Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), a member of the House Democrats’ so-called “Squad,” is suggesting that prisoners be among those who receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
That would put inmates alongside and even ahead of some senior citizens and healthcare workers in the vaccine queue.
Per The Washington Free Beacon:
“I’m going to continue to fight for our most vulnerable communities who have been disproportionately impacted by the virus, for our health care workers, for our essential workers, for incarcerated men and women to be prioritized in the distribution of the vaccine,” Pressley told CNN.
Pressley’s statement is in line with her state’s vaccination plan but clashes with other leaders’ approaches. Massachusetts is prioritizing prison inmates and homeless individuals over senior citizens and at-risk individuals in its vaccination plan. The state’s inmates will receive vaccines after frontline workers and residents of nursing homes.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D.) has said her city’s inmates and homeless will be prioritized in vaccinations to create an “equitable distribution” of the vaccine.
Some Democratic state leaders have pushed back on the prioritization. Colorado governor Jared Polis said there was “no way” incarcerated people would get the vaccine before the general populace.
I would not be against giving it first to nursing home residents, health care workers, and prisoners first….at the same time. These are all people involuntarily exposed to the China virus and should get the Trump vaccine before the rest of us.
Last on the list should be members of the D-bag party.
??? Who was the VOLUTARILY EXPOSED ????? Where did they line-up to get exposed
Right. Does it seem a bit strange that everyone that has passed, not one of them passed away because they had the flu?
Prisoners should be the last, keep the slime in lockdown until every decent person has been vaccinated.
…………..but using convicts first is a good way to test the vaccine’s effectiveness………..as well as find its dangers.
But all inmates who receive it should be voluntary, of course
Using democrats first would be a better idea.
I will second that idea.
I dont ever recall saying hey give it to me! Really🤬
I am ok with prisoners and democrats in Congress getting the vaccine first. Let them be the guinea pigs for an untested/unproven vaccine.
Haywood aren’t we ALL involuntarily exposed? Why would you think that prisoners should get
the vaccine before “the rest of us”? Prisoners are not the ones that have to be out and about
trying to dodge this virus like “the rest of us”.
Prisoners in the first wave? B.S! Give first to the taxpayers (healthcare workers and seniors first) who foot the bill for this vaccine. Not the thieves, murderers, rapists, traitors, etc. whose own acts got them into prison in the first place.
Squad members need double doses.
Everyone who gets it needs two doses.
Technically James, you are correct, however, the point made by Dan Winright was for the Squad to be double dosed. Do in your world that would men 4 doses.
What we really need is a vaccine that will cure Dem insanity, or one to protect us from it!
To date, the only known cure for Dem insanity is self administered fentanyl overdose. Apparently, many are using it to full effect, all while legislatures are trying to legalize drug use..
More have died in liberal run cities from overdose than from Covid.
No vaccine could EVER cure that insanity…….
Why could any SANE person say that PRISONERS should get there vaccines before the elderly that have worked and pays taxes there whole life with out breaking our Laws !! now the idiot prissily and others have received there vaccines as AOC was one of the first. now Were supposed to Give first priority to killers rape errs drug sellers robber’s must need a SHOT but not a vaccine . They need a permanent twilight for ever shot !!!
I’ll wait, they can go in front of me. Don’t trust this vaccine anyway. Good way to find out if I’m right.
I’m with you on that.
OK, there gets to a point where being contrary to anything sane even gets ridiculous. In this case the woman wants prisoners serving time to be given the vaccine before non-inmates who are at-risk. My suggestion is for her to be taken seriously she should probably commit suicide so we know how serious she really is about her causes, that would convince me!
apparently Pressley is a card carrying member of NLM
I can almost hear her now “Let them eat cake”!
I’m going to stop referring to those clowns in the beltway as “representatives”. They are so far out of touch with the people they are supposed to represent it’s disgusting.
So those who contributed on the front lines and those who actually paid through their taxes all their lives are going to take a back seat to the misfits of society who robbed and murdered others. This politician should be sent to a mental institution. Maybe not for those people might well be the first in line to get the vaccine.
They’ll debate on who and when and how, and then they’ll have another debate to discuss the first debate and by the time they get to actually getting out the vaccines – you’ll be dead
Sounds to me like she wants to use them as Lab Rats to test it.
I have no problem with prisoners as well as anyone considered high risk. Think about the prisoners and the workers that are involved with the prisoners daily. They say if it’s true and not a ploy for more funding that there’s high risks with prisons and inmates.
