{"id":1363421,"date":"2022-03-07T23:16:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T04:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1363421"},"modified":"2022-03-07T23:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T04:16:38","slug":"leaked-audio-reveals-former-nih-director-francis-collins-touting-vaccine-mandates-threatening-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leaked-audio-reveals-former-nih-director-francis-collins-touting-vaccine-mandates-threatening-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Audio Reveals Former NIH Director Francis Collins Touting Vaccine Mandates, Threatening Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fleaked-audio-reveals-former-nih-director-francis-collins-touting-vaccine-mandates-threatening-unemployment%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=1363421&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NIH-Francis-Collins-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former\u00a0National Institutes of Health (NIH) chief Francis Collins, who was also recently appointed as President Joe Biden\u2019s new science advisor, expressed support for vaccine mandates, emphasizing that people\u2019s employment should be threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Leaked audio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-in-leaked-audio-former-nih-director-new-biden-science-adviser-laughs-over-threatening-unemployment-to-force-vaccines-blames-trump-for-covid-19-deaths\">obtained by<\/a> The Daily Wire appeared to shatter Collins\u2019 political neutrality, revealing that he not only had a deeply held conviction about the persuasive power of vaccine mandates but also had a particular dislike for former President Donald Trump. The audio originated from an Institute of Politics event on October 26 of last year, which was hosted by\u00a0<em>Christianity Today<\/em> theologian Russell Moore at the University of Chicago. Institute of Politics was founded by David Axelrod, an adviser to former President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>After Moore introduced Collins as a personal friend and member of his book club, the talk segued into a discussion about vaccine mandates, during which the former NIH director said that there was \u201cno question\u201d in his \u201cmind that the mandates are legal\u201d and that people should have their employment threatened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US government does have the authority to mandate vaccinations if there is an outbreak that is threatening people, because it\u2019s not just about you, it\u2019s about the people you\u2019re going to infect,\u201d Collins claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Collin said this even though a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-02187-1\">bevy of evidence<\/a> showed at the time that the vaccinated could still be infected with the virus and spread it to others.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDo [mandates] convince people who otherwise wouldn\u2019t get them?\u201d Collins reportedly asked himself rhetorically before answering, \u201cOh yeah, especially if it means losing your job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins recalled how he used intimidation tactics at the NIH to push the hesitant employees, approximately 2,000 out of 46,000, into getting the vaccine, telling them they\u00a0were \u201cin serious danger of being fired in the next month if they [didn\u2019t] do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReality [was] sinking in,\u201d Collins said, adding that the sudden compliance showed that \u201ctheir resistance was not maybe quite that deeply seated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins even argued that some vaccine-hesitant people secretly wanted to get the shot but feared alienating their circle of friends. \u201cThey\u2019re sort of thinking to themselves, you know, maybe I really should do it, but if I do, I lose my credibility with my peeps,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n<p>The mandates essentially gave such people an excuse, according to Collins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Well, my employer made me do it. I didn\u2019t really want to get them.\u2019 They get, you know, bonus points, because they\u2019re now a victim. But they\u2019ve also gotten the mandated vaccine that they kind of wanted anyway,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>After knocking Evangelical Christians for emphasizing personal liberty at the expense of personal responsibility, Collins then revealed his partisan side when he blamed the preponderance of coronavirus deaths on former President Trump, ignoring the deaths under Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat harm was done to the people in this nation by a very, very self-involved and misguided president in the previous administration. Hundreds of thousands of people have died who should not have had to do so,\u201d Collins said. \u201cAnd so there was an effort to try to distract from that dreadful circumstance by finding somebody else to blame.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0National Institutes of Health (NIH) chief Francis Collins, who was also recently appointed as President Joe Biden\u2019s new science advisor, expressed support for vaccine mandates, emphasizing that people\u2019s employment should<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1363421","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\/1363421","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363421\/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=1363421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}