Mon Oct 25, 2021 – 7:29 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – President Joe Biden made clear last Thursday night that he is unsympathetic to public servants put out of work by COVID-19 vaccine mandates and unconcerned about the strain their loss will put on their communities.
“I’m wondering where you stand on that,” moderator Anderson Cooper asked Biden during a live CNN town hall event. “Should police officers, first responders be mandated to get vaccines? And if not, should they be mandated to stay at home, let go?”
“Yes and yes,” Biden answered, going on to claim that he “waited until July to talk about mandating because I tried everything else possible.” He scoffed at the possibility of personnel losses, citing compliance rates in the high 90s among airlines and the military (without mentioning that Southwest Airlines recently backed down from its plans to enforce the mandate).
Biden mocks people who he says are making the COVID vaccine “a political issue”:
“Freedom? I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID? No, I mean come on. Freedom.” pic.twitter.com/Jt7uzxTFAc
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 22, 2021
The president also mocked the notion that his vaccine mandate is
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