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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,071 posts) Mon Dec 20, 2021, 04:33 PM Dec 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene's Polio Vaccine Comment Gets Scorched

Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is using the new COVID-19 surge to sow more doubt about the coronavirus vaccines, which sharply reduce the chances of serious illness and death.

Greene on Sunday tweeted a link to an article about New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s breakthrough case in which he credited vaccination for keeping his symptoms minor.

“How many breakthrough cases of polio are there?” Greene wrote.

Link to tweet

Greene’s off-key comment comparing breakthrough COVID cases, which are mostly mild, with polio, which was mostly eradicated in the decades after a vaccine was introduced, landed with a thud. As usual, the anti-vaccine, pro-conspiracy lawmaker missed the point ― and was flat-out wrong, people on Twitter pointed out.