House GOP committee deletes tweet spreading disinformation about Covid-19 booster shots

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

(CNN)Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee deleted a tweet Friday morning that spread disinformation about Covid-19 booster shots.

The false tweet from the House Judiciary Committee Republicans' official account, which was posted Thursday afternoon, read: "If the booster shots work, why don't they work?" The tweet received a wave of backlash before it was taken down and came at a time when Covid cases are spiking across the US following the Omicron variant's emergence, and public health experts are encouraging people to get boosted to protect themselves and others.

While most Republicans have said they support Covid-19 vaccines but oppose mandates, many members of the GOP -- especially those on the far-right -- have continued to spread disinformation, conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine sentiments. Elected Republicans have crusaded against mandates as part of their resistance to the Biden administration's pandemic response efforts.

According to CNN's latest polling, a 65% majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents report having received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine. (By contrast, only about one-quarter see vaccination requirements as an acceptable way to increase the vaccination rate.)

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/31/politics/republican-judiciary-committee-deletes-tweet-covid-vaccine-disinfo/index.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. The Qonned default to all-or-nothing thinking. 100% effective or else it is trash or worse. . . . nt

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Perhaps they're testing how much bullshit they can get away with /nt

[IronLionZion]

3. Perhaps they'll have fewer voters in November

[Rebl2]

7. We can hope

[DemocraticPatriot]

14. Amen. The hell with them.

"Let's Go Darwin!"

[Baked Potato]

4. They got it spread far and wide.

Got the RW laughs, no need to leave it up.

[Maggiemayhem]

5. Exactly

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Never stop spewing BS do they? Unless caught and publically shamed for spewing BS. n/t

[riversedge]

9. I do not think this gang can be shamed. they are concerned with the optics-only the optics.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. It's all such easily disproven lies and yet it sticks, not only with the base but MSM gives it air.

[riversedge]

8. 'The GOP House Judiciary Committee is led by Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio,........

Article does not give us a clue as to who posted it.


A booster is still better than any immunity one gets from having the disease.





...................The people filling hospital beds are mostly unvaccinated or were vaccinated months ago, and their immunity has worn off. The vaccines do not fully prevent infection, but they provide very good protection against it and severe disease and extremely high protection against death.

The GOP House Judiciary Committee is led by Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who has been fiercely opposed to vaccine mandates and has declined to say whether has received a Covid-19 shot. Jordan also revealed during an interview with a local news outlet that he had Covid over the summer. The spokesperson who represents his office and the committee did not immediately return a request for comment.

[godfree2]

10. regulate twitter, they lied about stopping disinfo

PS twitter suspended me for reporting disinfo

[godfree2]

11. Twitter policy is BS

https://blog.twtrinc.com/en/2020/updating-our-approach-to-misleading-information.html


?@yoyoel?
Head of Site Integrity, Twitter
@nickpickles

[SCantiGOP]

12. If bullet proof vests work,

How do some cops still get killed?

Same bad logic.

[ck4829]

15. Kick