The Home Oversight Committee met on Thursday to debate “Getting ready for the Subsequent Pandemic: Classes Discovered and The Path Ahead.” The listening to deteriorated into one other spherical of GOP conspiracy theorists like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spewing public well being misinformation and demanding vengeance towards officers like Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Greene launched into her previous COVID-19 conspiracy rant towards Fauci, the previous director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments, saying that the proof that vaccines “did not work” was the truth that folks nonetheless catch COVID. She spewed a collection of robustly debunked claims, together with the lie that vaccines trigger autism. It’s exhausting to repair silly like this.
“I will stand right here and signify all of the Individuals that don’t ever need to be pressured to take one other vaccine that the federal government is telling us to take after they created a lethal virus,” Greene mentioned, including she had by no means taken a COVID vaccine.
“Getting ready for the subsequent pandemic is definitely recognizing that the final pandemic resulted in crimes towards humanity,” Greene mentioned. “People that perpetuated, and continue to perpetuate these crimes need to be prosecuted, and that needs to be starting in the next administration,” she threatened.
“And I’m pretty sure our next attorney general will do that. And I look forward to seeing that happen.” Terrifying.
This isn’t the primary time Greene and her ilk have sidetracked a discussion board to research how the federal government may higher put together for and deal with a public well being disaster just like the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, with the potential for anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. having affect on our nation’s public well being care insurance policies, and the clear lack of ethics being thought of by Donald Trump, Greene’s rage-fueled ignorance accommodates way more ominous overtones.
You may watch Greene’s complete tirade, with pleasant anti-Fauci visuals right here.
