Democrats Want COVID Vaccine Mandates, But One Event Stands in the Way

We all know they want to do this. It’s the worst kept secret out there. Democrats want mandatory COVID vaccinations. They all but admitted it in the White House press room. They want to go door-to-door because that’s not creepy. That’s not medical fascism. Unlike when Obama said this pervasively when he was trashing the country for eight years, “this isn’t who we are.” Well, it isn’t. Oh, but have no fear—it’s not authoritarian because the people doing the government’s bidding on this front would be volunteers, not government officials. That’s a distinction without a difference. And there’s not going to be a database. You cannot coordinate an effort like this without one. Try again.  

Yet, why has the Biden White House, the Democratic Party, and the liberal media been coy about this? Some so-called medical experts have said the quiet part out loud, but the reason for them keeping the powder dry here is simple: the 2022 midterms. This nation already was undergoing a lengthy debate at kitchen tables about vaccinations, especially when it comes to autism. It’s a debunked theory, but the irony of this whole COVID vaccine mess is that I wouldn’t blame anyone for having reservations given the horrid messaging we’ve seen. It’s gone beyond get the shot but keep wearing your mask and stay inside. It’s now ‘the vaccine can still kill you, but get it anyway…also, the messaging needs to be better.’ That’s literally what Jen Psaki said recently at a press briefing. Better messaging, but this vaccine could kill. Well, that’s a crackerjack group in the communications office, huh? 

Did Jen Psaki just claim that vaccines "can still kill you"?

A moment later she says that "we need to be clear and direct about our messaging." pic.twitter.com/OY1tlAM2zZ

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Jonathan Turley, a lawyer and professor at George Washington University Law School, highlighted this 2022 midterm point on his blog. With 150+ million unvaccinated voters out there already confused, reluctant, and angry, it’s best not to kick that hornet’s nest right now. At the same time, he admitted that there is legal precedent for mandatory vaccination procedures, but again—politics is coming first:

As I discussed in a column last year, there is a 1905 case where the Supreme Court upheld a state mandatory vaccination program of school children for small pox in Massachusetts. In Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905), the Court found that such programs are the quintessential state power rather than a federal power. It also held that “every well-ordered society charged with the duty of conserving the safety of its members the rights of the individual in respect of his liberty may at times, under the pressure of great dangers, be subjected to such restraint, to be enforced by reasonable regulations, as the safety of the general public may demand.” States are allowed to subject citizens to restraints to protect “general comfort, health, and prosperity of the State.”

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The problem is when you have leading analysts arguing for such measures as coercive devices. While there is considerable deference on such matters, the courts could take note of such demands to make life hard on those who are not “getting with the program.”

As of July 11, a total of 159,266,536 Americans have been fully vaccinated. That is 48 percent of the country’s population. When you consider the extremely high rate of vaccination for those over 65, the percentage of adults under 65 is even smaller. Despite all of the press and bizarre reward systems, the government is clearly hitting a wall with many people declining the vaccines…

That is a sizable number of voters and the Democrats are leery of openly forcing vaccines before the 2022 election. That is why the push is to make life more difficult through private companies. However, if these measures are viewed as designed to coerce, courts may be more scrutinizing of the public health necessity for the measures.

Still, the takeaway here is that the ‘follow the science’ crowd, of which Biden is a big proponent, seems to be taking a rather political approach to this. Isn’t this delay going to endanger lives? Won’t this kill people? 

Look, I’m not anti-science, but this administration and the lab coat clowns we see on CNN and MSNBC daily, Fauci being the biggest of all, have been peddling science fiction for months. Second, if we can delay public health measures no matter what form they come in, be it mandatory or voluntary, doesn’t that mean the situation isn’t all that dire. In liberal America, COVID is like the Andromeda Strain that we must tackle on a united front even if that means mandatory vaccination, but it can wait until after the midterms? So, it's only a national emergency after Election Day and only if Democrats win--yeah, we've seen this movie before.