Constitution allows Biden to mandate COVID vaccine. Federal government can do even more.
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, each state has taken its own approach on masking, vaccine distribution and education.
As the new school year gets underway, New York is requiring all students, teachers and staff in public and private schools to wear masks, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is doubling down. Last week, he filed an emergency appeal to ban school mask mandates as several districts ignore his order.
And sure enough, different approaches have netted different results. A peer-reviewed study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine of the early pandemic months (beginning in July 2020) has shown greater COVID-19 death rates in states with Republican governors. Over seven days ending Thursday, Florida has had nearly 10 times the deaths per 100,000 people as New York.
As one thinks back to the pre-pandemic debates about other political topics, such as abortion, we see a striking inversion. “Pro-life” and “pro-choice” have new meanings. In Republican states, wearing a mask or getting vaccinated is now framed as a personal choice, regardless of its impact on the lives of other people.
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