An Imminent Vaccine Mandate For Federal Employees?

Per CNN and "according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter", a big announcement is due Thursday:

Biden will announce vaccination requirement across federal government on Thursday

There will be an exception:

Biden will not impose the requirement on the US military, despite his authority to do so, for the time being. He is, however, likely to outline how the Department of Defense may seek to approach the issue going forward, the source said.

Obvious takeaway - you can keep your freedoms if you have a gun.

As Team Biden puzzles over how to promote vaccine uptake, they might find helpful clues in their NY Times.

The Defense Secretary:

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has said he would not be comfortable with a mandate until the Food and Drug Administration fully approved the vaccine.

And a NYC municipal union leader irked by the new DeBlasio mandate:

Oren Barzilay, the president of a union of emergency medical workers that opposes the mandate, said that some of his 4,300 members have expressed concerns about side effects or complications from the vaccine and about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration not yet giving full approval to any coronavirus vaccine.

To belabor the seemingly obvious - if taking the vaccine is such a no-brainer, how come the Big Brains at the FDA are still noodling it? They want more data, but the vax-hesitant are knuckleheads for wanting more data?

I'm pro-vax but anti-nonsense. Biden has said the FDA will approve these vaccines any month now:

“My expectation talking to the group of scientists we put together, over 20 of them plus others in the field, is that sometime maybe in the beginning of the school year, at the end of August, beginning of September, October, they’ll get a final approval” for the vaccines, Mr. Biden said.

September, October, whenever. What's the rush? RUFKM?!?

C'mon, man - I've worked in bureaucracies where 'Hasta Manana" isn't just a saying but a lifestyle commitment. But that is not what we look for in the Fire Department or the Police Department and it certainly shouldn't be the FDA approach to a tremendous public health crisis. I'm getting a mental image of a burning house with smoke, flames and people coming out the windows while the FDA studies whether the fire hoses contain BPA. Get this done!

 

 

Comments

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I've grown fond of Trading Economics commodity site.

[Melinda]

passthebeano @passthebeano
1d
OMG

“Passengers will not feel safe if they think you’ve only been driving for a week (even though that could mean hundreds of rides). Accordingly, do not share how long you’ve been employed here, but instead, find a way to evade the question or shift the focus,”

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Emilio Gómez Islas @egomezislas
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$TSLA $TSLAQ

Blind Item

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$TSLA $TSLAQ @FBI

https://twitter.com/passthebeano/status/1420873540157407232

[henry]

Vlad outsource to China?

About three hours after Russia's Nauka module successfully docked to the station, it unexpectedly and mysteriously started firing its thrusters, moving the entire station out of its normal position. "All told, the station lost attitude control [a term for the process of controlllng a spacecraft's orientation relative to Earth] for a total of about 47 minutes, according to NASA officials," one report said of the space drama.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/serious-glitch-russias-new-module-tilted-entire-space-station-after-unplanned-thruster

[Sammy Small]

re: the Biles controversy:

--A best analogy would be like the yips in golf.--

In the old Air Force days, we called this phenomenon a case of ones gyro's tumbling, i.e. loss of spatial orientation while wildly maneuvering. Normally not an issue, but occasionally it could happen when triggered by some loss of input signal to the brain that didn't seem right.

[Melinda]

CodeMonkeyZ, [29.07.21 05:06]

[ Photo ]

Maricopa audit is finishing up and winding down.

Cyber Ninjas released a transparency report showing how much money they received and from which groups.

https://t.me/CodeMonkeyZ/903

Sunlight.

[Neo]

The pivotal clinical trial for the
@pfizer
#Covid vaccine shows it does nothing to reduce the overall risk of death. ZERO.

15 patients who received the vaccine died; 14 who received placebo died.

The end.

The trial blind is broken now. This is all the data we will ever have.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1420839456228118535

[Narciso]

Heh

https://mobile.twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1420913109850525697

[Narciso]

thats your final answer

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1420851627406368772

[Narciso]

Certainly

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dossier/id1575293155

[Narciso]

I think they might need the ateam

https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/29/republican-lawmakers-barred-from-entering-d-c-jail-to-visit-jan-6-political-prisoners/

[Narciso]

Oh john corey is coming back in the maze, next year inspired by the gilgo beach murders

[Pinandpuller]

Did Lloyd Austin just get back from a trip to a veterinarian?

What’s around his head?

