It is very evident that the COVID-19 vaccination campaign of Tennessee is going very poorly. According to the latest statistics, the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination is received by only 42.1 % of the population, and only 37.6 % of people in Tennessee have received the 2nd dose of the vaccination.
Even though the vaccination rate in Tennessee is one of the lowest in the United States, there is a significant reduction in the number of COVID cases, deaths, and hospitalization, which is very good and gives hope.
Reducing COVID-19 deaths may make you think that the politicians in Tennessee have done a remarkable job in getting out the message to the unvaccinated residents: The COVID-19 vaccines are very safe, extremely effective, and when more people get vaccinated, more people will be safe. If you think that all the politicians in Tennessee are like this, you could not be any more wrong.
In March, Gov. Bill Lee got vaccinated secretly for some reason. The Tennessee Department of health in June decided to review its vaccine advertising campaign as the Republican lawmakers threatened to eliminate the department. They claimed that the department was peer pressuring adolescents into getting vaccinated.
A few days ago, Republican state Rep. Jeremy Faison has tweeted “We can go sit on my very cool deck and sip some sweet ice tea. We can definitely talk politics, however, you’ll not put a needle in my arm.” This tweet was in response to a clip of White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
In the clip, White House press secretary Jen Psaki says “The president will outline five areas his team is focused on to get more Americans vaccinated. One: targeted community-by-community, door-to-door outreach to get remaining Americans vaccinated by ensuring they have the information they need on how both safe and accessible the vaccine is.”
The main reason why republican state Rep. Jeremy Faison is publicly opposing vaccination is that it is politically useful for him. He is acting like a reasonable man who is trying to stop federal stormtroopers who are trying to forcibly inject Tennessee’s good people. The Republican lawmakers running the state really like the notion of standing up to the federal government. This is mainly because many voters in Tennessee are also not in favor of the vaccination.
What is happening is that Jeremy Faison is not being honest and is lying about a plan by the government to distribute some flyers about the COVID-19 vaccine. However, it is just a lie because the federal government is not planning such things. The Republican lawmaker knows this. You can tell this by the response of Faison to someone who opposed his first tweet.
He wrote, “I’m not against the vaccine at all. I’m 100% against the government coming to my house to encourage it. There is no reason for the government to go door to door and push a vaccine.” Even though it does not make any sense, he is honest about what the current administration is planning to do.
