Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued an impassioned plea for residents of her state to get vaccinated against Covid-19
, arguing it was “time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks” for the disease’s continued spread.told reporters in Birmingham, Ala.“Why would we want to mess around with just temporary stuff?” she said. “We don’t need to encourage people to just go halfway with curing this disease. Let’s get it done. And we know what it takes to get it done.”
Ivey went on to describe the shots as “safe” and “effective,” saying: “The data proves that it works. [It] doesn’t cost you anything. It saves lives.” But the remarks from the governor grew more pointed when she was pressed on what it would take for greater numbers of Alabamans to get their shots. “I don’t know. You tell me,” Ivey said. “Folks [are] supposed to have common sense. But it’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.”
Alabama remains the state with perhaps the lowest vaccination rate in the country, according to the CDC: Only
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