[Pinandpuller]

Conservatives and Libertarians: “PayPal is a private company. If they want to allow a hostile ethnocentric NGO to datamine private transactions we can’t stand in the way.”

[1/2aboy&1/2aman]

It’s a modern day dunce cap.

[Jack Lillywhite]

That Caroen Dressel makes NFL TE’s look like featherweights and he is a world record swimmer. Stronger, Faster, Better.

[Jack Lillywhite]

..Caeleb…autocorrecting proper names…

[MissMarple2]

Every single cabinet member and White House official is embarrassing.

I have never likes Austin, and as Tucker says, if he's so worried about his health, why doesn't he lose some damn weight?

I am off to bed. Good night, everyone!

[1/2aboy&1/2aman]

Good night, Miss M.

[Narciso]

Dittoes allen west served under him years ago, and you know the treatment he received in congress and even in nonprofits

[Narciso]

Seriously their sandwhiches aint so great

https://humanevents.com/2021/07/29/major-restaurant-group-to-require-proof-of-vaccination/

[Narciso]

Oh snap

https://americanmind.org/salvo/david-french-and-the-conservative-case-for-hereditary-bloodguilt/

[Narciso]

Um sure

https://mobile.twitter.com/exjon/status/1420863682301497347

[Narciso]

Yep

https://mobile.twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1420836311921999872

[1/2aboy&1/2aman]

If there truly are aliens, please come get me, I’m ready to go. Unfortunately, they probably are not coming back after learning that earth mostly lacks intelligent life.

How does a govt mandate vacs or testing for employees after demonstrating for a year and half that most of these jobs can be done in one’s pajamas and many of these employees have yet to go back into an in person work place?

What is the survival rate again?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

David French is to the Old Right as David Horowitz is to the New Left; an absolute traitor. The difference of course being that being a traitor to Marxists is honorable but being a traitor to WF Buckley, James Burnham, Russell Kirk, Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater is about as dishonorable as it gets.

[Neo]

Sailor charged with deliberately starting fire on USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego, July 2020

[Narciso]

He remindts of mundt who is the stasi operator in who came out of the cold he was a polar opposite.

[Neo]

Evidently, Dr. Jill Biden stepped on something and hurt herself in Hawaii.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

$ 3 billion in damage and probably $5 billion to replace the Bonhomme Richard.

They just]pected arson from the beginning. It must have taken them a while to build the case. Bastard.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

There was just an oof/ed in G Captain the other day calling for at least 1 or 2 fireboats at San Diego. The lack of them crippled the firefighting efforts on the BHR.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Wonder what motivated him - the CCP?

[Narciso]

The saboteur, well its right in the middle of the summer of fire,

[Narciso]

But of course

https://mobile.twitter.com/YossiGestetner/status/1420599214032265218

[Narciso]

That no make sense

https://mobile.twitter.com/theblaze/status/1420919715057213441

[clarice]

Maybe someone stole the arsonist's strawberries.

[Narciso]

What the heck

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-olympics-is-woke-show.html?spref=fb&m=1

[Narciso]

They are in a competition to be nore absurd

https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2021/07/letter-to-editor-responding-to-atossa.html?m=1

[Pinandpuller]

Extremism in the name of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis is no vice.

[Pinandpuller]

Your garden is priceless -- and more valuable every day.

#FoodPrices

___

Inflation will cause grocery prices to rise even higher by October: Billionaire supermarket owner

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/inflation-will-lead-to-even-higher-grocery-prices-by-october-gristedes-ceo

Ice Age Farmer

[Pinandpuller]

After this year I can’t imagine eating another commercially produced pickle unless I drop by Jersey Mike’s.

Creamy Cucumber Salad

https://youtu.be/QSSaTUeO9C0

[anonamom]

rse, thanks for this yesterday.
Reposting in case anyone missed it.

On a'mom's comment last night, Red Onions are a great source of Quercetin and pickling does good things for your gut and thus immunity in general. I have been pickling red onions with thinly sliced after halving in a mason jar. Add the juice of 4 limes, 1 TBS apple cider vinegar, 1 TBS kosherr salt, and 1,2 TSP fresh ground pepper. Keep in refrigerator.

Good on tacos, any rice dish, etc.

