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BIDEN MOVES TO MANDATE VACCINES
Powerline ^ | 09/09/2021 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 09/09/2021 2:30:39 PM PDT by DFG

Today Joe Biden is rolling out a series of measures designed to force covid vaccinations on those Americans who remain reluctant to get them. Federal employees, government contractors and health care workers will have to be vaccinated:

The president is expected to roll out a new requirement for federal employees to get a Covid vaccine, with no option for regular testing, according to senior administration officials.

The executive order will extend to contractors that work with the U.S. government, impacting a total of 2.1 million employees, according to NBC News.

But that’s not all! Biden wants to force employers to require their employees to be vaccinated:

Biden is also expected to ask the U.S. Department of Labor to issue a rule that employers with more than 100 employees must require vaccines or testing, according to officials.

I cannot imagine what the constitutional basis for such an order would be. But then, I am old-fashioned. I assume that we still have a Constitution.

In part, Biden likely is trying to distract attention from Afghanistan and the border. (Notably absent from the list of those who will be forced to be vaccinated are the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens streaming across the southern border. And how about those tens of thousands of Afghan refugees? Are they getting a double shot of the vaccine before being settled in various places around the U.S.?) Will that work as a political strategy? To some degree, it may. Americans seem appallingly willing to sign away their rights–and worse, other people’s rights–for the sake of “public health.” Anti-covid measures that I think are ridiculous, and in many cases more damaging than the disease, have often proved popular.

What is still not clear to me is why I, having been vaccinated long ago, should care whether others choose to do the same. If the vaccine works, I have nothing to fear from them. If it doesn’t work, they shouldn’t be forced to submit to it.

Increasingly, it appears that the rationale for vaccination is that you still may catch covid, but your infection won’t be as severe as it might otherwise be. Fine: but for people under 60, covid infections are rarely severe in the first place. Young people who think they have little to fear from covid whether they are vaccinated or not are, in general, right. So the government should not try to dictate their health care decisions. Their bodies, their choice.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: biden; constitution; covid; covid19; mandate; neanderthaljoe; vaccine
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1 posted on 09/09/2021 2:30:39 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

From the same people who funded the virus.


2 posted on 09/09/2021 2:31:51 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: DFG

the tipping point?

BIDEN: “If these governors won’t help us beat the pandemic, I’ll use my power as president to get them out of the way”

https://rumble.com/vmam5h-biden-ill-use-my-power-as-president-to-get-them-governors-out-of-the-way.html


3 posted on 09/09/2021 2:32:02 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: DFG

AND people on Medicaid and Medicare. I(and my employer) PAID into medicare and Social Security. Who does this clown think he is?


4 posted on 09/09/2021 2:32:21 PM PDT by BipolarBob ("We the people" needs to be re-read, not reinterpreted.)
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To: DFG

Pack sand sleepy joe.


5 posted on 09/09/2021 2:32:26 PM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
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To: DFG

Do it! People have wimped out and deserve whatever direction is given by the government. The politicians fear no one other than who is providing their monetary support in the background.


6 posted on 09/09/2021 2:32:26 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: DFG

Let 1,000 lawsuits bloom!


7 posted on 09/09/2021 2:32:53 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Opening shot in the American Revolution 2.0!


8 posted on 09/09/2021 2:32:53 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: DFG

It’s not about safety - it’s about CONTROL.

Freedom of association - freedom of travel - freedom to congregate - freedom to run your business - GONE! It’s completely under totalitarian control and you haven’t noticed!

This is how communism takes over!


9 posted on 09/09/2021 2:33:23 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: sevlex

Fat chance!


10 posted on 09/09/2021 2:33:39 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: DFG

Hey Biden, well, who-ever is actually in charge, pulling Biden’s strings, feeding him ice-cream and lines to recite... EFF YOU! I will not comply. The harder you push, the harder and more sure my resolve becomes.


11 posted on 09/09/2021 2:35:15 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: DFG

Stolen Elections come at a very high price and have dire consequences.


12 posted on 09/09/2021 2:35:24 PM PDT by Howie66 (TRUMP WON!)
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To: DFG

I suspect its about starting some kind of electronic “vaccine” passport, which will quickly become and everything passport.

Once they get to 80% compliance and all the organs of government, the remaining 20% can be slowly squeezed into compliance.


13 posted on 09/09/2021 2:35:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Gay State Conservative

I will donate to that fund for those law suites. Blank Xiden


14 posted on 09/09/2021 2:35:35 PM PDT by DEPcom (Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
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To: UnwashedPeasant; bitt; null and void; DarthVader; fieldmarshaldj; Jane Long; LS; Jet Jaguar; ...

Scroll down and read some of the 1831 comments posted by medical personnel.

https://www.medscape.com/sites/public/covid-19/vaccine-insights/how-concerned-are-you-about-vaccine-related-adverse-events

Share this website with everyone as these shots are killing and maiming people. How many people are we willing to let the federal government murder in this genocide? This is a Nazi Germany moment in the USA. Wake up.


15 posted on 09/09/2021 2:37:52 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: DFG

How the F is this even legal??!
Hopefully the legal eagles have they’re lawsuits ready to go


16 posted on 09/09/2021 2:38:06 PM PDT by rainee (Trump won! )
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To: UnwashedPeasant

We sure do live in interesting times 😞😷💉💉💉😷😷😷😷😷


17 posted on 09/09/2021 2:38:19 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: DFG

So will you be able to get unemployment if you are fired for not getting a vaccine


18 posted on 09/09/2021 2:39:09 PM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: ExTexasRedhead; ransomnote; Cathi; SecAmndmt; metmom; Pollard; HypatiaTaught; bagster; ...

Amen!

God bless you for posting and sharing this link of REAL medical personnel stories about these shots....

https://www.medscape.com/sites/public/covid-19/vaccine-insights/how-concerned-are-you-about-vaccine-related-adverse-events

Agree....share with ALL!


19 posted on 09/09/2021 2:39:45 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: sevlex

That’s about the only thing that is going to save this country now, and people better be prepared for the bloodshed that will occur if a new revolution or civil war breaks out. The current leadership in Washington DC has demonstrated that it is NOT on the side of the American population, or is it interested in upholding the time honored notion of liberty and freedom, so almost every single one of them needs to go.


20 posted on 09/09/2021 2:40:16 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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