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Biden to Announce Vaccine Mandates
Later this afternoon, President Joe Biden will unveil a new plan to get more Americans vaccinated. We know the plan will require all federal employees to be vaccinated without an opt-out. Previous mandates for federal employees allowed individuals who do not wish to be vaccinated to get regular testing instead.
Last month the Biden administration announced that the US military, the only public sector employees without a union, are mandated to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Today’s proposals are not only for federal employees. President Biden is expected to mandate that employees of federal contractors are also vaccinated. These mandates are now moving beyond the public sector and into the private.
Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie posted on Twitter, “He (President Biden) doesn’t have the power to mandate this. If the government could mandate the vaccine for federal employees & contractors, it would require a vote of Congress. It’s medical tyranny. People will remember those who did this to them & who did not speak out.”
He doesn’t have the power to mandate this. If government could mandate the vaccine for federal employees & contractors, it would require a vote of Congress. It’s medical tyranny.
People will remember those who did this to them & who did not speak out.https://t.co/WVqGnxAX25
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 9, 2021
This push for vaccine mandates is primarily due to the Biden administration seeking a public victory. Just a week before the 2020 election, Biden tweeted, “I’m not going to shut down the country. I’m not going to shut down the economy. I’m going to shut down the virus.”
I'm not going to shut down the country.
I'm not going to shut down the economy.
I'm going to shut down the virus.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 30, 2020
However, his short time in office has seen a rise in COVID cases. The country currently sees over 150,000 daily COVID-19 cases, 100,000 hospitalizations, and around 1,000 COVID-19 deaths. A bad jobs report and the Afghan withdrawal have the administration seeking a victory anywhere they can get it.
When asked about mandatory vaccines in December, President-elect Biden said, “no, I don’t think it should be mandatory. I wouldn’t demand it to be mandatory. But I would do everything in my power. Just like I don’t think masks have to be made mandatory nationwide.”
Biden back in December on vaccine mandates: “I don't think it should be mandatory, I wouldn't demand it be mandatory.” pic.twitter.com/RI08vIkFfk
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 9, 2021
Since December, the federal government and the CDC have flip-flopped on mask mandates.
Today’s proposal mandating vaccination of employees of federal contractors had reporters asking how far the president is willing to go to get Americans vaccinated.
When asked, “how bold is the president willing to be as far as the private sector is concerned with the vaccine mandate. Even if they don’t have federal contracts can the Department of Labor or anyone else compel major employers, the large employers, to force the vaccine mandates on their employees?”
White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, responded: “yes, stay tuned.”
REPORTER: "Can the Department of Labor or anybody else compel major employers, the large employers, to force the vaccine mandates on their employees?"@PressSec: “Yes. Stay tuned."
pic.twitter.com/yEZMgOwsE2— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 9, 2021
Rep. Massie made an excellent point. If the government could require mandatory vaccines, in this case for people who do not work for the government, then that law should be passed by congress. However, at the federal and state level during the covid pandemic, many of the mandates have been a push by the executive branch. A country where the executive can mandate vaccination to private companies and non-federal employees is not a republic.
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Did he do the freaky whispering thing?
I am not a labor lawyer, but I suspect the rule-making process is slow. Drafting, comment periods, hearings, register, publish,… I think this whole thing is all bark and no bite.
Unless they get another EUA. You know, Emergency Usurpation Authorization.
I’m not willing to take that risk. This needs to be combated immediately. Slap down Biden and his cabal fast and hard.
Any alternate explanations for the sudden rush to mandate would have to include
mentioning G-e-n-o-c-i-d-e.
I am hearing 14 States have united to bring about a legal challenge to a national mandate!!
Would you like to bet on whether or not they have “standing?”
They don’t have to fight anything. All we need is a Governor who isn’t a pansy to tell them they have no authority to mandate any of this, then tell them to [CoC] off. Ignore the supposed authority and threaten to arrest any federal officer who tries to enforce it. The day the states realize the amount of power they retain is the day this all ends.
You all know where this is headed. I’ve been trying to warn everyone. Don’t come crawling to me with a dart stuck in your thigh, saying, “Brian…you were right…we should have listened. We thought you were just trying to be funny on Ricochet.”
Yes, but, the comment was referring to a legal challenge. So THAT means court. Which means one or more judges can decide they don’t have “standing.”
So, yes, what they need to do is just tell the feds – especially Biden – to pound sand. Or worse. And it would probably be better to just do that, rather than take it to some namby-pamby court. Because if they take it to court, and lose, some
Garyslawyerspeople will say it’s just “sore losers” etc.Exactly. The courts proved last year time and time again that they’re not interested in justice or law. Why should we acknowledge them when they ignore both law and the Constitution?
I’m looking for any other rationale.
I know that are going to be people who try to explain this by selectively using the government’s numbers, and by pulling together scattered facts to build “nuanced” interpretations, but this is what Biden said.
