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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPence 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 its not the governments job to tell people what to do --> except in abortion?
Srkdqltr
(6,276 posts)OLDMDDEM
(1,572 posts)That's because he was such a terrible governor. He was due to lose his re-election when Dumpy chose him for Veep.
Haggard Celine
(16,844 posts)OLDMDDEM
(1,572 posts)That's because he was such a terrible governor. He was due to lose his re-election when Dumpy chose him for Veep.
rurallib
(62,411 posts)Is anyone surprised?
Like the time Saint Ronnie fired PATCO?
Just_Vote_Dem
(2,804 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)between lip service and actual Leadership and Governance
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)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?
smb
(3,471 posts)vanlassie
(5,670 posts)maybe his time is about up- theyre dropping like flies.
LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)EarlG
(21,947 posts)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.
JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)His people are forcing women to carry pregnancies. He's full of shit.
jmbar2
(4,874 posts)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)the government
It is quite clear which party represents ANTFA and QANon
Mad_Machine76
(24,412 posts)Also, people can CHOOSE to get tested if they don't want to get vaxxed, so they DO have a CHOICE!
NoMoreRepugs
(9,417 posts)Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)If one dies from COVID it must be Gawd's will.
highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)Oh wait, he did.
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)In this case we know other vaccines are mandates ALL THE TIME, for school, for travel and he knows it.
Lovie777
(12,257 posts)Bristlecone
(10,127 posts)An irrelevant stooge.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,176 posts)I love history. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
Link to tweet
Thats 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. Americas 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 processthe first of its kind and scalehad 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.