The top court agreed today that the government had authority to require most health workers to receive covid vaccinations.
The flaw occurs when the top court accepts that the government is deploying "good faith" expertise, which is clearly not the case. It would have been better for the court to have remanded the case back to a lower court, with the instruction that it use a special master to examine the government's claims that vaccination would do much good under current circumstances.
Forcing people to be vaccinated because "you never know, it might work" constitutes an outrageous abuse of power.
The evidence showing that extra doses (boosters) of old vaccines have much impact against omicron is sketchy.
In a major sign of bad faith, the government is avoiding talking about these important points:
✔ The United States has reached herd immunity for the beta and delta variants. That is, on average every person infected with beta or delta transmits it to less than one other person. Unless you are a lab worker handling live beta and delta samples, once herd immunity has been reached there is no reason at all for vaccination.
✔ The omicron virus -- which is generally milder than the first two variants -- is sweeping the nation so fast that is pointless to rush to mass vaccination, especially when the current vaccines are only mildly helpful, if they are helpful, against omicron.
✔ The administration's claim that the unvaccinated are spreading covid is unproved. Beta and delta are not spreading. Omicron is spreading through vaccinated people at a high rate. That's because the old vaccines are not tailored for omicron. Now if the old vaccines slow down the transmission of omicron, how much hard evidence is at hand to back that claim up? Have you ever heard a government health expert tell you how much old vaccines slow down general transmission of omicron? No, that concept is avoided. That's because there is very little evidence to hand that would verify the government's implicit assumption.
The flaw occurs when the top court accepts that the government is deploying "good faith" expertise, which is clearly not the case. It would have been better for the court to have remanded the case back to a lower court, with the instruction that it use a special master to examine the government's claims that vaccination would do much good under current circumstances.
Forcing people to be vaccinated because "you never know, it might work" constitutes an outrageous abuse of power.
The evidence showing that extra doses (boosters) of old vaccines have much impact against omicron is sketchy.
In a major sign of bad faith, the government is avoiding talking about these important points:
✔ The United States has reached herd immunity for the beta and delta variants. That is, on average every person infected with beta or delta transmits it to less than one other person. Unless you are a lab worker handling live beta and delta samples, once herd immunity has been reached there is no reason at all for vaccination.
✔ The omicron virus -- which is generally milder than the first two variants -- is sweeping the nation so fast that is pointless to rush to mass vaccination, especially when the current vaccines are only mildly helpful, if they are helpful, against omicron.
✔ The administration's claim that the unvaccinated are spreading covid is unproved. Beta and delta are not spreading. Omicron is spreading through vaccinated people at a high rate. That's because the old vaccines are not tailored for omicron. Now if the old vaccines slow down the transmission of omicron, how much hard evidence is at hand to back that claim up? Have you ever heard a government health expert tell you how much old vaccines slow down general transmission of omicron? No, that concept is avoided. That's because there is very little evidence to hand that would verify the government's implicit assumption.
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