Married celebrating her oneyear anniversary, and now to see her gone, you know it was avoidable. This is the real part of the story. These are real people and the people who knew them as we have seen in some of the stories we have done for you are sometimes their Family Members speaking out, and here we have a pastor speaking out and the reality is about Human Lives and not socalled politics. Theres a growing backlash to people playing politics, and its republican governors and others who have stuck by policies proven to fail and now is costing lives. In u. S. We are at February Levels before the vaccine was available to every one and everywhere. The Delta Variant is seemingly everywhere. Republican leaders are now under fire often by their own constituents including independents and republicans for banning Safety Precautions that work, indeed that work in other places, because they are the places that try them. Florida break its own record in covid infections, and a federal judge bloc
welcome to the beat. we are going to get into the new testimony, and we will hear shortly on that and it s a big and important story we are staying on because it matters, and i want you to know that s coming up. we begin with the top story of covid surging across the united states, especially where republican policies are making things worse. i want to begin with the facts and the humanity of a story that sometimes can get lost in the numbers. there were members of a florida church, six of them, that died in the last week and a half of covid, and none were vaccinated, and four were described as healthy in their 30s. let s listen to their pastor. it s definitely taken a toll on us. some have been extremely close to us and to watch some of these people in the prime of their life, and one mother recently
People writing different things in bathroom stalls. let s be clear, because this is part of the job that we do around here, with no disrespect or ill will to the congressman, what he said, those words, what he just said to his own constituents, that was dumb and misleading. the science and the facts show vaccines protect you from dying from severe illnesses like covid, just like seat belts protect you from the harms of car accidents. the government s first obligation is to protect the people, so officials that take an oath have an actual obligation here. i m sorry, but they do have to do more than say you can find anything on the internet. come on. now, it s still a free society, so as you have heard me say, whether some people like it or not, people will still literally decide for themselves whether or not to get vaccinated.
Not just for yourself but everybody around you. i appreciate both of you laying it out. we are talking about facts and we are talking about humanity, and it goes without saying, and i ll say it and as michael knows it s part of the media sometimes, we say it anyway, and we are not tracking whether people are dying in red states or blue, like their lives would matter more or less. that would be obscene. the sad fact is covid knows no identity, there are places where the policies according to the measurable results we have from the cdc and else wear show that by not including vaccinations covid goes up. unlike climate change where we are altogether on the hot and hotter earth, and it s now getting worse in some places because of the policies.
Icu or dying and facing the costs of covid-driven work and markets, and we could be go into 2022 with none of this fully changing. that s not something most people want to own in politics, and so some of the talking points are getting down right stale. and one congressman said any question about public vaccines would be somehow taking sides. what do you tell anybody out there who is currently not vaccinated? well, i don t have a message. i think the message on the internet, you can find all sorts of people saying different things. are you vaccinated, congressman? i don t like to get into taking sides on it. okay? so that s no, he doesn t have a message. and you can find people on the internet saying different things, just like you can fined