{"id":84884,"date":"2021-09-19T15:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T19:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=84884"},"modified":"2021-09-19T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T20:07:01","slug":"wow-now-fauci-wants-to-vax-all-air-tavelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=84884","title":{"rendered":"WOW! <b>Now Fauci Wants to Vax All Air Travelers<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>White House Debating Vaccines For Air Travel After Fauci Said He&#8217;d Support A Mandate<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/572791-white-house-debates-vaccines-for-air-travel\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on Sunday, the Biden administration is currently debating whether or not to implement a policy to\u00a0<strong>require that passengers for all commercial air travel in the United States show proof of a Covid-19 vaccine<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Biden administration is facing an internal debate over whether to impose vaccine mandates for air travel, with\u00a0President Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser\u00a0Anthony Fauci\u00a0saying\u00a0<strong>he would support a mandate<\/strong>\u00a0but the White House claiming a new policy isn\u2019t forthcoming.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In began with Fauci&#8217;s comments on\u00a0<em>theSkimm\u00a0<\/em>podcast days ago wherein he was asked about the possibility. &#8220;I would support that if you want to get on a plane and travel with other people that you should be vaccinated,&#8221; Fauci said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"Advert_verticallySpaced__wnPy3\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/airportcovidtesting.jpg?itok=hEfUH8NR\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c1b24133-eb69-4ae6-8c26-d2ffa27fcce5\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Image: AFP\/Getty<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In follow-up White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked about Fauci&#8217;s commments on Thursday, to which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/09\/16\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-september-16-2021\/\">she responded<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<strong>We haven\u2019t taken options off the table<\/strong>, but I don\u2019t have any updates to share with you at this point.\u00a0Our focus is on implementation of the big steps we announced last week.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Psaki said the administration is currently focused on things like mask mandates:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Right now, our focus is on implementing those.\u00a0Part of that was also doubling fines for people who were not wearing masks on planes \u2013 a step that we feel would help keep people safe on flights and reduce the spread,&#8221;\u00a0she said in the Thursday remarks.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>White House chief of staff\u00a0Ron Klain\u00a0also later confirmed a vaccine mandate for all domestic air travel is something under consideration,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/572791-white-house-debates-vaccines-for-air-travel\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>\u00a0notes.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0trade association and D.C.-based lobbying group representing all major US airports has meanwhile issued a statement saying they don&#8217;t think a vaccine mandate is coming soon, and would be concerned if that happened.\u00a0<em>The Hill\u00a0<\/em>cites their statement as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<strong>We have been informed that there is no imminent policy proposal regarding domestic travel<\/strong>, and echo concerns expressed by government about the implementation and enforcement of such a policy. We remain in communication with the Administration and continue to lean into science to guide policies that prioritize the safety and wellbeing of the traveling public.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Without question such a potential mandate impacting all traveling Americans would result in huge pushback from both Republicans in Congress and a large segment of the US population.<\/p>\n<p>Previously the CDC put out a public plea which\u00a0&#8220;asked&#8221; Americans who remain fully unvaccinated to not travel over the Labor Day holiday weekend.\u00a0&#8220;First and foremost, if you are unvaccinated, we would recommend not traveling,&#8221; CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky had said in a briefing at the start of September.<\/p>\n<p>This unusual request from a top health authority for Americans to restrict their movement suggests the political momentum in Washington is moving in the direction for more severe measures like limiting unvaccinated people&#8217;s movement within the United Sates &#8211; something which many officials and pundits have slammed as unconstitutional. Such a policy would also likely\u00a0<strong>require some kind of universal &#8216;vaccine passport&#8217; system\u00a0<\/strong>as a means of showing proof and boarding a plane.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/white-house-debating-vaccines-air-travel-after-fauci-said-hed-support-mandate\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/white-house-debating-vaccines-air-travel-after-fauci-said-hed-support-mandate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Debating Vaccines For Air Travel After Fauci Said He&#8217;d Support A Mandate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}