Tue Feb 28, 2023 – 3:18 pm EST
COLLIER, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — A Florida county is refusing to accept federal grant money ostensibly for health education over associated material pushing COVID-19 vaccination on recipients.
The Naples Daily News reports that the Collier County Commission voted unanimously last week to cancel acceptance of a COVID-19 Extra Mile Migrant Farmworker grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). The vote cancels the $1.2 million to be doled out over a four-year period and refunds the $167,000 already dispensed, which was to be spent on educating migrant workers about health issues and hiring and training community health workers to engage with them.
But controversy arose over educational materials that some saw as pushing the controversial COVID shots, although some county staffers and Commissioner Bill McDaniel concluded the materials were “educational in nature and not promotional to sway migrant workers,” per the Daily News.
Still, even ostensibly-impartial vaccine materials from the federal government are likely to be slanted in favor of federal health bureaucrats’ uncritical view of the shots. “We need to stop taking government grants tied to evil,” said Beth Sherman, a community member who spoke
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