Posted on 07/09/2021 4:19:30 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra argued that the federal government is entitled to know who has been vaccinated against COVID-19, responding to concerns over a recently announced White House plan to send teams door-to-door.
“Perhaps we should point out that the federal government has had to spend trillions of dollars to try to keep Americans alive during this pandemic, so it is absolutely the government’s business. It is taxpayers’ business if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting COVID and helping reopen the economy,” Becerra told CNN on Thursday.
Becerra claimed that “knocking on a door has never been against the law” and “you don’t have to answer, but we hope you do.” He added, “Because if you haven’t been vaccinated, we can help dispel some of those rumors you’ve heard and hopefully get you vaccinated.”
In a later tweet, Becerra said his comments to CNN were taken “wildly out of context.”
“To be clear: government has no database tracking who is vaccinated,” he tweeted. “We’re encouraging people to step up to protect themselves, others by getting vaccinated. It’s the best way to save lives and end this pandemic.”
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden and White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced a plan to send teams door-to-door to provide information about vaccines in areas with relatively low vaccination rates.
The president pledged to “go community by community … and oftentimes door to door, literally knocking on doors” in an effort to get people vaccinated. This drew anger from Republican lawmakers, who argued that the government doesn’t have the right to know who is or isn’t vaccinated.
“How about don’t knock on my door. You’re not my parents. You’re the government. Make the vaccine available, and let people be free to choose. Why is that concept so hard for the left?” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) wrote on Twitter. “In 2021, the nine most terrifying words in the English language: ‘I’m from the government, have you been vaccinated yet?’” wrote Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.).
Other Republicans made even worse predictions.
“Door to door to vaccinate Americans this year… door to door to confiscate guns next year?” asked Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) on Twitter.
Both Biden and Psaki, during their respective press conferences Tuesday, provided few details about the door-to-door outreach program. It’s not clear when the program will start, if the outreach teams will ask questions, or how long it will last.
The plan is part of the government’s COVID-19 response after the White House fell short of its self-imposed July 4 deadline to get 70 percent of American adults at least one vaccination shot. According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 67 percent of American adults have received at least one shot, and more than 157 million people are fully vaccinated.
COVID-19 vaccines have become a flashpoint in the current culture wars. Some have argued that vaccine passport-type systems would imperil civil liberties and violate the landmark 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA.
Choco rations going up 25 grams next week.
Double-plus good, eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciD6G_bT1Ps
I know. LOL!
But what I was wondering if you show you card...is it cross-checked with a database?
ML/NJ
And then what?
“If you didn’t quarantine well people, this would have been over a year ago.”
Exactly. This was all SO poorly handled by the individual States.
That said, it WAS the responsibility OF the States and NOT the Federal Government. And THEY are responsible for cleaning up their own messes now, and rebuilding TRUST with ‘We The People.’ (Good luck with THAT!)
It was REFRESHING to see our President Trump put the responsibility where it should have been no matter how poorly some State Governors handled things.
Red Wave, 2022! Flush. Them. Out!
“Every one of us on FR is already in a database. Don’t kid yourself. ;)”
I remember 20 years ago we FReepers demanded to be first in that database! We’re #1! We’re #1! We’re not scared!
Vichy Latino!
Xavier Becerra has had no medical training. His activities as California Attorney General during the Jerry Brown governorship, show how bad it gets when a Leftnick has the reigns of power in the legal system. His position as Secretary of Health and Human Services is purely political; especially as a supporter of abortion.
Well, Becerra wanted to be the face of government overreach. Hope he enjoys it.
Like the money is coming out of his pocket.
What a sorry administration full of scum buckets.
Solzhenitsyn BUMP!
Yes, your quote is extremely applicable today.
tyrannical hubris
spending our money on us gives the right to exactly nothing
What could possibly go wrong?
Still More #ComDem_Insanity!
There are neighborhoods not but a few blocks from my house where you just don’t go...especially on foot knocking on people’s doors. There are poor law abiding citizens stuck in these hell holes who never leave home at night. They are that scared and they know what will happen to them if they’re caught out after dark. What chance does some young, woke college grad with a degree in social sciences have of making it out alive?
And what will happen to all that 23 and Me data?
And how about DNA as evidence in criminal prosecutions?
The database the Deep State has on FR goes back years. They know who each and every one of us is including those who have passed on.
Nope, he is trying to float these ideas to see what the reaction is. He knew what the hell he was saying. And so do we.
I just did some math; I’ve been here 17 years! Wow.
Not only am I probably in some ‘supremacist’ data base by now, I’m also ‘Poster of the Day’ quite often at the DU.
You’re Welcome. ;)
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