On Thursday Joe Biden announced a new vaccine mandate, this time for all federal workers and contractors. Either get vaccinated or submit to regular covid testing.
Via Fox News:
Biden laid out a plan incentivizing Americans to take the vaccine, including paid time off to get vaccinated and $100 payments to Americans who get vaccinated, paid for by government. The president also said that federal workers will be forced to take the vaccine or be required to be tested regularly.
“It’s time to impose requirements on key groups to make sure they are vaccinated,” Biden said. “Every federal government employee will be asked to attest to their vaccination status. Anyone who does not attest will be required to mask no matter where they work and test 1-2 times a week, socially distance, and will generally not be allowed to travel for work.”
Biden said that will also apply to federal contractors.
“From the moment I was elected I said I’d always give it to you straight from the shoulder, we need straight talk right now,” Biden said, adding that his experts tell him coronavirus cases will rise before they drop.
Biden reiterated his previous claim that the coronavirus pandemic is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” and called the situation an “American tragedy.”
I believe that the covid vaccines work yet everyone should be able to make a personal choice.
While Biden may have made this announcement expect either a lot of pushback from the federal employee unions or a whole lot of resignations and anger from people who would in other circumstances support his administration.
Of course while a trimming down of the federal work force via mass resignations is something to be desired the sad truth is the Biden administration would just hire replacements who will comply and do as their told.
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