What Biden said: “The bottom line: We’re going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers.”
Translation: Vaccines don’t protect vaccinated people.
“We still have nearly 80 million Americans who have failed to get the shot. To make matters worse, there’re elected officials actively working to undermine the fight against covid-19. Instead of encouraging people to get vaccinated and mask up, they’re ordering mobile morgues for the unvaccinated dying from covid in their communities.”
Who’s ordering mobile morgues? Where? And for how many morgues? And how many deaths? This sounds like a recycled sound bite from early 2020.
To make this short, Biden says that nearly 80 million Americans are unvaccinated, so he’s forcing companies that employ 100 people or more to enforce vaccination, and this will cause the vaccination of more than 80 million workers. How does this work?
And what’s more what Biden is saying is that all the 80 million unvaccinated workers work for companies who employ 100 workers or more. This doesn’t sound reasonable at all. He’s saying none of the unvaccinated workers works for himself or for a small company.
I couldn’t watch after the first ten minutes.
Whether Biden actually believes that crap or not, is basically irrelevant. But he – or his speech-writers, actually – may be hoping that a lot of people “out there” are stupid enough to believe that.
But they do. That’s the idiotic thing about this speech. They’re undercutting what they want to do, because some people are afraid not of getting deathly sick, but of getting COVID, period. They’ve made it this far and they don’t want all the masking and distancing and conspicuous concern to be for naught.
If they were okay with “withdrawing from Afghanistan” and not caring what all went for naught, what’s the big deal about “withdrawing from COVID?”
Even if they think Biden would screw it up just as much, the consequences aren’t likely to be anything similar.
Yes, true about the speech writers. But it came out of Biden’s mouth the agenda and the explanations for what the administration is intending to do. And even the speech writers couldn’t make sense out of it.
As for people being stupid enough, I saw again today a snippet of young white people explaining how the poor can’t figure out how to use the internet and get ID to vote. And I wondered how they thought these poor ignorant people (if they actually exist) were then smart enough to choose who should wield the levers of power over the most powerful nation on earth.
Of course, that’s why it’s only right for the Dem officials to cast their votes for them, too.
Well, they do and they don’t. They save some, and kill a lot of others depending on pre-vaccine covid exposure and post-vaccine exposure.
But no matter how either one of us value the vaccine, and disagree on efficacy, neither one of us approve of this statement. Odd in a presidential speech written to address one problem.
Do they? I have yet to see any benefit from the vaccine anywhere in the world to justify the harm it’s caused on so many levels.
It’s been great for Bill Gates and a few other billionaires with financial interests in vaccine distribution I guess, but not all of us have 1.3 billion dollars worth of stock in Walmart.
Is there another winner I’m not aware of? Maybe the Eugenicists?
Why the obsessive mono-focus on vaccines? Why not put at least some of that effort into developing treatments for people who get the disease? (I know, considering treatments undermines the false but effective fear-porn narrative that getting Covid is practically a guaranteed death sentence. )
Continuing the pattern that every accusation made against Trump applies in much greater amounts to Biden.
Corruption
Dishonesty
Meanness
Divisiveness
Chaotic
Authoritarianism
I don’t think it’s as simple as stepping on their own narrative. I keep getting the sense of something far darker and more sinister, and I can’t shake it.
But people might survive.
Yes! All of which was evident before 2020.
Never Trumpers are hypocrites
Ding ding ding ding!
I can think of so many leftist ideologies that boil down to “too many people, and not the right kind of people.” So much of what they believe stems from that core assertion.
For one: the narrative for 50 years has been that the planet is overpopulated. The climate church has convinced everyone that people are bad for Mother Earth, and Gaia is responding with hurricanes and volcanoes and earthquakes. In order to appease their goddess, they are engaging in human sacrifice at an enormous scale.
For another: healthcare is expensive, especially as people age, so the only way to provide free healthcare to the entire planet is to kill off people after a certain age (see Ezekiel Emmanuel) to save money.
It goes on and on . . .
I think it is clear, that the plot of the Kingsmen movie would have been embraced and world leaders would have signed up enmass.
Scott Gottlieb this morning pointed out that 75% of adults are at least half vaccinated. You’ll never get over 90% even with the mandate, since it doesn’t cover everyone and even basic vaccines for children never get that high. Even without the mandate, the current trajectory would have reached north of 80%. So we’re taking about a best case increase of vaccinated people in the single digits. And that doesn’t take into account the backfire effect it might have, when people on the fence feel coerced and decide not to get vaccinated. And also how long it will take to actually implement given that the rule making will take weeks and the legal challenges.
So there doesn’t seem to be any discernible purpose to the new mandate other than to increase acrimony and division.
Well, and crash the economy. See “Cloward-Piven Strategy.”