Ted Cruz And Other Right-Wingers Squawk After Big Bird Gets Vaccinated

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Sesame Street’s Big Chook character made the decision to get vaccinated to safeguard himself from COVID-19 — and it triggered a massive flap amid vaccine skeptics like Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.

Not a peep from Cruz about that.

It all began when Large Hen, who according to Sesame Street lore is eternally 6 a long time aged, tweeted on Saturday about heading underneath the needle now that kids can get vaccinated. He said his “wing is feeling a minimal sore.” But “it’ll give my overall body an additional protective increase that keeps me and some others wholesome,” he extra.

The Sesame Street star stated he was shocked to find out that he has been “getting vaccines due to the fact I was a very little bird” — type of like American youngsters!

Correct-wingers supplied up some cuckoo responses, like Fox News’ Lisa Boothe’s assert that young children are not at risk from COVID-19.

Huge Chook has been lively in baby immunization campaigns stretching back again to the 1970s and regularly advocates for healthy options via his general performance on Sesame Road. Plainly, he ruffled some feathers.