Live Breaking News & Updates on Vaccine mandates anti freedom
Stay updated with breaking news from Vaccine mandates anti freedom. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
particularly some republican governors have been so cavalier with the health of these kids, so cavalier with the health of their communities. this is -- this is -- we're playing for real here. this isn't a game. >> now this whole idea that a mandate for a vaccine and testing in the middle of a pandemic is somehow anti american and anti freedom just is a concoction. freedom to get sick? freedom to die? the fact is, the fact is vaccines are already required. kids in schools and child care are widely required to get vaccinated for things like tetanus, also, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, chickenpox. >> vaccinated requirements in schools were nothing new. they work.
how dare you mandate it? it's mandated already. [ laughter ] kay ivy. interestingly, though, that governor ivy was pretty clear over the summer when she blamed people who refuse to get vaccinated. >> it's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks, the unvaccinated folks are letting us down. >> here is the thing. if you were saying on the one hand people need to get vaccinated but on the other hand, rarely against mandates for them to do so, does that mean you're final with the virus running its course and overwhelming your hospitals? you're fine with more americans dying of an entirely preventable disease? you're fine with kids too young to be vaccinated catching that entirely preventable disease from people who just refuse to roll up their sleeves? freedom. liberty.
they're overwhelmingly supported by educators and their unions. >> vaccination mandates are really nothing new. they go all the way back to the revolutionary war when george washington mandated smallpox inoculations for soldiers. george washington revolutionary war. mandated smallpox shots for soldiers. freedom. liberty. look up the definitions. let me tell you something you might not get from watching the news, listening to the amplification of the loudest, most ignorant voices. ready? the majority view in this country is that people should get vaccinated, that's the majority view. that's the same view. the people with sense. common sense. look at your screen. that's the latest gallop pole,
to travel by plane or eat in restaurants. leave that up. the majority of people in this country said there should be vaccine requirements if you want to work in an office or travel by plane or eat in restaurants. freedom. liberty. most people agree that vaccines are necessary to end the pandemic but a vocal minority sis holding everybody else back and too many republicans are trying to use that to play to the base. they think vaccines are fine. it's mandates they don't like. alabama governor kay ivy encouraging the people of her state to get vaccinated but saying we're never going to mandate it and vowing not to let the president, her words, tell alabama what to do. think about that logic. that's like saying well, i encourage the use of seat belts and driving with insurance but
do. >> i don't say anything i don't mean. >> whatever. >> i love you. i'll see you. >> i'll see you. this is "don lemon tonight." it's ironic, we were just talking about this. what is going on but this is ironic anti-vaxxers and a anti-maskers today are using freedom as a political rally cry claiming it's anti american and anti freedom to require someone to get a free, safe vaccine that will save their lives and those of their countrymen and women. well, maybe they just mean their own freedom, right? just their own freedom. that's called selfishness. freedom to spread a deadly disease, freedom to land in over taxed hospitals, freedom to take a hospital bed from a cancer patient or an accident victim? they don't seem to care about freedom for the rest of us, freedom from the pandemic that is overshadowed everything that
we are today. i'm telling you, this vaccine hesitancy, there is a personal freedom thing, people don't want to be told what to do. somebody made people think that the vaccine is a personal choice issue. because it doesn't naturally occur that way, brother. >> yeah. >> because we get our kids vaccinated, mumps rubella, polio, small pocs. somebody put an idea of that in their head. we're not who we were after 9/11. this pandemic has proven that. we're weak people making hard times for ourselves. >> look, you can go -- look what happened in the spring and summer of 2020 when you saw the division, the coming together after george floyd and then the division afterwards, right? and so when events like that happen, it proves to us we can be what we strive to be and that's all americans together when there is a crisis and
i can play that sound byte for the entire show. where was the gop outrage then? where was the gop outrage when trump said that you have to get the shot? where was the shouting about freedom? liberty? [ laughter ] where was the gop outrage when he toted the miracle vaccines he said he helped create, back in december, where was it? >> today we're on the verge of another american medical miracle, and that's what people are saying, people that aren't necessarily big fans of donald trump are saying whether you like him or not, this is one of the greatest miracles in the history of modern day medicine or any other medicine, any other age of medicine. >> you know who was in the room that day applauding, applauding
because that's exactly what is going to happen. that's what is happening right now. and some of the people who called vaccine mandates anti freedom are the same ones who spread the big lie that fueled january 6th, an attack on our freedom as americans. exhibit a, the former president that said this in 2019. >> they have to get the shot, the vaccinations are so important. this is really going around now. they have to get their shots. >> kelly, can you rerack that? this is the former president of the united states saying in 2019 to get vaccinated. let's roll it again, please. >> they have to get the shot. the vaccinations are so important. this is really going around now. they have to get their shots. >> i don't need to say anything.
we have done and been unable to do for more than a year and a half. whatever happened to that summer of freedom we thought, we opened we might have had once a miracle vaccine is rolled out. it disappeared in a pandemic of the unvaccinated. that's what happened. now joe biden's frustration of people playing politics with our lives, his frustration with republican governors willing to put the lives of their own people at risk. [ applause ] >> you are threatening to challenge it in court. >> have at it. look, i am so disappointed that