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Ron Johnson: “The science tells us that vaccines are 95 percent effective. So, if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care…”

On the recordApril 21, 2021
The science tells us that vaccines are 95 percent effective. So, if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care if your neighbor has one or not? Why is this big push to make sure everybody gets the vaccine? And it -- to the point where you better impose it, you are going to shame people, you are going to -- you are going to force them to carry a card to prove that they`ve been vaccinated so they can participate in society. I am getting highly suspicious of what`s happening here.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin
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msnbc.com

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Ron Johnson questions the necessity of widespread vaccination and expresses skepticism about vaccine mandates.

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