On Thursday US president Joe Biden announced that companies with more than 100 employees will be forced to either require their employees get vaccinated against Covid-19 or submit to weekly testing. Biden also issued an executive order to forcefully jab federal workers and contractors who work for the federal government.
The remaining 17 million healthcare workers employed in facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid will also be forced to get a shot for which there has been no long-term studies to show a clear benefit. These groups number at least 100 million Americans.
He said his patience was “wearing thin” ignoring many findings that contradict the usefulness of getting this jab. But it appears that conservative Americans now realise that they elected a snake-oil salesman. A number of Republican governors have vowed to challenge the constitutionality of the mandate that affects two-thirds of American workers in court.
Unlike American federal workers, illegal immigrants held in federal detention facilities have the option to refuse the injection and at least a third have indicated that they would refuse the shot.
More than 18 percent of migrant families who recently crossed the border tested positive for Covid before being released by border agents.
Newsweek meanwhile reported that members of Congress and their staff would be exempt From Biden’s forced vaccination roll-out. Thus President Joe Biden’s new vaccine mandates for federal employees and other workers will not apply to members of Congress or their staff members.