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Now Polls Show The Public Is About Evenly Split

By Mike Huckabee

September 17, 2021
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A couple of new polls show the public is about evenly split on President Biden’s recent vaccination mandates, although the mandate on companies with over 100 employees has approval of 53-46%. Larger percentages of Americans approve of other levels of government-enforced COVID measures, such as vaccine mandates for various groups such as health care workers and teachers, mask mandates and social distancing guidelines.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/americans-divided-biden-covid-poll

And, feeling their oats after the failed recall of Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles County officials plan to lead the way with the strictest “Show us your papers!” rule yet. They plan to require people to show proof of vaccination to enter indoor bars, wineries, breweries, nightclubs, and lounges and proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test for "outdoor mega-events" such as Dodgers, Rams, and Chargers games. They will also recommend, but not require (for now) customers at indoor restaurants to show proof of vaccination. As usual, there’s nothing about exceptions for people who’ve actually had the disease and may have natural immunity as good as or superior to vaccination. This is the government, after all, so one size fits all.

I continue to believe that it’s wise for most people to get vaccinated (I am), providing their own doctors okay it, but I don’t believe the government should be forcing people to do it, or denying you basic rights and freedoms until you submit to having something injected into your body that you object to. If vaccinations work, then how are the unvaccinated a danger to anyone but themselves?

My bigger concern is that even after COVID is under control, with authorities having tasted this unprecedented level of power over people’s lives – and the people having willingly given up their freedom for a false promise of security – there will be no end to future restrictions “for the public good.” In that sense, this could spell the end of America as we knew it.

Related: https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-ncaa-athlete-hit-severe-heart-complication-covid-vaccine-warns-vax-mandates/

Disclaimer: yes, this kind of severe reaction is extremely rare. But so is death by COVID in this person’s age group. It’s another reason why vaccination should be a personal decision of risk assessment between you and your doctor and not a government mandate.

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  • Jerome Malenfant

    09/17/2021 03:15 PM

    Mike asks, "If vaccinations work, then how are the unvaccinated a danger to anyone but themselves?"

    The answers, which anyone who has been following what is going on in the country should know, are:

    (1) The unvaccinated are breeding grounds for the virus, and if allowed to keep breeding the Covid virus may (and probably will) eventually mutate into a form that the vaccination I took will NOT work against.

    (2) Vaccinations (so far) 'work' but just like everything in life, 'work' here does not mean 100% effective. So vaccinated people can still get sick and die from the virus, just at a much lower rate than the unvaccinated.

    (3) The unvaccinated are now getting sick and filling up the ICU's to near capacity in many states (mostly Republican-run ones: Texas, Florida, Idaho, etc). What this means is that non-Covid patients in those states who have life-theatening illnessess can't get the medical help they need because of all the unvaccinated Covid patients who are overwhelming the system.

    That enough reasons for you, Mike?

  • Dorothy Gable

    09/17/2021 10:54 AM

    I would not be so encouraging about the mRNA experimental gene therapy loosely called a vaccine. It has not been proven safe and is not as effective for providing immunity as natural immunity - as seen in an Israeli study. Given the nature of the shot - it is best to leave it to the individual, neither encouraging nor discouraging receiving the injection. Many of us have medical histories that contra-indicate accepting it. Time will tell, but the larger message is the exposure of the authoritarian impulses of our leaders, legislators and leaders of our medical institutions. This only adds to earlier unscientific enforcement of unproven mandates concerning masks and social distancing. The death toll (exaggerated at best) is as likely tied to forbidding early, effective treatments being offered by frontline doctors. In the end, the dire bill of covid will be partly the blame of the disastrous implementation of effective health protocols to this emerging strain of coronavirus at every level of our governments.

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