The six point plan is really an attempt to shake things up andd get this pandemic under control. This is not about freedom or personal choice. It's about protecting yourself and those around you, the people you work with in your life. The president clearly did not want to mandate this. But the various statutes and approaches and ways the administration goes at this will clearly be challenged. I think though by putting this out there and saying there could be requirements, that just puts a lot of people who are on the fence between getting vaccinated or pretensionly losing their job.
President Joe Biden is taking a new approach to fight the pandemic. Former acting CDC director Richard Besser explains the vaccine mandates and the booster shot debate.
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