Posted on 10/08/2021 12:47:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden on Thursday falsely claimed that individuals vaccinated against COVID-19 "cannot spread" the virus to others.
What are the details? The president was speaking in Elk Grove, Illinois, touting his administration's implementation of vaccine mandates for federal workers and active-duty military and push to mandate large businesses when he made the questionable remarks.
"We have to beat this thing," Biden said. "That's why I've had to move toward requirements that everyone get vaccinated."
"My administration is now requiring federal workers to be vaccinated. We've also required federal contractors to be vaccinated. If you have a contract with the federal government, working for the federal government, you have to be vaccinated," he continued. "We're requiring active duty military to be vaccinated."
"We're making sure health care workers are vaccinated," he added. "Because if you seek care at a health care facility, you should have the certainty that the pro- — the people providing that care are protected from COVID and cannot spread it to you."
Following the speech, conservative political and sports commentator Clay Travis uploaded a video of the president's remarks to Twitter calling into question his specific claims, among other things.
"Joe Biden falsely says covid vaccinated people can't spread the virus. That's a lie," Travis wrote. "Also he can't even read off a teleprompter. This just keeps getting more embarrassing."
Joe Biden falsely says covid vaccinated people can’t spread the virus. That’s a lie. Also he can’t even read off a… https://t.co/KGvXHzE6Wc — Clay Travis (@Clay Travis) 1633639861.0 What else? The president's remarks are at odds with present conclusions drawn by his own government.
In its latest guidance on the coronavirus Delta variant, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged that "fully vaccinated people with Delta variant breakthrough infections can spread the virus to others."
The CDC's guidance is reflective of scientific studies which have found that both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals who test positive for COVID-19 infection carry a similar amount of viral load, regardless of whether they have symptoms or not.
Earlier data touted by the CDC may have suggested that wasn't the case, and so perhaps Biden was only reiterating what he had heard before. But the CDC's current guidance was updated in August, which should have given the president plenty of time to consult the science.
While public health experts maintain that COVID-19 vaccines are extremely effective at preventing severe illness from the disease requiring hospitalization or causing death, it is simply not true that vaccinated individuals cannot spread the virus, especially as it pertains to the Delta variant.
Anything else? Mainstream media outlets, if they were interested in doing their jobs, should be making it widely known that the president's conclusions on this matter, as articulated, are wrong.
Then again, it's not the first time that Biden has made this misleading claim about vaccines without much objection.
Just Another Biden Lie = JAB Lie
There was a fact checker for Trump’s burps... Where are the fact checkers for Biden?
Following the science...
If they can be infected with it, despite being fully vaxxed, they can spread it. That’s elementary school science class stuff.
FJB.
Then what’s the pernt, Brainiac?
> Where are the fact checkers for Biden? <
The fact checkers don’t protect the truth. They protect Democrats. So they’ll spin Biden’s comment, and find some way to rate it as “mostly true”.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
The propaganda media thrives on lies. The lies get out there and are then quoted over and over and over again. People who consume only the propaganda media never do hear the truth. They will argue, for example, that people who have been vaccinated cannot spread the virus. Then they will quote the many media outlets that quoted the original dishonest source. The NYTines, CNN, NBC , etc is not a source but people think that they are.
Since the GOP-e refuses to fight, the MSM refuses to report and Social Media covers up the truth, there are no problems.
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Where’s the Media?
He’s going to get people killed. Vaccinated spread it at the same rate.
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I’m not getting the jab.
I’m exempt.
I identify as a postal worker.
My Grandpa was a postal worker....I inherited my exemption from him....
I used to mail letters all the time, that means I get the postal exemption as well.
The decision to exempt the USPS was quickly reversed. They have to get the vaxx too.
Where is big media’s fact checkers?
Isn’t there a law against lying to the people :) He did take an oath. :)
His whole political career is a lie. His presidency is a lie. His income is a lie.
People hear his charismatic, aggressive convinced BS and want to believ it
They live dysfunctional, deceived, deceptive lives
This may actually turn out to be helpful in the lawsuits against the vax mandates. The (alleged) chief executive of the federal government is promulgating rules that have their basis in an obvious misunderstanding of the facts. He believes and has said repeatedly that if you get these so-called vaccines (1) you will not contract covid-19; and (2) you will not infection someone else with covid-19. He’s operating under these premises, and they’re objectively false. This discredits the notion that the federal rules have a rational basis.
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