During an interview on today’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” FNC’s Chris Wallace challenged Gov. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) for opposing President Joe Biden’s required for the COVID-19 vaccine but not for other diseases.
Ricketts said, “We have actually been encouraging people to get vaccinated. We have actually been supplying information motivating individuals to reach out to their next-door neighbors due to the fact that vaccines work and they will help individuals. However it should be an individual healthcare option. This is not something that the government must mandate, and somebody should not have to make the option in between keeping their task and getting a task in the arm. It’s simply incorrect. I have actually talked to people, a number of people who have actually told me if they made me take the vaccine, I’m simply going to be fired, I’m not going to do it.”
Wallace said, “You state it’s an individual choice. In truth, to attend school in your state of Nebraska, children must be vaccinated versus a number of diseases. Let me put them up on the screen. They need to be immunized against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, and rubella, hepatitis B, and chicken pox. Why are those mandates that moms and dads and your state must comply with and do abide by consistently– why is it that they are not so objectionable and such an offense of personal liberty however Biden’s vaccine requireds are?”
Ricketts said, “Well, for all those that you just noted, this a long history that parents have actually had the chance to see how those things have actually been executed. And there’s still a great deal of individuals out there who don’t understand what to trust. In reality, this is really an outcome of what the CDC has actually done since they flip-flopped on so many concerns, whether it’s masks or whether you need to mask if you have actually been immunized etc. There’s just a lot of individuals out there who do not know who to trust today. Therefore, by having the federal government force it on you, you’re not building the trust where we have the heart trust with those other vaccines. This is a process that’s going to take time to bring individuals along, which’s why it ought to be a personal option and not something mandated by the federal government buried.”
Wallace stated, “I’m old enough that I keep in mind when the polio vaccine initially came out. A great deal of us and certainly our moms and dads viewed it as a blessing and right away– I lived in New York state at that time, the state-mandated that we all get the polio vaccine. So you know we remain in the middle of a pandemic. There is a new vaccine that Donald Trump was mostly accountable for. It’s been authorized, complete approval by the FDA. Once again, if polio vaccine is fine for moms and dads and they have to abide by it, to send their kids to school, why not for a great deal of people, not simply kids, the vaccine for this illness?”
Ricketts said, “I think this is really various from polio that has extremely destructive effects.”
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