toxic for our community. i think for the kids, they don t have a voice in all of this. - put on your mask and shut up and do as we say. - the pandemic isn t over, but it s already changed everything. it s a big experiment, we ve never done this before. we have an infodemic. how do you know what information to believe, what information not to believe? what s real, what s not? this is real, it s shelley and brad s forever home. it s where they raise their kids and plan to spend their retirement. the plans changed, especially during the pandemic. and this is shelley and brad taking it in, one last time. ..before they flee the state. i didn t choose this ending to this chapter and i think i will cry driving away.
and say, so our governor won t allow us to message about vaccination, what are other states doing? the folks at the cdc wouldn t even know what to say. as tennessee woke up to a surge of covid cases and deaths this summer, state lawmakers argued over a campaign to vaccinate children over 12, even though america s top drug agency had already declared it safe and effective. when you have advertisements like this, with a young girl with a patch on her arm all smiling, that s peer pressure applied by the state of tennessee, by your department. republicans were also furious over an e mail shelley wrote to doctors explaining a state rule that permitted them to vaccinate kids over 1a without parental consent. it s very disconcerting to see the letter from dr fiscus. . i am encouraging the department
for their amazing generosity. bbc news, infodemic tennessee, we explore how tennessee became ground zero for america s covid culture wars. this is shelley and brad fiscus. shelley is a doctor here in tennessee and lead the roll out of covid vaccines across the state. it s been pretty intense. this is about control, compliance and obedience. i am very sceptical of the department of health right now. one in 475 or so tennesseans is dead and we are going to pretend that bodies aren t stacking up. shelley s husband, brad, sat on the local school board. keep it calm. no more masks. they see this as an opportunity to make a name for themselves. ultimately, they are very
but he s also got down the home spirit and he s got the kindness and compassion to complement that. so he s really, to me, is the ideal client to have. this is what i love about the south, we love our flags. you know the north s got them too. laughter. could it lay there and i can put that suitcase may be in my car? it sjust crazy that shelley s embroiled in what she is and with public health and now my experiences in public ed have been impacted, too, by politics. brad, shelley s husband,
of health to back off. things crumbled from there, the state department of health abandoned its vaccine outreach to teenagers and shelley was abruptly fired. the week before i was terminated from the state, an amazon package arrived that had a dog muzzle in it, arrived at my desk. i fully expected that i would have graffiti on my garage door, or that my mailbox would be bashed in. my husband had someone follow him from a school board meeting once and called me and said, i ve got a tail. is this an information war? i think media has had a huge, negative influence. a lot of it is fox news and then breitbart. in a new study, smith and three other medical experts prove what he and this show have been telling you for more than a year, that hydroxychloroquine can save lives.