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Senator Ron Johnson: The Worst Is Yet To Come From Biden’s Vaccine Coercion
The Federalist ^ | 10/18/2021 | Sen. Ron Johnson

Posted on 10/18/2021 9:03:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Like President Biden, who said in December 2020, “I don’t think it should be mandatory, I wouldn’t demand it be mandatory,” I was opposed to COVID-19 vaccine mandates from the start. Unlike President Biden, I haven’t flip-flopped.

In fact, my opposition to mandates is growing stronger with each new anecdote and piece of information that shows not only how futile they are but how devastating these self-inflicted harms will be. President Biden, his administration, corporate media, and social media are denying three realities:

1. The effectiveness of natural immunity and how medically unnecessary it is for the previously infected to get vaccinated.

2. The fact that fully vaccinated individuals are getting infected and transmitting COVID-19. Unfortunately, some are also becoming seriously ill, being hospitalized, and dying. This is not, as President Biden repeatedly insists, a pandemic solely of the unvaccinated.

3. Vaccine injuries, including death, are occurring at far higher numbers than health authorities want to admit.

“Established in 1990, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national early warning system to detect possible safety problems in U.S.-licensed vaccines,” says its government website. As of October 1, 2021, VAERS has reported 16,310 deaths after COVID shots so far — with 5,326 (33 percent) occurring on Day 0, 1, or 2 after vaccination — and 778,685 total adverse events.

The two main criticisms of discussing this data from VAERS are that it does not prove the COVID injections caused these injuries (although these numbers should still alarm) and that VAERS significantly underreports vaccine injuries (which should increase alarm).

Those of us who attempt to inform the public of these three realities are not only the targets of vilification, we are also magnets for people who desperately want their stories to be told so others can avoid harm. Over the last few weeks, the stories have become more numerous and more alarming.

Three areas of particular urgency involve health care, the military, and aviation. Some of the stories have already been reported publicly, some have not. Here are but a few examples.

As we have seen in New York state, many doctors and nurses who refuse to be vaccinated now must leave health care, either voluntarily or involuntarily, due to vaccine coercion. Their decades of medical skill and knowledge will be lost to the mandates.

I have been inundated with testimonials from doctors, nurses, and other health-care workers asking for relief from the mandates and indicating they will not succumb to the pressure. New York’s experience will be replicated throughout America, and the negative impact on health care will be profound.

I have been in contact with Lt. Col. Theresa Long, an Army flight surgeon. Her affidavit, which was part of an amended filing in a lawsuit against the military regarding vaccine mandates and injuries in the military, was made public in late September and describes only a small portion of the alarming story she has to tell.

As a result of her efforts to alert her superiors, she is now a pariah to her senior command, and her medical license is being attacked merely for speaking out. The day before her superiors canceled all her appointments with patients, two out of five aviators she saw had developed pericarditis shortly after vaccination, only reporting their symptoms because they read an affidavit online. She has much more to tell but is under a gag order imposed by the military.

The recent flight delays involving Southwest Airlines are another harbinger of mandate harm. Although Southwest’s CEO and pilot union officially deny that delays are being caused by a worker slowdown in reaction to vaccine mandates, individuals are confirming what most of us view as obvious.

Last week, I received a letter from a Wisconsin constituent who is a pilot for a U.S.-based airline. His testimonial raises serious concerns regarding airline safety and demonstrates why we can add a growing pilot shortage to the self-inflicted harms of the vaccine mandate.

The most alarming anecdote in this letter involved a recently vaccinated pilot who “sustained, over a two-day period, partial blindness in one eye and then severe migraine headaches.” His doctor told him he had suffered “micro strokes.” The pilot did not report his medical condition to his Federal Aviation Administration medical examiner because he feared “he would lose his pilot certifications, and hence his livelihood.”

Long submitted her affidavit because her primary responsibility involves keeping military pilots healthy and flight-ready. Part of that responsibility involves grounding pilots when she judges them unready. She is highly concerned that for little to no benefit — these young healthy pilots have a very low probability of severe COVID-19 — we are putting their health and our military readiness at risk.

Unfortunately, we now know the vaccines do not preclude infection or transmission. As a result, we are forcing people to choose between their livelihoods and a freedom-robbing vaccination mandate with no rationale. We are only beginning to see the dire consequences of these ill-advised mandates.


