FEE’s Eric Brakey writes, “Bhattacharya concludes that, without contributing to herd immunity, COVID vaccination is a matter of personal health, not public health. As the benefits rest primarily with the individual, not society, government officials have no greater moral authority to prescribe vaccination than they do to prescribe chemotherapy. These are decisions for the individual to decide in consultation with their own physician.

An abundance of scientific data undermine justifications for COVID vaccination mandates, which violate long-standing principles of bodily autonomy and individual rights. https://t.co/5fDIvJJ9K4

— FEE (@feeonline) October 8, 2021

Unlike pre-existing requirements in schools for traditional vaccinations, existing data undermines herd immunity justifications for universal COVID vaccination mandates. Further, these mandates push many with robust acquired immunity out of the workplace and society to the detriment of public health, increasing the likelihood of transmission to the vulnerable.

Mandatory COVID vaccination oversteps the bounds of public health, violating long-standing Western principles of bodily autonomy and individual rights. Lacking even the clear positive externalities often used to justify past vaccination requirements, these mandates should be opposed at all levels of policymaking.

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Cori Bush: Give me personal security but ‘Defund the Police!’ Nancy Mace: Bush’s ‘hypocrisy knows no bounds’

Far-left Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush recently went on a rant about how she should be able to spend as much as she likes on personal private security so that she can work to defund the police.

The idea that she should feel personally safe but civilians shouldn’t have police they can call when needed did not seem to register for the Democrat.

“I’m going to make sure I have security because I know I have had attempts on my life,” Bush said. “And I have had too much work to do, there are too many people, that need help right now… so if I end up spending $200,000, if I spend ten more dollars on it… You know what? I get to be here to do the work.”

“So suck it up: Defunding the police has to happen,” Bush insisted. “We need to defund the police!”

Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace called Bush, “Totally crazy.”

“I find it really rich,” Mace told Newsmax. “A socialist finally discovers capitalism through the guise of private security. Someone whose hypocrisy knows no bounds, she wants to defund the police. Yet is advocating and bragging about the private security that she needs.”

“I hate politics. I hate politicians. I hate the whole thing,” Mace added.

“This is one of the reasons… the citizens of our country hate DC, they hate the swamp, they hate what’s going on because of the hypocrisy that we see say in and day out,” Mace said.

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