There was a well-attended rally on the Washington DC mall against the vaccine mandates this weekend. It featured a nice lineup of speakers, including Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA vaccine technology, with the wonderful comedian JP Sears as MC for the event.

Of course, the scant media coverage is desperately trying to call it simply “anti-vax,” which is disappointing but not surprising. A feature for many speakers was the need for freedom in the face of risk, transparency, honest debate, and a commitment to truth, tolerance, and love for people.

Government statistics show that 90.5% of US citizens from age 65 to 74 have been fully vaccinated, and 100% have received at least one shot. For citizens 74 and above, 99.05% have had at least one shot and 84% are fully vaccinated. So, if those who have had one shot get the second shot within the month, then by mid-February close to 100% of Medicare beneficiaries will have been fully vaccinated. Yet the Supreme Court agrees that CMS should mandate vaccines for employees of institutions that receive Medicare funds,  at the penalty of losing their jobs, in order to protect the Medicare beneficiaries admitted to those facilities. If all of the Medicare beneficiaries are vaccinated, how is this not a complete admission that the vaccines don’t work?

Clearly, the vaccines do not prevent infection with or transmission of COVID. So, vaccinating employees of these institutions will not protect the Medicare beneficiaries admitted to those facilities. Some evidence (like the huge spike in COVID infections on Gibralter as soon as the population had been fully vaccinated, whereas before vaccination, COVID cases were very few on the island) suggests that vaccination enhances the risk of infection and transmission.