The only way to get our lives back is to get everyone vaccinated. Until then, we won’t be able to engage in recreational or work activities where there are other unvaccinated people.
To live in a free, civilized, and open society requires that we all accept numerous “mandates” every day. From seat belts to traffic lights and speed limits, to no-smoking areas. A vaccine mandate should not be any different.
The three stages of vaccination
- We have a vaccine but no one can get it. People chated and fought against each other to be first in line.
- We have enough vaccine for everyone, but we have slow uptake by certain people, be it underprivileged communities, or vaccine hesitants.
- We have a Delta varient that is more transmitable that the origina Covid-19 virus, that it’s raging throug the populations, and anti-vaxxers are the vehicle that’s making it easy for the virus to cotinue to propagate.
At this point, governments and the private sector have done everything within their power to persuade people to get vaccinated. We have run out of options.
This is not a case of: “You do you and I do me.”
No! the inaction of the unvaccinated affects all of our lives.
A vaccine mandate is the only option we have left.
A mandate means: If you don’t get the vaccine you cannot come in here; you cannot work here; you cannot participate in these or the other activities; you cannot fly in an airplane.
Vaccine mandates are nothing new
Seven diseases have been brought under significant control through the use of vaccines: smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus, yellow fever, whooping cough, polio, and measles. Of these, smallpox has been completely eradicated, saving an estimated 5 million people annually.
Who is already mandating Covid-19 vaccine
More than 500 colleges and universities in the United States are mandating their in-campus student to get vaccinated. For example, the Indiana University vaccine mandate was upheld by a federal judge.
Hospitals and healthcare facilities are also mandating employees who deal with the public to get vaccinated. Some health facilities have said that ALL their employees must get vaccinated or be terminated.
Governments are mandating the vaccine as well.
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that all municipal workers — including teachers and police officers — will be required to get vaccinated by mid-September or face weekly COVID-19 testing, making the city one of the largest employers in the U.S. to take such action.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said it will similarly require proof of vaccination or weekly testing for all state workers and millions of public- and private-sector health care employees starting next month.
the Department of Veterans Affairs became the first major federal agency to require health care workers to receive the vaccine.
The announcements are the opening of the floodgates as more government entities and companies impose vaccine mandates after nationwide vaccination efforts have shown fruitless with the anti-vaxxers.
The next step in the United States and Canada is to mandate all federal employees to get vaccinated.
In the U.S. the federal government is the nation’s largest employer and a blanket mandate could affect at least 4 million federal employees, a number that includes civilian workers and members of both the U.S. military and the U.S. Postal Service.
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