Last night the Whitehouse announced the U.S. would be ending the requirement for non-U.S. citizens to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of entering the country. The Biden administration is also ending the vaccine mandate for federal employees, federal contractors and other federally funded workers. CBS News has more.
The vaccine requirements will end May 11, when the Biden administration is officially declaring an end to the public health emergency. In April, Congress passed, and the president signed, an end to the national and public health emergencies related to the pandemic, effective immediately.
The White House noted that 98% of federal employees received at least one dose of the vaccine or had a pending or approved exception.
The end of the vaccine requirement for international travelers coming to the U.S. and for federally-funded workers is further evidence that the administration believes the U.S. has moved past the worst of the pandemic.
“While vaccination remains one of the most important tools in advancing the health and safety of employees and promoting the efficiency of workplaces, we are now in a different phase of our response when these measures are no longer necessary,” the White House said.
Worth reading in full.
Among other things, this means Novak Djokovic will be able to enter the United States and take part in the U.S. Open.
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“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning”
Get in there Novak.
“While vaccination remains…”
That last paragraph, man.
From sock puppet Brandon, who famously declared we wouldn’t get Covid if we got the death jab, then proceeded to announce he’d tested positive ( again ), despite multiple shots and a load of Paxlovid. This plonker should carry a health warning, he’s such a delusional menace.
There’s been much reporting about worldwide excess deaths and disabilities attributable to the jabs. If, as per the article, 98% of the US federal workforce has taken at least one jab, what will that do to the running of government? Is the 98% figure is accurate–did employees have to provide proof or just self-certify? What are comparable numbers of other national bureaucracies? I don’t know anyone disabled, unable to work, or dead at an early age, just some anecdotes of people not feeling good. Have you seen this in your lives? I read that the US State Dept. is taking an unusually long time to process passports, so perhaps that’s one sign government is unraveling. Not sure that’s totally a bad thing….
The way I read the article, some of the 98% will be unjabbed as they had an approved or pending exception. Also, I’m wondering whether the 2% includes any employees who have been fired.
I don’t believe there’s anything near a combination of 98% jabbed / granted exception. Lies have underpinned the narrative from the beginning and continue to do so.
Sucks to have done the right thing to protect others by being multiple-jabbed and then be once again surrounded by all those selfish, science-denying, COVID-denying, Trump-loving, right-wing, anti-vax, fascist unjabbed idiots, huh?
Yup. Dunno where your downtick has come from – someone’s been triggered!
Re the paragraph about vaccination being one of the most important tools in advancing the H and S of employees: when they lie, lie, and keep on lying, I guess it’s just so that that is the statement of record. It matters not to them whether it is bolleaux, just that it is the official record therefore it is so.
Truth matters less than perception and there seems no way to fight the crap – the fact that we all know it is crap matters not a jot.
In the UK we can see their priorities by the way they will launch a Westminster inquiry into the Sue Grey shenanigans but sod the excess deaths and vaccine injuries. Arse- covering first; public duty very low on the to-do list.
I need a drink.
The system has convicted a mother for killing her child because of an unfortunate interaction between her personal mental disorder, religion and the lockdown hysteria. However, nobody will ever convict “the system” for excess deaths caused by a deliberate interaction between its collective mental disorder (paranoia over viruses), pharma-worship and lockdown hysteria.
Ah, but they were following The $cience….
I was about to visit Dallas and visit the site of the Kennedy assassination two weeks after the hoax was announced. Hoping now my wish will be granted. Don’t think the Democrats won’t introduce another fake virus to rig the 2024 election. Its their MO.
No mention of the impending leagal action by ICAN.
“The Federal Government dropped its COVID-19 vaccine travel mandate for non-citizens (the Travel Ban) on the same day its opposition to a motion for an injunction against that mandate was due in a lawsuit brought by ICAN’s attorneys, headed by Aaron Siri, Esq.
On April 4, 2023, ICAN’s attorneys filed a lawsuit challenging the Travel Ban, which prohibits non-citizens from entering the United States without a COVID-19 vaccine.”