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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden to Anti-Vaxxers: 'Your Refusal Has Cost All of Us'
President Biden announced a swath of new vaccine mandates for millions of Americans on Thursday. In a speech from the White House, the president said that vaccinations will be mandatory for federal employees and contractors, businesses with more than 100 workers and healthcare practitioners in institutions that accept Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
Despite having an unprecedented and successful vaccination program, despite the fact that for almost five months, free vaccines have been available at 80,000 different locations, we still have nearly 80 million Americans who have failed to get the shot, the president said.
What more is there to wait for? What more do you need to see? he added. Weve made vaccinations free, safe and convenient. the vaccine has FDA approval, over 200 million Americans have gotten at least one shot. Weve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin, and the refusal has cost all of us. So please do the right thing.
Link to tweet
The comments came as Biden made a broader push to require vaccines on Thursday. Federal workers will no longer have the option of getting regularly tested for Covid-19 instead of getting vaccinated, and contractors will have to require vaccinations for their employees if they want continued access to public funds.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/biden-big-companies-done-coddling-143059137.html
Biden institutes vaccine rules for many businesses, decries hesitancy: Our patience is wearing thin
No more Mr. Nice Joe.
President Biden, visibly frustrated by the countrys inability to immunize a reluctant chunk of its population in the fight against COVID, said Thursday that the time for waiting is over as he uncorked another round of mandates that now touch many private businesses.
We have the tools to combat COVID-19, the president said. And a distinct minority of Americans supported by a distinct minority of public officials are keeping us from turning the corner.
The blueprint ordered by the White House requires that employers with more than 100 staffers make sure their workers receive shots or take weekly tests, and it creates a new mandate for federal employees who previously had the option of taking frequent tests instead of getting inoculated.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-institutes-vaccine-rules-for-many-businesses-decries-hesitancy-our-patience-is-wearing-thin/ar-AAOgmma
Blue Owl
(50,360 posts)But sadly it will just make the stupid MAGAt's dig in their heels even more...
oldsoftie
(12,534 posts)maxsolomon
(33,337 posts)It's quite obvious that he is beholden to Big Mail.
oldsoftie
(12,534 posts)Hekate
(90,677 posts)kelly1mm
(4,733 posts)Postal Service workers not included in Bidens mandatory vaccination order, source says
By Jacob Bogage9:06 p.m.
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U.S. Postal Service workers were not included in Bidens executive order requiring all federal employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to a White House official speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss not-yet-public portions of the presidents plan.
[link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/09/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/|
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Enough is enough.
Demobrat
(8,976 posts)Thats easy.
They want to see him fail.
Thats what this is all about.
They are refusing to get the jab because if they get it he wins. He succeeds.
They cant have that. They would rather die.
maxsolomon
(33,337 posts)the wealthy and powerful of the RW believe they will benefit from a prolonged Pandemic. Con the rubes into thinking their Freedumb is on the line, and then they can point at Biden and the Dem Congress and say they failed.
By refusing, they're pushing him into "authoritarian" measures. Deliberately.
Lanius
(599 posts)Most of these rich conservatives arent dummies; they got vaccinated in secret.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)Stuart G
(38,421 posts)... When seat belts were "freedom" deals....then there were about 50,000 deaths on the highways...
...Now seat belts are the law in most states...(if not all) and a huge number of lives are saved...
Approximately 55,000 deaths before laws passed in 79....Now 35,000 deaths on highways due to
seat belt laws...Yes, people did not want to "buckle up" at first...but when it became "state laws"...then
the numbers went down..Keep in mind...35,000 deaths...down around 40 percent from 79, with ...
double the cars, and 100,000,000, more people, and 60 million more cars...
....Yes, people didn't want to "buckle up" at first..but now everyone does it...Why?...because it prevents death, and
word got around of people who had seat belts on that would have died if they didn't.(especially now that the
seat belts have shoulder harnesses as well as the air bags that are also the law in the front seats)...At first people
didn't want to pay extra, but now it is the law, and people who buy the cars don't even think of the cost of safety
devises when they buy a car, old or used..
....Why...By Now they all have seat belts and air bags... and yes they saved lives every year..(see first paragraph)..
Make masks the law...and save lives even if people don't want ....the freedom to save their own lives...Make it the law..
and watch the death numbers go down...Fuck the Freedom Anti Maskers...They are too stupid to make that decision, as
were the anti-seat belt assholes...Now everyone or most put them on automatically...You just do it...And since parents
wanted their kids to put them on, now everyone puts them on...Kids are now adults, and you put it on automatically...
...Like masks will become...No it ain't rocket science...It's save your life science...Yes I repeat a lot, many people
do....But when the polio vaccine came out, there were no anti-polio vaccine idiots..Now polio is eradicated in the U.S....as
is small pox...Most people don't know but there were millions of small pox deaths around 1920 or few years before
and after...You got to have small pox vaccine to go to most grammar schools in the U.S.A....It is the law and it works
NO SMALL POX EPIDEMICS IN THE U.S.A...iS THAT CORRECT?...NO POLIO EPIDEMICS EITHER?...iS THAT CORRECT?
..............I wonder why..?...
Hekate
(90,677 posts)
big businesses care more about their bottom line than they do about politics, and theyve all been waiting for Biden to provide air cover for them so they could crack down on their employees and make it clear theyll need to be vaccinated in order to return to work.
No more Mr Nice Guy from Joe the stick is now going to get applied to some metaphorical bottoms.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)BlueWavePsych
(2,635 posts)FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)We don't care about your FreeDumbs any more than you care about ours.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)I hope they don't back down on any of this.
If they do, we are screwed.