{"id":745771,"date":"2021-09-12T22:06:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T02:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=745771"},"modified":"2021-09-12T22:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T02:06:06","slug":"governor-on-bidens-mandate-doesnt-know-whats-going-on-in-states-because-he-skips-weekly-governor-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/governor-on-bidens-mandate-doesnt-know-whats-going-on-in-states-because-he-skips-weekly-governor-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor On Biden\u2019s Mandate: Doesn\u2019t Know What\u2019s Going On In States Because He Skips Weekly Governor Meetings"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fgovernor-on-bidens-mandate-doesnt-know-whats-going-on-in-states-because-he-skips-weekly-governor-meetings%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=745771&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Pete-Ricketts-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts slammed President Joe Biden on Sunday for the administration\u2019s vaccine mandate, saying that Biden does not know what is going on in the states because he does not attend his own administration\u2019s weekly governors meeting.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace whether he was being \u201ccavalier with the health\u201d of the people of Nebraska, Ricketts responded, \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing is focusing on preserving our hospital capacity, which we have successfully done here in Nebraska.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got the third, we\u2019re tied for the third lowest mortality rate of any state in the country for people who have contracted COVID-19, and so we protected that hospital capacity to provide that care,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd again, we can look at the data specifically around children and see the risks. Last year in Nebraska, if you were aged 10-19, you were 26 times more likely to die in a car accident than you were of COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ricketts continued, \u201cSo, the president should look at the data and maybe the president should attend one of the weekly calls his administration has with all the governors \u2014 he\u2019s not been on one yet since he\u2019s been president \u2014 and maybe talk to some of the governors and ask them about what\u2019s going on in their states, because he appears to be pretty ignorant of what\u2019s going on in places like Nebraska.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id>\n<p><em>CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: And joining us now, the governor of Nebraska, Pete Ricketts. Governor, welcome to \u201cFOX News Sunday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>GOV. PETE RICKETTS (R), NEBRASKA: Good morning. Thanks for having me on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WALLACE: I want to start with something that you said this week about President Biden\u2019s new vaccine mandates. Here you are, sir.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RICKETTS: The president has forgotten we live in America. He thinks we live in the Soviet Union, and the hypocrisy of this is just unbelievable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(END VIDEO CLIP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WALLACE: Governor, what\u2019s so objectionable about Biden\u2019s vaccine mandates, and what are you going do about it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RICKETTS: Well, first of all, we have been encouraging people to get vaccinated. We\u2019ve been providing information and encouraging people to reach out to their neighbors because vaccines work and they will help people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But it should be a personal health care choice. This is not something that the government should mandate, and somebody shouldn\u2019t have to make the choice between keeping their job and getting a jab in the arm. I mean, it\u2019s just wrong. I\u2019ve talked to people, a number of people who have told me if they made me take the vaccine, I\u2019m just going to be fired. I\u2019m not going to, I\u2019m not going to do it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WALLACE: But you say it\u2019s a personal choice. In fact, to attend school in your state of Nebraska, children must be vaccinated against a number of diseases.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Let me put them up on the screen. They must be vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, and rubella, hepatitis B, and chicken pox.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why are those mandates that parents and your state must comply with and do comply with routinely \u2014 why is it that they are not so objectionable and such a violation of personal freedom, but Biden\u2019s vaccine mandates are?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RICKETTS: Well, for all those that you just listed, there\u2019s a long history that parents have had the opportunity to see how those things have been implemented. And there\u2019s still a lot of people out there who don\u2019t know what to trust, and in fact, this is really an outcome of what the CDC has done because they flip-flopped on so many issues, whether it\u2019s masks, or whether you have to mask [after being] vaccinated and so forth. There\u2019s just a lot of people out there who don\u2019t know who to trust right now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And so, by having the government force it on \u2014 you\u2019re not building the trust where we have the trust with those other vaccines. This is a process that\u2019s going to take time to bring people along, and that\u2019s why it should be a personal choice and not something mandated by the government.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WALLACE: But forgive me, sir. I\u2019m old enough that I remember when the polio vaccine first came out, a lot of us, and certainly our parents viewed it as a blessing. And immediately \u2014 I lived in New York state at that time \u2014 the state mandated that we all get the polio vaccine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, you know, we\u2019re in the middle of a pandemic. There is a new vaccine that Donald Trump was largely responsible for. It\u2019s been approved, full approval by the FDA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Again, if polio vaccine is okay for parents and they have to comply with it to send their kid to school, why not for a lot of people, not just kids, the vaccine for \u2014 for this disease?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RICKETTS: Yeah. I think this is very different from polio that has very devastating effects, and certainly we know if you\u2019re older, 65 years and older, that\u2019s were 83 percent of our deaths in Nebraska came from, we know this is really devastating. But we also know that nearly 87 percent of our&nbsp;<\/em><em>65-years and older population has been vaccinated, and if you\u2019re looking at young children, for example, here in Nebraska, we can look at the data and see that really children are no more at risk for the coronavirus than they are for the ordinary flu.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And so, it\u2019s all about balancing off these risks. And the risk for this is just such where this is something that we shouldn\u2019t be mandating it. Again, the whole goal for all we are doing, at least in Nebraska how we\u2019re doing it, is around making sure we\u2019re preserving hospital capacity and we\u2019ve successfully done that here, even without doing statewide mask mandates and without doing vaccine passports.