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California Governor Gavin Newsom has harsh words for unvaccinated Americans.
“Let’s talk about masks,” a CNN anchor asked Newsom. “LA County brought back their mask mandate regardless of vaccination status.”
“I want to put up the growth in cases,” the CNN anchor continued. “I’ve got the six weeks before the indoor mask man date for vaccinated people ended on June 15th. You see the six weeks or so since and there’s this growth in cases. Is it time, governor, to bring back a universal mask mandate regardless of vaccination status there in California?”
Newsom responded, “We don’t even have do have that debate if we can just get everybody vaccinated.”
Newsom said, “It’s like drunk drivers. You don’t have to right to go out and drink and driver and put everybody at risk, including your own life at risk.”
“California has one of the highest vaccination rates in America and we’re still seeing an increase because so many people, 25% in California, are refusing to get vaccinated,” Newsom said.
“We’re trying to focus on ending this pandemic once and for all,” he continued. “Those non-pharmaceutical interventions were necessary in the absence of vaccines but with these vaccines, we can extinguish this virus once and for all and get it behind us and not worry about getting our kids safely back in instruction and keeping our businesses open,” he concluded.
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TRENDING 👇 First Federal Agency Announces Vaccine Mandate
And so it begins… Veterans Affairs becomes the first federal agency to mandate the COVID vaccine, Fox News reports.
Health care personnel will be obligated to take the drug. Rueters says this impacts more than 100,000 health care workers.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough decided to make the COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for all VA health care personnel. This includes physicians, dentists, nurses and others who work in patient-facing roles. The agency says this is a “necessary step” to keep the veterans it serves “safe.”
Employees have eight weeks to comply and must be fully vaccinated. McDonough said, “We’re mandating vaccines for Title 38 employees because it’s the best way to keep veterans safe, especially as the delta variant spreads across the country.”
“Whenever a veteran or a VA employee sets foot in a VA facility, they deserve to know that we have done everything in our power to protect them from COVID-19,” he continued. “With this mandate, we can once again make – and keep – that fundamental promise.”
