> 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 ma

> 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.