I will not meet with the morally bankrupt who are enforcing medical apartheid based on vaccinations. Whether what they’re doing to their employees is legal or not, it’s reprehensible. Do not accept it as normal. I hope more Reps will join me in this stand.https://t.co/DRmvlVThGF

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 6, 2022

“Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie vowed to never meet with executives and leaders of companies that enforce vaccine mandates on its employees or discriminate against customers based on vaccine status.

Earlier that day Massie said those imposing vaccine mandates are ‘scientifically illiterate, morally bankrupt, inhumane abusers.”

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LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE: Sen. @RandPaul uses his medical expertise to tear apart the left’s argument for forcing kids to get vaccinated and wear masks on ‘Hannity.’ @seanhannity pic.twitter.com/iPW4CMRFLK

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 5, 2022

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I am at the Big Board on H St—which was just shut down by DC Health for refusing to enforce Covid mandates—where @RandPaul has come to show his support. pic.twitter.com/W1GmQvMTNb

— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) February 2, 2022

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By Kelley Paul

A few years ago I watched a movie called “Safety Not Guaranteed” that I loved and highly recommend. I was thinking about it yesterday as a salesperson cheerfully exhorted me to “stay safe” as I checked out. It’s something we hear everyday now – from strangers, TV anchors, salespeople.

Safety is both the mantra and central desire of our times.

We demand that Joe Biden, or Anthony Fauci, or Google –-someone, anyone, please tell us exactly what to do to keep us safe. Anyone but ourselves, of course. It must be an authority, someone who is more “expert,” thereby absolving us of pesky decision-making, conflict, or God forbid, blame.

Thus freed of any essential responsibility, we are available for endless glazed-eyed scrolling, Netflix binging, and Uber-eating, all from the safety of the sofa. We are comfortable, dull, obedient, and insulated in body and mind.  Our fleecy sweatpants feel great and trolling “far right conspiracists” on Twitter gives us just the right hit of dopamine to feel even better – virtuous even! After all, we are following the rules! We are inside and safe and double masked, double-vaxxed, double-boosted, and we display the approved level of contempt or better yet, hatred, for those who are not.

But it’s not enough to keep ourselves safe. No. If others don’t comply they should be forced to do so, because their very act of noncompliance makes us feel uncomfortable, and vaguely concerned that maybe we should think a little harder about our own choices. And that’s just too much work. Plus it gives us FOMO if everyone isn’t lying on the couch.  (That’s why, according to Rasmussen, half of Democrats favor segregated camps, fines and prison terms for those who publicly disagree with COVID policy.  Remember, they have empathy! They just care more!)

And so we offload our discernment, our very agency as free adults, to others in the name of safety. Thank God Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins cared enough to do that  “devastating public takedown” of those annoying Stanford and Harvard epidemiologists, before we had to trouble our minds with their challenging ideas. It’s so much easier and more comforting to know that one man is “The Science.”

And thanks to Mark Zuckerberg and his anonymous, all-knowing fact-checkers, we will no longer have to see anything decreed to be misleading, dangerous or debunked – we won’t be aware of it at all! It’s great that we don’t have to trouble our pretty heads with ideas until they have been fully approved by the authorities.

After all, they are smarter than we are. Conspiracy theories about the US funding of the Wuhan lab, or cloth masks not stopping viral spread, or any other worrisome, conflicting ideas will be swiftly censored.

We instead, apparently, need to think about important things like ordering some new sweatpants from Amazon. These are getting snug.

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“This is a big win for the Constitution, for American and Utah workers. A big win for freedom.’

Sen. Mike Lee applauded the Supreme Court Thursday after a 6-3 vote that will halt the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for large businesses.

“This is a big win for the Constitution, for American and Utah workers. A big win for freedom.” Sen. Mike Lee applauded the Supreme Court Thursday after a 6-3 vote that will halt the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for large businesses.https://t.co/xtAomEpQFh

— KUTV2news (@KUTV2News) January 14, 2022

‘Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly,’ the court said in an unsigned majority opinion.

Lee has fought for months to get Congress to act and stop the Biden administrations vaccine mandates.”

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I’ve been saying it’s unconstitutional since this administration first issued its OSHA vaccine mandate.

The government cannot make your medical decisions for you. It’s that simple. https://t.co/8UXs8c9bYf

— Congresswoman Kat Cammack (@RepKatCammack) January 13, 2022

Bloomberg reports, “A divided U.S. Supreme Court blocked the centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s push to get more people vaccinated amid a Covid-19 surge, rejecting an Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule that would have required 80 million workers to get shots or periodic tests.”

