On Thursday night, President Joe ***** announced a new federal vaccine mandate, putting new pressure on Americans who refuse to be inoculated against COVID-19.
“This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” ***** said in a speech to the nation. “Despite the fact that for almost five months, free vaccines have been available in 80,000 different locations, we still have nearly 80 million Americans who have failed to get the shot.”
The federal government can’t directly force people to get vaccinated, but *****’s new mandates do everything short of that. Among other efforts, the plan requires all federal workers, contractors, and a range of government-linked businesses to vaccinate their employees,…