The COVID vaccine mandates

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Blaze News original: Let us never forget the left's reprehensible behavior toward fellow Americans who refused COVID jabs

After COVID-19 vaccines became available in early 2021, not everybody in America was down with the getting the jabs. Typical vaccines take years of testing prior to approval, but since the COVID vaccines were produced with lightning speed, lots of folks were concerned and resisted getting the shots.

Readers of Blaze News won't soon forget what happened next. Vaccine mandates and steadily growing pressure to get the jab turned into an all-out assault on "anti-vaxxers" by the government, businesses, the mainstream media, celebrities, politicians, and the medical community.

In September 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order requiring federal workers to be vaccinated; that same month, he announced a sweeping vaccination mandate for businesses with more than 100 employees, which the Supreme Court later blocked.

In October 2021, Biden said he believed police officers and first responders who refused the jab should be fired.

Widespread firings indeed happened. Teachers were terminated for not getting vaccinated. Businesses and hospitals fired employees who refused the jab. A viral video showed a nurse being escorted out of a hospital after her religious exemption was denied, and a UCLA doctor suffered a similar fate.

An October 2021 New York City vaccine mandate required all city employees — including police and firefighters — to get the jab or lose their jobs. Indeed, 1,400 city workers were canned for refusing vaccinations, but incredibly Mayor Eric Adams (D) in March 2022 exempted city-based athletes and performers from the mandate. That came after the awful optics of then-Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving, who was unvaccinated, being barred from playing in Brooklyn's home games — but somehow being allowed to watch those games from the seats in the Nets' arena.
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It turned out that the vaccines were not that effective.  My wife and I were both fully vaccinated and still came down with COVID.  It also turned out that most otherwise healthy people survived COVID.  While several people did die from COVID it usually involved comorbidities.  It now looks like a mistake to fire people who refused the vaccine.