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Posted on 07/29/2021 12:21:05 PM PDT by lightman
Suddenly, the tide is beginning to shift toward employers and governments requiring people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. It’s based on the idea that something close to universal vaccination among Americans is the best and perhaps only path back to normal.
It comes as about a third of Americans seem hard-set against vaccination and the vaccinated majority have begun expressing alarm that the unvaccinated are leaving the door open to new surges of infections, and possible return to new surges of sickness and disruption of things such as in-person school.
A wave of major companies recently announced vaccination mandates for employees, including Facebook, Google, Morgan Stanley and The Washington Post.
Some local governments around the country also have announced vaccination requirements for employees. Hundreds of colleges and universities are mandating vaccination for employees and students.
President Joe Biden on Thursday is expected to announce a vaccination requirement for federal employees.
In general, the entities are allowing exceptions, such as for religious reasons, or offering alternatives such as regular COVID-19 testing for the unvaccinated.
On one hand, it would seem a vaccination mandate might be easier to swallow than it might have just a few weeks ago.
The more contagious delta variant, for one thing, seems to be changing minds. Case counts are surging in most of the country after months of decline. Hospitalizations are similarly rising, with intensive care beds suddenly scarce in places, such as Arkansas, which have lower vaccination levels.
National news has been populated with accounts of former vaccine skeptics who became severely ill with COVID-19 and are now publicly urging vaccination.
Yet it’s bound to be controversial. Some Republican-led states have outlawed any sort of COVID-19-related mandate.
That has led to conflict in Broward County, Florida, for example, where the Republican governor is against school mask mandates and is considering a law to block them. Broward school officials, however, opted this week to impose a mask requirement for staff and about 269,000 students when school resumes in August.
Because of such political opposition around the country, it seems unlikely there will ever be a national vaccination mandate, David Leonhardt wrote in The New York Times on Thursday.
In Pennsylvania, where cases and hospitalizations are surging, Gov. Tom Wolf has been leaning against any top-down mandates regarding masks, let alone vaccination.
However, Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam on Thursday afternoon was expected to detail efforts to jump-start the state’s vaccination effort. About 63% of Pennsylvania adults are fully vaccinated and more than 75% have received at least one dose, although there have been signs a hefty number aren’t following through on getting fully vaccinated. About 50% of American adults are fully vaccinated.
Wolf recently said although he will not mandate that masks be worn in schools, the schools are free to impose such mandates as they see fit.
Meanwhile, more health systems around the country are requiring employees to be vaccinated. Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine was one of the first.
Employees of Penn Medicine, which includes Lancaster General, must be fully vaccinated by Sept. 1. Asked about progress and whether employees have resigned over the mandate, a spokesman this week said the system wasn’t providing interim updates.
“We continue to offer resources to employees with questions about vaccine safety and efficacy and our policy to ensure that everyone has the information they need to take this step to help protect our patients, each other, and the communities we serve,” said John Lines, a spokesman for Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health.
As it stands, the vaccines — more than 330 million doses have been given in the United States — have proven remarkably free of harmful side efforts.
Still, they are being given under an emergency use authorization rather than full approval. However, the vaccine manufacturers, armed with much data, are making their case for full approval, which seems likely.
Some major entities may be holding back on mandates because of the lack of full approval, so granting full approval may further open the door on vaccination mandates.
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If the vaccine works, why doesn’t it work?
No, of course not. You will be forced to get vaxxed AND wear a mask.
I don’t think even polio or smallpox vaccinations were mandated.
More Mengele Mass Media propaganda....
There are a lot more mass medical experiments where these came from...
The vaccine apparently didn’t end the mask requirement, or the testing requirement.
You just may be a genius my friend!
BTTT!
When school starts .... don't go.
Let them sit and stew for a while, because they think you'll be so grateful to mass'a, you'll do anything to get your child back to normal.
But there is no longer a normal, not in public school, not in America.
Too many have weakened and cowered.
Just say no for a week ... all across the nation.
Although schools do mandate vaxxes like whooping cough, etc., but wasn’t there some kind of mandate or hysteria years back like during the 40’s to be vaxxed and the way people could tell they were vaxxed is that a scar was formed? I think it was for small pox?
“Suddenly” = Coordinated Collusion.
No surprise there…are they building re-education camps?
So when is the CDC recommending that the Southern Border be closed?
I am glad my employer isn’t mandating getting vaccinated. Jeez, you would get fired if you wore a mask. That’s the sane approach when you believe in freedom and liberty.
The FDA, property of Big Pharma, will give full approval in order to make it easier for mandates to be imposed.
Imagine a sterilization component in shots.
I sure am glad I am in the “Control Group” and won’t have to get the jab.
Yup—could be anything.
This is blatant obedience training for the herd.
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