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The Wall Street Journal reports, “Federal courts considering the Biden administration’s vaccination mandates—including the Supreme Court at Friday’s oral argument—have focused on administrative-law issues. The decrees raise constitutional issues as well. But there’s a simpler reason the justices should stay these mandates: the rise of the Omicron variant.

It would be irrational, legally indefensible and contrary to the public interest for government to mandate vaccines absent any evidence that the vaccines are effective in stopping the spread of the pathogen they target. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening here.

Can government mandate you take a vaccine that is not effective against the current strain? https://t.co/lhQCBzrgtv

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 10, 2022

Both mandates—from the Health and Human Services Department for healthcare workers and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for large employers in many other industries—were issued Nov. 5. At that time, the Delta variant represented almost all U.S. Covid-19 cases, and both agencies appropriately considered Delta at length and in detail, finding that the vaccines remained effective against it.

Those findings are now obsolete. As of Jan. 1, Omicron represented more than 95% of U.S. Covid cases, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

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FEE’s Brad Polumbo writes, “If politicians didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all. At least, that’s the seemingly inescapable conclusion offered by President Biden’s latest flaunting of mask rules.

The president spent his holiday in Nantucket, Massachusetts. While there, he reportedly visited a local shop and was caught on camera maskless inside the store, despite a clear sign mandating masks inside and a local ordinance requiring mask-wearing indoors.

Maskless @JoeBiden Caught Violating #Mandates (Again) | @brad_polumbo via @feeonline https://t.co/KSeAvsmPId via @feeonline

— WhittyMike ن (@WhittyMike) November 30, 2021

‘The president was seen inside Murray’s Toggery Shop on the island of Nantucket Saturday with his mask around his neck and not covering his mouth despite a visible sign outside the door instructing patrons to wear a mask,’ Fox News reports. ‘According to the White House press pool, Biden walked out of the shop at 4:45 p.m. with his mask down and drinking what appeared to be a milkshake.’ (The store’s sign doesn’t say ‘unless you’re drinking.’ It says to wear a mask.)

In the still frame shown above, you can clearly see the president maskless while others inside are wearing masks—including a young child almost certainly at far less risk from COVID-19 than Biden.”

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The Cincinnati Enquirer reports, “Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) visited a Northern Kentucky animal shelter Friday to discuss his bill to end animal testing mandates.

Spent the morning making some new furry friends and talking with staff at Kenton Co. Animal Services about my bipartisan bill to end FDA mandates on animal testing.

Be sure to visit https://t.co/XKxwC0TNAX or your local adoption agency to find your next best friend like Thanos! pic.twitter.com/7SpRsRELma

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 19, 2021

The FDA Modernization Act, introduced by Paul and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), would end a 1938 FDA mandate that experimental drugs must be tested on animals before they’re given to humans in clinical trials… Animal testing isn’t an effective predictor of responses in humans, and a lot of the time animal tests are used when they aren’t necessary, Paul said at the press conference at Kenton County Animal Services. Hundreds of animals are often killed while testing for a single drug, according to a news release.

Sen. @RandPaul visits Northern Kentucky, hangs out with Thanos https://t.co/JggfnaXBpK via @enquirer @racheldberry

— Carl Weiser (@cweiser) November 19, 2021

Paul first became aware of the mandate when approached by an animal wellness group, which inspired him to sponsor the legislation.”

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Utah’s Fox 13 reports, “The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with Utah and other states seeking to block the Biden administration’s efforts to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine or regular testing on businesses with more than 100 employees.

The Fifth Circuit is right. This vaccine mandate is unconstitutional and wrong. @POTUS’s vaccine mandate has to go.https://t.co/g5cWQdTGbB

— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) November 13, 2021

In a ruling handed down Friday night, the Louisiana-based Court granted a stay on any enforcement of the rule pending further litigation. It also ordered the Occupational Safety and Health Administration take no steps to enforce the mandate until further court order. Utah, Texas, South Carolina and Mississippi filed a petition challenging the mandate.

‘It is clear that a denial of the petitioners’ proposed stay would do them irreparable harm. For one, the Mandate threatens to substantially burden the liberty interests of reluctant individual recipients put to a choice between their job(s) and their jab(s),’ Judge Kurt Engelhardt wrote.”

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