myjob was to roll out the vaccine across tennessee. it seems like a big job? it was a big job. i loved it, it was a wonderfuljob. i really thought i would retire from this position. shelley, how does it, how does it feel? it sucks, it sucks, it sucks. it sucks, it sucks. sucks. you knew what i was going to ask? i just want to get on the road. it has been a challenge to be in public health in the state of tennessee. there is no authority in the department of health to order people to quarantine or isolate as they should, as we have done for hundreds of years to stop the spread
impacted, too, by politics. brad, shelley s husband, was actually on the very school board that rod was railing against. one family, two flashpoints in the covid culture war. mr fiscus? as we ve been here this evening, the first thing we must all acknowledge is that we all want what s best for the children of wcs. i m going to wait. they see this as an opportunity to make a name for themselves, an opportunity to make money for themselves. an opportunity to become a national hero. ultimately, they are very toxic for our community. unfortunately, some media has used it to sensationalise the opposition.
you can t send out a message with a strong recommendation to get vaccinated. and i would go on these cdc calls 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 14 without parental consent. it s very disconcerting to see
the letter from dr fiscus. . i am encouraging the department 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
myjob was to roll out the vaccine across tennessee. it seems like a big job? it was a big job. i loved it, it was a wonderfuljob. i really thought i would retire from this position. shelley, how does it, how does it feel? it sucks, it sucks, it sucks. it sucks, it sucks. sucks. you knew what i was going to ask? i just want to get on the road. it has been a challenge to be in public health in the state of tennessee. there is no authority in the department of health to order people to quarantine or isolate as they should, as we have done for hundreds of years to stop the spread