Vaccine mandates have worked in the past. Can they overcome modern hurdles?
As vaccinations lag across the U.S. and COVID-19 cases continue to rise, new federal mandates will attempt to stymie the spread of the virus by requiring millions of workers to be vaccinated or face weekly testing.
President Joe Biden on September 9 announced the new mandates, which apply to workers at companies with more than 100 employees, federal workers and contractors, and health-care workers at institutions that receive federal funding. Together, the various orders affect about 100 million American workers.
These mandates, although sweeping, follow a precedent of U.S. vaccine directives that date to the days of the Revolutionary War. “Mandates are American, and resistance to them is American,” says Elena Conis, a historian of medicine at the University of California, Berkeley.
Some companies have already mandated COVID-19 vaccines—including Disney, Uber, Facebook, Google, Netflix and Delta Air Lines—and many celebrated those announcements, but the backlash against the new requirements has been thunderous: Several Republican governors declared them unconstitutional, and the Republican National Committee threatened to sue.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/vaccine-mandates-have-worked-in-the-past-can-they-overcome-modern-hurdles
The GOP truly is the stupid party
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