This has been the case since the beginning. Fauci himself estimated that 40-50% of people working in his own office were refusing the vax. I suspect it was higher than that.
No one asked him why people who presumably know more about the vax than anyone else in the country would be refusing it at such a high rate.
And although medical workers didn’t universally get exemptions (just federal employees), medical workers were the ones with the highest rate of refusal. Imagine bullying other people into taking an experimental medicine you yourself have decided was too unsafe for you and your family.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that enforces COVID-19 vaccine mandates for hospitals and healthcare workers throughout the U.S., rescinded its injection mandate for its own employees, Newsmax reported.
Texas Republican Rep. Brian Harrison, who served in the Trump administration as the chief of staff for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” on Tuesday that “if you don’t want to have to take a vaccine, just get a job enforcing the vaccine mandate.”
“If you were one of these officials tasked with enforcing their tyrannical COVID vaccine mandate, you can be exempt from the vaccine mandates,” Rep. Harrison said, referring to a June 16 CMS memo he obtained that announced the rescission of the agency’s mandate for its “surveyors.”
🚨BREAKING: CMS just EXEMPTED officials hired to enforce their vaccine mandate…from the vaccine mandate! My office obtained the memo. Stunning hypocrisy. These mandates must end. #txlege pic.twitter.com/vsVEpVpZuK
— Brian Harrison (@brianeharrison) June 20, 2022
"It turns out if you don't want to have to take a vaccine, just get a job enforcing the vaccine mandate," Harrison said. #txlege @newsmax https://t.co/Z5A7xlznBu
— Brian Harrison (@brianeharrison) June 21, 2022
“This shows that the Biden administration is truly authoritarian and these mandates never had anything to do with public health in the first place, but sadly and tragically, they had much more to do with giving the federal government more control over our lives,” the congressman added. “These mandates must end.”
In January, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers despite simultaneously striking down a sweeping requirement aimed at employees of large companies. A Texas challenge to the mandate was dismissed by a federal judge.
Rep. Harrison, who introduced the Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act to ensure that Texans “have the right to provide or withhold consent for any medical treatment,” told the news outlet that he believes CMS backed off its mandate for employees because “they got a taste of their own medicine.”
This won’t be a big news story, and there won’t be any followup.
Granted, they have backed down on the vax, but they are going to come back with new vaxes and new harsh demands.