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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 03:41 PM Oct 2021

Biden Says Vaccine Mandates Are the Only Way to Defeat Covid

President Biden on Thursday appealed to private companies to mandate coronavirus vaccinations for employees, asking them to take initiative as an effort that he announced last month to require 80 million American workers to get the shot undergoes a lengthy rule-making process and may not go into effect for weeks.

The president, delivering remarks at a construction site outside Chicago, said that encouraging Americans to get vaccinated had helped, but it had not gone far enough to address the pandemic.

“Even after all of these efforts, we still have more than a quarter of the people in the United States who are eligible for vaccinations but didn’t get the shot,” Mr. Biden said. “That’s why I’ve had to move toward requirements.”

He said mandates had not been his first instinct, but the requirements were “already proving that they work.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-says-vaccine-mandates-are-the-only-way-to-defeat-covid/ar-AAPduiY

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Biden Says Vaccine Mandates Are the Only Way to Defeat Covid (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
And he's correct. SergeStorms Oct 2021 #1
When will they institute a mandate that applies to ALL Americans? MichMan Oct 2021 #2
We're NEVER Going To Escape Covid Here In America SoCalDavidS Oct 2021 #3

SergeStorms

(18,903 posts)
1. And he's correct.
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 03:43 PM
Oct 2021

Of course in a normal country, with citizens who
were actually patriotic, this wouldn't be necessary.

MichMan

(11,790 posts)
2. When will they institute a mandate that applies to ALL Americans?
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 04:06 PM
Oct 2021

Not just those working for large employers.

What about those working for smaller employers, not working, unemployed, retired etc. ?

SoCalDavidS

(9,998 posts)
3. We're NEVER Going To Escape Covid Here In America
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 04:15 PM
Oct 2021

A year ago, I thought the idea that Covid would be something that we have to live with forever, was premature, since vaccines would help us get it under control.

I now realize that we're NEVER going to reach herd immunity, and that Covid will pop up now and then, and we're just going to wait for the day it infects each one of us.

It's ALWAYS going to be out there, because there will ALWAYS be at least 25-30% of the population who refuse to get vaccinated.

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