Addressing Politics

INTRODUCTION

If you have been paying close attention to the development of COVID-19 since the first report from Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019, then you know how quickly it grew around the rest of the world and the impacts it has had economically speaking. COVID-19 was dubbed a hoax by the republican parties President Donald Trump. As the spread of COVID-19 was ignored in 2020, there were many things that developed as a result.

Economic statistics and official publications recorded that the GDP decreased 3.5% in 2020, which was the lowest growth rate since 1946. The Great Recession in 2009 to 2011 carried a 9.6% to 8.9% unemployment rate where in 2020 the average unemployment became close to 8.1% - the highest since 2010. 25 million Americans found themselves relying on unemployment insurance.

The economy lost 9.4 million jobs in 2020, a 6.2% decrease from 2019. By the end of 2020 74% of small businesses reported negative effects from the pandemic and 73% received a Paycheck Protection Program loan. The US experienced an 18% increase in the trade deficit as the we imported $679 billion more in goods and services than exported in 2020.

The goal for the United States is to rebuild a productive economy, especially as we experience further after math of the 2020 debacle of Covid-19 such as shortages in goods due to struggles in shipping. To do that, vaccinations are essential while the anti-vaccination community refuses. With all of the misinformation and disinformation going around, anti-vaccine supporters cry that the vaccine mandate violates freedoms. So, we will dive in and see what the Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate is all about, how it works, and whether or not it really is a violation of rights, freedoms, and the constitution.

WHAT IS A MANDATE

A mandate is an official commission or authority to implement a policy or course of action. Federal mandates specifically extend beyond health and science. In fact there are countless mandates for both intergovernmental mandates and private sector mandates that impact citizens, armed forces, businesses to infrastructure, healthcare, and customs. As far as vaccines, there are at least 13 mandates in place which includes general immunization in order to acquire public education or for children to be placed in daycare.

https://www.immunize.org/laws/

COVID-19 VACCINE MANDATE

Why is it necessary?

The mandate for the COVID-19 vaccine was a push by political leaders to reduce the spread of a mutating and contagious virus. It was necessary because a portion of the US and its citizens refused to consider the science and statistics of COVID-19 and the available free vaccines. Priority of combating the virus shifted from containment to prevention because the virus was given a full year to infect, spread, and mutate into variants that even after vaccines became readily available for, also had the potential for those vaccines to be less effective.

The U.S. spent $18 to $39.5 billion to support the development of crucial COVID-19 vaccines. With enough anti-vaccine movements and propaganda, there was more that needed to be done in order to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. More people needed to get vaccinated quicker for things to get better. The longer it takes people to get vaccinated the more likely there will be variants less like the original virus. The more variants that are less like the original virus, the less effective the vaccines become and the more likely a deadly pandemic will break out again. Should another pandemic begin, the U.S. will have to unnecessarily spend billions more developing another vaccine.

There is substantial evidence that shows that the vaccines are effective and safe. Many educational, academic, government, and international sources provide the same official data the concerns break through cases, adverse reactions, and any complications that may have been linked to the vaccination. All sources agree that cases where adverse reactions or complications were reporter, those cases were rare. In fact those cases were less likely among the vaccinated numbers than the unvaccinated suffering from COVID-19 altogether.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210512.191448/full/

Infringing on Freedom

Many conservatives especially those among the unvaccinated and anti-vaccine communities believe the propaganda that civil liberties are being violated with such a mandate.

The bottom line – its not about you or civil liberties. If you’re an individual resisting the mandate based on civil liberties, you’re unethical. COVID-19 is a disease that is highly transmissible and has a greater impact on people with disabilities, immunocompromised, young children, and communities of color. With that in mind, the vaccine mandate is actually furthering civil liberties.

Based on the circumstances within the mandate, there is no evidence found that the constitution is violated, nor does it impede the freedoms that align with the constitution. Vaccine mandates have been around since the 18th century and are justifiable in terms of autonomy and bodily integrity. Schools, health care, U.S. military, institutions or organizations that cross over in the fields of disease, all require vaccination for contagious diseases such as polio, mumps, and measles.

In the end, the vaccine mandate is justifiable in the context that the unvaccinated population poses a risk to everyone else and the economy by transmitting mutated variants of the virus. This gives the COVID-19 vaccine mandate justification under the cause of best interest for public health measures.

https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/civil-liberties-and-vaccine-mandates-heres-our-take/

CONCLUSION

Stop complaining… Stop making excuses… Stop propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation… Stop making things up to fit your own agenda!

Stop pretending that those who died from COVID-19 were just 2% of those that got infected and aren’t important enough for a prevention measure of future pandemics of a contagious disease. The anti-vaccine and unvaccinated excuse to not get the vaccine implies that others should have to deal with the impacts of COVID-19 death or otherwise for your cause.

Get vaccinated.