Biden compliments Alabama governor, other conservatives on COVID-19 attitudes

BIRMINGHAM Ala.WIAT) — President Joe Biden has complimented Gov. Ivey on her latest statements concerning COVID-19, saying that Ivey and different conservatives have “seen the Lord.”

Biden, at an Arlington, Virginia occasion, famous that coronavirus circumstances have been rising overwhelmingly among the many unvaccinated.

“What now we have now’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Biden mentioned.

He then commented about conservatives from authorities to media that he mentioned had modified their tune on the pandemic.

“You discover quite a lot of our very conservative mates have lastly had an altar name. They’ve seen the Lord. Whether or not it’s on FOX Information, or whether or not it’s essentially the most conservative commentators or governors. Thank God for the governor of Alabama, at one of many lowest vaccination charges within the nation, is now — and I’m genuinely complimenting her,” he mentioned. “I do know it’s gotten a bit politicized, however I hope it’s beginning to change. It’s not about purple states or blue states.”

Ivey made headlines last week with feedback made in response to CBS 42’s Jake Chapman. Her remarked foreshadowed Biden’s feedback in Virginia about “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

“Let’s be crystal clear about this problem,” Ivey mentioned at an occasion Thursday. “And media, I would like you to begin reporting the info. Unvaccinated individuals are liable for the brand new circumstances of COVID. Almost 100% of all new hospitalizations contain unvaccinated folks. The unvaccinated are those who’re dying. These people are selecting a horrible life-style of self-inflicted ache.”