Biden HHS Sec. Becerra on
knowing COVID vaccine status:
'It is absolutely our business'
Posted By: Ribicon, 7/8/2021 5:38:01 PM
Knowing which Americans have been vaccinated is “absolutely the government’s business,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Thursday. Speaking to CNN, the HHS secretary was responding to criticism of President Biden’s comments Tuesday about going “door to door, literally knocking on doors” to get wary Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus. “It is absolutely the government’s business, it is taxpayers’ business, if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting COVID and helping reopen the economy,” Becerra told the network, noting the government has had to “spend trillions of dollars to try to keep Americans alive during this pandemic.”
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Remarkable. Perhaps there's a badge people could wear on their clothing to identify the undesirables? Liberals I know, who support vax passports, in effect are on board. HIPPA was passed in part to keep the HIV status of homosexuals under wraps, but that's all out the window with the supersniffle because Big Jab has sketchy gene therapies to sell.