Weak Republicans Hedged On Banning COVID Passports, And Now They’re Back With A Vengeance
Defending the vulnerable from private pressure to surrender control over their own medical treatments apparently doesn't fit into some Republicans' philosophies.
By Christopher Bedford
July 28, 2021
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began to tighten loosening mask recommendations Tuesday — even for vaccinated people — largely based on rising COVID-19 among the unvaccinated.
The governments of Australia, Israel, and Portugal are reinstituting lockdowns. In the United States, certain health officials are increasingly hinting at that possibility, while corporate media cheer them on.
After months of President Joe Biden promising no federal vaccine mandates, Veterans Affairs reversed course, becoming the first portion of the federal government to require vaccines for all employees. The mandate applies to all employees, and follows New York City’s and California’s expansions of requirements to all state employees, plus a slew of new private businesses demanding customers show proof of vaccination.
“The floodgates,” Axios reported Monday, “have opened for vaccine mandates.”
“To Defeat Delta Variant,” a satirical headline on the Babylon Bee read that same day, “Experts Recommend Doing All The Things That Didn’t Work The First Time.”
But why all the panic? Why the reversed mask mandates, renewed lockdowns, and suddenly draconian vaccine demands?
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