Tate Reeves: Biden vaccine mandate an ‘attack on hardworking Americans’

• Mississippi has second-worst death rate in world, after Peru
• Governor insists requiring shots for workers is tyranny

Joe Biden's coronavirus vaccination mandate for federal workers is a tyrannical attack on hardworking Americans", Tate Reeves insisted on Sunday, even as the state he governs reeled under a death rate that if Mississippi were a country would make it the second worst-hit in the world, after Peru.

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