“We are exhausted,” Governor Gavin Newsom said at one point in a speech today, a phrase that could have related to drought, wildfire, mass shootings, or any number of emergencies California faces today, but the target was COVID, and Newsom was specific.
“We are exhausted by the Ron Johnsons, the Tucker Carlsons, the Marjorie Taylor Greenes,” Newsom said. “We are exhausted by the right-wing echo chamber that has been perpetuating misinformation around the vaccine and its efficacy and safety.”
Before the governor came out swinging against “the politicization of this pandemic,” he noted the necessity to have more Californians vaccinated as an essential part of continuing students’ education in person in classrooms and in keeping the business economy growing at this stage of the pandemic.