Editorial Board of Salt Lake Tribune Calls for Governor to Use National Guard Against Unvaccinated

An alarming amount of Democrats, as Scott highlighted, support strict government action against the unvaccinated, according to a recent poll from the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports. That desire for such force against unvaccinated citizens has been extended to the mainstream media with a January 15 editorial from The Salt Lake Tribune calling on Gov. Spencer Cox (R) to activate the National Guard to prevent unvaccinated Utahans from participating in society.

The paragraph in question is third to last in an editorial that is whiny and unbearable even before then. "Utah leaders have surrendered to COVID pandemic, the Editorial Board writes," is the headline they went with.

It's also worth highlighting that the excerpt The Salt Lake Tribune's tweet went with, included below, is misleading:

The editorial garnered the attention of Deidre Henderson, Utah's Republican lieutenant governor.

It has consistently been the position of Republican officials to yes, speak about "individual freedoms" as a reason to come out against vaccine mandates, but also to encourage people get vaccinated as the best defense against the Wuhan coronavirus. One can see that very form of encouragement above in Lt. Gov. Henderson's tweets.

The editorial even goes on to acknowledge that, but then utterly dismisses the idea of encouraging something because it doesn't force someone to do something:

The Salt Lake County Republican Party issued a statement on the editorial from Chair Chris Null which supported the governor's approach and also demanded an apology from the news outlet, emphasizing that "Utah deserves an apology from the Salt Lake Tribune."

The statement goes on to read in part that "The Editorial Board pretends to have all the answers, disparaging a proven safe and highly effective Nobel Prize-winning drug by calling it a “horse de-wormer”, in effect giving (bad) medical advice. They manage to echo the level of hate and bigotry that sounds more like 1933 Nazi Germany, as Hitler took over, than present-day Utah – the state that “keeps the American dream alive.” We cannot allow this thinking to enter our society. The Salt Lake Tribune must apologize to the people of Utah and reign in these board members before their infection spreads worse than the pandemic we are already fighting."

Utah was involved in a lawsuit against the Biden administration's vaccine mandate that would have used Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to force private employers with 100 or more employees to have vaccine or regular testing mandates.

Last Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court blocked such a mandate in a 6-3 ruling.

It has now reached the level that you just don’t have a sharp
witty comment to fit the situation. We actually passed that
months ago, if not years.

So they want to bring out the military against our own
citizens, but don’t give a _ if illegals enter the nation
and spread COVID coast to coast.

Outrageous and off the deep end.

The vax jabs are NOT 99% protection guarantees against catching anything.

And are not even proven effective at stopping contagion to others, vaxed or unvaxed in the vicinity.

They are trying to say children and adults without the shots are spreading it to others (but they HAVE shots so they shouldn’t worry, right? Unless the shots don’t work.) We take a dog to get shots and the vet does not say “Fido will probably catch distemper and rabies. They are all over the place so get used to it. Shots are not a guarantee.”

And for kids with Salk polio vaccine: “Get the shots but they will still get polio sooner or later. It’s all around us now. Some will be disabled for life and others will die.”

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