Gov. Tate Reeves of Mississippi on why his state government is willing to impose mandates for other vaccines but not Covid: “The question here is not about what we do in Mississippi, it’s about what this POTUS is trying to impose on the American worker.”
Jake Tapper notes that Mississippi has the worst Covid death rate of any state, then tells Gov. Tate Reeves, “your way is failing.”
Reeves doesn’t really take issue with that characterization.
TAPPER: Governor, if Mississippi were a country, you would have the 2nd worst per capita death toll in the world. And I’m saying, are you going to do anything to try to change that?
TATE REEVES: Deaths unfortunately are a lagging indicator
Originally tweeted by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) on September 19, 2021.
He thinks that saying “deaths are a lagging indicator” is a good answer to the question of what he plans to do about the fact that if it were a country, Mississippi would have the highest death rate per capita in the world except for Peru.
In other words — he’s just letting the virus course through the state unchecked and let the chips fall where they may. Because freedom. He even at one point tried to say Tapper was picking on red states and suggested he look at Kentucky and West Virginia. West Virginia is a red state …
It was a terrible performance by Tate illustrating perfectly exactly why the states’ vaccination rate is so low and why they all think this whole thing is nothing but a political plot. That’s how their leaders treat it.
Also, they are poorly informed, to say the least: