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.
Is water wet?
That’s not the only time that has happened. It’s heartbreaking. Someone needs to be held accountable. They murdered that baby with a shot.
We need trials with the gallows setup outside.
“What chance does some young, woke college grad with a degree in social sciences have of making it out alive?”
With any luck about zero.
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To the Deep State: Bring it on.
Great link. Yep. We live in Upside Down world these days!
Dad was diabetic, as was his mother and my sister is, too.
Type 2 - VERY sedentary lifestyles were the main contributor.
Nah. They’ll delete our page off of FB, first.
THEN - start worrying! ;)
In the meantime - make a contribution to the current Freep-a-Thon! ;)
The freep-a-thon is what keeps this place alive.
Of all the noxious weasels sucking our money and oxygen in the usurper’s administration, this clown is the worst. An utter failure as a person and as a “public servant”.
If you had bothered to, you know, actually READ the link, you’d have found out the woman had placenta abruption (the placenta separates from the uterine wall) and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Both the kind of thing you worry about from the jab, and neither one a symptom of Listerosis.
Trolling.
Uh-huh.
How common is it?
See, your article is :
1) from a Singapore hospital
2) 9 years ago.
Nice try, troll-boi.
Oh, btw. We KNOW the woman in the original post got the jab.
You’re making up, pulling out of your ass, the idea that she had Listeria.
You know, as you trolls always arrogantly smirk, “Claimed without evidence.”
When evidence points to something serious are you going to say it was something trolling your body? Your argument makes just as much sense.
Got you beat by a few monnths, newb! ;-)
“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.”
They’re not butting in.
They’re saying openly that they think they own us.
That we are all Deep State’s slaves.
This time though, they were smart enough to get rid of Lincoln first.
Good! These days I NEED to be younger than someone, LOL!
“This time though, they were smart enough to get rid of Lincoln first.”
Sad, but TRUE!
Aw man, you spoiled their surprise.
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