U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is the Republican Senator from Wisconsin.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; biden; covidstooges; obamacare; ronjohnson; vaccinemandate; vaccinemandates; wisconsin
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1 posted on 10/18/2021 9:03:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
As a result, we are forcing people to choose between their livelihoods and a freedom-robbing vaccination mandate with no rationale.

Vaccine mandates=RANSOMWARE

2 posted on 10/18/2021 9:06:06 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Johnson at least has the courtesy to speak to us unlike his fellow Republican senators.


3 posted on 10/18/2021 9:06:14 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: SeekAndFind

America’s a special case. Covid 19 wasn’t used to oust a head of state in Australia. Fort. Detrick isn’t in New Zealand.


4 posted on 10/18/2021 9:06:51 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: SeekAndFind

Colin Powell unavailable for comment as are many many others.


5 posted on 10/18/2021 9:11:22 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: minnesota_bound

The Senator should introduce a bill mandating all Senators and their staff be vaccinated. It will go nowhere and he can use this to call out the worthless hypocrites that claim to represent us.


6 posted on 10/18/2021 9:14:20 AM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s go Brandon!


7 posted on 10/18/2021 9:14:22 AM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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To: JonPreston

Johnson is one of the few that deserve re-election.

The Amnesty Senators Micro Rubio and John Hoeven are up in 2022, they need to be primaried before they cab vote for a permanent Democrat majority AGAIN!


8 posted on 10/18/2021 9:19:59 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

Scrap the Airlines, let’s build Trains!!

Who is John Galt


9 posted on 10/18/2021 9:21:41 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: RBW in PA

He should, and you’re right it will go Nowhere, but he might be able to get away with making Everything the Judiciary does only advisory, with no force of law,unless and until ALL Officers of the Court and All Judges and other Employee’s are Fully Vaccinated.


10 posted on 10/18/2021 9:24:25 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: SeekAndFind

“I have been in contact with Lt. Col. Theresa Long, an Army flight surgeon. Her affidavit, which was part of an amended filing in a lawsuit against the military regarding vaccine mandates and injuries in the military, was made public in late September and describes only a small portion of the alarming story she has to tell.”
I remember a few weeks ago when a number of people on this board spent lots of time trying to discredit this woman and saying she didn’t exist.


11 posted on 10/18/2021 9:25:48 AM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: SeekAndFind

VAERS COVID Vaccine Data - reports of adverse events following vaccination
https://openvaers.com/covid-data


12 posted on 10/18/2021 9:26:29 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: CharlesOConnell

Plus 100 for the Fort Derrick reference. The starting place of this BS.


13 posted on 10/18/2021 9:27:18 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Our daughter, healthy, 39, no pre existing conditions, athletic, and had covid in January, was recently told either jab or lose her job. Since she’s a single parent she felt she had no choice, plus our family doctor urged her to get it, so she took the first shot of Moderna. A week later she lost hearing in her left ear; thinking she had a sinus infection plugging the tube she went to the ear doctor. The doctor preformed many tests and found no cause. She then mentioned she had the shot the week prior, and was told she most likely had a micro stroke from the vax; thankfully she was given a medical exemption for any further jab Luckily her hearing returned.


14 posted on 10/18/2021 9:37:07 AM PDT by NicNacPattyWac
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To: vivenne
I remember a few weeks ago when a number of people on this board spent lots of time trying to discredit this woman and saying she didn’t exist.

As do I.
I see that her ‘bosses’ have put her on ice - which is why we haven’t heard anything further.
The narrative control, and blatant censorship, of the ‘main stream information providers’ would make the old Soviet Union blush.

15 posted on 10/18/2021 9:58:59 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Vaxx mandate - bump for later....


16 posted on 10/18/2021 10:00:48 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: SeekAndFind

bkmk


17 posted on 10/18/2021 10:03:48 AM PDT by Grandpa Drudge (Just an old man, desperate to preserve our great country for my great grandchildren.)
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18 posted on 10/18/2021 10:08:17 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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To: RBW in PA

ALL of Congress.


19 posted on 10/18/2021 10:25:11 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: SeekAndFind
President Biden, his administration, corporate media, and social media are denying three realities

Hey Ron, you left out:

"COVID" is no deadlier than the flu

20 posted on 10/18/2021 10:39:02 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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