The Biden administration will end its last remaining vaccine mandates for foreign air travelers and federal workers May 11. Furthermore, the government is starting to eliminate jab requirements for healthcare workers, Head Start educators, and foreigners at U.S. land borders.
Destroying the lingering ruins of 2021’s year of coercion symbolizes the transition to treating COVID-19 as a routine, endemic affliction. Despite jobs lost due to mandate incompliance, the vaccine’s inability to prevent transmission, and latter 2022 data showing most deaths from COVID-19 were among the vaccinated, White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha recently stated that the vaccine mandates “had tremendous beneficial impact.”
Profoundly divisive, more than 100 million people at a given time were affected by Biden’s extensive mandates after he previously ruled out the possibility of such requirements. While it was known that the vaccine did not stop the spread of the virus, Biden embraced the mandates as he claimed the unvaccinated were putting others at risk.
“We’ve been patient. But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us,” Biden said at the time. The unvaccinated minority “can cause a lot of damage, and they are.”
In addition, he claimed the unvaccinated were jeopardizing the nation’s economic recovery while mandates cost thousands of Americans their employment, and lockdowns resulted in the shuttering of businesses all over the country.
Congress and federal courts previously overturned Biden’s vaccine requirements for large employers and military servicemembers. With some mandates succumbing to legal action, many employees’ positions are being reinstated with backpay.
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