The Hill reports:
“Now let me say this about the vaccine: I got the shot. My family got the shot. And I want to encourage anyone here who hasn’t gotten the shot who’s eligible to go get it. And if you’re not sure about it, go ask your doctor and get the very best advice you can,” Pence told the Young America’s Foundation’s National Conservative Student Conference.
The direct call from Pence to young Republicans to get vaccinated if they haven’t already comes as younger Americans in particular have shown resistance to getting the shot. And it was a notable plea from a top-ranking Trump administration official as red states see their vaccination rates lag behind other parts of the country.
Read the full article. Meanwhile Charlie Kirk, the self-proclaimed leader of the young cultists movement, is flogging anti-vax lies every day.
Pence on the vaccines at a young conservative event tonight: “I got the shot, my family got the shot, and I want to encourage anyone here who hasn’t got the shot… to go get it.” pic.twitter.com/mRnlyoMGsU
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 5, 2021
If the government can succeed in coercing Americans to take a vaccine because it’s a “public health issue,” what will stop them from coercing Americans to give up their guns in the name of “public health?”
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 4, 2021
Joe Biden’s Secretary of Defense is expected to authorize mandatory vaccinations for all active-duty troops this week.
I wonder how many recruits signed up to serve so that their government could force experimental medicine on healthy civilians?
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 4, 2021
Jen Psaki said Ron DeSantis should “get out of the way” because he’s making it “harder for people to put requirements on masks” and sign “asking for vaccination status into law.”
Psaki is openly advocating for authoritarian control over states’ rights. Do not comply.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 3, 2021