A few inconvenient facts about Biden's vaccine mandate

September 11, 2021 By Andrea Widburg

Joe Biden took to his little lectern on Thursday, shaking with righteous anger.  As you already know, he wasn't angry at al-Qaeda/Taliban terrorists who slaughtered thirteen Americans last month.  Nor was he angry about the sex-trafficking flowing into America through our southern border and on planes loaded with unvetted Afghan "refugees."  Instead, his anger was reserved for those intransigent Americans who refuse to get vaccinated.

They must be punished, he said, whether by being forced out of their jobs or having weekly swaps stuck so high in their noses that they risk piercing their brains.  Others have already commented on the constitutional problems with Biden's remedy for the evil unvaxxed.  I want to talk about a few more practical issues.

First, too few people are paying attention to the fact that this draconian, indeed, fascist dictate is for a virus that, for people under 70, has a mortality rate that is less than 1%.  If a virus with a 10%, 20%, or higher mortality rate were sweeping through America, the panic factor might be different.  But again, we're talking about less than 1% for those under 70..............

Second, this is not a vaccine.  If it were a vaccine, those who are vaccinated would be perfectly safe from those who are not vaccinated.  For example, Howard Stern, who said "f--- their freedom" because this 67-year-old multi-millionaire (worth over $200 million) wants to leave his gated enclave to eat at a restaurant, wouldn't be going full fascist on the rest of us if the vaccine worked...............

Third, Biden has exempted the millions of illegal aliens pouring into the country from the mandate, as well as members of Congress and their staff.  One can view this two ways: Biden hates all these people and wants them to die from COVID......................

Fourth, as Anony Mee wrote me based on experience with the federal government, there are some practical problems with the mandate.  Do any of you believe that there are enough swabs, testing sites, medical personnel, diagnostic reagents, and related people and materials to process as many as 80 million tests a week?...............

Fifth, Anony Mee had another practical point: "Don't forget the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995."  It's more than likely that both the Department of Labor and OSHA lack funding to cover enforcing these new mandates...........

Sixth, there is the brain and skill drain, not just from the federal government's civil service, but from the military as well.  Anony Mee wrote about the civil service, but it's easy to imagine that the military will be affected as well (although the Defense Department and Air Force deny a claim that highly skilled people are already submitting their resignations)

The US is the largest single employer of hard science PhDs in the country, and most probably the entire world.  Of distinguishable groups, PhDs are the least vaccinated.  Can the USG afford to lose them?  DARPA?  USDA which has the largest research institution, the Agricultural Research Service, in the world?  Walter Reed researchers?

As a bonus, here's Ron DeSantis ripping Biden a new one:...............To Read More....