Covid-Denying Senator Gets Blowback After Posting Pic Of Herself Getting Vaccine

Twitter/@SenJoniErnst

December 21, 2020, 12:57 pm*

The coronavirus vaccine has begun to be distributed and the way that’s happening has raised a lot of questions. While some frontline workers have received the vaccine first, as they should, there’s another group of people getting their vaccine before everyone else: Congress.

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Some Congress members fall into an age group that would be prioritized. Even so, many are skeptical about how much of a priority the rich and powerful in government should be when so many deaths are happening outside of their bubble. A lot of that anger and confusion has started to pour out and much of it is being directed at GOP Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa.

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On Sunday, Ernst posted a selfie of herself getting the vaccine:

She also encouraged other Iowans to get it and shouted out Operation Warp Speed for distributing the vaccine, even though they’ve reportedly made a dog’s dinner of the process:

3/3 It’s also important that we continue to wear a mask, social distance, and follow CDC guidelines to protect our families, friends, and neighbors.

— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) December 20, 2020

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People were extremely angry with Ernst, because as recently as September, she was using her platform to promote the QAnon conspiracy that doctors were faking COVID deaths for money. The New York Times reported at the time that Ernst repeated claims made by Trump that the CDC had fabricated numbers, even though the data was simply being incorrectly interpreted.

“They’re thinking there may be 10,000 or less deaths that were actually singularly Covid-19,” Ernst said. “I’m just really curious. It would be interesting to know that.”

Well, what everyone else wants to know is why is this COVID-denier getting the vaccine first?

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Joni Ernst lied and said that the COVID death toll was being inflated by doctors who stood to profit from the pandemic. She lied about the pandemic and now she’s getting a vaccine to protect herself from the pandemic she lied about.https://t.co/5YZflj5TNY

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 21, 2020

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If you could line up every American by when they should get the vaccine, there’d be a special pen at the very end of the line—after 328.8 million Americans—where Joni Ernst would go. Instead she got vaccinated *months* before the majority of Americans. Makes us look like suckers. https://t.co/mwq8hLDBBw

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 21, 2020

Republicans in Congress who helped spread disinformation about COVID or silently enabled trump who called it a hoax WANT you to know that THEY got the vaccine first before you did

This is gaslighting 101

Joni Ernst pic.twitter.com/UzRBuCjTf1

— BlackWomenAreKryptoniteToGOP (@battletested5) December 21, 2020

First Senator Joni Ernst used the influence given to her by the people of Iowa to lie and say hero doctors saving lives were faking Covid to make money. Now she’s using that influence to get herself vaccinated before you. https://t.co/zBP9eKhech

— Mike Elgan (@MikeElgan) December 21, 2020

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How many thousands died needlessly because they believed Joni Ernst’s parroting of #MAGA lies about COVID? She also has 24/7 access to the best health care possible. Yet, here she is receiving a vaccine before millions of more worthy cases. What a bunch of lying scumbags. pic.twitter.com/yEQfXbO0pM

— Mike Pence – Professional Mannequin (@vespertilioAJR) December 21, 2020

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Ernst might be first in line for a vaccine, but this debacle might make her first in line for being voted out of office at the next election.

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*First Published: December 21, 2020, 11:08 am