WHY DOES PAMELA EVETTE SUPPORT COVID MANDATES?

This week, Gov. McMaster and Pamela Evette rolled out their new Public Health Director, Dr. Brannon Traxler. She is a Biden donor and pushed for vaccine and mask mandates during COVID. She advocated for business to be SHUT DOWN by the government.

When the state demands compliance at the expense of individual liberty, the consequences are rarely borne by those issuing the orders. They are borne by the people. I know this intimately, not merely as a matter of policy, but as a matter of personal reality because I’m vaccine injured.

Like many Americans, I followed the guidance handed down from on high during the pandemic. I took the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The result was not the promised shield of invulnerability, but a lifelong physical toll. I developed asthma, experienced tremors in my left hand. I endure occasional, unexplained chest pain which no battery of medical tests has been able to resolve. I am vaccine-injured.

This brings us to a matter of profound concern for the future of South Carolina. Governor Henry McMaster and Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette have now appointed Dr. Brannon Traxler as the acting director of the South Carolina Department of Public Health.

Let us examine Dr. Traxler’s record. During the height of the pandemic, she was a chief architect of the state’s COVID-19 response. She pushed for mask mandates. She championed vaccine mandates. She advocated for the very shutdowns which crippled small businesses and disrupted the education of our children.

Furthermore, her political allegiances raise serious questions about her judgment and her priorities. Federal Election Commission records reveal she is a donor to Joe Biden, contributing to his campaign even as the pandemic raged. She has also financially supported opponents of the very Governor who just appointed her.

Appointing a Biden donor who spearheaded draconian mandates to lead our state’s public health apparatus is not merely an oversight; it is a profound failure of leadership. It signals a willingness to return to the days of arbitrary edicts and medical coercion.
South Carolina requires a public health director who respects bodily autonomy, who understands the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, and who will never again subject our citizens to the whims of a medical bureaucracy more interested in compliance than in actual health.

We must hold our leaders accountable for the decisions they make and the personnel they empower. The people of South Carolina deserve better than a return to the failed policies of the past. They deserve leadership which stands firm for freedom, even when it is unpopular to do so. I will continue to stand for those principles, and I will continue to speak for those who, like me, have paid the price for the government’s overreach.