Hospitalized Man Says He’ll Go Through It All Again And Won’t Get Vaccine: “Don’t Shove It Down My Throat”

CBS News reports:

Roughly one in three Louisianans are fully vaccinated. This week, the state’s health department reported the highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations since late February. Scott Roe is one of them. “Here I am recovering, getting out of here finally tomorrow. Am I going to get a vaccine? No,” Roe said. “Because there’s too many issues with these vaccines.” This father, former baseball coach, small business owner and hunter caught COVID and then developed pneumonia.

“Before you got sick,” Begnaud asked Roe, “if you would have had a chance to get the vaccine and prevent this, would you have taken the vaccine?” “No,” Roe said. “I would have gone through this, yes sir. Don’t shove it down my throat. That’s what local, state, federal administration is trying to do – shove it down your throat.” “What are they shoving,” Begnaud asked, “the science?” “No they’re shoving the fact that that’s their agenda,” Roe said, “their agenda is to get you vaccinated.”

Read the full article. Roe, who says he knows “very well” who his GOP Rep. Steve Scalise is, is unmoved after the reporter has him read about Scalise’s decision Tuesday to get the vaccine, calling it safe and effective. “Not proven,” says Roe.