No wonder some on H/C have such uninformed and skewed thoughts on the vaccine.
If the SCOTUS can be so uninformed and be relied upon to make such momentous decisions based on jaw-dropping inaccuracies if not outright lies….what hope is there for the place???
Maybe they and those here are getting their info from CNN and The View???
TheSupreme Court’s three liberal justices made a series of head-shaking comments Friday during oral arguments over two mandates. The trio of Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor made claims during oral arguments that could have been classified as incorrect, ignorant, misinformed or hysterically exaggerated.
Sotomayor:
“Omicron is as deadly as Delta … we have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators.”
“We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition,” Sotomayor added, “and many on ventilators.”
Not only did Sotomayor’s statement contradict experts who say Omicron is less severe than Delta, but it defied data from the Department of Health and Human Services showing a total of 3,342confirmed pediatric hospitalizations with COVID-19 across the US as of Friday —making the justice’s math off by a factor of nearly 30.
Breyer:
The mandate was needed because “hospitals are full almost to the point of maximum” and that “750 million new cases had been reported" in the US yesterday — despite the fact that the population of America is around 330 million.
HHS shows that nearly 21 percent of inpatient beds and more than 18 percent of ICU beds nationwide were unoccupied as of Friday.
Kagan:
“Workers have to get vaccinated so that you're not transmitting the disease that can kill elderly Medicare patients, that can kill sick Medicaid patients. I mean, that seems like a pretty basic infection prevention measure.”
However, the data now show vaccinated people can spread COVID-19 perhaps at an even greater rate than unvaccinated people spread the virus.
