Former Biden adviser says US won't get more than 70 percent vaccinated 'without a mandate'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

Ezekiel Emanuel, a former member of the Biden transition's COVID-19 advisory board, said on Sunday that the U.S. will not get more than 70 percent of its population vaccinated "without a mandate."

"We will never get to 70, 80 percent or 90 percent of the American population vaccinated without a mandate. It's just that simple," Emanuel told moderator Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Emanuel, who is currently serving as a vice provost at the University of Pennsylvania, said vaccine mandates are "our best tools to get 90 percent" of the population vaccinated.

"They make sure that people who get infected don't get hospitalized at such a high rate and are very, very, very unlikely to die. That's an important protection for people and we have to make sure that people get it," he added.

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[C Moon]

1. Or when much of that 30% dies of COVID, those numbers will change.

[Evolve Dammit]

2. Funny how that "thirty per cent" always seems to be the anchor toward any progress (or truth).

[paleotn]

5. They are why we can't have anything nice....

[Evolve Dammit]

10. It's really true

[turbinetree]

3. Yep that 30% that has been rat fucking the country since Nixon.....on everything....

[lapfog_1]

4. fun with math

320,000,000 people here
.04 % are under age 5 or otherwise unable to get vaccinated
96 % are able to be vaccinated or 307,200,000.

30 percent decide NOT to get vaccinated (or control the decision for minors)... 92,160,000

of those, all will get Omicron (we ALL will get Omicron )... and if the fatality rate is 1/2 of 1 percent for that cohort... we will see about 460,800 more deaths due strictly to Covid or Covid related with co-morbidity.

460,800 who didn't need to die... in addition to the nearly 400,000 that died needlessly because of incompetence of TFG and the messaging about "masks and social distancing" and horse dewormer, etc.

some 800,000 American will have died for the GQP. I hope they all pay a price for this.

[Orrex]

8. Here's the price that they will pay:

They will blame Biden and Democrats, and with the help of voter suppression, gerrymandering, disenfranchisement & outright theft--not to mention the wholehearted participation by the pro-Right media--they stand a very solid chance of retaking the congressional majority in 2022.

That is the price they will pay.

[YP_Yooper]

9. Love math

and the benefit is the rest of us all will move on with a pretty good, durable, broad-based immunity, and can try to go back to normal.

Not to say we won't get sick from COVID with another variant, but we won't end up in the hospital or die...

[Doodley]

6. Mandate or not, there needs to be hundreds of miillions or a billion spent on

educating the people and fighting against the misinformation.

[Orrex]

7. Even with a mandate, we wouldn't get more than 71%

A large number of our fellow citizens are proudly stubborn, ignorant racist fuckheads.

[musclecar6]

11. Perfectly

Said. We fought a war over this stuff back in Lincoln’s time and fortunately the ignorant racist fuckheads of that time, got their asses kicked. We just won a fight against a wannabe Hitler and his stubborn ignorant fuckheads. We just gotta keep on keepin’ on.