In July, Alabama Governor Ivey was urging people to get vaccinated and said the unvaccinated were the ones to blame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sONXs58bClg. When asked what else could be done, she said she didn't know, asking a reporter "you tell me." When masks were suggested she said she couldn't tell people what to do. Earlier in the interview she called wearing masks a "halfway measure." so she supported vaccination, but nothing else that could help.