{"id":49895,"date":"2021-12-18T18:43:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T18:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49895"},"modified":"2021-12-18T18:45:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T18:45:55","slug":"49895","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49895","title":{"rendered":"What’s wrong with mandates?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So help me I don\u2019t understand how the vaccination campaign against a killer virus has become such a political debate point.<\/p>\n

Republicans keep slamming the nation\u2019s top Democrat, President Joe Biden, because he wants to enforce mandates on companies to require employees and customers to (a) wear masks and\/or (b) be fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n

I mean, holy crap, man! We\u2019re in the midst of a pandemic that\u2019s still killing us!<\/p>\n

I happen to be one American who doesn\u2019t object for a single moment to the efforts the government is making to protect my family and me from the ravages of this disease. It has killed 800,000 Americans already and the number is sure to climb.<\/p>\n

Let us remember, too, this little factoid: The United States comprises about 5 percent of the world\u2019s population, but our infection, hospitalization and death rates far exceed that percentage. We can thank the inept, ignorant and cowardly government response to the initial reports of the pandemic in late 2019 and early 2020.<\/p>\n

President Biden is trying to make amends by imposing these limits. Yet he\u2019s getting push back from Republican politicians who keep hiding behind some phony mantra about \u201ctoo much government control over people\u2019s lives.\u201d What a pile of sh**!<\/p>\n

Too many people\u2019s lives are ending prematurely because they aren\u2019t doing what they should to protect themselves and their loved ones.<\/p>\n

Yet the mandates continue to take their place as a political talking point when we should be rallying behind the effort to protect us from the killer.<\/p>\n

Ridiculous.<\/p>\n

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So help me I don\u2019t understand how the vaccination campaign against a killer virus has become such a political debate point. Republicans keep slamming the nation\u2019s top Democrat, President Joe Biden, because he wants to enforce mandates on companies to require employees and customers to (a) wear masks and\/or (b) be fully vaccinated. I mean, … Continue reading What’s wrong with mandates?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9455,9261],"class_list":["post-49895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-mask-mandate","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49897,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49895\/revisions\/49897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}