His COVID vaccine mandate was one of the most perverse public-health edicts in modern times. Vaccination status went from being a proxy for health to being a substitute for sane healthcare policy.

Last September, Biden announced that he was mandating COVID vaccines for all 10 million healthcare workers in America — as well as for any American working for a company employing more than a hundred people. In a televised evening speech, he announced, "My job as president is to protect all Americans." Actually, his oath of office was to uphold and defend the Constitution, but no matter.

Biden issued the equivalent of a declaration of war on 80 million unvaccinated Americans, portraying them as Public Enemy Number One (except for postal workers, who the White House exempted from the mandate due to the clout of postal unions). Biden castigated the unvaxxed: "We've been patient but our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us." Biden's declaration sounded like the threat a dictator makes prior to invading a foreign nation. Biden finger-wagged: "This is not about freedom or personal choice. It's about protecting yourself and those around you — the people you work with, the people you care about, the people you love." But who would protect Americans from Biden's dictatorial mandates?

Biden's vaccine lies

The Biden administration has consistently portrayed vaccines as a pandemic panacea. Shortly before dictating the mandate, Biden promised, "You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations." When he announced plans to impose the mandate in a September 9 speech, Biden declared that "there's only one confirmed positive case per 5,000 fully vaccinated Americans per day. You're as safe as possible." Biden deceived the American public by pretending that the vaccines would keep them safe by preventing all contagion. To buttress the Biden storyline, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ceased counting the vast majority of "breakthrough infections" among vaccinated people several months earlier.