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Speaking in Elk Grove Village, Illinois on Thursday, Joe Biden claimed mandatory vaccination policies are working because more people are getting vaccinated.
“These requirements work,” he said. “And as a business round table and others told me when I announced the first requirement that encouraged businesses to feel they could come in and demand the same thing of their employees. More people are getting vaccinated. More lives are being saved.”
Biden continued, “Let’s be clear: When you see headlines and reports of mass firings, and hundreds of people losing their jobs, look at the bigger story. I’ve spoken with Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, who’s here today. United went from 59% of their employees to 99% of their employees in less than two months after implementing the requirement. 99%.”
Well, Joe, that’s what happens when you fire anyone who refuses the vaccination.
Around 2,000 United Airlines employees have asked for religious or medical exemptions.
Recently, a group of 593 workers at the airline who refused to get the shot went down to 320 holdouts after hundreds rushed to take the experimental vaccine before they were terminated.
Nationwide, thousands of Americans have already been fired from their jobs for failing to comply with vaccine mandates, and tens of thousands more will likely be terminated in the near future.
Biden’s remark came a day before the latest jobs report was released showing just 194,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in September instead of the 500,000 new jobs the Biden administration predicted.
With companies having difficulty finding employees in almost all sectors, it is clearly a poor idea to eliminate unvaccinated people from the pool of potential workers.