Anti COVID vaxxers : taken for fools by right wing media

Those who took their medical advice from FOX and like-minded social media are now paying the price. They have been taken for fools.   Making vaccination and mask-wearing a political issue is proving to have deadly consequences. The unvaccinated for COVID-19 are four times likely to be hospitalized and five times likely to die. Around  90 million Americans are still unvaccinated.(Colorado is a bit better than the national average).  Perpetuating this anti mandate media message is still FOX (and others), angrily raving that  Pres. Biden is a dictator or a Nazi for his executive order to require federal employees to be vaccinated as well as, federal contractors. Medical and nursing home facilities Medicare and Medicare are also to require their employees to be vaccinated,  Fortunately for Biden, a significant majority of Americans agree with such mandates in public spaces and there is plenty of case law to support his right to do so when the government is the employer.  Biden tried persuasion. data, and, convenience, but with an estimated 90 million still sitting on the fence in late August still unvaccinated, his poll numbers in handling COVID dipping, he acted. He looked at the law, saw he did not have the power to mandate vaccinations for everyone, but he did have the power as an employer for the one hundred million the federal government employed, and on September 9, he issued an executive order for what mandates he could. 

In my own county (ski, recreation, ranching, population 16,000)), the COVID infection rate has taken a leap with 110 new cases in two weeks... and a recent death occurred Friday, Sept. 10. Seven of the nine hospitalized in the past two weeks were unvaccinated. Third Grand County resident dies from COVID-19 as hospitalizations rise | SkyHiNews.com   The rate is similar to the one last winter before vaccines were widely available.  Those smugly thinking they could get away scot-free without vaccinations may be learning a hard lesson.  

   Data sources People in states with low vaccination rates are about 4 times more likely to be hospitalized and more than 5 times likely to die - CNN

 Unvaccinated Coloradans Are Much More Likely To Be Hospitalized And Die Due To COVID, According To New State Data | Colorado Public Radio (cpr.org)

Per: What Percentage of Colorado is Vaccinated? | Colorado Vaccine Tracker | USAFacts At least 208,305,270 people or 63% of the US  population have received at least one dose.Overall, 177,433,044 people or 54% of the population have been fully vaccinated.  . | Colorado Vaccine Tracker | USAFacts  updated Sept. 9, In Colorado, 3,689,282 people or 64% of the state has received at least one dose. and 57% fully vaccinated. 

 Most Americans support vaccine mandates in certain public spaces, survey finds | University of Chicago News (uchicago.edu)   

Remarks by President Biden on Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic | The White House

Biden announces COVID-19 vaccine mandates that will affect 100 million Americans (cbsnews.com)

 Vaccine Mandates Are Lawful, Effective and Based on Rock-Solid Science - Scientific American

Source: FOX news personalities' quotes against Biden's employer mandates and case law supporting Biden's right: Transcript: The Beat with Ari Melber, 9/10/21 (msnbc.com) 

COVID Vaccine Hesitancy: 90 Million Still On the Fence (webmd.com)