True, that's how it went for most. However, the white house did enact vax mandates. That is the reason for the freedom convey.
Look at you bringing the thread full circle there.
"Vaccines" yes, my wife was told that she would be denied chemo treatments and I would not be allowed there to support her if we did not get injected with experimental drugs that don't work. Think about that. Treatment that has worked over time for millions to treat a sure death would be denied if we did not succumb to taking the experimental "drug".
My oncologist (who is also a hematologist) is the one who told me that I should get vaccinated. To be fair, she wasn't immediately on board with it until she did her own research. Only after reading the actual clinical studies herself (not the interpretations of the studies) did she tell me she felt it was safe.
I agree that it suck that someone would be denied chemo (which we know works) if they're not vaccinated (which was still experimental). But another perspective of it, is probably more of a CYA by the doctors.
When you are on chemo you are the epitome of immune compromised. We know chemo works to kill cancer. We also know that Covid was much more lethal to the immune compromised than those who were healthy. It would appear the concern was that they are going to give you a medication that wrecks your immune system, thereby making you highly susceptible to a lethal virus. However, if you are vaccinated, you were expected to experience milder symptoms of Covid. So by requiring the patient to be vaccinated, the doctor is hoping that your body (wrecked by chemo) was able to survive the milder symptoms, whereas a full force Covid infection may have been fatal.
As for the support person needing vaccinated? That was all medical facilities not just oncology. The radiology department at my local hospital wouldn't even allow a guest, and the hospital itself only allowed vaccinated guests or those with a negative test. Why? An abundance of caution I guess. Hard to say, I don't know how/why they made the decision.
Shots, you for one don't usually speak so unknowingly, I am kind of surprised.
I'm not sure which part you're referring to, because I do make it a point to be as informed as possible.
If you're talking about the federal vaccine mandate for large companies, I'm not denying they made it. However, people overlook that they gave exemptions. Medical and religious being the obvious two. However the one that seems to be overlooked (or ignored) is that you could simply choose not to get vaccinated too. I mentioned jumping through hoops. That catch was that you had to have regular tests to show negative infection.
Yes it's stupid, and I think it's overstepping the authority of what the government can do. However, there was an option to not get the vaccine. It was a matter of choice to get the get regular tests if you didn't want the vaccine. Again, I think it's a huge overreach requiring either, and I agree with standing up against it, but there was an option to not get the shot.
Aren't the safest places those cities that have outlawed guns, like Chicago and NYC for example? Vermont you don't even need a pistol permit to carry, look at the rampant crime there, complete mayhem
Without doing an in depth analysis it's hard to tell, but to steal a line from the NRA,
an armed society is a polite society. Don't get me wrong, people will harm others in any environment, but it seems to me that knowing someone is armed would make it a lot less appealing to rob/assault them. How often do you hear about a gun store being robbed? Very very rare. The illegally armed criminal will hit the unarmed gas station before they walk into a store where they know the clerks are armed. The problem with disarming the entire country is that the criminals don't care if their gun, knife or rock is legal to carry. If they're intent on doing harm, they will find a way.
Any statistical facts to back any of it? No, just pure speculation on my part, but that seems like a logical step. At least to me it does.