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, let\u2019s keep the objective in mind, which is to be able to provide health care, which we have successfully done here in Nebraska by protecting our hospital capacity, and not have the heavy hand of government come in and tell people what to do. They just don\u2019t want to hear it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WALLACE: President Biden was asked on Friday about leaders, governors like you who say they\u2019re going to challenge him on the vaccine mandates. Here\u2019s what his response was.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNTIED STATES: Have at it. Look, I am so disappointed that, particularly some Republican governors, have been so cavalier with the health of these kids, so cavalier with the health of their communities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(END VIDEO CLIP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WALLACE: Governor, are you being cavalier with the health of your communities?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RICKETTS: What we\u2019re doing is focusing on preserving our hospital capacity, which we have successfully done here in Nebraska. We\u2019ve got the third \u2014 we\u2019re tied for the third lowest mortality rate of any state in the country for people who have contracted COVID-19, and so we protected that hospital capacity to provide that care.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And again, we can look at the data specifically around children and see the risks. Last year in Nebraska, if you were aged 10-19, you were 26 times more likely to die in a car accident than you were of COVID-19.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, the president should look at the data, and maybe the president should attend one of the weekly calls his administration has with all the governors \u2014 he\u2019s not been on one yet since he\u2019s been president \u2014 and maybe talk to some of the governors and ask them about what\u2019s going on in their states, because he appears to be pretty ignorant of what\u2019s going on in places like Nebraska.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WALLACE: Let\u2019s talk about the COVID situation in your state, and again, it\u2019s not just about kids, it\u2019s about the entire population. Let me put the stats up on the screen. Back in June, Nebraska was averaging 23 new cases a day. Now with the Delta surge, you\u2019re averaging 759 new cases a day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Governor, that\u2019s the highest since last winter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RICKETTS: Yeah, and again, what we focus on is preserving our hospital capacity, and we have seen a steady increase in hospitalizations throughout the course of this summer. Here in the month of September, the number of hospitalizations has bounced around between 379 and then on Friday, it dropped down to 350. So it\u2019s been in that range through most of September.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And that is in contrast to the 987 we had at our peak in November of 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So you can see we\u2019re well below where we reached our peak last year. We did declare a staffing emergency for hospitals to be able to help them manage their folks, you know, to make it easier to bring in nurses and so forth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But what we focus on is providing that hospital capacity. We set up a transfer center to be able to move people around between hospitals statewide, and all that to make sure we\u2019re protecting the hospital capacity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And that\u2019s our guiding star here in Nebraska. And we\u2019ve done it very successfully, as I indicated with our success in keeping people, you know, from dying from this disease.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WALLACE: I want \u2014 I want to talk to about that, because I looked into the situation, the stress on hospital staffing and hospital beds, and the fact is, on September 1st, you announced your state was opening a hospital transfer center that would allow patients to be moved around in case there wasn\u2019t enough staff or beds in one place.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You also have directed health measures to limit elective surgeries. And one of your top health officials says, the fact is, there isn\u2019t enough room in your hospitals by the end of each day for high-level care.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RICKETTS: Actually, what we\u2019ve done is move the people around if we needed to, that\u2019s what the transfer center is for, to make it easier for hospitals who want to move a patient to get more acute care, to be able to officially move that person into a hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This primarily happens when you\u2019ve got, say, a more rural hospital setting, that may not have all the facilities that maybe some of our urban centers do, and allow them to officially get that to the right hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And certainly, we are encouraging people to continue to get vaccinated as part of this, but we\u2019re managing our hospital capacity very successfully here in this state with the tools that we have provided the staffing emergency.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WALLACE: So, I asked you a question at the top, I asked you why it was so objectionable, you answered that. You didn\u2019t answer the other question. Let\u2019s finish with that. What are you going to do about President Biden\u2019s vaccine mandates?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RICKETTS: Yeah. So I\u2019ve been talking to my attorney general. He\u2019s coordinating with the other attorneys general across the country who share similar views about the overreach. This is an egregious overreach of federal authority.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And as we see what these rules are, we will be able to know exactly how we will be able to challenge them in court. I\u2019m also talking with my colleagues around the country as well, the other governors who feel the way I do, and we\u2019ll be working on other strategies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I\u2019ve got to tell you, I have heard from so many workers, so many small businesses who say this is just not going to be something they can handle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So many people have told me they\u2019re just going to be fired if they\u2019re forced to take the vaccine. This is really going to create huge problems for our small businesses and for our American workers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And again, you shouldn\u2019t have to make the choice of keeping your job or getting a job in the arm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WALLACE: Very briefly, you say you\u2019re going to court. Any idea how soon?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RICKETTS: Well, when we get an idea of what these rules exactly will be, we\u2019ll know how to be able to attack it in court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WALLACE: Governor Ricketts, thank you. Thanks for your time today. Please come back, sir.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RICKETTS: Great. Thanks very much for having me on, Chris.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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