Thread by @JoyAnnReid

Thanks for the follow. Was tempted to not respond but since I know others believe this stuff, a few things:
1. "The government" didn't make these vaccines. Private companies (Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson etc.) did. Though government certainly HELPED. healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hbl…

https://twitter.com/1911Moose/status/1436012332480700428

2. No one is forcing anyone to take the vaccines. It's just really risky and dumb not to, especially since they're free. And increasingly there are social consequences for choosing not to. That's perfectly normal. It happens all the time in organized societies, including ours.

If for example the Biden administration says federal employees or Pentagon employees have to be vaccinated for COVID, or private companies mandate the same, it presents those employees with a choice: get vaccinated, or don't work there. Choices have consequences.

No one is banging down doors or lining people up making them get vaxxed. Americans are simply being presented with a choice: get vaccinated, save your health and maybe your life and enter these establishments or don't get vaxxed and you can't enter.

"The government" doesn't mandate that you not smoke cigarettes, but you aren't allowed to do it on airplanes anymore due to the health risks to other people. The government also doesn't say you can't ingest horse paste instead of getting vaxxed. Also dumb but that's y'alls thing.

There's this line in the Constitution about promoting the general welfare. That's the government's literal job. Screaming and caterwalling because government officials, doctors and experts are IMPLORING you to take a free vaccine so you don't die? Well that's also dumb. Cheers.

And one more thing: if we do get to the point where federal, state and local governments DO mandate the vaccine, like they have done for polio, MMR and other vaccines you had to take to go to school, or the military etc? Also perfectly normal. npr.org/2021/08/29/103…

Even the guy with his slave's teeth in his mouth did it. And y'all revere him, right? loc.gov/rr/scitech/GW&…