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New York Post, December 30, 2021<\/h3>\n

An air-travel vax mandate would do no more to vanquish COVID<\/a><\/h1>\n
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By James Bovard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he will issue an edict requiring vaccines for domestic travel if his scientific advisers recommend it. Tony Fauci, Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser, has been yapping in favor of such a mandate<\/a> in recent days, calling it \u201canother incentive to get more people vaccinated.\u201d But requiring vax passports for domestic travel would devastate airlines and the tourism business while doing nothing to vanquish COVID.<\/p>\n

With soaring COVID case numbers, Biden is under pressure to make some dramatic gesture to prove he is in charge. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is spearheading a congressional push for a vax mandate for air travel, which she labels \u201ca necessary and long overdue step toward ensuring all Americans feel sa<\/a>fe and confident<\/a> while traveling.\u201d<\/p>\n

The feds previously claimed that masking on flights was sufficient to protect travelers, but the Zoom class is terrified and demanding a comforting placebo. Effectively adding tens of millions of names to the No Fly List would also satisfy the blue-state lust to punish Americans who have failed to comply with the latest commands from Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imposing a vax mandate for air travel could be the opening step for far greater restrictions on Americans\u2019 freedom of movement. The Associated Press reported in August that the Biden administration is considering \u201cmandating vaccines for<\/a> interstate travel\u201d but is delaying any such decree until Americans are \u201cready for the strong-arming from the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Restricting interstate travel across the board would be among the most intrusive federal policies since payroll-tax withholding. Enforcing such a policy would require the creation of COVID patrols, akin to pre-Civil War slave patrols, waiting to chase down anyone who crosses state lines without proper papers.<\/p>\n

A Biden vax mandate for domestic travel would be built on the rubble of his prior disastrous mandates.<\/p>\n

After Biden dictated that all health-care workers must be fully vaxxed, hospitals responded by firing thousands of nurses who refused to get injected (many of the nurses had natural immunity after surviving COVID infections). That spurred shortages of critical personnel at hospitals, so Biden sent in more than a thousand US military personnel to assist hospitals<\/a>. That failed to solve the problem so the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just revised its guidelines to permit employers to rely on asymptomatic COVID-positive employees previously banned from their premises.<\/p>\n

According to Biden policymakers, it is better for hospital patients to be treated by COVID-positive nurses<\/a> (whose COVID vaxxes failed to safeguard them from the virus) than by unvaccinated nurses untainted by COVID. Vaccination status has gone from being a proxy for health to being a substitute for sane health-care policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMandates have curbed almost everything<\/a> except COVID-19 cases,\u201d Yahoo editor Javier David quipped. Mayor Bill de Blasio dictated that all private employees must be vaxxed, and New York City has one of the nation\u2019s most restrictive COVID passport regimes. But CNBC labeled the Big Apple \u201cthe epicenter of Omicron infections<\/a>,\u201d and 2 percent of Manhattan residents contracted COVID in the past week. Righteous political rhetoric will do nothing to prevent far more COVID cases here in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Why would anyone have faith in a new Biden mandate? In his Jan. 20 inaugural address, Biden vowed to \u201cdefeat the virus<\/a>,\u201d but COVID cases are setting new records each day. In July, Biden promised, \u201cYou\u2019re not going to get COVID<\/a> if you have these vaccinations.\u201d That pledge collapsed in a surge of millions of COVID infections among the vaxxed, which administration spinmeisters tried to dismiss as \u201cbreakthrough cases.\u201d Biden said last week that \u201calmost everyone who has died from COVID-19 . . . has been unvaccinated.\u201d But the fully vaxxed account for roughly 30 percent<\/a> of COVID fatalities in Illinois, 25 percent in Oregon<\/a> and up to 50 percent in Vermont<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to diehard COVID warriors and Biden supporters, the latest surge of COVID cases proves that the president needs more power. Effectively banning tens of millions of Americans from air travel would endear the president to his triple-vaxxed supporters. But another demolition of freedom will do nothing to end the most politically exploited pandemic in American history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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