How Outrage Over Vaccine Mandates Became a Mainstream G.O.P. Stance
WASHINGTON Like other Republican governors around the country, Tate Reeves of Mississippi reacted angrily to the coronavirus vaccine mandates President Biden imposed on private businesses. Declaring the move terrifying, he wrote on Twitter: This is still America, and we still believe in freedom from tyrants.
There is a deep inconsistency in that argument. Mississippi has some of the strictest vaccine mandates in the nation, which have not drawn opposition from most of its elected officials. Not only does it require children to be vaccinated against measles, mumps and seven other diseases to attend school, but it goes a step further than most states by barring parents from claiming religious, philosophical or conscientious exemptions.
Resistance to vaccine mandates was once a fringe position in both parties, more the realm of misinformed celebrities than mainstream political thought. But the fury over Mr. Bidens mandates shows how a once-extreme stance has moved to the center of the Republican Party. The governors opposition reflects the anger and fear about the vaccine among constituents now central to their base, while ignoring longstanding policy and legal precedent in favor of similar vaccination requirements.
Republicans care about getting beyond this pandemic every bit as much as Democrats do, said Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. But, he added, politicians are certainly happy to exploit this issue for political gain, which is why I think the Republican governors are up in arms.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-outrage-over-vaccine-mandates-became-a-mainstream-g-o-p-stance/ar-AAOmn2z
Desperation in other words from the party of stunts.
Lovie777
(12,218 posts)sad.
Fullduplexxx
(7,846 posts)It's a shot from a dictator who's trying to take away rights and force them take an experimental drug
randr
(12,409 posts)Stuart G
(38,414 posts)Grins
(7,199 posts)Finishing up a book on history of slavery. Dont believe for a second that we believe in freedom from tyrants, crap. Certainly not for blacks but also those who did not own land. Or slaves.
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)And the Mississippi law reflects that court decision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts?fbclid=IwAR1wrGTDYts0J9e8NxBcJe22L5qpTmNNZ1Qyj1FaylYvlokf8tPNZKrNNs4#:~:text=Jacobson%20v.%20Massachusetts%2C%20197%20U.S.%2011%20%281905%29%2C%20was,subject%20to%20the%20police%20power%20of%20the%20state