JANESVILLE, Wis. – Senator Ron Johnson continued his rant against public health campaigns for Covid vaccinations. He said people who choose not to be vaccinated are being demonized and put “basically into internment camps” around the world. “Other countries like Austria, Australia and Germany are arresting their citizens for not wearing masks outside, and ordering lockdowns for those who are not vaccinated.” He then extrapolated from an Australian article that “the quarantine camp is likely to still have a use for unvaccinated people.” The suggestion in Johnson’s assertion, on Janesville radio station WCLO, has failed fact-checks.
Overdrawn metaphor. Senator Ron Johnson evinces a vacuum of sensitivity on one of the 20th century’s greatest horrors.
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Johnson: “It’s lunacy. Americans did not elect career government bureaucrats like Dr. Fauci, Dr. Walensky, and Dr. Collins to run our lives. We believe in individual rights. The freedom to make your own informed healthcare decisions. Federal bureaucrats are complicit in enacting divisive and pointless mandates that are violating Americans’ health autonomy and personal freedom.”
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Johnson: “It’s not irrational for people that are aware of that information to go, ‘you know, I think, cause I’ve seen a lot of my neighbors get COVID, and really well, it wasn’t all that bad.’ And I said, ‘you know, I think maybe I’ll take my chances, and I don’t think I’m going to, I’m going to actually utilize my own freedom, my own health autonomy, and I’m going to choose not to get the vaccine.’ And now we are demonizing those people.”