I’m not a big fan of mandates, but the time has come to support one. Every state legislature and governor needs to step up and protect public health by prohibiting vaccine mandates anywhere in their states.
For context, Ed Mosca had a post the other day calling out South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for not supporting legislation to ban mandatory vaccinations by private businesses. I watched the video, and I think that her thought process is sound. That government should not be in the business of mandating what private businesses do and that we do not want to go there.
But as Ed points out we are a long way down that road. The government already over-regulates private interests and not just businesses. The overreach is excessive and growing. It’s gotten so bad that governments are forcing people to accept medical treatments and encouraging private businesses to do the same.
Some might say, shouldn’t we take a stand someplace? We should, but not here.
The Fourth Reich flavor of this is obvious, but that’s not my point. We are allowing vaccine mandates in the name of public health to its detriment.
And I’m not referring to the astronomical number of harms, injuries, or even deaths from vaccines, to people who had nothing to fear from COVID.
I am not revisiting the horrible practice of lockdowns and state limitations on public or private health care access that will cost us innumerable life years as a result.
This is much simpler.
By allowing health care providers to mandate vaccination of their health care staff – a jab that most people do not even need – you force those once Beatified frontline workers who object to this treatment, regardless of the grounds, to quit or be fired.
If we flashback to the original political response in 2020, the biggest concern was public health resources. ICU beds continue to be a fear-factor pressure point from the powers that be and their water carriers.
Whether you buy into any of these narratives or arguments or not, what good are these concerns if you do not have nurses?
What good are nurses if facilities are short-staffed that the ones we have left are exhausted, worn out, and open to any number of other health concerns?
How do we care for anyone, in any condition, if there is inadequate personnel to utilize the physical resources available?
And how do we recruit and train replacements who, in the interest of faith, body integrity, or who refuse to be forced under any circumstance into accepting a treatment they do not believe they need. A treatment that does not do what it says, or whose negative effects are still unknown?
Knowing – and this is perhaps the most important point – that there is no reason to believe this is the last time they will be forced to do so and that some new mandate could cost them their job down the road.
It’s not Just Health Care.
Apply that process to every other industry or sector of the economy. Apply it to public and private groups, access to resources, anything a person might do “in pursuit of happiness.”
These mandates will push people out of the workspace. The newly unemployed will burden economies and resources, leaving thousands of job openings it cannot fill.
If they refuse this or the next mandate, access to food and resources could be cut off to them.
Sure, you say, but won’t those people flock to employers or businesses who refuse the mandates? Maybe, but without state-level prohibitions, how long before any business industry is safe from federal-level overreach.
DC has already mandated that any Nursing Home that receives federal money must require all staff to be vaccinated. This will create massive understaffing in these facilities because nurses and other staff will walk away.
The purpose for which they exist will become impossible to fulfill.
If legislatures and governors do not step in to prohibit mandatory vaccination by anyone and to block federal mandates in their states, they are making public health more difficult to both access and acquire.
Isn’t that a sin against the progressive gods? Even Democrats should be willing to stand up and protect access to health care.
I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
