
Madison Cawthorn. (ABC/Screenshot)
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) faced backlash after issuing a fear-mongering tweet about proof of vaccination.
The North Carolina Republican showed up at a school board meeting Thursday evening in his district to voice opposition to mask mandates, then several hours later warned that vaccine passports were scarier than catching the potentially deadly coronavirus.
"We're living in scary times when the most free nation in the history of mankind is seriously discussing mandatory vaccine passports," Cawthorn tweeted.
Mandatory vaccine passports have existed in the US since the 1850\u2019s. How are you so bad at this?— Logan Jones (@Logan Jones) 1628218220
Homeschool student doesn\u2019t understand EVERY single public k-12 school requires proof of vaccination from a variety of illnesses.https://twitter.com/cawthornfornc/status/1423475814948028417\u00a0\u2026— Chad Rodriguez (@Chad Rodriguez) 1628227134
You mean the same thing every school child had needed for the last century, Madison? Or do you prefer to go by \u201cdrama queen\u201d?— LaVonne Bray (@LaVonne Bray) 1628219136
Really? You have no idea about what real freedom is. Do you?https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1423475814948028417\u00a0\u2026— AGE\u24b6 (@AGE\u24b6) 1628225458
Yes. God forbid we take reasonable actions to try and prevent the spread of a deadly disease.— Moondog (@Moondog) 1628218943
I hear some states have mandatory driving passports. Where will it all end?— Richard (@Richard) 1628218254
Do you realise the vast majority of the civilised world will only allow people to enter their countries with PROOF OF VACCINATIONS, or on rare occasions proof of a negative test?\nEven the Nazis required everyone to carry ID papers, & I hear you\u2019re a big fan of them.pic.twitter.com/x5JvpKjiRw— Election Sausage \ud83d\udc85\ud83c\udffb (@Election Sausage \ud83d\udc85\ud83c\udffb) 1628222876
Says the guy who's favorite place was hitler's eagles nest.\n\nCawthorn\u00a0referred to Hitler\u00a0as \u201cthe Fuhrer\u201d and said the spot was on his \u201cbucket list,\u201d in addition to calling Hitler a \u201csupreme evil.\u201d https://www.timesofisrael.com/madison-cawthorns-visit-to-hitlers-vacation-home-alarms-his-nc-districts-jews/\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/Gaup9FUrVr— MINDF\u00a9\ufe0fK (@MINDF\u00a9\ufe0fK) 1628224693
I think 600,000 dead Americans is far scarier. I think spending weeks in an ICU hooked to a ventilator is scarier too. I also find the long term effects of COVID scarier. That\u2019s just me though.— Flipped the Senate \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Flipped the Senate \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1628248032
I already had one. Had to show it ti get into school and to travel abroad. It is scary times though when the minority of people could care less about themselves, their kids or others by refusing to mask up or get a vax. Nothing to do with being "woke"..it's being human.— \u2661Denise\u2661 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc63\udb40\udc74\udb40\udc7f\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\u262e \ud83d\udd49\u262f\ufe0f (@\u2661Denise\u2661 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc63\udb40\udc74\udb40\udc7f\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\u262e \ud83d\udd49\u262f\ufe0f) 1628218493
I work in a hospital, in your district. You know what\u2019s scarier? Seeing people coming into our ER with COVID, struggling to breathe, crying, regretful because they didn\u2019t get vaccinated and knowing that they probably won\u2019t make it out.— Todd Gothberg (@Todd Gothberg) 1628238643
Am I free to smoke on an airplane or in a restaurant?— Dawn (@Dawn) 1628218638
We're living in scary times when we have politicians pushing against mitigation efforts during a pandemic.— H43 (@H43) 1628218732
Can you imagine what it was like when they forced everybody to wear seatbelts. Very scary times back then.— Lee Pierson (@Lee Pierson) 1628249084
Uh, they demanded a vaccine passport for my kindergartener 10 years ago. She couldn't start school without it.\n\nVaccine "passports" have been mandated for decades. \n\nWhat's different now?— JMLA (@JMLA) 1628246060