Your Body, Biden s Choice.

• Position: COVID-19 vaccination

Today we have two contrasting quotations from world leaders. One said: "Mandatory vaccinations will never be allowed because [this] is a free country and its people are sovereign." The other said: "This is not about freedom or personal choice."

The first was by Vladimir Putin. Imagine--Russia, a free country. The second was by Joe Biden. The U.S. no longer is a free country, and the people are not sovereign--nor are the once-sovereign states. If state governors will not cooperate with him, "I'll use my power as president to get them out of the way." It is not clear exactly how he would accomplish that. Invade the state and occupy its capital and its courts? Arrest the governor and perhaps the legislature and throw them into prison without bail like some Jan. 6 demonstrators? Already, many states are suing--perhaps we will learn whether the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution has any meaning.

Who would have believed that a U.S. president would ever say such things? Biden claims jurisdiction over 17,000,000 health care workers, especially if they work in a facility that gets funding from Medicare or Medicaid. "If you're seeking care at a health facility, you should be able to know that the people treating you are vaccinated--simple, straightforward, period."

Never mind if the alternative may be having no qualified person to care for you. Never mind if the unvaccinated worker, who cared for people before there were vaccines, got infected, recovered, and now has better immunity than vaccinated people. Never mind that workers with 20 years of dedicated service will have their careers and livelihoods ruined if they do not obey the dictator. Never mind that some of the obedient servants die--just coincidentally?--a few days after the shot, or that some experience heart damage or paralysis. The government with its sovereign immunity does not have to compensate them, and neither do the vaccine makers or administrators, who are protected under the mantle of government.

"This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated," states Biden. This nonevidence-based assertion is false. The most-vaccinated countries in the world, including Israel, are having the worst outbreaks. Both vaccinated and nonvaccinated persons shed virus, get hospitalized, and die. In August in the United Kingdom, a majority of the COVID-19 deaths were among vaccinated people, with a death rate dramatically higher than a year ago, when there was no vaccine.

Why, besides vaccine failure...