For anyone who doesn’t live as a hermit and has a thinking brain, it is quite obvious that the COVID vaccines have come up short, to say the least.  It may be a stretch to call them vaccines, especially considering how well they have performed.

I think I know more people who have caught COVID who were vaccinated than those who were not vaccinated for COVID.  I admit there may be a bit of bias in this.  People who are vaccinated are more likely to get tested when they come down with the sniffles.

Still, there is no question that the so-called vaccines do not stop infection or transmission.  I have my doubts whether they do anything beneficial.  But even if you think the vaccines do a good job of reducing symptoms if you do get sick, that is a terrible basis for mandates.  I think all mandates are immoral, but it is especially ridiculous when people are punished for not protecting themselves enough.

If that is the case, why don’t we tell people that they have to eat more vegetables as a condition of employment?  Maybe people shouldn’t be allowed to eat Twinkies if they want a job.  Certainly, all smokers would be banned from working.

The head of the CDC admitted last year that the vaccines do not stop infection or transmission.  So the only basis for mandates is that the government is doing it for your own good.  So Biden and company would rather you not be able to work and put food on the table for your family than have a fraction of a percent higher risk of getting sicker if you actually contract COVID.

This is a sick man with some sick and evil handlers.

Never Forget

I don’t want people to forget the hell that tens of millions of Americans have been put through.  Some of them are still going through it.

While the worst mandate (all companies with 100 or more employees) was struck down by the Supreme Court, there are still major mandates being imposed by the federal government on employees, contractors, and healthcare workers.  Some of them are still in court.

So anyone who says that the vaccine mandates are effectively over are not seeing the continued hell that many people are still going through.  And there are many people – probably in the hundreds of thousands or millions – who had their lives overturned last year.  They thought they would be fired.  Many of them were fired or were forced to quit in order to preserve a pension or something else.

Think of all the people who had to change careers.  Think of the pilots, the nurses, the doctors, and the many other occupations where people felt compelled to take the shot in order to preserve their job.  And think of all of the people who did not give in and instead gave up their career.

Let’s also not forget the discrimination against foreigners that is still taking place in the United States.  You can read “Requirement for Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination for Air Passengers” at the CDC website.

Novak Djokovic already missed a tennis tournament in Miami due to his non vaccinated status.  He couldn’t enter the country.  Ironically (or not), many players withdrew from that tournament due to health reasons.  Djokovic could miss the US Open if nothing changes in the next couple of months.

I have heard stories of other people and the toll this has taken.  There was a woman who lived in Europe with her husband.  She is American.  Her husband is not.  She wanted to visit family in the United States, but her husband is not able to go to see his wife’s family.

If you are not a U.S. citizen and you don’t live in the U.S., and you don’t want to get vaccinated, your only hope is to go to Mexico and walk across the border.  That seems to be the only way.

Maybe the vaccine mandates are over in the minds of most Americans, but they are still having a very real effect on individual lives everywhere.  These must be repealed.  They are unconstitutional.  They are immoral.  They are wrong.  They are illogical.

If the Republicans take Congress starting in January 2023, they could do something about these mandates.  They could refuse to fund the CDC, the FDA, OSHA, etc.  Any agency involved in enacting or enforcing vaccine mandates should be defunded completely.  The Republicans “could” do this, but they probably won’t.

This is why we need people to speak out about this.  We need pressure on Congress and everywhere else.  The Republican cowards in Congress need to be pressured on this.  If they threaten to defund some of these agencies, then the employees of the CDC, FDA, etc. will all of a sudden become our allies.  Many of them would be demanding that mandates be repealed because they don’t want to lose their jobs due to a lack of funding.

There are a lot of things that should be defunded in the U.S. government.  But any agency trying to enforce vaccine mandates should be defunded until the mandates are repealed.  This should be the pressure campaign against the Republicans.  The Democrats (the pro choice party, haha) are hopeless.  They have shown themselves to be totalitarian thugs.