Anonymous ID: 01f9b2 Aug. 21, 2020, 10 p.m. No.10379569   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>9571 >>9612 >>9642 >>9932 >>0151 >>0186 >>0236

Virginia Plans Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccinations For All Residents

Fri, 08/21/2020 - 21:40

 

As Friday's hospitalization numbers across the Sun Belt appear to confirm CDC head Dr. Robert Redfield's assertion that the American COVID-19 outbreak has peaked and is starting to fade, the State of Virginia is setting a new precedent by seriously discussing forcing Virginians to be vaccinated with whatever rushed-to-marked candidate the FDA approves first.

 

During an interview that aired on Friday, the state's health commissioner said he planned to invoke state law to make vaccinations mandatory - once a western product is available, presumably.

 

Here's more from ABC News 8:

 

State Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver told 8News on Friday that he plans to mandate coronavirus vaccinations for Virginians once one is made available to the public.

 

Virginia state law gives the Commissioner of Health the authority to mandate immediate immunizations during a public health crisis if a vaccine is available. Health officials say an immunization could be released as early as 2021.

 

Dr. Oliver says that, as long as he is still the Health Commissioner, he intends to mandate the coronavirus vaccine.

 

"It is killing people now, we donโ€™t have a treatment for it and if we develop a vaccine that can prevent it from spreading in the community we will save hundreds and hundreds of lives," Oliver said.

 

Pro-medical-choice activists in the state argue that the issue is a matter of medical choice, and that the hasty "expedited" approval process being implemented by the FDA is grounds for concern. State health authorities insist, meanwhile, that they would never mandate a vaccine that hadn't already proven to be safe.

 

Virginia Freedom Keepers Director of Communications Kathleen Medaries, a mother of three from Chesterfield, says this is a matter of medical choice.This is not a Republican or Democrat issue. Itโ€™s not a pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine issue," Medaries said. "For me, itโ€™s an issue of being able to assess each vaccine for myself and my family one at a time."

 

"He shouldnโ€™t be the one person to make a decision for all of Virginians,โ€"Medaries responded.

 

The state's top medical official is opposed to a bill that has been put forth in the state assembly that would create more exemptions to the mandatory vaccination power, allowing exemptions on religious and other grounds.

 

Oliver believes that COVID-19 is a public health emergency that should take precedent over everything else, and that vaccine-assisted herd immunity is the stateโ€™s best and only real defense.

 

The decision comes after Massachusetts said it would make the flu vaccine mandatory this year as part of a campaign to protect the state's medical system. We suspect Virginia and Massachusetts won't be the only states to discuss mandatory COVID and/or flu vaccination in the coming weeks, as the school year begins.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/virginia-plans-mandatory-covid-19-vaccinations-all-residents

Anonymous ID: 01f9b2 Aug. 21, 2020, 10:51 p.m. No.10379872   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>9911 >>9980 >>0204

Trump goes on bizarre rant about sharks, seals and mosquitos in the middle of a speech

I'm sure its just a coincidence.

 

Trump made the comments during prepared remarks โ€“ and a mosquito attacked him halfway through. He got distracted and said: "I don't like โ€“ they'll say it's cruelty to animals. I don't know โ€“ no, it's true. I want to get that mosquito."

 

He then went even more off-topic by bringing in sharks. He said:

 

They were saying the other night โ€“ they were saying, 'Oh sharks, we have to protect them'. I said, 'wait a minute, wait'.

 

They actually want to remove all the seals in order to save the shark. I said, wait a minute, don't have it the other way around?

 

He then went onto admit that he's not a "big fan of sharks either", and admits that he doesn't know how many votes he'll lose after admitting it. Sharks are actually a fairly popular phobia for many people โ€“ 51 per cent of people surveyed by Ipsos in 2015 said that they were scared of them, with 38 per cent of those people saying that they wouldn't swim in the ocean because they were so scared.

 

Trump also said that people call him and say that they have a fund for sharks, and that he turns them down โ€“ because he has "other things I can contribute to."

 

In doing so, he confirmed that he was afraid of sharks โ€“ something which Stormy Daniels has brought up during multiple interviews in the past.

 

In 2011, she told InTouch Weekly that he has an obsession with sharks. She said:

 

He was like, 'I donate to all these charities and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all sharks die.'

 

He was like, riveted. He was like, obsessed. It's so strange, I know.

 

Trump has always denied the fact that the two of them were ever involved, but he didn't seem shy about confirming this very specific detail in Daniels's story.

 

https://www.indy100.com/article/trump-speech-sharks-mosquito-seal-rant-video-9682436

 

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-08-21/bill-gates-we-cant-give-up-on-fighting-malaria-because-of-covid-19-101595544.html

 

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-governor-gretchen-whitmer-mouths-shark-week-expletive-dnc-hot-mic-20200818-rmwfy5m4j5h7nnzo52we3feu4a-story.html