Hey, I agree with them on this one. Except maybe for a different reason. Give the vaccine to all the prisoners in the US. Then if they don’t all die from it, I’ll consider getting it.
The prisoners are in prison for doing a crime. they knew what they were doing when they actively committed a crime. Let them wait.
Those most deserving of high placement for the vaccine are our disabled veterans. Their sacrifices need rewarding. Prisoners have only given pain and misery to our law abiding citizens.
I agree!!
I DONT WANT ONE. I hope they don’t make it mandatory. The people who are pushing this on us are eugenicists like Bill Gates. I can’t believe they found a vaccine in a few short months when ebola,etc., still don’t have one after all of these years.
Im pretty sure my husband and I both had it before it was clear that this crap was going around. Our 17 yr old son and 71 yr old mother in law live with us and grama is on oxygen. During that time she actually cared for us because we we’re pretty much helpless. Not knowing the china virus and that she was high risk. Amazingly she never got sick aside from not fully feeling herself for a few days. I understand there is a seriousness about this, however I’ve always been firm in believing that our bodies have immune systems for a reason and being subject variables is how we strengthen it. Im on the fence as it is with vaccines. Grama got the pneumonia shot and became deadly sick. She has also contacted the flu virus from her flu vaccine. Count the 4 of us out from getting any shots. Give em to the evil baby rappers and murders…
Bee Rhoden
Wonder how long they will stay in office ??? Prisoners and most homeless people can’t vote But we do !!!
Could that be concieved as RACISM? Smells like it !
This is really simple. You first give the vaccine to those at risk of dying regardless of where they are residing. That is people 65 and older with comorbidities and a few younger with comorbidities known to cause death when combined with COVID. Then you remove all these draconian restrictions. Should take less than 2 months. But we’re not doing that because this is about politics and power, not protecting Americans.
All I’m sayin is Birds of a Feather , You all know the rest !
Amazing how Democrats always prioritize foreign entities, non US citizens, criminals and other non taxpayers over those who do pay the way or have paid their way while of working age. But that’s OK in this case, I don’t want their vaccine anyway, especially when it will probably be ineffective against the next round of COVID which has supposedly already hit England. I’ll take my chances against an illness which has better than a 99.5% recovery rate. Plus, I believe I have a source for HCQ which is over 90% effective in treating the symptoms leading to a quick and full recovery.
I want to know how the inmates are even being exposed? If everyone who works there is following the guidelines there shouldn’t be a problem, of course they all need locked down like the rest of us. We just have a little more room Han they have but they aren’t there for a vacation.
They are doing that in Massachusetts.
Totally ignorant
I say this wannabe should be the very last nutjob in line for the jab.
If the vaccine was in a cup and you were told what was in the vaccine would you drink it.
I think it is a great idea to first give it to the prisoners. If it doesn’t kill them or seriously hurt them, then we know it is probably safe and it means the rest of us can then proceed forward with taking it.
Pretty simple reason this has been suggested, but the majority of the Republican party is far too selfish to recognize it: Prisons are incubators for this type of thing. And sure, most on the right don’t care at all about prisoners (although since Trump took office, many prisoners *are* Republicans, primarily politicians and people working for the President), but guess what?! Other people work in prisons! And they go home to families! And to church! And to the store! So by vaccinating potential epicenters of infection, you actually CUT DOWN the chances of infecting mass numbers of people. I personally don’t advocate for this, but the selfishness and myopia of the modern-day Republican party is breathtaking. We’d all be speaking German if these morons were in charge prior to WWII. “What do you mean, ‘sacrifice’? Let someone else do it!”
Pressly should be vaccinated with a funnel up her butt and a pot of molten lead poured in . That Hot Lead Vaccination will ward off anything 🤣🤣🤣
Well well the truth comes out demonRat Presley’s true colors come out the common criminal , thug, rapist , pedaphile, murders get first shake at the vaccine over law abiding American citizens, this is so typical of one of the four bitches of the apocalypse to say something like this. I do think the homeless need this vaccine also, but we have people who are fighting ever day to beat cancer, diabetes heart disease and many other life altering health issues over criminals . Pressly your a fanatical LOSER of the worst kind!
Well of course,…. the prisoners give so much to humanity…they are the backbone of our country and its economy…without the prisoners what would this country be ???? more proof that the democrats are sick, evil jackasses….that pretty much says it all!!!!