The number of pro-Trump, anti-vaxxer/anti-mandate talk radio hosts who have died of COVID-19 is growing. Over at Hullaballo blog, Heather Parton makes a list: Marc Bernier, the host of the Marc Bernier Show, compared the government’s vaccine strategy to the […]
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Alabama crowd boos Trump for recommending the vaccine
Back in February I live-tweeted Trump’s speech at CPAC: Some of you may recall a post I wrote in March 2021 about pro-Trump evangelical Franklin Graham’s efforts to get his followers vaccinated. It did not go well. Here were some […]
“And then I asked if they decided the prep their sister was undergoing for a very invasive ventilator was worth their anti-vaccination position”
Opinion writer Mary Stanik‘s mother has advanced congestive heart failure. Mary and her brother recently decided to place their mother in hospice care, but since they had yet to receive the breathing equipment she needed, a visit to the emergency […]
Union University disinvites the Freedom Matters Tour
Over the weekend we brought your attention to the Freedom Matters Tour, a speaking tour through Tennessee featuring, among others, Trump-loving anti-vax preacher Greg Locke. Read that post here. Lisa Herod, a graduate of Union who created a petition protesting […]
What is going on (again) at Union University?
Some of you are familiar with anti-vaxxer, anti-masker, freedom-loving Trump evangelical Greg Locke. If you don’t know him, here are some of the things he has tweeted in just the last week: Locke is part of a traveling dog and […]
An evangelical anti-vaxxer in the Olympic pool
His name is Michael Andrew and he ran out of gas on the last leg of yesterday’s final in the 200 meter individual medley. Watch: Rowdy Gaines said it all: “He’s done.” Out of the pool, Michael Andrew is a […]
Vaccinations required
Yesterday Joe Biden announced that federal employees need to be vaccinated or “face new testing, masking, and distancing rules.” Several companies are also insisting that their employees get vaccinated, including Google, Facebook, Netflix, Morgan Stanley, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Washington […]
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is mobilizing evangelicals to oppose vaccine mandates
Earlier this week, the conservative evangelical Trump-follower said that Simone Biles is a sociopath. He doubled-down on the comments yesterday: Today we learn how Kirk is stoking vaccine resistance through his “pro-Trump youth group” Turning Point USA. Here is Isaac […]
Eric Metaxas: Don’t get vaccinated. Be a rebel.
I wrote a lot about Metaxas today in my piece at Current. I could have added this to the article. In addition to his radio program, Metaxas serves as a “fellow” at the Liberty University Standing for Freedom Center. Watch […]
Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s pro-vaccination op-ed praises Trump and trashes the “because the science says so crowd”
The former former Trump press secretary and gubernatorial candidate is calling her fellow Arkansans to take the vaccine. Only 35.62% of the Arkansas’s population is vaccinated. Only Mississippi and Alabama have lower vaccination rates. As expected, Huckabee Sanders is incapable […]
“You should not have the right to spread disease and occupy a precious hospital bed”
We urgently need a vaccine passport in the United States. I agree with every word of Fareed Zakaria’s column this week. Here is a taste: Like the United States, France has had high levels of anti-vaccination sentiment. But political leadership […]
Eric Metaxas on the COVID-19 vaccine: “I can spread false information all day long.” Tells listeners to “get a gun” to stop those gathering vaccination data
To be fair, Metaxas does not believe that anti-vaxxers like Tucker Carlson and others are spreading “false information.” Metaxas actually believes that the real science behind the vaccination is “nonsense” and “disinformation.” People are dying of COVID-19 in large numbers […]
Alabama governor Kay Ivey slams the unvaccinated people in her state
Alabama has the lowest population of fully vaccinated people in the nation (33.91%). 49% of Alabama residents identify as evangelical Christians. Even a staunch Alabama conservative like Kay Ivey understand the science. Watch: Also near the bottom of the list: […]
Why is this pandemic still going?
Here is a taste of David Frum’s piece “Vaccinated Americas Has Had Enough“: In the United States, this pandemic could’ve been over by now, and certainly would’ve been by Labor Day. If the pace of vaccination through the summer had […]
The number of COVID-19 cases is rising, especially in communities with lots of evangelicals
Some disturbing news from Jack Jenkins at Religion News Service: As COVID-19 cases surge again, two things are true about many counties considered hot spots: Vaccination rates are low and white evangelical Protestant populations are high, according to a new […]
80% of Vermont’s eligible population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine
61.23% of Vermonters are fully vaccinated. Here is Erin Doherty at Axios: Vermont’s progress on vaccinating the eligible population comes as nationwide vaccination rates continue to wane. While the country was averaging about 1 million vaccines administered per day over […]
The Biden administration is framing health as a matter of personal choice. Why this is a bad idea.
I drove through four states yesterday. I didn’t get out of the car much, but when I did make stops I didn’t see many masks. When I got to my hotel I read Ed Yong’s piece at The Atlantic. Here […]
Franklin Graham: GET THE VACCINE!
Here is Franklin and Wolf Blitzer: Graham says he would be glad to help the Biden administration reach anti-vaxxer evangelicals.
Unlike Evangelicals, Catholics have a high vaccination rate
A significant number of evangelicals do not want to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Catholics, on the other hand, have a high vaccination rate. Here is Robert David Sullivan at America: In an attempt to more closely examine the link between […]
The Christians & the Vaccine project
Curtis Chang, a theologian at Duke Divinity School and Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary, and Kris Carter, a Christian entrepreneur, are trying to get evangelicals to take the COVID-19 vaccine. They have started the “Christians and the Vaccine Project.” […]