Washington D.C.’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate will hurt those it is meant to protect
In a new op-ed, Dr. Pierre Kory explains how mandates could create another obstacle for a population government should be empowering.
With the news of Anthony Fauci’s departure from government, the media are putting on a full court press to reinforce his status as a bold and successful leader in the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. None will acknowledge, however, that his leadership directly caused the greatest stretch of misery, suffering and loss our country has endured since the Vietnam War era. Fauci played a pivotal role in pushing the most destructive policies of the past two years, from lockdowns to indiscriminate vaccinations to vaccine mandates.
Fauci’s legacy can be most acutely felt in Washington, D.C., the epicenter of his fandom and a uniquely deranged city that is requiring children over age 12 to get vaccinated for school.
As Dr. Pierre Kory writes in the Washington Times today, the discrepancy between the treatment of children in our nation's capital and the rest of the country reflects a deeper disconnect ripping our nation apart.
On the campaign trail, Biden, who owes his 2020 victory to Black voters in South Carolina, turned heads by declaring that, “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump then you ain’t black.” On Inauguration Day, he signed an Executive Order outlining his, “comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all.”
Yet when Team Biden moved back to Washington, they found a region moving away from its “Chocolate City” roots. In 1977, when Biden was a first-term senator, D.C. was 77 percent Black. Today, that number has been cut nearly in half to just 41 percent.
The city’s gentrification has deepened inequality. Every latte shop or yoga studio in the Navy Yard or Logan Circle pushes lower income Washingtonians east of the Anacostia River, where Wards 7 and 8 remain nearly 80 percent Black and with average incomes less than half of those across the river.
As with so many of the Biden administration’s rules and mandates, the D.C. school mandate would hurt Black children most and undermine Biden’s commitment to racial equity:
If enforced, D.C.’s vaccine mandate would bar nearly two-thirds of Black adolescents from attending school, creating another obstacle for a population government should be empowering. The elite ruling class are happy to plaster “Black Lives Matters” stickers on their Teslas while supporting policies that hold back the next generation mere miles away.
Over socially-distanced glasses of Chardonnay, well-to-do Beltway residents cling to their Covid narrative where vaccines funded by the big pharmaceutical companies offer the only hope. In their world, no one – not even children – are safe without a vaccine. Anyone who dares deviate from the company line is dismissed as a backwater, Trump-supporting conspiracist, even lifelong Democrats like me.
They ignore data that challenges their point of view, including data finding 70 percent of U.S. public schools reporting an increase in students seeking mental health services since the start of the pandemic, or a Harvard University study showing “remote instruction was a primary driver of widening achievement gaps.”
These districts are not in places where parents can earn their six figure salaries from Zoom, order Uber Eats and enjoy a steady diet of Netflix.
Dr. Kory has painstakingly laid out the massive and growing body of evidence showing vaccine harm in his Substack. The actual scope of harm from vaccines is impossible to quantify because our public health agencies – led by Fauci – refuse to engage in debate. But the evidence is all around us:
Consider the large, unexplained rise in U.S life insurance claims amongst working age Americans of ages 18-64 beginning in early to mid-2021, when the vaccination campaign began. A similar trend is evident in German health insurance claims data – and the CEO of one of the country’s largest health insurance companies was fired for releasing data suggesting the government was concealing the extent of vaccine injuries.
As a presidential candidate, Biden pledged to “shut down the virus.” There are now more COVID-19 deaths on his watch than Trump’s. Biden, his wife, and over half of his cabinet have contracted the virus. Yet instead of changing course, his administration and its allies in D.C. cling to a failed political agenda, sacrificing the next generation at its altar:
D.C.’s vaccine mandates will hurt Black children the most, undermining Biden’s equity agenda. In November, let’s hope a reckoning is brewing for those who have suffered the most by a failed public health response. Our children, especially the most underserved, depend on it.
Thank for being so fearless over the last two years. We’ve been a fight for our sanity, and still it’s not over the military has been decimated by the White House’s interference in recruiting soldiers. The airlines are still understaffed but they are afraid to admit the WH is still giving instructions about the vaccine to flight attendants, baggage handlers, air traffic controllers and pilots! The madness is still affecting schools and many businesses. Pls continue to work for the human interests as you have always been a warrior.
President Biden was filmed talking to Eliza New of Harvard about how he loved Robert Hayden's poem, Those Winter Sundays. Hayden was born black and poor in Detroit, but rose through his education in high school, Wayne State and University of Michigan. He became the first Black consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, and published many books of poetry.
Those Winter Sundays
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
Biden has betrayed us all and particulary the poor and the marginalized. He needs a spiritual awakening. Maybe Beau could come to him in a dream and tell him of the evil he is unleashing. If anyone knows of "love's austere and lonely offices" it is Dr. Kory, who has lost all he had and kept on fighting for the health of everyone, but particularly for the kids, with great love and great courage.