After threatening 100 million Americans with loss of employment in September 2021 if they didn’t take experimental Covid shots, the Biden administration is now lifting the mandate next week, when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus is set to expire.
According to a White House announcement on Monday, vaccine requirements for federal workers and federal contractors, as well as foreign air travelers to the United States, will end on May 11. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will be ending shot requirements for Head Start educators, healthcare workers affiliated with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and some non-citizens entering the country via land borders.
Touting how a “whole-of-a-government” approach led to 270 million Americans receiving at least one dose of the Covid vaccine and how 98 percent of all those covered by the sweeping federal mandates got jabbed, the administration concluded that it was the reason the Covid numbers were now at their lowest and, therefore, these “requirements” were no longer needed.
“While I believe that these vaccine mandates had a tremendous beneficial impact, we are now at a point where we think that it makes a lot of sense to pull these requirements down,” White House Covid-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told the Associated Press.
Before taking office in January 2021, Biden opposed the idea of vaccine mandates, stating that he believed Americans would “do the right thing” without coercion. Nine months later, the president did an about-face on the matter and proclaimed the unvaccinated were a “threat” to the vaccinated as well as to the economic “recovery” and must take a vaccine or get sacked. That concerned not only federal employees, educators, healthcare workers, and contractors, but also all those employed by larger private businesses. Just to avoid any confusion on how authoritarian his edict was, Biden explained, “This is not about freedom or personal choice, it’s about protecting yourself and those around you.” At that time, the CDC had already determined that the shots were ineffective in stopping viral transmission.
The sweeping federal mandates unleashed on the federal workforce, the U.S. military (announced by the DOD in August 2021), and the private sector were met with ferocious legal pushback and resulted in an avalanche of lawsuits.
In January 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its vaccine-or-test requirements for private companies with 100 or more employees but allowed a vaccine mandate to stand for medical facilities that took Medicare or Medicaid payments.
In December 2021, a federal district court in Georgia halted the enforcement of the vaccine mandate for millions of federal contractors. In January 2022, a Southern District Court of Texas judge temporarily blocked the order preventing the federal government from enforcing the mandate on its employees while litigation continued. The Biden regime filed an appeal, but the mandate for federal workers was blocked by an appeals court in March.
The White House’s Monday announcement might seem like a relief and an indication that the administration is coming to its senses, but this is unlikely.
First of all, vaccine mandates never made sense scientifically. One of the central arguments for the mandates was built on the belief that vaccinating Person A would prevent Person B from catching the virus. That was not the case, according to the official data quoted above. Moreover, the vaccine manufacturers likely knew the efficacy of the shots was short-lived, as suggested by the speed at which they were developing boosters. During 2021 and 2022, the CDC kept expanding the recommendations to stay “up-to-date” with Covid shots by taking four, five, and, in some cases, six doses of the supposedly effective “vaccine.” In 2023, the emergency use authorization (EUA) of the shots was recalled, only to be replaced with an EUA for the new formulations. The Covid shots have a terrible safety profile and are associated with severe adverse effects in one of the 800 recipients.
Speaking from the perspective of medical ethics, not a single vaccine recipient could have given a meaningful informed consent, since the many risks of the shots were never disclosed. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was taken to court over its refusal to make public documents that led to approval of Pfizer’s shot, which the agency asked to keep under wraps for 75 years.
Even more importantly, the mandates were a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution, as acknowledged by the courts, and thus were never justified from a legal perspective, even if the shots were perfectly safe and effective. Yet Biden declined to recognize limits on his power and forced experimental medical intervention on millions of Americans.
