case more mild.
Stop Vaccine Mandates!
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) August 9, 2021
This week, Los Angeles City Council voted to introduce proof of vaccination requirements for most indoor spaces, including bars and restaurants. San Francisco has announced a similar plan, while New York will implement a vaccine mandate for anyone wanting to enter most indoor, hospitality spaces, from August 16.
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Mister P
The people in her district who voted for her deserve to have an idiot representing them.
Unfortunately she is in Congress and we shouldn’t have someone so stupid as a legislator.
jw8890
They didnt have any choice in the matter she was the only candidate running after her opponent dropped out due to death threats. Even then she still didnt get but like 75% of the votes
Heywood Jablowme
She’s on very thin ice with Twitter, one more strike and they will ban her permanently.
Max
we’re human, we shouldn’t have to prematurely die or suffer from something we can avoid with modern medicine.
Cam
This is who Republicans are. They’re all about people dying if it helps them score a quick political point or line their pockets.
petej
way to add 1 + 1 and get 5!
Invader7
Lead the way MTG !!!
Liquid Silver
I approve of this message…for older Republicans.
Fahd
The media showing people in hospital beds expressing regret that they didn´t get vaccinated and advising others to get vaccinated seems like it could persuade the persuadable. Like the poor, the stupid, like MT Greene, who has no committee memberships, will always be with us.
We can have laws requiring motorcycle helmets to protect the dumb from themselves and from costing society a fortune in medical bills, why can´t we mandate vaccines to a reasonable extent?
Tombear
A gay man could never, ever be as ignorant as Ms Green. That wild and woolly slut babe Boebert is pretty ignorant too. I guess ignorance is a deadly virus going through the ranks of the Republic party. If the Republicans and Evangelicals who hate us die because they won’t take the vaccination let em die.
Cozmo2
Let her get COVID and she’ll be saying something different
HMFan
What drugs is she on? And how did she get this far in life without a speeding Mack truck splattering her horseface all over the road? Her complete lack of comprehension regarding science, logic, common sense, and cultural literacy is appalling. This is what happens when inadequately educated and overly indulged children grow up and go into politics.
Doug
If she would just shut up…
BoomerMyles
MTG has lived 1 day too long.
Hussain-TheCanadian
Every anti-vaccination politician must be asked on live TV if they themselves got vaccinated or not. I reckon that the majority of these grifters are fully vaccinated.
Kevan1
She is right . We are human, and we die. So why does she not hurry up and die?
JRinDallas
When Marjorie Taylor Greene includes herself as a human being, she’s flattering herself.
rbernard
Here is another absurd comment from MTG to add to her long growing list of ridiculous statements…
MTG has to be taken seriously as a dangerous nitwit who should have nothing to do with public policy or the legislation of our laws.
I understand her constituents adore her, which speaks volumes about her district in Georgia.
cormac_zoso
just when you think she can’t be more of a braying jackass she tops herself again….she must have a huge writing staff because no way does this horror of an alleged mammal keep coming up with dumber and dumber and more dangerous shit to blather …
i still have to think her “constituents” will wake up when they don’t see that federal money flowing rhat they had in the past … all these dumbass rednecks can whine all they want about the feds but when there’s money to be had they are first in line with both hands out … horseface and gun-bimbo are doing nothing policy wise….they are only getting their sorry asses on the news daily for being the tragic result of generations of inbreeding … they’re not getting money for their district and in fact both have publicly sworn off federal money … we’ll see how they vote when their free fed money is gone
dbholl53
And for probably the first time in her life she is right! we all die, but why go looking for it. Did she stop to think that her distant relative would probably NOT have covid at all if her ass of a unvaccinated husband and brother-in-law had not given it to her?