EDITORIAL: Here Are RI’s Legislators That Are Anti-Business and Want Pandemic to Continue
Wednesday, September 08, 2021
The latest pandemic-driven political buffoonery is now emanating from the Rhode Island State House.
More than 30 House Reps are now calling on Governor Dan McKee to delay the requirement that healthcare workers be vaccinated.
Give credit where credit is due — this is a bipartisan group of Republicans and Democrats in Name Only (DINOs) who want to make sure that this pandemic lasts as long as possible.
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These legislators are demanding that those seeking medical care have a greater potential for infection.
These legislators have stayed silent on almost every aspect of the pandemic. And now they immerse themselves as the Delta variant spreads and there are concerns about the Lambda and Mu variants.
No hearings have been conducted by these brave Rhode Island legislators — in fact, this bunch did not show up for work for a year.
Here is the reality. Rhode Island has bungled and mismanaged much of the response — Rhode Island ranks 4th for cases per 1 million and 6th now for deaths per 1 million (Mississippi and Louisiana have jumped over Rhode Island in the latest surge). States who are winning the fight against the virus are those that have the highest percentage of their population vaccinated.
Have these legislators called for hearings, hired an investigator, sought documents, questioned officials — of course not.
They are too busy pandering.
The fewer folks that take you to the hospital or who are in a hospital who are unvaccinated, the more spread, cases, and deaths there will be. At least 16 healthcare workers have died to date in Rhode Island, according to data from May.
The next business that closes, the next relative the gets sick and is hospitalized or the next school that gets quarantined, please thank these legislators for the political pandering.
Here is the list of legislators calling for the requirement that healthcare workers by vaccinated be eliminated:
Representative Arthur J. Corvese
Representative Thomas E. Noret
Representative Julie A. Casimiro
Representative Patricia A. Serpa
Representative Deborah A. Felella
Representative Charlene Lima
Representative Gregory J. Costantino
Representative Steven M. Casey
Representative Carlos E. Tobon
Representative Grace Diaz
Representative Anastasia P. Williams
Representative Camille Vella-Wilkinson
Representative Robert D. Phillips
Representative William W. O’Brien
Representative Robert E. Craven Sr.
Representative Edward T. Cardillo Jr.
Representative Bernard A. Hawkins
Representative Mary Duffy Messier
Representative Samuel A. Azzinaro
Representative Steven J. Lima
Representative Ramon A. Perez
Representative James N. McLaughlin
Representative Nathan W. Biah
Representative Raymond A. Hull
Minority Leader Blake A. Filippi
Representative Brian C. Newberry
Representative Michael W. Chippendale
Representative David J. Place
Representative Robert J. Quattrocchi
Representative Sherry Roberts
Representative George A. Nardone
Representative Patricia L. Morgan
Representative Justin Price
