Cracks in the Vax
With much fanfare, the Biden Administration introduced a variety of coronavirus vaccination mandates. And it appears that one by one, regardless of how narrow or broad, those that were challenged have been halted by courts.
Undeterred, their new plans announced this week include boosters for everyone and jabs for kids…never mind the side effects of such medical treatment, or the fact that their past mandates have failed.
Republicans threatened to hold up a continuing resolution to fund the government unless a “no jab mandate” provision was included. Clearly a stunt, but their point was made and the kick-the-can-down-the-road approach to budgeting and governing went through.
But there was a new crack in the Democrat vax parade yesterday…from a Democrat.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, seemingly the single most important vote in Congress right now, issued a statement saying he would not support shutting down the government due to a political stand on jabs, but that he supported a bill to prohibit a federal vaccination mandate.
In a statement, Manchin said, “But let me be clear, I do not support any government vaccine mandate on private businesses. That’s why I have co-sponsored and will strongly support a bill to overturn the federal government vaccine mandate for private businesses.”
Again, this has nothing to do with whether you *should* get a shot, just whether the government can overreach and *require* private entities to force it on workers. And again, you can be pro-vaccine and anti-mandate.
Manchin’s view has been public, but not well known…because reporting on it doesn’t fit the current narrative. And frankly, it takes this important topic–dealing with COVID–out of the political realm, where it doesn’t belong.
