To Mark The 96th Anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial*...

 

 ...the people of the great state of Tennessee have once again chosen to banish the Enlightenment from their state and embrace a medieval lifestyle of ignorance, superstition and disease.

From the Nashville Tennessean:

Tennessee abandons vaccine outreach to minors — not just for COVID-19

The Tennessee Department of Health will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach – not just for coronavirus, but all diseases – amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers, according to an internal report and agency emails obtained by the Tennessean. If the health department must issue any information about vaccines, staff are instructed to strip the agency logo off the documents.

The health department will also stop all COVID-19 vaccine events on school property, despite holding at least one such event this month. The decisions to end vaccine outreach and school events come directly from Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey, the internal report states...

Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding.

Burn The Lifeboats

*Yep, the Scopes Trial took place in Tennessee nearly a century ago this month. And Scopes lost.  From Wikipedia:

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.[1] The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he incriminated himself deliberately so the case could have a defendant.