Altered Messaging

Republicans in deep red states are dying off because
They listened to anti-vaccine tirades from pundit scuzz
On Fox and OAN and other right-wing media
And to their governors whose vaccine message is now Duh!
Of course one should get the vaccine (as they’ve said all along
So please forget about their former anti-vaccine song).

The Governor of Florida, the state leading the way

In new cases of Covid as more drop dead every day

Once said vaccine shots were not needed to remain alive

But now says he has always said for those shots all should strive

(Maybe because his state’s Republicans got decimated

By anti-vax words he now says to him can’t be equated).

The Governor of Arkansas, a state red as can be,

Says it’s too bad vaccines are treated politically

(He must be disappointed people in his state are dead

Because they listened to anti-vax words that there were said

By Trump supporters just like him who’ve lately changed their tune

Because things they said led those listening to Covid doom).

In red state after red state altered messaging’s the same

From those who until recently rode anti-vaccine’s train

But have now jumped off to proclaim that getting shots one should

As they’ve been saying all along to those who listened good

(And so it goes: in red states sick Republicans drop dead

Because they listened to past crap pundits and leaders said).

25 July 2021

Florida urged to ramp up vaccination effort amid ‘alarming’ Covid raise https://flip.it/L5ly.u

The GOP Governor of Arkansas, where vaccines are lagging and Covid-19 is surging, said it’s ‘disappointing’ vaccines are ‘political’ https://flip.it/HMc4Ab

GOP lawmakers see widening divide on Covid vaccines as case numbers rise https://flip.it/wMMT8Z

Republicans unleashed a deadly vaccine skepticism. Can they now contain it? https://flip.it/7syXBg