Posted on 12/22/2020 6:51:27 AM PST by Jim Noble
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu said it was “outrageous” and “insulting” that members of Congress such as U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., were “cutting the line” to get the coronavirus vaccine ahead of more needy New Hampshire residents.
Sununu, 45, took to social media over the weekend to criticize Congress after several confirmed they had gotten a shot, including Kuster and 2020 presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
“Congress has literally done nothing these last eight months. Now they are cutting the line and getting the vaccine ahead of residents in long-term care, nurses and essential workers who stock our shelves,” Sununu posted on Twitter. “It’s outrageous. And insulting.”
Sununu also mocked the notion that members of Congress should have gotten the vaccine because their jobs were essential.
“Since when is doing nothing an essential function?” asked Sununu, a third-term Republican from Newfields...
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Well, we have a small handful on our side.
They can have mine.
They would be criticized if they didn’t take it for using the rest of us as guinea pigs. Can’t win. I think congress members taking the vaccine shows confidence in the vaccine, and on balance is probably preferable to the alternatives.
I’m sorry but Sununu’s posturing strikes me as cheap demagoguery.
Mine also and my wife’s, we’re in our 60’s and want nothing to do with it. If employer forces us “essential workers” with known adverse drug allergies/reactions to take it....early retirement(aka do engineering work from home) is in my future and the 30+ years of knowledge about the place leaves with me.
Being a white male defaults me to the bottom of the list. Then I’ll have to fret over which of the four (4) rapidly developed and tested (ahem)concoctions to select to improve my already greater than 99% chance of surviving the china flu. Believe it or not I’m choosing none of the above.
Yes there should be little problem obtaining the vaccine for anybody who actually wants it.
FWIW the two people I know who got the Pfizer on Saturday (fire chief and nurse) are still alive this morning.
I’m sure many will survive the vaccine but it’s pointless to get it IMHO. I think any woman of child bearing age would have to be insane to take it.
George Bush, Bill Clinton and Obama all said they would step up and take it to help build peoples confidence in the vaccine. Now they say they will do so after the initial roll out to the most needy. BO saying due to his age and health, he will probably have to wait longer. I get that part. But if your expressed purpose for stepping up is to help build peoples confidence, what’s the point in going last?
Given how much I love the Congress, if there were any chance it were fatal to take the damn thing, I’d ensure they all got a double dose.
Interesting comments in the same thread yesterday...
I’m glad I live in his state.
He’s a better governor than Emperor Cuomo.
I agree he’s a better governor than Cuomo. He also beat that guy who ran against him in his home town of Concord, which means he got a lot of Dem votes.
And someone who says, in public, BEFORE an election, that all 535 Members of Congress should resign in disgrace or be defeated, and who THEN says “why are they paid for doing nothing” may very well have national ambitions.
I am delighted to see the vaccine tested on politicians, before it is tested on my mom.
Face it, 535 does for Congress is a nothing to the hundreds of millions required. A few thousand is barely a drop in the bucket.
So, by all means, inoculate Congress, senior bureaucrats, and appointees, first.
White male over 75 is on the bottom. They want us dead to get our savings. July maybe.
If they are after our money, then the best thing to do is give it away now.
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