The Anti-Science of Ongoing Covid Vaccine & Booster Mandates
What Will it Take to End the Last Covid Vaccine Mandate?
There’s a viral clip going around of reporter Peter Doocy utterly embarrassing White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP). He does so by questioning her over the Biden administration’s hypocrisy over vaccine mandates.
On the one hand the Biden administration continue to enforce a strict vaccine mandate for air travel, which recently has led to the very public display of tennis Superstar Nokav Djokovic not being able to play at the US Open as he is barred from entry to the US.
At the same time, the administration has argued in court that pandemic related Title 42 restrictions on illegal immigrants are no longer necessary, meaning that illegal immigrants, regardless of their vaccination status, are now allowed to be released into the US. Many have commented on the absurdity of the situation.
It did not receive much media coverage, but in part of the CDC's admission to failing in their Covid response they recently updated their guidance in a new document titled "Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems".
In this document the CDC clarifies that, even by their standards, there is no longer any rationale to treat unvaccinated individuals any differently than their vaccinated counterparts.
"CDC’s COVID-19 prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person’s vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur,... and persons who have had COVID-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection"
As I wrote a year ago, Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates were always terribly fraught, but to still be imposing a Covid vaccine mandate in August of 2022 is unconscionable, even the CDC is now admitting there is no point to it.
So part of why KPJ is flailing in that clip so badly is because she can't just fall back on "The Science" anymore, there's just no good justification for the Biden Administration maintaining this policy which still restricts Billions of people from traveling to the US.
And what's worse is that it's not just air travel. Our troops, including hard to find new recruits, and still subjected to a mandate. Workers in many sectors across the US lost their jobs over these policies and still aren’t allowed to be hired back. And in many of our Universities students, who are the least at risk of Covid and who suffer the highest rates of vaccine injuries, are still subjected to mandates.
Locally, UC Davis still imposes a Covid Vaccine Booster mandate for students, faculty, and staff!
You wonder how long this can all continue?
Will these universities expand their booster mandate to the new "Omicron Booster" which will roll out in a number of weeks. You know the booster that's still going through human studies...
That's right, the plan is to roll out the new booster based on studies in 8 mice...
According to the current UC Davis Vaccine Program Policy, updated as recently as August 30th, students are still required to receive “any boosters recommended by the CDC or by CDPH”. So unless this policy changes then as soon as the CDC recommends the new boosters for all adults it will become mandatory. And UC Davis won’t be alone, it’s likely that millions will remain subjected to these ongoing mandates for some time to come.
I couldn't imagine continuing to mandate these boosters every year, but then again I never believed we'd be firing healthcare workers who already had Covid because they wouldn't take a shot that doesn't prevent Covid anyway... So here we are.
It makes me wonder, when even the CDC has abandoned the idea of treating the unvaccinated differently, thus destroying any shred of "scientific" backing for mandates, how are any of these mandates still in place? and what will it take to end them?
I guess more shaming of the mandators, similar to what Doocy did to KJP, is a good place to start.
Anyway, 0 and 2...