People who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 are 11 times more likely to die from the disease and 10 times more likely to be hospitalized with the disease according to the CDC.
679,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. Today we are averaging over 150,000 cases and 1,550 deaths a day.
Our President declared war on the pandemic.
Why is it forum Republicans largely refrain from discussing the Republican Party? There is one very good reason.
With the inclusion of Republican governors and lawmakers, the Republican leadership is siding with the virus.
The Times reports, "President Biden’s far-reaching assertion of executive authority to require Covid-19 vaccines for 100 million American workers relies on a set of complicated legal tools that will test the power — and the limits — of the federal government to compel personal health care decisions.
"To more aggressively confront the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Biden is pulling several levers of presidential power: He is using an emergency provision in the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; he is threatening to withhold federal funding from hospitals and other health care organizations; and he is embracing his authority as chief executive of the sprawling federal work force and its contractors.
"Together, the president’s actions are an assertive use of his jurisdiction over American life as the occupant of the Oval Office."
At least fifteen Republican governors say our President's attack on the malevolent virus amounts to government overreach, and that they plan to challenge it in court. The Republican National Committee has said it plans to sue the administration over the stringent new measures.
The President had a three-word reply to these threats from the Republican leadership.
"Have at it."
The irony is, Republicans are attacking the methods the President is using, but, if the pandemic gets worse, more deaths, months more of the suffering, these same Republicans will be first in line to blame the President.
In addition, Republicans have passed laws that restrict voting access, passed gun laws that can turn city streets into the O.K. Corral, while still another law dictates health decisions for women, and a Republican governor promises to remove all rapists in his state.
If one were a Republican, with this incongruity, would you want to discuss the Republican Party? The party has become downright embarrassing.
That explains the silence.
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