Senator Mike Rounds doesn’t think he’s reached a “saturation level” in promoting coronavirus vaccines. Asked about vaccinated Senator Lindsey Graham’s covid diagnosis, Senator Rounds set with passionate clarity that we all need to get our shots:
I can just tell you that the one thing we need to send a message to the people is they need to get those vaccines. They are safe vaccines. Please get the vaccines. We know that there’s misinformation out there about the vaccines. But look; you got a heck of a lot better chance of surviving and keeping your loved ones safe if you get the vaccines and you get them for your loved ones as well. I’m vaccinated. My wife is vaccinated. Our family is vaccinated. And our kids are – our grandkids are being vaccinated as soon as they are of appropriate age. Please. This needs to be something that we accept, and we do it to protect our loved ones and ourselves [Senator Mike Rounds, interviewed by Mary Louise Kelly, “Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Makes It to Senate Floor,” NPR: All Things Considered, 2021.08.02].
We need to hear more messages like that from our elected leaders, not fewer. GET YOUR SHOTS!!!
Related Reshuffling: Senator Graham’s positive test and ten-day quarantine mean Senator John Thune gets to fill in for Graham on the Budget Committee.
I’m going to the mountains on a little day trip, today.
Wearing a mask, under my chin, to pull up when around strangers.
The Delta variant outbreak is severe and chances are I’m a carrier.
Chances are, so are you.
I figured we’d draw-out all the bad ideas before this was said and done. Rounds was being silent, but Mr. EB5 has made his choice. Interesting.
Well…the Senator, prior to government service, was an Insurance Agent. He understands risk and how to mitigate it.
It’s about time Rounds spoke up about anything. I thought Thune was with Graham so he might have to quarantine.
Rounds is totally correct, with no asides to the weak minded. Who knew? Its almost a soliloquy.
No apologies or mea culpas for being on the side that spreads all the false info around and then double and triple down on those lies? I don’t give him high marks for doing what should have been done last year. And never forget he voted to protect the head liar in both impeachment trial farces magats put on. And the BIG LIE!
Paul Krugman on Ron DeSantis and “freedom”:
“… when people on the right talk about “freedom” what they actually mean is closer to “defense of privilege” — specifically the right of certain people (generally white male Christians) to do whatever they want.
Not incidentally, if you go back to the roots of modern conservatism, you find people like Barry Goldwater defending the right of businesses to discriminate against Black Americans. In the name of freedom, of course. A lot, though not all, of the recent panic about “cancel culture” is about protecting the right of powerful men to mistreat women. And so on.
Once you understand that the rhetoric of freedom is actually about privilege, things that look on the surface like gross inconsistency and hypocrisy start to make sense.
Why, for example, are conservatives so insistent on the right of businesses to make their own decisions, free from regulation — but quick to stop them from denying service to customers who refuse to wear masks or show proof of vaccination? Why is the autonomy of local school districts a fundamental principle — unless they want to require masks or teach America’s racial history? It’s all about whose privilege is being protected.
The reality of what the right means by freedom also, I think, explains the special rage induced by rules that impose some slight inconvenience in the name of the public interest — like the detergent wars of a few years back. After all, only poor people and minority groups are supposed to be asked to make sacrifices.”
“Freedom”, Florida, and the Delta Variant Disaster”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/02/opinion/Covid-Florida-vaccines.html
Well, I would trade governor’s, DeSantis was a shortstop, like me and Kristi was a barrel rider wasn’t she? Although I’m still amazed that she hates the estate tax. It was Thomas Jeffersons proudest accomplishment. Just read his letters to Adam’s. Oh well, she wants the aristocracy back, all the pubs do.
All?
He understands risk and how to mitigate it. Didn’t he build a new home in a flood plain? And it flooded? Understanding risk doesn’t mean what it used to.
I’m not defending Mr. EB-5…I’m just saying that as an insurance man, getting vaccinated is a no-brainer.
Actually, M, Rounds expressed similar direct support for the coronavirus vaccine back in December:
With his wife’s immune system weakened by cancer and treatment, Senator Rounds can’t afford to play the vaccine-misinformation game.