Danielle Runyan, Senior Counsel at First Liberty Institute, outlined the Biden Administration’s destructive military COVID-19 vaccine mandate that decreased recruitment and readiness: “The Department of Defense boldly promoted that coercive and punitive actions would be taken against those who refused the vaccine. The lost wages and sacrifices made by families like mine who stood up to the overreaching, unjustified mandates to preserve their autonomy and health can never be fully recovered.”ĬOVID-19 vaccine mandates reduced military readiness and potentially harmed America’s national security by forcing the healthiest among us to receive the vaccine or face involuntary separation from military service. The financial toll it took on my family and so many others like us was significant, and still enduring. It is hard to explain what it is like to have so much taken from you for doing what you know in your heart and mind to be the right thing for you and your family. Allision Williams, former ESPN reporter and current FOX Sports reporter, described the influence of federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates on private company policies, which ultimately led to the termination of her employment and public vilification: “Just like that, newly pregnant, I was stripped of my job, my health insurance and having my personal and medical decisions the topic of national news. For example, a recent study on indoor vaccine passports, found no significant impact on COVID-19 vaccine uptake, cases, or deaths across all nine U.S. We started the results section of this paper with what is kind of a shocking statement, actually, when you think about it, and I quote ‘Although studies suggest that current COVID policies are likely to increase population vaccination rates to some degree, gains were largest in those under 30 years old, a very low risk group and in countries with below average uptake.’ So the totality of actual data on increases in vaccination rates from mandates and passports does not suggest an overwhelmingly positive impact. We question the effectiveness and consequences, of course, of vaccine policy in pandemic response and urge the public health community and policymakers to return to nondiscriminatory trust-based public health approaches. Kevin Bardosh, Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, detailed the findings of his research paper regarding the societal and scientific effects of forcing a novel vaccine on millions of Americans: “Our analysis strongly suggests that mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policies have had damaging effects on public trust, vaccine confidence, political polarization, human rights, inequities, and social well-being. Removing physicians from this medical decision was politically expedient in the short term but has had disastrous long-term consequences. The Biden Administration forced a novel COVID-19 vaccine on millions of Americans without considering the health of the individual or natural immunity. As the after-action review of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to develop, the Select Subcommittee seeks to uncover the consequences of overreaching mandates to prevent future administrations from similar abuses of executive power with disastrous long-term results. Select Subcommittee members and witnesses described the heartbreaking personal and professional repercussions experienced by countless Americans when they chose to exercise their bodily autonomy. Select Subcommittee members asked expert witnesses about the effects on military readiness caused by separating military service members who refused the vaccine and examined the societal impact of disregarding medical freedom, patient-physician relationships, and clear scientific standards to impose politically motivated mandates.īoth minority and majority witnesses testified to increased vaccine hesitancy across America that was sparked by an erosion of public trust in government and health officials. WASHINGTON - The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “Because I Said So: Examining the Science and Impact of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates” to evaluate the necessity and effectiveness of overreaching COVID-19 vaccine mandates and consider the erosion of public trust that stemmed from coercive vaccination policies.
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