Vaccines Save Lives, Guns End Lives

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

A deranged 30-year-old white man with plenty of ammunition opened fired on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) office complex in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday.  Patrick Joseph White had apparently first tried to gain entry to the main CDC building but had been turned away, so he instead went across the street to a multi-story CVS drug store  and began firing on the CDC building from an upstairs vantage point.

The assailant, who felt that his depression was due to COVID vaccines, reportedly had a hatred of vaccines and that was why he targeted the CDC.  The young man's father also reported that the shooter's dog had recently died.  The shooter died at the scene, but it is presently unclear if his death was suicide or from shots fired by police.

A police officer named David Rose, who had a young family, was killed in the shooting, but no one from the CDC was even injured - a miracle in that at least 180 rounds were fired into 150 "blast resistant" windows, shattering many of them.  Replacement of the glass may take months.

Many of the employeees at the Atlanta CDC site have been told to work from home for the time being.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr,, visited the site yesterday and had a private meeting with the wife of the slain police officer.  Kennedy's visit with the widow and his tour of the damage were brief, so abbreviated, in fact, that one commentator noted he was on the scene for less time than the shooter had been.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) headed by Secretary Kennedy supervises the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).  Some of the employees who were in the building during the shooting have expressed concerns about Kennedy's skepticism regarding the efficacy and safety of vaccines.  Those workers believe that some statements made by Kennedy that disparage vaccines help to generate false beliefs and fears among certain susceptible people, like the shooter in Atlanta, and put government employees at increased risk.

Vaccines are safe and save lives, (regardless of what Secretary Kennedy may have read on Facebook), and guns are unsafe and end lives.