Vaccine mandates like slavery

[ajax18]

While the media would have you believe that the only group of people refusing the vaccine are rural Trump supporters, there's apparently another political faction refusing the vaccine in greater numbers but avoiding Biden's handlers criticism levied against anyone right of center for obvious political reasons.

Since demanding a vaccine passport would have a disparate impact on black people, vaccine passports must therefore be systemically racist and the mayor of Boston is pretty much saying so. At the very least it's a contradiction for the Biden administration to say that a law requiring voter ID is Jim Crow on steroids while a law requiring a vaccine passport is race neutral.


Boston mayor compares NYC’s vaccine mandate to slavery, birtherism

The mayor of Boston said the city won’t be following New York’s lead requiring proof of vaccination at many indoor businesses, claiming the move is reminiscent of “slavery” and birtherism.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey — the first woman and black Bostonian to hold the office — said “there’s a long history” in the United States of people “needing to show their papers” when asked Tuesday about the mandate unveiled earlier in the day by Mayor Bill de Blasio that requires proof of vaccination to enter indoor restaurants, entertainment venues and gyms starting on Sept. 13.

“During slavery, post-slavery, as recent as, you know, what the immigrant population has to go through here, we’ve heard Trump with the birth certificate nonsense,” Janey told WCVB. “Here, we want to make sure that we are not doing anything that would further create a barrier for residents of Boston or disproportionally impact BIPOC communities.”

Janey said the city instead “wants to lean in heavy” on partnering with community groups to ramp up Boston’s vaccination rate and give people more access to the “lifesaving” vaccine.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced proof of vaccination at many indoor businesses would begin on Sept. 13.

“As it relates to people who want to encourage their workforce to get vaccinated, we certainly support that,” Janey continued.

Sixty-six percent of Bostonians had received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to Janey, who took office in March when Marty Walsh resigned to become President Joe Biden’s labor secretary.

“That is good progress,” Janey said. “We have much more work to do to make sure that everyone can get the vaccine and we will continue to focus on that.”

But Janey said a mandate like New York’s would be “difficult” to enforce. Her comments drew harsh rebukes from some of her opponents in November’s upcoming mayoral election.

“When we are combating a deadly virus & vaccine hesitancy in some communities, this kind of rhetoric is dangerous,” tweeted City Councilor Andrea Campbell tweeted. “Showing proof of vaccination is not slavery or birtherism. We are too close to give ground to COVID. Science is science. It’s pretty simple – Vax up and mask up.”

Janey responded to the criticism later Tuesday while at a block party, the Boston Globe reported.

“What I said was there is a long history of asking people to show their papers,” Janey explained. “What our focus here in Boston is in making sure that everyone has access to the vaccine, making sure that we are doing everything to vaccinate our workforce in the city of Boston, making sure that our residents have access to the vaccine.”

Janey’s press office also released a statement clarifying her remarks, WCVB reported.

“Earlier today, I pointed out several hurdles facing communities of color with lower vaccination rates,” the statement read. “These hurdles should not be excuses, but we must consider our shared history as we work to ensure an equitable public health and economic recovery.”

Janey said there’s no current plans for vaccine mandates at businesses despite a recent rise in COVID-19 cases in Boston due to the Delta variant.

“But we are still well below threshold levels that have guided policy decisions throughout the pandemic,” Janey’s statement read. “Work with our business community will continue, as we learn to live with COVID-19.”

https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/boston-ma ... o-slavery/

[canpakes]

She doesn’t appear to be comparing it to slavery. Maybe you can point out that connection?

And, no - ‘showing papers’ isn’t your answer. ; )

Either way, this still isn’t as bad as that fellow from the Texas GOP who compared mask mandates to Naziism. But, he’s dead from COVID now, so he’s safe from Naziism. I guess that worked out.

In May, Apley posted an invitation for a “mask burning” being held at a bar in Cincinnati, commenting, “I wish I lived in the area!” A couple of weeks earlier, he posted a news article about giveaways and incentives meant to encourage people to get vaccinated, writing, “Disgusting.” Apley also railed against so-called vaccine passports, which restrict high-risk activities, such as indoor dining, to the fully vaccinated.

Recently, he suggested that mask mandates in Germany were akin to Nazism. And when former Baltimore health commissioner Leana Wen celebrated good news this spring about the Pfizer vaccine’s efficacy, a seemingly outraged Apley called her “an absolute enemy of a free people.”

[ajax18]

Either way, this still isn’t as bad as that fellow from the Texas GOP who compared mask mandates to Naziism.

And that's why neither the media nor the Biden administration aren't taking aim at anti vaxers on the left but rather De Santis? Nope. Politics first, public safety later.

I hope they do mandate vaccination passports. I can already hear the howls and accusations of systemic racism if anyone asks a nonwhite person to see their proof of vaccination.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

I have Xanax on ignore, but let me guess, this is somehow about a black person?

Also, Xanax is a neo-Nazi:



- Doc

[MeDotOrg]

First there was Communism, then Socialism, then Liberalism, and now we have the Biomedical Security State.

I wonder if anyone can name a totalitarian state that came into power on the coattails of a pandemic. Governor DeSantis is willing to sacrifice the lives of Floridians to protect them from the tyranny of a state which has never existed in history.

Human existence requires prerequisites for life. We live in a state of critical dependencies. Government provides framework human society. But before we have government, human beings need a safe genome. We are biological entities before we are political entities. A government that does not recognize the critical dependencies of human existence can not be successful in protecting its citizens.

Throw government out of the picture. What is happening is that the human genome is under attack from another life form, the Covid novel virus. Each human being is a soldier in that war. If you are a member of the human genome, you've been drafted, whether you want to be or not. That's the contract you sign when agree to become a biological entity on earth.

As a soldier in that war, your mission is to deny the enemy the battlefield. Your responsibility is your body, but the battlefield stretches across the human genome. If the enemy gains your body on the battlefield, it isn't just your loss. You become both a burden and a danger. Emergency rooms fill up, and the quality of emergency service goes down. Elective surgeries are cancelled. An act of individual freedom has huge social consequences. In the give and take between individual freedom and social responsibility, the price is usually paid by the person exercising their freedom. If you don't wear a seat belt or smoke cigarettes, it won't kill the Doctor who operates on you.

Covid is a different threat. The question I would ask DeSantis: When the government won't lift a finger to provide biological security, how long does he expect health care workers to stay in Florida? If you were a health care worker, is that where you'd want to move?

Placing individual freedom above the health of the community will mean that we will never be rid of Covid.

[canpakes]

Either way, this still isn’t as bad as that fellow from the Texas GOP who compared mask mandates to Naziism.

And that's why neither the media nor the Biden administration aren't taking aim at anti vaxers on the left …

Isn’t your link to ‘the media’?

[Gadianton]

um, ajax, a word search on "mask" only appeared once in the article. The article is about vaccines. Your title should be "Vaccine mandates like Slavery". In fact, in your intro paragraph you talk about the vaccine.

Could you correct the title? Then, we can move on to your next mistakes.

[Gadianton]

I'm sorry ajax, but I've reported your OP as off topic, since the title says masks but it's about the vaccine.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

I don’t know why Trumpists are so opposed to masks. They love masks!



- Doc

[Moksha]

I don’t know why Trumpists are so opposed to masks. They love masks!
- Doc

Yes, but those masks are not for disease prevention. As Cultellus will tell you, you cannot shout profanities as loudly with a surgical type mask.