{"id":387543,"date":"2021-12-30T04:09:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T01:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/air-travel-vax-mandate-will-not-do-much-to-eliminate-covid\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T04:09:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T01:09:30","slug":"air-travel-vax-mandate-will-not-do-much-to-eliminate-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/air-travel-vax-mandate-will-not-do-much-to-eliminate-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"#Air-travel vax mandate will not do much to eliminate COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Air-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> vax mandate will not do much to eliminate COVID<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he will issue an edict requiring vaccines for domestic travel if his scientific advisers recommend it. Tony Fauci, Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser, has been y<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing in favor of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/travel\/2021\/12\/27\/fauci-vaccine-mandate-canceled-flights\/\">such a mandate<\/a> in recent days, calling it \u201canother incentive to get more people vaccinated.\u201d But requiring vax passports for domestic travel would devastate airlines and the tourism business while doing nothing to vanquish COVID.<\/p>\n<p>With soaring COVID case numbers, Biden is under pressure to make some dramatic gesture to prove he is in charge. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is spearheading a congressional push for a vax mandate for air travel, which she labels \u201ca necessary and long overdue step toward ensuring all Americans <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feinstein.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=B2BA7AD9-0C37-40CA-945F-2E7802605ABC\">feel sa<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feinstein.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=B2BA7AD9-0C37-40CA-945F-2E7802605ABC\">fe and confident<\/a> while traveling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The feds previously claimed that masking on flights was sufficient to protect travelers, but the Zoom class is terrified and demanding a comforting placebo. Effectively adding tens of millions of names to the No Fly List would also satisfy the blue-state lust to punish Americans who have failed to comply with the latest commands from Washington.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-714.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Vaccine card\" class=\"wp-image-20656416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-714.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-714.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-714.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Biden administration is considering \u201cmandating vaccines for interstate travel,\u201d according to the Associated Press.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-719.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Americans traveling \" class=\"wp-image-20656424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-719.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-719.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-719.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Despite surging COVID cases, people are traveling for the holidays.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Imposing a vax mandate for air travel could be the opening step for far greater restrictions on Americans\u2019 freedom of movement. The Associated Press reported in August that the Biden administration is considering \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lifestyle-joe-biden-business-health-travel-caae4c9b16be16c4ad43500fb240b801\">mandating vaccines for<\/a> interstate travel\u201d but is delaying any such decree until Americans are \u201cready for the strong-arming from the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Restricting interstate travel across the board would be among the most intrusive federal policies since payroll-tax withholding. Enforcing such a policy would require the creation of COVID patrols, akin to pre-Civil War slave patrols, waiting to chase down anyone who crosses state lines without proper papers.<\/p>\n<p>A Biden vax mandate for domestic travel would be built on the rubble of his prior disastrous mandates.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-718.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Airplanes\" class=\"wp-image-20656422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-718.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-718.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-718.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Biden administration is taking steps to mandate shots for people traveling into the United States. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-716.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"US military personnel\" class=\"wp-image-20656418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-716.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-716.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-716.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Biden sent in more than a thousand US military personnel to assist hospitals. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After Biden dictated that all health-care workers must be fully vaxxed, hospitals responded by firing thousands of nurses who refused to get injected (many of the nurses had natural immunity after surviving COVID infections). That spurred shortages of critical personnel at hospitals, so Biden sent in more than a thousand US military <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/21\/omicron-us-to-deploy-troops-to-hospitals-purchase-500-million-covid-tests.html\">personnel to assist hospitals<\/a>. That failed to solve the problem, so the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just revised its guidelines to permit employers to rely on asymptomatic COVID-positive employees previously banned from their premises.<\/p>\n<p>According to Biden policymakers, it is better for hospital patients to be treated by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crainsdetroit\/status\/1476236963288166400\">COVID-positive nurses<\/a> (whose COVID vaxxes failed to safeguard them from the virus) than by unvaccinated nurses untainted by COVID. Vaccination status has gone from being a proxy for health to being a substitute for sane health-care policy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-713.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Vaccine shot\" class=\"wp-image-20656414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-713.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-713.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-713.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Sen. Dianne Feinstein believes there should be a vaccine mandate for air travel calling it \u201ca necessary and long overdue step toward ensuring all Americans feel safe and confident while traveling.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cMandates have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/omicron-is-forcing-a-necessary-rethink-of-vaccine-passports-morning-brief-100808464.html\">curbed almost everything<\/a> except COVID-19 cases,\u201d Yahoo editor Javier David quipped. Mayor Bill de Blasio dictated that all private employees must be vaxxed, and New York City has one of the nation\u2019s most restrictive COVID passport regimes. But CNBC labeled the Big Apple \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/21\/omicron-us-to-deploy-troops-to-hospitals-purchase-500-million-covid-tests.html\">the epicenter of Omicron infections<\/a>,\u201d and 2 percent of Manhattan residents contracted COVID in the past week. Righteous political rhetoric will do nothing to prevent far more COVID cases here in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Why would anyone have faith in a new Biden mandate? In his Jan. 20 inaugural address, Biden vowed to \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2021-04-28\/bidens-promises-for-his-first-100-days-which-he-kept-broke-or-has-in-progress\">defeat the virus<\/a>,\u201d but COVID cases are setting new records each day. In July, Biden promised, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/jul\/22\/joe-biden\/biden-exaggerates-efficacy-covid-19-vaccines\/\">You\u2019re not going to get COVID<\/a> if you have these vaccinations.\u201d That pledge collapsed in a surge of millions of COVID infections among the vaxxed, which administration spinmeisters tried to dismiss as \u201cbreakthrough cases.\u201d Biden said last week that \u201calmost everyone who has died from COVID-19 . . . has been unvaccinated.\u201d But the fully vaxxed account for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWoodhouse7\/status\/1456647815350951936\/photo\/4\">roughly 30 percent<\/a> of COVID fatalities in Illinois, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtracey\/status\/1473564356747145219\">25 percent in Oregon<\/a> and up <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2021\/10\/29\/vermonts-october-infections-break-pandemic-record\/\">to 50 percent in Vermont<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-712.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mayor Bill de Blasio\" class=\"wp-image-20656412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-712.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-712.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/travel-vax-712.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mayor Bill de Blasio requires all private employees to be vaccinated.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Miller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Though Biden belatedly admitted this week that \u201cthere is no federal solution\u201d to COVID, administration lawyers continue fighting vociferously for his vax mandates in federal courts.<\/p>\n<p>According to diehard COVID warriors and Biden supporters, the latest surge of COVID cases proves that the president needs more power. Effectively banning tens of millions of Americans from air travel would endear the president to his triple-vaxxed supporters. But another demolition of freedom will do nothing to end the most politically exploited pandemic in American history.<\/p>\n<p><em>James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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