Posted on 07/09/2021 2:25:50 PM PDT by lightman
As Townhall has been covering, the Biden administration this week announced they would literally be going "door-to-door" to encourage Americans to get vaccinated. Such comments came from President Joe Biden himself, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. The negative reaction was strong and swift, and includes members of Congress. On Friday, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and 31 other Republican colleagues sent a letter to Biden demanding answers.
The letter mentions privacy concerns and communicates the importance of letting Americans make their own medical choices. "Your administration's decision to go door-to-door to coerce individuals to receive a COVID-19 vaccine is deeply disturbing and violates the privacy of Americans. The private health information of millions of Americans should never be a matter of concern for the federal government. Americans must be free to make their own personal health choices," the letter begins.
Making reference to statements from Biden and Psaki, the letter also notes such "statements provoke a serious concern that the federal government is in the process of identifying and tracking the private health information of millions of Americans. There is no scenario where the federal government should be actively entering communities and traveling door-to-door to pressure Americans to receive a vaccine. COVID-19 vaccine information is widely available throughout the country, and Americans have every ability to decides for themselves whether or not they should receive a vaccine."
The president had said on Tuesday that "now we need to go community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood and often times, door to doors. Literally, knocking on doors." Psaki conveyed the same message, saying during a press briefing that "targeted community-by-community, door-to-door outreach to get remaining Americans vaccinated by ensuring they have the information they need about how safe and effective the vaccine is."
Health & Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra made it quite clear during a Thursday morning appearance that, in his view, the government deserves to know vaccination status of individuals.
As Reagan reported:
“The federal government has spent trillions of dollars to try and keep Americans alive during this pandemic," Becerra said during a CNN appearance on Thursday morning. "So it is absolutely the government's business, it is taxpayers' business, if we have to continue to spend money to try and keep people from contracting COVID."
In the face of pushback for the administration's plan to invade individuals' privacy, Becerra maintained that knocking on doors "has never been against the law."
"Knocking on a door has never been against the law, you don't have to answer," he said. "But we hope you do, because if you do we can hopefully help dispel some of those rumors that you've heard and hopefully get you vaccinated."
Questions asked of the president include:
1) What is the constitutional and statutory authority your administration is claiming to conduct door-to-door vaccine checks and track their private health information of Americans?
2) Has your administration developed a database to track which Americans have received a COVID-19 vaccine?
3) Has your administration developed a database to track which Americans have not received a COVID-19 vaccine?
4) Is your administration accessing database maintained by state, local governments, or private companies to determine who received a COVID-19 vaccine?
5) Does the federal government maintain a database to track which Americans have received other vaccines
6) How does your administration plan to identify the homes of Americans who have not been vaccinated?
The letter asks for a response by July 23.
Not the sternly-worded letter! đŸ˜±
Democrats must be obeyed , they stole the US and now it’s theirs
The National Guard should be guarding the country’s borders, not coercing people into getting injected with poisons labeled vaccines.
I too, am interested in the answers to these questions and eagerly await the response...
She won’t deploy the NG to stop Antifa from burning down buildings but will deploy them to get the vaccine. It is all about virtue signaling.
I got into an argument with some Freepers months ago by stating the government, one way or another, was going to force the COVID vaccine on people. This is just one step further in that direction. And once they’ve scared as many people as they can into the vaccine, they’ll go to the next step. My guess is such a step won’t be asking the people nicely.
LOL! Biden is going full STASI and Republicans piss all over themselves.
To paraphrase Ron Silver,
Those are our troops now…
I'm sure this would be a violation of the 3rd amendment under the Supreme Court's Griswold v Connecticut (1965) ruling regarding implied "zones of privacy".
A door-to-door "strike force" would be akin to the government monitoring you in your home via "quartering" agents at your front door. I never thought I'd see anything close to a 3rd amendment violation in modern times, but this is about as close as it can get short of actually quartering soldiers in our homes to watch us and make us comply.
-PJ
Not sure how I stumbled into this, but it’s a script for the doorknockers in Lake County Illinois. Not sure if it’s old or recent; appears to be for seniors so may be from this spring. But probably similar script will be used now.
Community Health Ambassador Outreach
Door Knocking Project to Increase COVID Vaccine Acceptance
https://www.lakecountyil.gov/DocumentCenter/View/39074/CHA-Doorknocking-Info-and-Script
Why bother sending Biden a letter? He sure doesnt know whats going on.
How do you go door-to-door on flat tires?
The fat bureaucrat sows sure won’t walk.
“The National Guard should be guarding the country’s borders, not coercing people into getting injected with poisons labeled vaccines.”
What are these coercion tactics you are referring to?
Nobody has to open the door, and nobody has to answer any questions.
YOUR REFUSAL TO COMPLY WILL BE DULY NOTED!
Come on man.
Obfuscating is not cool.
It is obviously coercion by intimidation at minimum.
Intimidation for the stupid...maybe.
But for the entrenched anti vaxxer it’s just something to bitch about.
This program will be as ineffective as any in government history.
Everyone who wants to be vaxxed is already vaxxed.
VLM? Vaccinated Lives Matter?
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