Society was given a chance to do the right thing to protect the welfare, health, and safety of others in their community when we came out of the lockdown in 2020...unfortunately we were not willing to do it as a whole.
Many places in North America
just did not care (e.g. maskless parties, protests, making it political intentionally spreading misinformation online, etc).
This not caring (not following the CDC health guidelines as a whole, growing vaccine hesitancy) forced the government to take the next step...vaccine mandates.
- We have a history (e.g. 1918 influenza) to help us know when governments will remove mandates and it shows it is only partially removed...
As in, mandates will remain for the military, schools, healthcare workers, refugees, and immigrants while it's
removed off of businesses only. These mandates are then buried quietly but people just get used to them...they become a normal part of life.
In the United States, I remember long lines at schools where we were vaccinated at schools in
Kentucky not far from the military base where my old man was stationed. My mom and a few other photographers were taking photographs. School vaccinations were a common scene across America...very little misinformation campaigns...just a part of life as a military family.
In contrast, mandates are removed from businesses while letting each business itself decides if they want to require their employees to be vaccinated. Historically, it has been the Public Health Agency of a country that decides when to lift mandates.
Today, those agencies look to the WHO considering countries today are globally connected with people traveling from country to country very easily...a favorite route for transporting viruses without people knowing they are endangering the society of another country.
In short, you're going to need to see declines that stay low enough where its no longer a threat to the welfare, health, and safety of others. Next, the WHO would then declare its no longer a Pandemic.
Yet, even after the WHO makes such a declaration, vaccine mandates have always remained for the military, schools, healthcare workers, refugees, and immigrants since the early 1900s.
- Sadly, society gets used to those Not Vaccinated just dying off or using antiviral therapeutic treatments to stay alive whenever they become infected...making pharmaceutical companies richer beyond their imagination.
This is one of the reasons behind the growth of our healthcare system (e.g. hospitals, private medical practices, clinics) because people have
illnesses that were preventable and they made a decision early in the infection, prior to being infective that they just don't care or they're poor and do not have easy access to proper healthcare.
As more people die from Covid, those
not vaccinated will begin to get smaller in numbers and when that threshold of danger is reduced to a safe manageable small number...vaccine mandates on businesses will be lifted but never on the military, schools, healthcare workers, refugees, and immigrants.
Regardless of the means by which it’s obtained, governments never relinquish control.
Very true.
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