McConnell Urges Americans: 'Get Vaccinated' As Cases Spike

[appalachiablue]

Source: AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell implored unvaccinated Americans Tuesday to take the COVID-19 shot, issuing a stark and grave warning of a repeat of last year’s rising caseloads and shutdowns if people refuse to protect themselves from the coronavirus.

McConnell urged Americans to ignore the “demonstrably bad advice” coming from pundits and others against the vaccines. As cases skyrocket, he noted that nearly all the new virus hospitalizations in the U.S. are among people who have not been vaccinated.

“If there is anybody out there willing to listen: Get vaccinated,” McConnell, R-Ky., said at his weekly press conference at the Capitol. “These shots need to get in everybody’s arms as rapidly as possible or we’re going to be back in a situation in the fall that we don’t yearn for — that we went through last year,” he said. “This is not complicated.”

McConnell has been one of the most outspoken members of his party in urging vaccinations to stop the virus spread, speaking often in his home state of Kentucky of the need for people to get the shot...


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/health-government-and-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-af236206a9e74e614479d10b5bc4555c

[SoCalDavidS]

1. Fuck Off And Die Turtle

YOU and all you Fucking Friends OWN THIS. Accept it.

[forgotmylogin]

21. McConnell is the definition of D&D Lawful Evil alignment.

He probably understands COVID will rip through red states and his voters as well.

[Pobeka]

2. Even if -- they all ran out and got vaccinated today, it wouldn't be fast enough.

Two weeks from now, cases are going to be through the roof.

There is no magic immediate immunity. It will take N95 masks and social distancing on a scale McConnell's followers seem incapable of doing to prevent infections.

[Scrivener7]

3. McConnell is all that is evil, and this is way too late. But it has got me thinking.

Even the most evil of the republiQans is saying to get vaccinated. What was stopping them before was TFG.

If he had not been in office, this would never have become the politicized mess that it is. This would have been one of those rare things that everyone agreed on.

[femmedem]

13. McConnell's been urging people to get vaccinated for months, maybe because he had polio.

Here's an example from back in March. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/03/30/heres-why-mcconnell-has-been-urging-all-republican-men-to-get-vaccinated/?sh=389d79632729

He's done incredible damage to this country, but when it comes to the Covid vaccine he's been right from the beginning.

[brush]

4. It took Joe Biden implying facebook was killing people with vaccine...

misinformation for McTurtle, FOX and other republican a-holes to finally urge people get vaccinated.

Guess they don't like the taint of being associated with killing. Now maybe Joe needs to call the NRA killers too.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. MoscowMitch only changed his tune because the effort to blame Biden is a FAIL

The public keeps moving decisively against the GOP propaganda and spin.

Very good news indeed!

[agingdem]

9. that and the stock market has been on the skids for the last few weeks

and then tanked yesterday....and that's why the assholes on Fox (sans Tucker) are suddenly pro-vaccine..Mitch and his miscreants are all invested in the stock market..they only react when the market goes negative...

[appalachiablue]

10. +1 The slipping stock market motivated this

[Maggiemayhem]

23. Agree

[Champp]

6. Moscow Mitch pretends to close barn door 1 1/2 years after horse (virus) gets out

[appalachiablue]

7. +1 good one

[DemocraticPatriot]

19. Is that Grover Cleveland? lol nt

[global1]

8. The Repugs Unleashed The Covid Killing Snowball And....

its rolling very fast downhill and killing Anti-Maskers and Anti-Vaxxers - whom 99.9% are Repugs.

I don't think they'll be able to stop it now.

They are finally being caught up in their own killing creation.

Talk about 'voter suppression' - it's now being brought to you complements of the pandemic - and it's suppressing Repug votes.

[OMGWTF]

11. Recall, TFG and evil spawn thought Covid-19 was only killing Blue Staters and brown people?

[CentralMass]

12. McConnell, the useless tool of the oligarch's speaks. They must be getting nervous.

[WVreaper]

14. About fucking time.

finally crawl out of your shell?

[Rebl2]

15. He should

have done this two months ago and teamed up with the President to do so. Seems a little late now.

[rpannier]

16. Mc Connell says get vaccinated

while the members of his caucus slime over the corpses of the dead to scream "Don't get vax'd" Like Johnson in WI

[turbinetree]

17. Your about eighteen plus mouths to late asshole.....why don't you go on Fix Noise and say this

I know how about the Fucker Carlson segment.....

[GB_RN]

18. But Will Faux Nuz Even Cover This?

My guess is, it gets maybe 30 seconds somewhere, (except on TucKKKer’s White Sheet Grievance Power Hour, who rants about it being a betrayal), and then is ignored.

[hay rick]

20. I think even his followers know he often says things he doesn't believe.

McConnell is a darkly comical choice for bearer of good medical advice.

[marble falls]

22. Where in the hell was he six months ago?

[Javaman]

24. it's only because repukes are the ones getting hit the hardest by this latest spike

because these moron repukes believed the bullshit from the orange asshole an the anti-vaxx idiots

he's worried they will die off before he can suck their votes out of them.

too little too late turtle, you fucked up.

[Escurumbele]

25. republicans just figured out that the unvaccinated are mostly republicans...can't loose the vote...

They know they are loosing their base to covid, their stupidity has backfired because the majority (maybe 95%) of the unvaccinated are the people who have been listening to republicans and the fox talking heads. Today Hannity pleaded with his audience to (paraphrasing) "talk to your doctor, make a decision, and hopefully you will vaccinate, we must take covid seriously."

Or maybe some lawyer has told them they could be liable for the death of so many people who decided not to get vaccinated because of all the trash they have been saying to them? Is this a Charles Manson case where they don't physically commit the crime but convince the audience to jump off the cliff making them the masterminds of the massacre?

[clementine613]

26. This has to be a lie.

I can't believe a Rethug would advocate for vaccinations.