During an interview this morning with Jim Sciutto, co-host of CNN’s Newsroom, Dr. Leana Wen said that Joe Biden should consider imposing vaccine mandates on the American people claiming that it is “not just about the individual.
Sciutto started the segment by asking Wen “You just wrote a new op-ed in the Washington Post where you argue it’s time for President Biden to consider vaccine mandates. Tell us why?”
“There is this narrative that the Biden administration and many others have been putting out, which is once you’re vaccinated, you’re fine,” Wen started. “And so the natural conclusion from that is why would you care if others around you are vaccinated or not? If you’re protected, then why not let everybody else just do whatever they want?”
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“The fact, though, is that the unvaccinated also affect the vaccinated. If you are a vaccinated person, but you’re living among a lot of unvaccinated people as Elizabeth was showing in the clusters, your chance of having a breakthrough infection increases,” she added. “The chance to infect those around you increases.”
“The more unvaccinated people there are, the longer this pandemic is going to be here. We have this delta variant that is so contagious, and that actually increases the threshold of how many people have to be vaccinated in order to reach herd immunity. We have other variants that make it harder for us to end this pandemic.”
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“My point is this is not just about the individual. This is about our society. And I hope that the Biden administration gets on board with that kind of societal approach to health and well-being.”
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Apparently, for those on the left the idea of “my body. my choice” only applies to abortion but not to vaccinations.
Personally think that people should be allowed to make their own choice and not have a mandate imposed on them. Especially for a vaccine that is still considered experimental and for which the long term consequences are still largely unknown.
