Posted on 07/26/2021 11:57:47 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Monday become the first federal agency to require its frontline health care workers to be vaccinated.
President Joe Biden confirmed the move in a brief statement to reporters Monday afternoon.
'Yes. Veteran Affairs is going to in fact require that all docs working in facilities are going to have to be vaccinated,' Biden said, following a report quoting his Veterans Affairs secretary regarding health care workers at the VA.
115,000 staffers will have two months to get inoculated against the coronavirus, and face being fired if they do not oblige.
President Biden confirmed that 'all docs' at the VA would be asked to get the shot ahead of his meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi in the Oval Office.
Denis McDonough, the secretary of veterans affairs, told the New York Times: 'I am doing this because it’s the best way to keep our veterans safe, full stop.
He added that the mandates would apply to the employees who have the most contact with patients.
This includes doctors, dentists, nurses, physicians assistants and physical therapists at VA medical centers across the country.
The Biden administration has so far been unwilling to back federal vaccine mandates, and has insisted it is up to private companies.
The move came after White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the White House 'supports the steps of hospitals' to require staff to get vaccinated, saying it 'could be a guide for us on what to do with our own workforce here from the federal government.'
She noted there are 'certain powers' that the federal government has, and 'certain powers that the federal government does not have.'
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Yup. Already got mine and put in the appropriate round file.
“Digital vaccine passport”
Not everyone has a smartphone or computer.
I have both. Medicare is a backup to the VA. If I’m on the road somewhere and something happens and I need to go to the hospital, Medicare kicks in with a requirement to send me to the nearest VA hospital when stabilized.
Excellent questions !
And I’m bookmarking this letter posted by US Navy Vet:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3979362/posts?page=44#44
How does Ivermectin prophylaxis with zinc and D3 supplements change that cost-benefit equation? Ivermectin has a risk profile about like aspirin or Tylenol.
Here’s this for you too:
18 Reasons I Won’t Be Getting a Covid Vaccine
https://www.deconstructingconventional.com/post/18-reason-i-won-t-be-getting-a-covid-vaccine
This is going to make it worse. Perhaps much worse.
I have also seen the constant queries of "have you been vaccinated yet?", to which the answer is "No, and I have no intention to. I have never had a flu vaccine either, and I have never had the flu. This is no different."
If the dictatorial mandate ever does get handed down, I will still refuse, even if it means no more VA coverage.
I'm sure that will get dragged through the courts for years on end, and in the meanwhile I will just make do. I eat well and keep myself in shape, so I don't need much anyway.
But the fact that such a mandate would even be given tells me that this is nothing about 'public health' and that the intentions are ungood. As if we didn't know that already.
“Time for counterfeiters to get to work.”
If you mean counterfeiting vaccination certificates, IMO that’s a flawed idea. My reasoning is there’s bound to be a national data base of who did and who didn’t. If a person gives a false certificate, it’s checked against the data base, and then the facility that vaccinated, then there’s a felony.
The thing to do is just stand your ground. There is no legal basis to force a vaccination. There is a legal basis to jail you if you use a fake certificate.
Please listen to this Bannon War Room podcast from Saturday, where he interviews Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA technology. You can skip past Naomi Wolfe at the start, and also skip RFK Jr. who has a bad Skype connection, but please listen to what the guy who inveted mRNA has to say about the mandatory jab. Dr. Malone starts at 18 minutes. Please don’t miss this.
This whole sordid affair has stunk to high heaven since day one.
I was being half facetious with my counterfeiting remark. But if you think they won’t CREATE a legal basis to force vaccination, then you need to wake up.
115,000 staffers will have two months to get inoculated against the coronavirus, and face being fired if they do not oblige.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
As the Red Chinese would say:
“Rooka Out!
Crass Akshun Raw Zoot!”
It's another "dept" that cannot and will never be reformed, mainly because it never should have existed in the first place.
And that is why you need privacy from the government!
Hint: the concept of “privacy” in the US Constitution is to protect you from the government, not your family, friends, church, co-workers, or neighbors. HIPPA safeguards your privacy from everyone EXCEPT those that pose the actual threat to freedom and liberty.
The VA would NEVER do this had they not gotten the head nod from the administration. So yes, you can point the finger at Biden also, albeit the do it this way intentionally to insulate the administration a bit.
They chose the VA as a testbed, once you pass it there, you can expand it out to other federal agencies. However, the VA being in healthcare, you can make a slippery slope argument and the masses/MSM will take the bait.
From this point on, the head of the VA should be regarded a pariah to anyone that loves freedom.
Government loves people that are dependent on them.
Job security.
“Where? What paragraph/section?”
Obviously you didn’t read any part of it.
“Obviously you didn’t read any part of it.”
Thank you, that’s very helpful.
I did not say they would not create a legal basis to force a vaccination.
Hitler, Stalin and all the tyrants of life created all the legal remedies they needed to whack their populations. These people in charge will do the same.
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