In Opinion | Biden's vaccine mandate is counterproductive and likely illegal 'Herd immunity cannot be achieved through herd mentality—individual choice, not forcible mandates, is the only path forward.'
In our republic, states bear the primary responsibility to protect our health, safety and welfare. The federal government, by contrast, has more limited powers to protect national interests and regulate activities that affect interstate matters. President Biden's sweeping orders turn federalism on its head. The states, not the executive branch of the federal government, are the sovereign entities responsible for establishing vaccine mandates.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about combating the coronavirus pandemic in the State Dining Room of the White House on September 9, 2021 in Washington, DC.In 1970, President Richard Nixon approved the Occupational Safety and Health Act. This venerable statute has long been used to maintain workplace safety. But now, the Biden administration has repurposed this half-century-old law to authorize an unprecedented federal vaccine mandate.
Finally, and tragically, Biden's mandate may prove counterproductive. I fear that mandating vaccines will have the unintended consequence of increasing vaccine hesitancy. As any parent or teacher knows, when you order people to do something, they are motivated to do the opposite. Some employees will submit fraudulent vaccine records. Others will simply refuse to get their shots, and dare employers to fire them.
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