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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Thanks, BlackFemaleArmyColonel, I should be shocked but I’m not.
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Pretty soon they’ll mandate vaccines in order to receive Social Security.
Oh but the white house doesn’t have to have the poison, but the VA does?
Great point. Can’t theseVA frontline CB lain they have the WH exemption??
“VA patients next up....................”
The VA is sending out letters “encouraging” Vets to get the injections. It’s easy to see where that’s going.
And it will take two years to be heard in court... meanwhile the CNAs making fourteen dollars an hour are out of a government job and benefits for two years hoping for a positive outcome against the entire weight of the federal government. I'm not saying it's impossible, but let's be realistic about the chances for success here.
They ask me every time I go if I want the jab.
I say no thanks.
Next time they may not ‘ask’................
Sie müssen den Befehlen des Führers gehorchen oder sonst!!!!.......... Looks like we are there again, history keeps repeating itself.
I’ve been encouraged. The med I get from the VA effects my auto immune system so..........
I will lose my job rather then being forced to take an experimental vaccine. There is so much mis-information on both sides and the relentless push from world governments is very suspicious. Nobody officially involved with this has shown real integrity and I will not trust them with my life. If I get COVID and die (which I doubt) at least it will be my choice.
“2 months? How does that make any sense???”
Of course it doesn’t make sense. That’s because it’s not about the vaccine it’s about CONTROL.
At this point I think and feel that it is better to recognize that we are 46 months inot Revelation 12, and our previous analyses of the symbology may have been a little too literal. Taking the COVID-19 gene therapy treatments is too close to the Mark of the Beast for safety.
It’s funny, last week Gates and Soros bought a covid test manufacturing company.
This week it was disclosed that the current tests can’t distinguish between covid and the flu.
Now I just heard that many companies are going to mandatory vaccinations and if you don’t get it you need to be tested weekly.
Hmmm.
Obama putting veterans on the back of the bus.
I’ll help you out since your search doesn’t work.
https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
So an official government agency is going to violate your HIPPA rights by asking about your medical history?
Yep. And to receive pensions.
This is NOT RIGHT!
I wonder what the unions are going to think about this.
“So now I can fire smokers, or the obese. Much greater risk than the Kung flu.”
Remember early in ObamaCare? Fatties and smokers and drinkers were gonna have to change their ways, I recall. But then...nothing.
How many die annually from those, versus from (not with) Covid19?
(I suspect fat nurses put a stop to that “fat shaming” plan. Many of them smoke & drink, too. Dirty little secrets...)
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