Friday on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett said she supported COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Jarrett said, “I’m all for mandating it. I know in this country, it’s hard to mandate things.” Yes it is, because a frustrating number of Americans are freedom-loving people who resent totalitarians like Jarrett and the Biden administration forcing them to, say, take experimental vaccines against their will.
“I think what we can do is say, look, if you want them to make their own decision, fine, but we’re not going to let you come to sporting events or schools,” she added. So you can choose not to accept the vaccine, and the government will simply forcibly exclude you from “polite society.”
As for mandating the vaccine for healthcare workers, Jarrett replied, “Absolutely. I am all for mandates, particularly for people who are interfacing with the public. The only way we can contain this disease, we know, is with vaccinations. So for public health workers, of course, they should be vaccinated, and for people working in our restaurants, of course, they should be vaccinated. I take a pretty hard line in terms of the mandates.”
She concluded, “We’re saying if you want to be a part of this society, our responsibility is to keep it as healthy as possible, take the vaccine. I think it is now time for us to take firm measures and try to get as many people vaccinated as possible, and where appropriate, there should be a mandate.”
These authoritarians don’t care about a healthy society. They care about compliance and submission.