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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 12:42 PM Sep 2021

Pence slams Biden vaccine mandates: 'Unlike anything I have ever heard'

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday slammed President Biden's recently announced coronavirus vaccine mandates saying Biden's announcement was "unlike anything I have ever heard from an American president."

"To have the president of the United States say that he's been patient, but his patience is wearing thin, that's not how the American people expect to be spoken to by our elected leaders," Pence,told "Fox & Friends" in his first national television interview in nearly a year.

"The president should simply continue to lead by example.
Encourage people to take the vaccine" he continued.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/571639-pence-slams-bidens-vaccine-mandates-unlike-anything-i-have-ever-heard-from
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So, I guess he thinks it’s not the government’s job to tell people what to do --> except in abortion?




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Pence slams Biden vaccine mandates: 'Unlike anything I have ever heard' (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Sep 2021 OP
Didn't they kill him on Jan 6? Srkdqltr Sep 2021 #1
Idiot OLDMDDEM Sep 2021 #2
Nobody cares what Mike Pence thinks, not even the RWers. Haggard Celine Sep 2021 #3
Idiot OLDMDDEM Sep 2021 #4
So Pence admits he knows little US history rurallib Sep 2021 #5
What a moron n/t Just_Vote_Dem Sep 2021 #6
Clearly Pence doesn't know the difference C_U_L8R Sep 2021 #7
'Unlike anything I have ever heard' MyOwnPeace Sep 2021 #8
All He's Heard For Years Is The Rumblings Of Digesting Hamberders nt smb Sep 2021 #23
Well since he started out as a talk show jock, vanlassie Sep 2021 #9
Not soon enough LiberalFighter Sep 2021 #25
Who? snort Sep 2021 #10
I can see why Pence is confused EarlG Sep 2021 #11
The hell?!?! JustAnotherGen Sep 2021 #12
"Unlike anything I've ever heard" jmbar2 Sep 2021 #13
Seat belts, drinking and driving, OSHA regulations, and dozens of other regulations required by JohnSJ Sep 2021 #19
*looks at childhood vaccination card* Mad_Machine76 Sep 2021 #14
PencilNeckPence struggling to remain relevant. NoMoreRepugs Sep 2021 #15
Go sing it in the church choir, maskless, of course Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 #16
Gawd will save you. Right Mikey? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2021 #17
So the idiot's completely unfamiliar with vaccination policies in the US? highplainsdem Sep 2021 #18
Could you even imagine George Washington requiring people to get vaccinated??? Bleacher Creature Sep 2021 #20
For such a "good Christian" this guy lies again and again and it never bothers him. halfulglas Sep 2021 #21
The death cult say what? . ... Lovie777 Sep 2021 #22
Unlikable on every level. Always was and always will be Bristlecone Sep 2021 #24
How Crude Smallpox Inoculations Helped George Washington Win the War LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2021 #26

OLDMDDEM

(1,572 posts)
2. Idiot
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 12:46 PM
Sep 2021

That's because he was such a terrible governor. He was due to lose his re-election when Dumpy chose him for Veep.

OLDMDDEM

(1,572 posts)
4. Idiot
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 12:48 PM
Sep 2021

That's because he was such a terrible governor. He was due to lose his re-election when Dumpy chose him for Veep.

MyOwnPeace

(16,926 posts)
8. 'Unlike anything I have ever heard'
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 12:57 PM
Sep 2021

Of COURSE you've never heard it - your head has been so far up Trump's A$$ how could you expect to ever hear anything?



EarlG

(21,947 posts)
11. I can see why Pence is confused
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 01:03 PM
Sep 2021

He thinks the American people would prefer the president to tell them to inject bleach, or go back to the shithole countries they came from, or to hear how much he would like to grab them by the pussy.

You know, proper presidential stuff.

jmbar2

(4,874 posts)
13. "Unlike anything I've ever heard"
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 01:11 PM
Sep 2021

Last edited Fri Sep 10, 2021, 01:42 PM - Edit history (1)

Except for:

- George Washington required smallpox vaccines for all troops
- Pence's father was a veteran, subject to many mandatory vaccines
- He, his wife and children were required to have multiple vaccinations to attend school.
- Restaurant workers, healthcare workers all have mandatory vaccination requirements.

Good history of vaccine mandates
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/guides-pubs/downloads/vacc_mandates_chptr13.pdf


Shameful lying on Pence's part.

JohnSJ

(92,187 posts)
19. Seat belts, drinking and driving, OSHA regulations, and dozens of other regulations required by
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 01:22 PM
Sep 2021

the government

It is quite clear which party represents ANTFA and QANon



Mad_Machine76

(24,412 posts)
14. *looks at childhood vaccination card*
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 01:13 PM
Sep 2021

Also, people can CHOOSE to get tested if they don't want to get vaxxed, so they DO have a CHOICE!

halfulglas

(1,654 posts)
21. For such a "good Christian" this guy lies again and again and it never bothers him.
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 01:30 PM
Sep 2021

In this case we know other vaccines are mandates ALL THE TIME, for school, for travel and he knows it.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,176 posts)
26. How Crude Smallpox Inoculations Helped George Washington Win the War
Sun Sep 26, 2021, 04:10 PM
Sep 2021

I love history. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it




When George Washington took command of the Continental Army in 1775, America was fighting a war on two fronts: one for independence from the British, and a second for survival against smallpox. Because Washington knew the ravages of the disease firsthand, he understood that the smallpox virus, then an invisible enemy, could cripple his army and end the war before it began.

That’s why Washington eventually made the bold decision to inoculate all American troops who had never been sickened with smallpox at a time when inoculation was a crude and often deadly process. His gamble paid off. The measure staved off smallpox long enough to win a years-long fight with the British. In the process, Washington pulled off the first massive, state-funded immunization campaign in American history......

By the following winter, Washington and his troops were camped in Morristown, New Jersey, where the threat of smallpox was as dire as ever. America’s stoic general waffled back and forth on whether to inoculate or not, even making the mass inoculation order and then rescinding it. Finally, on February 5, 1777, he made the call in a letter to John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress.

“The small pox has made such Head in every Quarter that I find it impossible to keep it from spreading thro’ the whole Army in the natural way. I have therefore determined, not only to innoculate all the Troops now here, that have not had it, but shall order Docr. Shippen to innoculate the Recruits as fast as they come in to Philadelphia.”

Fenn says that inoculating all troops without natural smallpox immunity was a daunting task. First, medical personnel had to examine each individual to determine if they had contracted the disease in the past, then they conducted the risky variolation procedure, followed by a month-long recovery process attended by teams of nurses.

Meanwhile, this entire process—the first of its kind and scale—had to be conducted in total secrecy. If the British caught wind that large numbers of American soldiers were laid up in bed with smallpox, it could be the end.
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