📍NOT ELIGIBLE FOR VACCINES—GOP @GovRicketts of Nebraska says undocumented workers at meatpacking plants will not be eligible to receive #COVID19 vaccine, which could disqualify 14% of Nebraska’s meatpacking workers.
➡️Stupid. Idiotic. Dangerous policy.
➡️Stupid. Idiotic. Dangerous policy.
2) As a former childhood Nebraska resident, and childhood immigrant who called Nebraska my first home in America.... this is utterly shameful of @GovRicketts. Do you not realize that the coronavirus doesn’t give a damn about visa status?!?! Virus will do its virus thing! 🤦🏻♂️ cmon!
3) I cannot stress how stupid this is. The new 🇬🇧B117 variant is a beast of a #SARSCoV2. It adds ~ 0.4-0.7 to the R (Reproductive number). What could keep in check via containment, R<1, now with +0.5 added infectiousness, means the virus will go unchecked if 14% denied vaccine!!! 
4) Dear @GovRicketts - I went to elementary school in Lincoln, Nebraska. And my mother is a UNL 🌽 Cornhusker alum. My family came to America and called Nebraska our first home. And I became an epidemiologist because of my NE upbringing. So I beg you, don’t be so cold & callous.
5) Have we forgotten our basic humanity @GovRicketts? What happened to your compassionate conservativism and concern for life? If you want to protect all Nebraskans, you would realize vaccinating and treating all residents in NE is the way to do it. Search your soul. Please sir.
6) If you don’t change @GovRicketts, I’m gonna call a spade a spade on your inhumane actions and policies.
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