Firefighters, nurses, and other so-called front-line workers are being fired or facing termination across the country for not complying with COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
That’s wrong, according to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
“It’s a great disservice to fire people—nurses, doctors, firemen, policemen—who put their life at risk when there was no vaccine at all,” he told NTD’s “The Beau Show.”
Officials in New York and other locales that have imposed vaccine requirements say that vaccination mandates will help decrease community spread of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19. However, the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines against infection drops sharply several months after receiving them.
“In terms of COVID, we are one of the safest places in America, because we have one of the highest levels of vaccination,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, told reporters on Nov. 3.
Paul disagrees, particularly because many mandates lack opt-outs for those who have had COVID-19 and recovered. That means that they have some level of protection against the CCP virus, multiple studies have shown.
“Many of them got COVID while taking care of people. The doctors and nurses caught COVID from their patients. Most of them survived, fortunately. They now have immunity and all the science—102 studies—show that you have immunity if you’ve had the disease naturally,” he told NTD.