Georgia anti-vaxxers shut down mobile vaccine event

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Source: The Hill

Anti-vaccine protestors in Georgia have disrupted several mobile COVID-19 vaccination drives and caused one to shut down completely... The office of Georgia Public Health Commissioner Kathleen Toomey told the newspaper that public health staff at vaccination drives "have been harassed, yelled at, threatened and demeaned by some of the very members of the public they were trying to help." Toomey said they had also received hostile and harassing emails.

"This is wrong. This is absolutely wrong," Toomey said, according to the Macon Telegraph. "These people are giving their lives to help others. We should be thanking them for trying to get life-saving vaccines to our state."

The mobile vaccination event that was shut down was set to take place in north Georgia, where a group of protestors showed up to harass public health professionals, according to the Journal-Constitution. Nancy Nydam, Toomey's spokeswoman, told the newspaper that "aside from feeling threatened themselves, staff realized no one would want to come to that location for a vaccination under those circumstances, so they packed up and left."

The confrontations in Georgia are the latest in a series of incidents in which anti-vaccine and anti-mask protestors have publicly harassed and berated health care workers. The reports also come as Georgia faces a COVID-19 surge, with a 35 percent increase in cases reported over the past 14 days.


Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/570221-georgia-anti-vaxxers-shut-down-mobile-vaccine-event

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Gov. Brian Kemp (R) issued an order last week deploying more than 100 National Guardsmen to hospitals around the state to support staff amid the rise in cases.

[rdking647]

2. id take it a step further

these nuts cases are a direct threat to lives......

[Traildogbob]

5. Fuck it

End them!!!!!!

[Lonestarblue]

3. Corporations in all these states need to step up.

Protesters cannot legally occupy a private business as part of the right to protest. Big and even medium employers need to require vaccination and then arrange for teams to be on site until every employee is vaccinated.

I wonder if these protesters are just paid hacks who move from state to state to protest.

[femmedem]

4. They say it's their choice not to vax but others don't get to choose to get vaxxed?

What the hell? They're not even consistent.

[Grokenstein]

16. "My body, my choice! YOUR body, my choice! Me, me, uber alles!"

"It's all about ME!!"

[UGADawg]

6. I live in the middle of these nut jobs. Marjorie.....

Taylor Greene represents half of my county. Andrew Clyde the rest of my county.

[Elessar Zappa]

22. Yikes!

[Orrex]

7. So... Bioterrorists.

Treat them as such.

[catrose]

9. Yes. Haul them to jail just like they do with our protesters (who don't disrupt life-saving events).

[Orrex]

24. Let's see cops treat them as though they were Muslim or African American

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Wonder how they'd feel if vaccinated people started blocking the entry of unvaxxed Covid patients

at hospitals and ERs?

[hadEnuf]

11. Hey, turnabout is fair play.

It should be a crime to harass healthcare workers or vaccine events like this. People's rights are being taken away by thugs.

The things carrying out these harassments are non-human vermin. Call the exterminator.

[TheFarseer]

10. At least, if you're going to be a knucklehead

Let other people have to choice to get the shot. Too bad this isn’t in Florida or the mobile vax van could just run them over.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. Do we need police protection for getting vaccinations? This is insane folks.

[Sogo]

13. So, by not allowing those who have chosen to be vaccinated to get their shots,

it’s no longer “my body, my choice” with these people; it’s “your body, my choice.”

[Mr. Ected]

14. The vaccinated should protest at hospitals when an anti-vaxxer

Gets wheeled in with COVID-19 symptoms.

The reason they do asshole things and we don't is because we're not assholes.

[sellitman]

15. I am sad my daughter , her husnband and grandson live in GA

I am forced to visit but if it was my choice they would leave that miserable state.

[hadEnuf]

17. Hate to say it

but maybe people who are being put in these situations need to start arming themselves if they so choose. At the very least have some type defensive apparatus to defend themselves.

These RWNJ's are very violent and are capable of anything.

[Initech]

18. Fucking assholes!

[bluestarone]

19. Questions

Was this REPORTED to law enforcement? Charges filed?

[ffr]

20. I thought the choice not to get vaccinated was about Freedumb.

Why is the American Taliban preventing others their Freedom? Double standard a bit?

[deizo]

21. Look at it this way many of those ant-vaxxers will be dead soon

[James48]

23. Good news.

The number of Republican voters is going down. To hell.

[SouthernDem4ever]

25. Georgia has a lot of doodooheads

They used to hide in the shadows but thanks to twump they all think they are credible opinions, even though they are not.