Republican State Representative of Georgia Marjorie Taylor Green The Alabama Republican Women’s Federation was told on Tuesday that Southerners might shoot and kill volunteers linked to the Biden administration who were vaccinated door-to-door.
Noticed that Alabama has One of the lowest vaccination rates in the countryGreen said, “(Democratic President) Joe Biden I want to talk to you. He will send one of his police friends to your door. “
Green said that vaccinated volunteers may want to write down the person’s name, address, family member’s name, and phone number, and “may ask for your social security number, whether you are vaccinated or not.”
“Yes, well, what they don’t know is that in the South we all like our Second Amendment rights,” she continued. “We don’t really care about strangers showing up at our front door, do we? They may not like the welcome they are received.”
The “Second Amendment right” is usually synonymous with the constitutional right to own firearms. The audience sneered at her comment.
On July 6, Biden mentioned that people go door-to-door to improve community outreach work to help more people get vaccinated.However, Green and others Republicans Some people say that Biden’s plan has authoritarian intentions.
Subsequently, the representative of Colorado Lauren Bobert Said on Twitter that Biden “deployed his tit-for-tat”. Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said that next, the Biden administration will go door-to-door asking whether Americans own guns.North Carolina State Representative Madison Cawthorne Said that Biden will use his epidemic authority to take people’s guns and bibles.
On July 8, the White House Press Secretary Jean Psaki Clarified Biden’s plan. She said that volunteers who vaccinate door-to-door are “trustworthy local messengers: doctors, faith leaders, and community leaders.” Volunteers are there to provide information about the benefits of the vaccine and where people can get the vaccine.
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“They are not members of the government,” Psaki said. “They are not federal government employees. They are volunteers. They are clergy. They are trusted voices in the community who play this role and knock on doors.”
Psaki later clarified that the federal government did not list who was vaccinated and who did not.She clarified this after the Minister of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra It was stated on July 8 that it was the government’s responsibility to know who was vaccinated. Becerra also said that knocking on the door is legal.
In his speech in Alabama, Green also accused Dr. Anthony FauciThe head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), who funded the “Function Gain” experiment of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).U.S Have been investigating Whether the WIV accident may cause a COVID-19 outbreak.
Although Fauci has stated that NIAID has never funded gain-of-function research, He also admitted under the question of the Senate He was unable to determine how the WIV laboratory used the previous financial assistance from NIAID.
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