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During the pandemic last year, the famous catchphrase was “we’re in this together.” How quickly times have changed. Recently, the “togetherness” aspect has been scrapped for the “us versus them” mentality. President Joe Biden and his administration have even begun vilifying certain Americans based on their vaccination status and taking the extraordinary measure of blaming the pandemic on a sizeable portion of the population. How did we get here?
The lockdowns over the past 19 months were predicated on the needs of society and a broad denial of the individual’s needs. Public health emergencies always require balancing the needs of the community with individual freedom, and it was understandable in March of 2020 that the impetus was on mitigating the spread of a dangerous virus.
The problems arose when state governments, notably California, New York, New Jersey, and Michigan – but there were others, began using the health crisis as justification to obliterate individual liberties. In those states, the individual’s rights were subsumed entirely by the grandiose “needs” of the collective.
The individual’s religious freedom was trampled, as overreaching governors and mayors insisted that society had a more pressing need than people who wanted to attend church. Never mind the reality that bars and restaurants were open in many of these same jurisdictions, while churches were forced to keep their doors closed. --->READ MORE HERE
While U.S. institutions are dead set on forcing the COVID-19 vaccine on their employees, some Americans are fighting back with lawsuits and even walking out on their jobs in protest of the draconian demands.
After months of promising that his administration would not mandate the COVID-19 jab, President Joe Biden required the shot for federal workers and later directed the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to create a vaccine requirement for private businesses with 100 or more employees.
While some red state governors have taken action to protect their residents from mandates that would violate their freedom to make independent medical decisions about the COVID-19 jab, other states have taken steps to force their own employees and residents into getting the shot in the name of combatting the virus and keeping hospitalization numbers down. Even before the government became involved in vaccine mandates, corporations and companies were lording their firing power over the working class to force them to get the shot or risk losing their income.
Despite an avalanche of new requirements that compel people to get the shot or lose their jobs, Americans are using the power of protest to send a message. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to related stories and resources:
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