has reached a fevered pitch in tennessee where the department of health is halting out vaccine outreach, not just for coronavirus for all diseases. this comes after the state fired its top vaccine official over her department s outreach efforts to promote covid vaccinations among teenagers. outreach that, mind you, could literally prevent teenagers from dying or passion the virus on to their parents or teachers as they reopen schools amid a surge in the delta variant. tennessee, where only 38% of the population is vaccinated. the casualties of the republican death culture war don t even end there. a high school teacher in sullivan county, tennessee, who is tenured, by the way, is facing termination for teaching a poem about white privilege and for assigning this essay which examination how donald trump employed whiteness to dismantle the legacy of america s first black president, barack obama.