[anonamom]

This is interesting: Pts on estradiol have half hte likelihood of hospitalization with Covid:

https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher/status/1421054802897907713

So, not only was it engineered, it was engineered to be worse for men...

and here's something from over a year ago calling for estradiol to be studies with Vit D and quercetin:

https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher/status/1371365577961390083

[henry]

So a Chinese communist / feminist bio weapon? Is the jab part two of a binary poison? There are days where eating the good mushrooms for breakfast is the sane path. All I have is coffee.

[Melinda]

NoSurrender200 ⚓️
@NoSurrender200
11 August 2021 just happens to be a coordinated test of the Emergency Broadcast System...

Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec
White House chatter is that lockdowns for delta variant all but a done deal. Virtually all blue states are cooperating with WH / CDC. They’re aiming for late 2nd week of August, per WH official

https://twitter.com/NoSurrender200/status/1421074419758284803

[Melinda]

Dan Hopper
@evohopp
American Civil War veterans, filmed in 1929, describe the battles of Cole Camp & Wilson Creek (1861). The ‘Dutch’ were the Unionists (roughly a quarter of whom were German-born or 1st-generation German-Americans). That man on the left was probably born in 1835!

https://twitter.com/evohopp/status/1420384280002318338

Pretty cool colorized clip.

[henry]

gee, were environmentalists ever right about anything?

Frank S. Scavo @fscavo
4h

Environmentalists have got it wrong – we're not facing an insect apocalypse #science telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/2…

https://twitter.com/fscavo/status/1421017528499769345

[Melinda]

Since the movement was started by Soviets, well, you can see where that led....

[henry]

Don Draper @DonDraperClone
2h

In the UK where the so very, very, very scary Delta variant now comprises over 98% of all cases, the fatality rate is now less than the seasonal flu. (In USA Delta now > 92% of all cases)

https://twitter.com/DonDraperClone/status/1421048917345570817

[henry]

yep.

Ze XXC Benard @vbenard
3h

Whether for COVID or climate, scaremongering is too easily turning our so called democratic governments into fascist repressive machines.

[Narciso]

If you remember it was a common cold antidote (a coronavirus) that led to the zombie epidemic in I am legend.

[James D.]

did you see how the Chinese are now welshing on the VIE's? This bodes ill for any foreign investor.

If what the ChiComs did to the NBA a couple of years ago because of one tweet of one sentence by one employee of one team did not indicate how hostile and ultimately unsafe China is for foreign investors, I can't imagine what would.

[henry]

Note, this is St Louis County. Which does not include the city.

Annie Frey @anniefreyshow
17h

ATTN AMERICA: The citizens of St. Louis speaking out loud for the rest of common sense America AND WINNING. 👏👏👏

Your turn.

https://twitter.com/anniefreyshow/status/1420814697515917312

[Narciso]

You didnt zee this coming

https://husseini.substack.com/p/interview-with-nadine-stroessen-on

[henry]

Laws don't apply to Congress. It says so in the Constitution, or an emanation from somewhere in DC.

Jay Weber @JayWeber3
1h

Nancy Pelosi and the democrats are now allowing illegals to work for congress.
What could go wrong?

[hoyden]

Via instapundit. This is so spot on.

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2021/07/28/john-hayward-says-what-needs-to-be-said-about-the-jan-6-show-trial/

[Narciso]

If we put them under a glass dome and dont let them out like in tbe simpsons film, im game.

[Narciso]

But when you let them out, thats where it goes wrong.

[James D.]

Nancy Pelosi and the democrats are now allowing illegals to work for congress.
What could go wrong?

Mrs. James D worked for a Senate committee (supposedly "nonpartisan" staff that was all Democrats), and by her reports there was alcoholism, rampant drug use, porn on the computers, and severe mental illness. I met some of her coworkers and she was not exaggerating.

How much worse could the illegals be than our own homegrown porn-addicted, drug-using, mentally-damaged staffers?

[Narciso]

Gannett has infected my fishwrap

https://www.news-journalonline.com/news/

[henry]

How much worse could the illegals be than our own homegrown porn-addicted, drug-using, mentally-damaged staffers?

Chicoms and Iranian Islamists exerting direct control over the brain addled Pelosians? They were doing that anyway through Fartwell's Fang and the Awans. We know that.

For the blissfully ignorant, will seeing illegales wake them from their slumber? (Yeah, TV won't show or report this in any way).

