On Thursday, GOP Rep. and QAnon preacher Marjorie Taylor Greene dismissed concerns over hospitals exceeding capacity due to a COVID-19 surge, saying “we can’t live forever.”
Greene, who was suspended from Twitter for spreading vaccine misinformation, claimed during an interview with right-wing network “Real America’s Voice” that the media and public health officials are lying about the number of people that have been hospitalized with COVID-19.
“I’ve talked to local hospitals here in my district in here in my state. Yes, the waiting rooms get full, but guess what? The waiting rooms are full of all kinds of things, not just COVID,” Greene said. “But they’re seeing about 30 percent of those numbers being COVID cases.”
She further argued that while the media “tries to tell us” that hospitals are “slam-packed with COVID,” that simply isn’t the case.
“Everybody needs to get back down to common sense and remember that, you know, we’re human, we can’t live forever, we’re going to catch all kinds of diseases and illnesses and other viruses, and we get hurt sometimes,” she continued.
The Georgia Republican defended her stance that the Food and Drug Administration shouldn’t approve a vaccine, and that vaccines shouldn’t be mandated.
“Let’s not turn into an authoritarian regime that forces shots in arms of people that don’t want it,” she said.
Greene’s comments come as hospitals around the country are struggling as they see a surge of COVID-19 cases fueled by the highly transmittable delta variant.
One hospital, Memorial Health in Chatham County, Ga., told a local ABC affiliate that it had to stop accepting patient transfers from other hospitals.
