California Governor Gavin Newsom likened unvaccinated people to drunk drivers during his announcement that any health care and state workers who haven’t received the jab will be required to submit to regular COVID-19 testing.
‘You don’t have a choice to go out and drink and drive and put everybody else’s lives at risk. That’s the equivalent of this moment with the deadliness & efficiency of the Delta variant,’ he said at a Monday press conference.
State employees who decline to get vaccinated will be forced to get a coronavirus test once a week, while healthcare workers will be required to get tested twice a week. The deadline to submit proof of vaccination for state employees is August 2, while healthcare workers have until August 23.
“As the state’s largest employer, we are leading by example and requiring all state and health care workers to show proof of vaccination or be tested regularly, and we are encouraging local governments and businesses to do the same,” Newsom commented.
The first-in-the-nation mandate will affect 238,000 state employees, and around 1.7 million healthcare workers based on total healthcare employment records from May 2020.
“Vaccines are safe – they protect our family, those who truly can’t get vaccinated, our children and our economy,” he continued. “Vaccines are the way we end this pandemic.”
While speaking to MSNBC about the new mandate, Newsom attributed the 25% of remaining vaccine holdouts in California to the “overwhelming majority of misinformation” by right-wing pundits.
“Time to be a little bit more specific, the Ron Johnsons of the world. The Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world, the Tucker Carlsons of the world,” he remarked.
“I watch them,” Newsom went on. “I listen, I pay attention. They’re misinforming people. They’re literally putting people’s lives at risk. People are dying because of the misinformation, either knowingly or unknowingly, regardless, time to call it out.”
Newsom is a liar – the “Delta Variant” is NOT more dangerous, it is in fact less dangerous though perhaps more widespread. The “notVaccines” are NOT safe, period, nor do they work particularly well.
Newsom should have his tongue removed Game of Thrones style for these lies.
The ahole nneds to worry about a job=recall
It is important to remember that liars, like Newsom, sometimes tell the truth.
The China virus is a bioweapon that escaped early, but our guys knew it was coming. China hope to see as many Americans suffer from this weapon, using some in the corrupt press to spread rumors against the vaccines. The concepts behind the vaccines were being worked on in advance. We were taught to deal with bioweapons way back in the late 1960s in the Navy.
If that man had a brain, he would indeed be dangerous. There are now more people dying from the shot than from the virus. Our main stream media simply refuse to report it. This is the most sinister and direct attack on the American people in the country’s history. Take the shot if you want, but don’t force it on people who recognize the short sightedness of the government pushing people to get a shot of some experimental, demonstrably dangerous drug that has so many side effects it takes some doctors hours to explain them all and warn us of them.
Gavin Newsom is hiding behind COVID to mask his abysmal performance as California governor. He is using the pandemic to consolidate his power because he is vulnerable to recall this September. He has squandered every conceivable opportunity to improve the lives of California in favor of his own political ambitions and in an effort to increase the power of the Democratic Party. He has decimated small business by his extended lockdowns, kept children from attending public schools for longer than necessary and squandered the state budget on nonsensical pipe-dreams by spending billions on the nonexistent bullet train. It was never possible to traverse the Tehachipis with a bullet train so why throw good taxpayer money after bad? Newsom lies everytime he opens his mouth and has no conscience about it. Just ask his former campaign manager.