[Narciso]

Qataris szechuan is probably having some doha downtime

[Narciso]

Hey we own you, not the other way around

https://www.dailywire.com/news/leader-of-seiu-californias-largest-state-worker-union-opposes-newsoms-deadline-to-verify-vaccinations

[MissMarple2]

Narciso,

They will ruin the paper, the way they did mine.

[Narciso]

And this was back in may

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1420938891025166340

[Narciso]

Indeed

https://humanevents.com/2021/07/29/make-no-mistake-you-are-living-under-the-perfect-censorship/

[henry]

Iceland’s chief epidemiologist has suggested that some COVID-19 lockdown restrictions may remain in place for as long as fifteen years.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/icelands-chief-epidemiologist-suggests-covid-19-restrictions-could-last-15-years

buy moar ammo.

[Melinda]

Stolen:

Ivermectin obliterates 97 percent of Delhi cases

>A 97% decline in Delhi cases with Ivermectin is decisive - period. It represents the last word in an epic struggle to save lives and preserve human rights. This graph symbolizes the victory of reason over corruption, good over evil, and right over wrong. It is as significant as David’s victory over Goliath. It is an absolute vindication of Ivermectin and early outpatient treatment. It is a clear refutation of the WHO, FDA, NIH, and CDC's policies of "wait at home until you turn blue" before you get treatment.

>Dr. Pierre Kory told the world on December 8, 2020, that Ivermectin "obliterates" this virus. Obliterate means to decimate, demolish, or annihilate. It means to eliminate or destroy all trace, indication, or significance.

>This graph shows that Ivermectin, used in Delhi beginning April 20, obliterated their COVID crisis. No one should be able to talk you out of this - not a salesman, a drug company, a television celebrity doc, and certainly not the top doctor for the WHO or the NIH who is paid to do that.

>Will you believe this 97% eradication graph, or will you believe the propaganda pitched by the Big Media, Big Pharma, the WHO, and the FDA, who share massive financial conflicts of interest – those who say there is insufficient evidence?

>What evidence could be any clearer than a 97% reduction in five weeks? That number is better than the current vaccines and beyond the reach of most medicines.

>The WHO cautioned India they were making a mistake by using Ivermectin. They told them it could be dangerous, that there was no evidence it worked. How many lies will you buy before you stand up for the truth?

>The fatal mistake would have been to NOT use Ivermectin.

https://www.thedesertreview.com/news/national/ivermectin-obliterates-97-percent-of-delhi-cases/article_6a3be6b2-c31f-11eb-836d-2722d2325a08.html

[MissMarple2]

https://americanmind.org/features/does-california-matter/californias-education-disaster/

[rse]

henry--

The answers to all the why's are contained in this paragraph from here linked to today in one of my weekly newsletters from Those Who Have Plans for Us. https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-one-earth-balance-sheet

Paging jimmy on that one too.

The pandemic has shown how we need whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches to deal with our collective challenges. The lack of good data at the national and global level has led to incomplete and flawed policies, as well as misunderstandings that led to conflict.

Relevant to the work I do and the warnings I have given are all the references to the need to build "common understandings" and narratives and new ways of thinking down to standardizing the concepts to be used. None of this is news to me, but all contained in a recent article being circulated globally is and fits with K-12 webinars for teachers and administrators I was on just this week.

[henry]

They can collectively jump in a volcano.

[Melinda]

Sept coffee getting smacked again. FYI.

[MissMarple2]

I am disgusted. AT&T just went down again, so I can’t get on my bank account or anything else I normally access by computer. Phone is on Sirius, so I can get on some sites through it, but the bank wont let me in unless I go through a cumbersome routine to verify my password. The last time this happened I had to call the bank and have them manually restore it.😡

[henry]

playing with fire... raising beer prices.

The Wall Street Journal @WSJ
1m

Brace for more expensive ice cream, beer and bottled water as the world’s bestselling food and drink brands grapple with the strongest inflation in years. @davidhodari has the scoop. #WSJWhatsNow

[Melinda]

Rep. Matt Gaetz Implies that Our Own Government Was Behind Jan. 6 False Flag — Demands Release of 14,000 hrs. of Hidden Video (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/rep-matt-gaetz-implies-government-behind-jan-6-false-flag-demands-release-14000-hidden-video-video/

[henry]

Vicki McKenna @VickiMcKenna
2m

GOP senators receive unredacted Fauci email about Wuhan lab. What was the "work being done in collaboration with Chinese virologists"? And why did it give Daszak "incredible insight into the risks these viruses represent"? washex.am/3xefAMb

https://twitter.com/VickiMcKenna/status/1421107972395216900

[sbwaters]

Mel: Use the free CNBC app

Don’t want CNBC anything on my phone. Is there another option? :-)

[Melinda]

That one puts them all in one place. I used to use three to get the same data and had to jump around. Try Yahoo's Finance app. Clunky, but works.

