The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending that all vaccinated people wear face masks when they are indoors in a public setting in the parts of the nation that have a substantial or high transmission rate of COVID-19. That is one of the main reasons why President Biden is now forcing all federal employees to get the COVID-19 shot or else!
“To maximize protection from the Delta variant and prevent possibly spreading it to others, wear a mask indoors in public if you are in an area of substantial or high transmission,” the new guidance for the fully vaccinated from this agency now states.
The CDC continues to recommend that K-12 students continue to engage in mask wearing, as all teachers, staff, and visitors to a school district. Moreover, the CDC are positing these new recommendations regardless of whether individuals have been fully vaccinated or not.
President Biden actually said last Tuesday that he is considering a vaccine mandate for federal employees. Moreover, he actually stated that requiring that all federal employees get vaccinated is something that is “under consideration right now.”
According to their sources, CNN is reporting that the president said last Thursday that he is planning on announcing a requirement for federal employees and contractors that will basically force them to get vaccinated or else have to deal with the regular mitigation and testing requirements. The outlet noted that the president is not planning on levying a mandate on the nation’s military members at the moment. However, Biden is planning on outlining how he proposes that the Defense Department deal with the issue going forward, according to CNN.
Indeed, if CNN was the only source reporting this forceful mandate by the president it would be bad enough, but the Washington Post is also citing anonymous sources that the president is planning on announcing within the next day or so that all federal employees will be mandated to get the vaccine or be required to undergo repeated testing requirements.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas didn’t mince words:
“The new CDC mask guidance is the final political nail into the credibility coffin of public health,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas tweeted.
Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee also didn’t mince words in his latest tweet: “The @CDCgov has yet again reversed its mask guidelines after telling us for months that fully vaccinated people do not need to wear a mask. When will this circus end?”
“The CDC’s mask mandate for k-12 schoolchildren isn’t based in science or reality. Disappointed but not surprised by the “follow the science” crew that also thinks men can be pregnant,” tweeted Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado.
“Today’s decision, sadly, was driven by politics, not science. Let me be clear: there should be no more COVID mandates, no mask mandates, no vaccine mandates, no vaccine passports, no lockdowns, and no school closures,” Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said in his latest statement. “Enough is enough. The CDC has lost its credibility when it comes to what decisions Americans should make about COVID-19. It’s long past time we got back to trusting the American people, not unelected federal bureaucrats.”
According to the latest statistics, there have been 34.5 million COVID-19 cases in the United States along with more than 610,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, there are 49 percent of the U.S. population that has been fully vaccinated while just over 56 percent have received at least the first dose. Both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine will require two separate rounds of shots while the Johnson and Johnson vaccine only requires one total dose.
