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> I truly can't understand why a COVID vaccine mandate, and only a COVID vaccine mandate, is suddenly tyranny. I have not managed to wrap my head around this o

• kcplate 5y ago
  > As a society we've been mandating vaccines for almost a century now In the US the Covid vaccine “mandate” is not actually a public mandate, as there is no mandate to specifically vaccinate every American. It’s basically the federal government blackmailing some employers through regulation to mandate vaccination as a condition of employment by creating punitive costs to the employer that can’t be eliminated without forcing their employees to vaccinate. I honestly think it would have been less controversial if it had been a public mandate…everyone gets vaccinated—or like the ACA mandate, your hit with a tax penalty. The problem is to do that and for it to survive legal muster, they would need to have it come up through Congress as a law. How it went down is simply shady and folks don’t like it when their government is shady.
  • rsj_hn 5y ago
    Yes, this is a well-reasoned and accurate summary, and also why courts are placing injunctions on some of these executive orders -- because they are shady. The problem is that the U.S. is a Federalist system where states are supposed to take the lead on public health, and national coordination is hard with a divided Federal government.