On Monday, the White House announced its Covid-19 vaccine requirements for federal employees, federal contractors, and international air travelers will expire on May 11, coinciding with the end of the Covid public health emergency. The 15 Days to Flatten the Curve that began on March 16, 2020, stretched to 1,141 days.
In some ways, the repeal is a victory against the irrational tyranny behind the vaccine mandates. Americans no longer have to choose between taking an experimental, ineffective medical product and keeping their job.
We no longer have to endure the irrationality of enforcing vaccine mandates for air travelers but not for illegal immigrants at our southern border.
We no longer have to listen to the tyrannical paternalism behind forcing people to receive a shot that they don’t want while insisting that it is saving their lives.
At the same time, however, it is far from a victory; we have returned to what should be the normal state, and we already witnessed the suffering that the mandates incurred. Millions of people were forced to choose between the truth of their convictions and earning a living. Others lost years of visiting loved ones in foreign countries. The people who implemented this Hell remain in power, and they appear unremorseful.
The Biden Administration did not admit error in its policies; instead, it took great pride in its two years of forced jabs.
“Our COVID-19 vaccine requirements bolstered vaccination across the nation, and our broader vaccination campaign has saved millions of lives,” the White House boasted.
“While vaccination remains one of the most important tools in advancing the health and safety of employees and promoting the efficiency of workplaces, we are now in a different phase of our response when these measures are no longer necessary.”
There is no solid evidence for any of those claims. And substantial policy questions remain.
Since March 2020, Covid served as the basis for political initiatives far beyond the realm of public health. It was used as the justification for eviction moratoriums, patrolling the southern border, and student debt relief. Considering the future requires an understanding of the Biden White House’s mandate regime.
The History of the Mandates
Beginning in July 2021, President Biden issued a series of Covid vaccine mandates.
In September 2021, he announced, “Next, I will sign an executive order that will now require all executive branch federal employees to be vaccinated — all. And I’ve signed another executive order that will require federal contractors to do the same. If you want to work with the federal government and do business with us, get vaccinated.” He then announced that the Department of Labor would require all employers with 100 or more workers to get vaccinated.
“We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin,” he scolded unvaccinated Americans. “Your refusal has cost all of us.”
The following month, Biden banned international air travelers from entering the United States without proof of receiving the Covid shots. Visitors remained able to enter the country testing positive for the virus so long as they had agreed to the President’s mandatory injection program.
But President Biden’s disappointment in his citizens did not convince the American public of the righteousness of his crusade. In the ensuing months, the shots’ lack of efficacy became readily apparent, and Americans were reluctant to get their “boosters.”
Biden did not relent, however. He publicly scolded Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers for not getting the shots and insisted that there was a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” going into 2022.
In August 2022, the White House faced backlash when tennis superstar Novak Djokovic was unable to participate in the U.S. Open because of the ban on unvaccinated international air travelers. The strict enforcement did not apply to illegal immigrants crossing the southern border. A reporter asked the White House to explain this enforcement discrepancy later that month.
“How come migrants are allowed to come into this country unvaccinated but world-class tennis players are not?” asked Fox’s Peter Doocy.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre struggled to articulate an explanation.
“So as far — you know, just to — just since you asked about me — about him — you asked me about him. So, visa records are confidential under U.S. law. Therefore, the U.S. government cannot discuss the details of individual visa cases. Due to privacy reasons, the U.S. government also does not comment on medical information of individual travelers,” she stammered as she avoided the question.
She then told Doocy that the issue comparison between illegals crossing the border and international air travelers was unfounded because “they’re two different things.”
Djokovic reentered headlines in March 2023 when he was unable to participate in a Florida tournament because of the ongoing travel ban. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called on Biden to lift the restriction. When asked about the ban stemming from the President’s ban, Ms. Jean-Pierre deflected blame to the CDC, telling the press, “They’re the ones who deal with that. [The ban’s] still in place, and we expect everyone to abide by our country’s rule, whether as a participant or a spectator.”
Djokovic was unable to play in the tournament, but momentum against the Biden regime’s edicts gained steam. Later that month, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction blocking President Biden’s mandate for federal employees to receive the Covid jabs.
