Jim Justice: West Virginia GOP Governor Says 'If You're Not Vaccinated, You're Part of the Problem'

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Source: MSN/CNN

Republican Gov. Jim Justice issued a stark warning to West Virginians on Tuesday as he urged more of his state's residents to get a Covid-19 vaccine: "If you're not vaccinated, you're part of the problem."

"If you're out there in West Virginia, and you're not vaccinated today, what's the downside?" Justice said during a televised coronavirus briefing. "If all of us were vaccinated, do you not believe that less people would die? If you're not vaccinated, you're part of the problem rather than part of the solution."

After reaching the threshold of 1 million residents getting at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, Justice made a plea to young people to get inoculated. Compared with 77.4% of residents over age 65 who are fully vaccinated, only 53.7% of West Virginians over age 12 have received both shots, according to state Covid-19 data.

"The young people out there are the ones that are dragging their feet," the governor said. "The sun is shining, they're out of school, all is good in the world and everything, yet they don't really realize that they could be the transmitters that could be passing this on to someone that's going to die."...

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[FarPoint]

1. Yes!

That's the fact Jack!

[nycbos]

2. As the old saying goes...

... broken clocks are right twice a day.

[Grokenstein]

3. Well, better too late than never, I suppose.

Closing the barn door long after the horses had disappeared over the horizon, Captain Cowboy looked around impatiently then asked, "Where th' hell's my dang medal?"

[roamer65]

4. They are the problem.

He’s sugarcoating.

[róisín_dubh]

5. Maybe he should instruct the major university in his state...

to require them. I'm *so excited* to be teaching at this university in a few weeks.

[Polybius]

6. Jim never should have switched Party's

He was a Democrat until 2017 or so. There's still good in him.

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. He's pretty much

been saying this right along. I don't care for my next door governor, but he's right on this and his whole vaccine policy. The only reason the guy switched parties was to get elected. He saw which side his bread was buttered on. WV folks may be dummies in the majority, but he's not. Not completely anyway.