GOP often ignores testing option in Biden's vaccinate-or-test mandate. Here's why.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/09/testing-option-vaccine-mandate/

No paywall
https://archive.ph/De0M4

Politics rewards simplicity — and often deliberate and vast oversimplification. That’s on full display now on the right.

Investigating threats against school board members is cast as labeling as “terrorists” parents who would dare to complain. “Critical race theory” has become a catchall for virtually any academic discussion of the impacts of racism. Potential federal financial settlements with families separated at the border is described as if it’s handing out money to undocumented immigrants willy-nilly, rather than compensating people (often those using the legal asylum process) whose children were taken from them.

But another, much more consequential, debate continues to exemplify the dumbing-down of our collective political discourse: President Biden’s vaccinate-or-test mandate for large employers.

Last week, 41 Republican senators issued a lengthy news release signaling that they would formally oppose the rule, which Biden officially announced Thursday and which a federal judge later suspended. The release ran more than 2,600 words and included quotes from 28 of the senators. Only in two of the quotes and some background at the end was the weekly testing option even acknowledged. Much of it suggested that the choice was a binary one between vaccination and termination of employment for everyone involved.

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[Mr.Bill]

1. They are trying to make people think that

people are being held down while a needle is being forced into their arm. Which is, of course, bullshit. No adult has been forced to get the vaccine. They are only being forced to wish they had.

[lagomorph777]

2. It should be "Vax or the Axe"

...but it isn't.

[gratuitous]

3. I like how the Post will see what the Republicans are doing, and why

But the Post won't hold Republicans accountable for ignoring the "test" portion of the mandate. The Post will even admit that the oversimplifications are dumbing down the political discourse, but they refuse to call Republicans out for it.

It's rather maddening.