Mississippi governor: Biden goal of 70 percent of US vaccinated by July 4 is 'arbitrary'

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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) said on Sunday that President Biden's goal of having 70 percent of Americans at least partially vaccinated by July 4 is "arbitrary, to say the least."

CNN's Jake Tapper asked Reeves on "State of the Union" whether the governor was concerned about the fact that only 30 percent of Mississippi residents are fully vaccinated. Fewer than 50 percent of adults in the state have had at least one dose of a vaccine.

"The fact is, for over a year, we tried to focus our goals on reducing hospitalizations, reducing the number of individuals in ICU beds, because we think the most important thing is that if you get the virus, it's if you can get better with good, quality care, that you receive that quality care," Reeves said.

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Tapper then asked the Republican governor if he's worried that residents of his state are "sitting ducks," pointing to public health experts who say states with low vaccination rates could see a resurgence of the virus.

"Well, those same public health experts are the exact same individuals that have been advising President Biden, who said in March that we were all Neanderthals because we were willing to open our state up and open our economy up. They were wrong then and they're wrong now," Reeves told Tapper.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mississippi-governor-biden-goal-of-70-percent-of-us-vaccinated-by-july-4-is-arbitrary/ar-AAKLoQB

[Pobeka]

1. They are absolute sitting ducks for the India variant.

Just like last year, they have no idea what is coming at them.

This summer, it'll be far, far worse.

Mississippi has only 34% of it's population with one or more dose.

[Bleacher Creature]

2. Why would Tapper have him on at all?

He's a complete joke as a governor, as evidenced by his comments on Tapper's show. Why do we need to take these people seriously just because the Mississippi electorate is terrible?

[Yonnie3]

3. Mississippi is fifth in the US for per capita deaths

We will see how this works out for them.

[Botany]

4. Mississippi has the lowest vaccination rate in America

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=Vaccination+rate+by+state&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiG1LfFooTxAhUOV80KHXKdCX4Q1QIwF3oECBoQAQ&biw=1814&bih=964

[Walleye]

5. Right wingers sure have sensitive little feelings.

[Johonny]

6. Doesn't sound like it will end well

We've seen this movie before

[Blue_true]

7. He is dancing in the end one too soon.

The South got hammered by. COVID19 in late June, July and August of last year (people packing into places that have AC when things got hot).

The Gamma variant is in this country, it looks dangerous. Also, I read today that 97%+ of the people getting sick with COVID19 now are not vaccinated.

So yes, Reeves, your state is a sitting duck.

[fescuerescue]

8. of course it's arbitrary. It's a goal

That's the point.