{"id":1125206,"date":"2021-12-16T12:44:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1125206"},"modified":"2021-12-16T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:44:32","slug":"steve-scalise-biden-dedicated-more-to-firing-unvaxxed-health-care-workers-than-finding-alternative-covid-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steve-scalise-biden-dedicated-more-to-firing-unvaxxed-health-care-workers-than-finding-alternative-covid-therapies\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Scalise: Biden \u2018Dedicated\u2019 More To Firing Unvaxxed Health Care Workers Than Finding Alternative COVID Therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsteve-scalise-biden-dedicated-more-to-firing-unvaxxed-health-care-workers-than-finding-alternative-covid-therapies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1125206&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>At a Congressional hearing on COVID-19 vaccinations and other treatments on Wednesday, Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA) slammed President Joe Biden for his vaccine mandates and punitive approach for health care workers who refuse to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough there is still plenty left to learn about COVID, one thing we know for sure at this point is that vaccinations are not a panacea against preventing the spread of the virus,\u201d Scalise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/publichealthpolicy\/washington-watch\/96226?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2021-12-16&amp;eun=g2042099d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Top%20Cat%20HeC%20%202021-12-16&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">said<\/a> during the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.house.gov\/subcommittee-activity\/hearings\/global-crisis-needs-global-solution-urgent-need-accelerate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hearing<\/a>, entitled \u201cA Global Crisis Needs a Global Solution: The Urgent Need to Accelerate Vaccinations Around the World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite these facts, after nearly a year in office, President Biden still has no real strategy to protect American families from COVID,\u201d the ranking member on the Coronavirus Crisis committee added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration has tried to apply unlawful vaccine mandates to private companies with over 100 employees, to healthcare workers, to federal contractors, and even federal employees,\u201d Scalise continued. \u201cPresident Biden has dedicated more time trying to get healthcare workers fired if they don\u2019t get vaccinated than he has spent on alternatives like therapeutics to keep families safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire was the first major company to file a lawsuit against the Biden administration over his vaccine mandate for employers with 100 or more employees.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week, Biden appeared to mock Americans concerned with his federal vaccine mandates for private and public workers as being obsessed with \u201cfreedoms,\u201d The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-on-americans-concerned-about-vaccine-mandates-violating-personal-liberty-whats-the-big-deal\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Not the vaccinated, the unvaccinated. That\u2019s the problem,\u201d Biden said.&nbsp; \u201cEverybody talks about freedom about not to have a shot or have a test. Well guess what? How about patriotism? How about you make sure you\u2019re vaccinated, so you do not spread the disease to anyone else.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat about that?\u201d Biden continued. \u201cWhat\u2019s the big deal?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scalise\u2019s comments stand in stark contrast to Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC), the chair of the committee, who implored the Biden administration to do more for \u201cequitable\u201d distribution of the vaccine:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNearly 40% of people around the world have not yet received even a single dose of a coronavirus vaccine,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s 3 billion people who remain at far higher risk than they should be.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis inequitable access to the coronavirus vaccine is causing unnecessary death and suffering, and we have a moral obligation to save lives by expanding vaccine access,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut ensuring that vaccines are available around the world is not just the right thing to do; it is necessary to protect our own health and economy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Scalise also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2021\/12\/15\/191460261\/\">told<\/a> \u201cBreitbart News Daily\u201d that \u201cone of the big failures of the Biden administration is that they\u2019ve only been focused on vaccinations, but they don\u2019t want to do anything to deal with other alternatives [such as] therapeutics, natural immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no investigations or hearings that we\u2019re having on the power of natural immunity \u2014 people that got COVID and survived it \u2014 and then what does that immunity give you?\u201d he added. \u201cIt gives you a lot of ability to be safe from future variants, and yet they don\u2019t want to focus on that because I think they still want to deal with government control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court. Join us in this fight by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lp.dailywire.com\/osha-petition\/\">signing our petition<\/a>&nbsp;to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Congressional hearing on COVID-19 vaccinations and other treatments on Wednesday, Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA) slammed President Joe Biden for his vaccine mandates and punitive approach for health care workers who refuse to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.\u201cThough there is still plenty left to learn about COVID, one thing we know for sure at this point is that vaccinations are not a panacea against preventing the spread of the virus,\u201d Scalise said during the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing, entitled \u201cA Global Crisis Needs a Global Solution: The Urgent Need to Accelerate Vaccinations Around the World.\u201d\u201cDespite these facts, after nearly a year in office, President Biden still has no real strategy to protect American families from COVID,\u201d the ranking member on the Coronavirus Crisis committee added.\u201cThe Biden administration has tried to apply unlawful vaccine mandates to private companies with over 100 employees, to healthcare workers, to federal contractors, and even federal employees,\u201d Scalise continued. \u201cPresident Biden has dedicated more time trying to get healthcare workers fired if they don\u2019t get vaccinated than he has spent on alternatives like therapeutics to keep families safe.\u201dThe Daily Wire was the first major company to file a lawsuit against the Biden administration over his vaccine mandate for employers with 100 or more employees.Just this week, Biden appeared to mock Americans concerned with his federal vaccine mandates for private and public workers as being obsessed with \u201cfreedoms,\u201d The Daily Wire reported:\u201cThis is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Not the vaccinated, the unvaccinated. That\u2019s the problem,\u201d Biden said.\u00a0 \u201cEverybody talks about freedom about not to have a shot or have a test. Well guess what? How about patriotism? How about you make sure you\u2019re vaccinated, so you do not spread the disease to anyone else.\u201d\u201cWhat about that?\u201d Biden continued. \u201cWhat\u2019s the big deal?\u201dScalise\u2019s comments stand in stark contrast to Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC), the chair of the committee, who implored the Biden administration to do more for \u201cequitable\u201d distribution of the vaccine:\u201cNearly 40% of people around the world have not yet received even a single dose of a coronavirus vaccine,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s 3 billion people who remain at far higher risk than they should be.\u201d\u201cThis inequitable access to the coronavirus vaccine is causing unnecessary death and suffering, and we have a moral obligation to save lives by expanding vaccine access,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut ensuring that vaccines are available around the world is not just the right thing to do; it is necessary to protect our own health and economy.\u201dOn Wednesday, Scalise also told \u201cBreitbart News Daily\u201d that \u201cone of the big failures of the Biden administration is that they\u2019ve only been focused on vaccinations, but they don\u2019t want to do anything to deal with other alternatives [such as] therapeutics, natural immunity.\u201d\u201cThere are no investigations or hearings that we\u2019re having on the power of natural immunity \u2014 people that got COVID and survived it \u2014 and then what does that immunity give you?\u201d he added. \u201cIt gives you a lot of ability to be safe from future variants, and yet they don\u2019t want to focus on that because I think they still want to deal with government control.\u201dThe Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court. Join us in this fight by\u00a0signing our petition\u00a0to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}