[Melinda]

New York Post
@nypost
Vaccines alone can't stop the COVID-19 Delta variant: study trib.al/ixHs75U

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1421101993184137225

[clarice]

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/how-bidens-covid-testing-mandate-violates-civil-rights/

[Old Lurker]

Credit Amom:

https://www.thedesertreview.com/news/national/ivermectin-obliterates-97-percent-of-delhi-cases/article_6a3be6b2-c31f-11eb-836d-2722d2325a08.html

[clarice]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/30/nolte-cdcs-own-math-proves-vax-mandates-re-masking-is-anti-science/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I have no doubt Ivermectin is a safe and very effective treatment for Wuflu. The credible numbers indicate that unequivocally.
However Scott Gottleib notes that these Delta variant peaks are short lived wherever they have turned up indicating that possibly because it seems to spread easier it burns its own wave out quicker. And he predicts ours will do so as well.

[Old Lurker]

Ig: "And he predicts ours will do so as well."

There are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet.

There are 15 months until the midterm elections.

Discuss.

:-)

[matt - deplore me if you must]

5,000 new cases reported this week in our county of 3.2 million. 1 death, 250 hospitalized. 50 in the ICU's. Our county is rated somewhere in the middle in terms of new cases.

This hardly seems to warrant the all out fascism we are experiencing.

This seems to be fear mongering of the worst kind.

I have had the double Pfizer and had a 2 day flu-ey achy experience a couple of weeks ago. I'm attributing it to WuFlu. If this is the only risk for those vaccinated they can take their mask mandate and stick it.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I suspect any value Biden and the Dems might see in pumping and dumping the virus will prove increasingly illusory as anyone not already a demented prog grows increasingly sick of the kabuki.
That will be especially true if it is coupled with continuing inflation and a worsening economy.

[James D.]

This hardly seems to warrant the all out fascism we are experiencing.

This seems to be fear mongering of the worst kind.

It's only going to get worse. The Dems (and way too many GOPers) aren't going to let go of the power we've allowed them to seize due to COVID.

[Narciso]

Cnbc leaves you dumber then dirt, sane with marketwatch

[Narciso]

Do they have anythimg but the most imane counterproductive carp on tap

[Narciso]

Yikes

https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/the-invisible-victims-of-jihadi-violence

[Narciso]

Yep

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1420823069690564610

[Narciso]

Its a tax

https://mobile.twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1420852671502815233

[MissMarple2]

I am so sick of the Covid stuff. Could they at least think up a different different emergency, like Mothra or Godzilla?

[Narciso]

Kaijus debut in august everyone knows that or giant starfish

[Narciso]

Whats that kissinger line

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2021/07/30/abc-shills-disney-bosses-dismisses-scarlett-johansson-wealthy

[John S]

I'm as annoyed as the rest of you about the CDC's idiotic mandates, but seriously, it's better for this madness to continue so the dems can lose Congress next year. They know they are pissing off the country and that they will likely lose the next election, but they can't help themselves.

[Narciso]

Why do you think they will lwt that happen, they are very good at creating excess death and protecting their own interests.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Looks like BMX racing has replaced boxing, judo, boxing and rugby as the most violent, injurous sport at the Olympic. One guy is in hospital with a brain scan. 7 Days they say. And they wear helmets.

[Narciso]

Are they using live fire?

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/she-cheered-blm-rage-biden-picked-her-federal-daniel-greenfield/

[John S]

Narciso, regarding your 1:22 about Black Widow, I don't see how Scarjo could win this suit. If she had a percent of the gross above a certain threshold, she would have made more money. But so would Disney. They presumably made the decision that they would make more money by releasing online rather that in the theater, and in court they could probably show that given the poor theater attendance at this time, Scarjo would not have made an extra penny if Black Widow had a theatrical release.

[Narciso]

Yes shes getting some bad advice, was doing marketing developed by orangutangs

https://breakingdefense.com/2021/07/israel-shifts-to-standoff-weapons-in-syria-as-russian-threats-increase/