© REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstU.S. President Joe Biden visits a mobile COVID-19 vaccination unit and meets with frontline workers and volunteers at Green Road Community Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., June 24, 2021.
The program, called "Doses to Doors," is designed to target ZIP codes with low vaccine uptake and "dispel rumors" about the Covid-19 jab that may be circulating in those communities.
The program launched officially on Monday at the South Side Homes apartment complex in Charlotte, North Carolina, where volunteers from the nonprofit group Action NC distributed flyers with information about the shot.
"We're not confrontational, it's not like you have to get the shot," member Robert Dawkins told local outlet WBTV. "We get people that will say 'Yes, I will get the shot,' but the follow-up has always been the issue," Dawkins said. "Will they go? How can we get people to go out and go? So now that the health department is out with us, we miss that middle step now."
One man reportedly even "jumped at the chance" to get the one-off Johnson & Johnson shot right on his porch, according to WBTV. The man said that he was too busy taking care of his grandkids to go to the pharmacy, claiming he would tell his family members he had been vaccinated in the hope of convincing them to follow suit.
Local healthcare personnel are said to be especially concerned as the Delta variant of the virus, reportedly the most contagious yet, sweeps the country. There is no evidence the variant is deadlier than previous mutations, however.
Despite the program's self-declared success, neighboring Republican South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has urged his state health department to outright ban similar outreach efforts, noting that "enticing, coercing, intimidating, mandating, or pressuring anyone to take the vaccine is a bad policy which will deteriorate the public's trust and confidence in the state's vaccination efforts."
Charlotte's approach falls in line with the Biden administration's avowed "door-to-door" tactics, which were recently floated by the president himself. Responding to McMaster's criticism, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki accused South Carolina of "literally killing people" with "the failure to provide accurate public health information," including on the effectiveness of the Covid-19 shots and their accessibility.
Biden officials have pulled no punches for Republican opponents of the new vaccine campaign. On Thursday, White House Covid-19 coordinator Jeff Zients accused critics of trying "to mischaracterize this type of trusted-messenger work" and "doing a disservice to the country."
Some have voiced a different set of concerns, warning that scammers might pose as health professionals and attempt to take advantage of locals, while others argued their taxes were being "wasted" on such a project.
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One shot at a time! Conserve Ammo!
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EXCELLENT Find below on this government scam back then!!! Bastards!
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Thanks for noticing the post below. Something that every American should know. Heck, something that Everyone should know because it will be coming to an American-occupied country near you...
The desperation fucking stinks. I think the reason they just don't come out and mandate it all is because we'll over half of the population does not want it and they simply haven't got the numbers to force the majority of us. It's almost like they're testing out scenarios in different countries to see what's effective and not. So they'll see what happens in France before moving on another country. It was Ferguson who said that they couldn't get away with locking the west down and when Italy did, they jumped at the chance to do it here. So right there is an admission. They watched the public reaction and saw they could use it.
WBTV have issued a correction with its reporting on vaccinated man.
"We here at WBTV pride ourselves on honest reporting and transparency. So with this, we have issued a correction to the headline:One man reportedly even "jumped at the chance" to get the one-off Johnson & Johnson shot right on his porch, according to WBTV. It appears that an overzealous reporter mistook being thrown to the ground and held down by the vaxx team as jumped at the chance. We apologise for any inconvenience."
livesleaves here.RC
"The legislation allows broad declaration authority for public-health emergencies, commandeering of private property, unprecedented empowerment of the governor, and year-around authority to impose quarantine and isolation-without a court order or declaration of a public-health emergency" [Link]
It goes on to say:
"Due process is virtually eliminated. Health officials could pluck citizens out of their homes, place them in quarantine, and need not apply for a court order until ten days later. Nothing specifically would prevent officials from using quarantine or its threat to coerce individuals into submitting to medical procedures they would otherwise refuse. And although a court hearing would be required 48 hours after the court order was received, health officials could request a delay."
This conflict has been planned for many years. Welcome to the NWO, American style. You want fries with that?
Eventually, though, as the last not disarmed nation, they will still come for us - but will be shitting their pants. Look at S.Africa right now. The only reason that every white person there hasn't already been slaughtered is that they have and know how to use firearms. (See, e.g., Boer War.)
RC
I'll be rooting for you boys, it's going to be down to you guys in the end it seems.
RC
I tell you, they've got some hairy stuff at combat footage at reddit. [Link]
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