In April, President Biden signed a law that ended the Covid national emergency in a bill introduced by Rep. Paul Gosar. The bill passed the House in a 229-197 vote and the Senate in a 68-23 vote.
What happens now
A number of other pandemic-era policies will also end on May 11, including Title 42, which allows Border Patrol to immediately send illegal immigrants at the southern border back to Mexico. Texas Governor Greg Abbott expects up to 13,000 illegal immigrants to cross the US-Mexico border every day after the expiration.
This may exacerbate the ongoing crisis at the border.
In the last 10 days alone, over 73,000 migrants have crossed the southern border as Title 42 comes closer to expiration. Border Patrol announced that in that time it stopped 19 sex offenders, six gang members, and a convicted murderer from entering the United States. Additionally, Border Patrol seized 19 pounds of heroin, 54 pounds of fentanyl, 1,052 pounds of meth, 676 pounds of cocaine, and 823 pounds of marijuana.
There are more issues at stake than immigration.
The Supreme Court is considering whether the White House’s order to cancel student debt was constitutional. The Biden White House has defended its actions by claiming that the Heroes Act of 2003 allows the US Education Secretary to change federal student loan programs during national emergencies such as the Covid pandemic. Going forward, the White House will have to adopt new rationales for future executive actions related to student debt.
On the legal front, employment law firm Jackson Lewis reports that there are over 2,000 existing challenges to Covid 19 vaccine mandates in the courts right now, and over 35 percent involve public employers.
Challenges to the federal mandates may now be moot, meaning courts will dismiss the cases because the mandates are no longer in effect. Plaintiffs will be able to return to work without adhering to the White House’s vaccine requirements, but there will also be no accountability for those in charge.
These days and for many months and years following, all the people involved in the pandemic response – not only government officials but media mouthpieces and Big Tech accomplices – will be rewriting history and hoping that everyone will forget the real history. They are trying to avoid accountability and save whatever vestiges of despotism that they can, while hoping to institutionalize the powers that made all of this possible.
They cannot be allowed to win this struggle for essential rights, liberties, and truth.
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It is time for RETALIATION for every bit of this. We cannot wait for “rule of law” that Justice Roberts abdicated, to be restored. “They” will purge the history and quietly hide under rocks till it all blows away. We should have been shooting months ago! I for one am running out of patience!
WHOA, Cowboy!
Go get yourself a cold beer and watch the show as it unfolds. This movie is in good hands.
No no no, there are a lot of former military who would solve the problems starting in the colleges with all the socialism in a week. We keep hearing about all this 5th gen bs warfare. Well, I don’t see anybody in orange jump suites yet. The guilty spit in our faces daily as they walk free while we on the deckplate level suffer. I’m tired of being the “nice guy” and taking the “higher road”! Dead communists cannot be pardoned by the next “Obama” regime that will ultimately occour after however many years of a successful Trump administration. We are quickly losing the opportunity to actually DO SOMETHING real. Riddle me this Batman, what freedom will they take away next week?
I beg to differ. Our government is responsible in a myriad of issues but the virus was from China. I believe, if I remember correctly, the1st case in the US was in Washington state and the person had been overseas. We have seen what happens in other countries when they “begin” shooting. That is not what we want on American soil. I too get anxious and wonder when it will get better but I can’t second guess what the military is doing. The country is already a total mess with mass shootings everywhere. It’s bad enough that we don’t make things worse if we can keep from it. I just pray this doesn’t continue for another year; even another month but just recently we have heard things are speeding up. Take note of what we were told long ago. Israel is the last. If you haven’t heard Israel is in international news now. Look it up.
Reminder to remember when you’re up against it…
It must be done right.
It must be done according to the rule of law.
It must carry weight.
It must be proven in the court of law.
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It must be done right.
It must be done according to the rule of law.
It must carry weight.
It must be proven in the court of law.
There can be no mistakes.
Good things sometimes take time.
Attempts to slow/block the inevitable [Justice] will fail.
[D]s election interference 2016.
>Clinton/Hussein illegal FISA
[D]s election interference 2018.
>Mueller
[D]s election interference 2020.
>Impeachment
Projection.
These people are sick.
We, the People, are the cure.
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#3724
Let’s revisit this conversation in a year. If I am wrong, I will admit it. Time will tell.