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Biden eyes tougher vaccine rules without provoking backlash
Associated Press ^ | 08/22/2021 | Zeke Miller

Posted on 08/13/2021 6:40:08 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

When the pace of vaccinations in the U.S. first began to slow, President Joe Biden backed incentives like million-dollar cash lotteries if that’s what it took to get shots in arms. But as new coronavirus infections soar, he’s testing a tougher approach.

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Still, while more severe measures — such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel or changing how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated and become ill with COVID-19 — have been discussed, the administration worried that they would be too polarizing for the moment.

That’s not to say they won’t be implemented in the future, as public opinion continues to shift toward requiring vaccinations as a means to restore normalcy.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


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Ready people? Internal travel passports, just like China or the Soviet Union.
1 posted on 08/13/2021 6:40:08 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

That shouldn’t be too difficult for Biden and Co. The country lost it’s spine and testosterone quite some time ago. Press forward, comrades. You have nothing to fear by pushing the people, no matter what the keyboard warriors will say.


2 posted on 08/13/2021 6:41:39 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Yes, this isn’t about public health. It’s about control.

There’s no normalcy available due to the vax. It’s a lie and they are still repeating it ℅ of Rat Media like the AP.

Any fool knows this looking at Israel and Iceland while Sweden continues to prosper without any of this crap.


3 posted on 08/13/2021 6:54:07 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: Tench_Coxe
how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated

In other words, if you are not vaxed not treatment or hospital admissions for you. Not that they are treating anyone now until they are deathly ill. What ever happened to the Hippocratic oath? I guess it went the same way as the US Constitution.
4 posted on 08/13/2021 6:55:14 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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"That’s not to say they won’t be implemented in the future, as public opinion continues to shift toward requiring vaccinations as a means to restore normalcy."

Just listen to this propaganda. Nothing in this statement is true.
5 posted on 08/13/2021 6:56:26 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

They couldn’t have transformed the country into an English-speaking model of the Soviet Union. Too obvious. They used the covid “crisis” as the backdrop, and went ahead and did it anyway.
There is no freedom of thought or expression. The government decides who lives or dies. You work and your money is taken from you. Private property is an illusion. Speaking against the party line and you are fired and silenced. One segment of the population is singled out as the source of all evils, and is demonized and slated for extinction. The Leader is glorified and protected at all costs.


6 posted on 08/13/2021 6:59:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: Antoninus

Its all a propaganda piece- nothing will come of it.

1- Biden threatened to lock down Florida and Texas in January/February/March and Desantis challenged him to do so. Biden backed down.

2- When President Trump tried to deny funding for states that had cities which defunded the police the courts said “you can’t do that.” The precedent has been set.


7 posted on 08/13/2021 7:00:20 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: JoSixChip
Yeah, I saw that too. I'll go a step further and surimse what was discussed was treatment would be out of pocket for "unvaxxed", and probably denial of treatment all together.

That is how evil this is getting.

Even crazier, the proposal of limiting insterstate travel while illegals with unknown vaccination status are being flown to undisclosed areas of the country. It's criminal.

Well maybe the truckers can have a say, like shutting it down. Everything.

8 posted on 08/13/2021 7:02:38 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

This article is so twisted in its logic it is difficult to believe it was even published. For one it says the vaccines are increasingly accepted by the public. So why do they have to increase pressure on the unvaccinated? And why did the article say 45% of people feel employers should not compel vaccination? That’s almost half of all people.

Second, we hear about booster shots because the delta variant is responsible for the new breakthrough cases. The article states everyone must get the vaccine because of the delta variant. Where is the logic in that?

Then the article went on to say the Biden administration briefed trade groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable. Shouldn’t physicians and epidemiologists be the ones being briefed? Don’t they know a bit more about biology and medicine than do people with business degrees?

And then the bit on having papers for interstate travel. Do they not even realize what they are proposing?

Our “betters” seem to possess virtually no self awareness. Oh, the article forgot to add that Trump and his supporters are little Nazis.


9 posted on 08/13/2021 7:08:11 AM PDT by packagingguy (Kit)
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‘What ever happened to the Hippocratic oath? ‘

it flew the coop when the medicos discovered how much they enjoyed the facetime on national tv...


10 posted on 08/13/2021 7:09:13 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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This Radical socialist Bidenista astroturf site is floating another weekly
Trial balloon for the Great All mighty Ice Creamer handlers and Pres VJ .

I see Dr Evil still recovering from her latest facelift .

11 posted on 08/13/2021 7:10:37 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger )
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... more severe measures — such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel ...

Not that constitutionality matters anymore, but the logistics of border checks between sites seems a little tricky; not to mention the bad optics of it. Then there is the rather glaring contradiction of busing in Covid positive illegals into the country.

12 posted on 08/13/2021 7:28:02 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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Public opinion shifting to require vaccines? Really?

Talk about controlling the narrative.

I thought people are shifting to question the vaccine as being worthless and dangerous. Isn’t that why people don’t want it?


13 posted on 08/13/2021 7:31:57 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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From the article:I don't know about you guys, but, for me. "strong-arming from the federal government" is a total non-starter.

Just say NO!

14 posted on 08/13/2021 7:32:21 AM PDT by upchuck (CAUTION: A new variant will be released every time people stop being afraid. ~ h/t pookie's cartoons)
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But as new coronavirus infections soar, he’s testing a tougher approach.

The only thing that joek is testing is the capacity of his adult diaper.

The Joelitburo is testing a tougher approach.

15 posted on 08/13/2021 7:58:08 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Tench_Coxe

After decades and decades of trying, the left has found the trigger issue that is accepted widely enough to negate all natural rights protected by our Constitution.


16 posted on 08/13/2021 8:11:48 AM PDT by whatexit (What a shame that New England has become Old England)
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To: Sequoyah101

I don’t see growing support for the vax. If it as so popular why are they bribing, forcing, coercing people to get it?


17 posted on 08/13/2021 8:15:52 AM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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You can sick your rules up your a** !
DONT TREAD ON ME !!


18 posted on 08/13/2021 8:21:42 AM PDT by wardamneagle (c)
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To: IrishBrigade

“...it flew the coop when the medicos discovered how much they enjoyed the facetime on national tv....”
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Sounds like “Doctor” Scott Gottleib, who is on EVERY news program, especially on Sunday morning.

He’s likes to hear himself talk. And the jerk is on the board of Pfizer.

Cue the church lady saying, “How c-o-n-v-e-n-i-e-n-t!”


19 posted on 08/13/2021 8:27:34 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (I like oil. I like gasoline. I like coal. I like natural gas. I like nuclear power. )
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Second, we hear about booster shots because the delta variant is responsible for the new breakthrough cases. The article states everyone must get the vaccine because of the delta variant. Where is the logic in that?

Think about it for a while and it may come to you.

20 posted on 08/13/2021 9:19:19 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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