McAuliffe Wants To ‘Make Life Difficult’ For Virginia’s Unvaxxed With Shot Mandates – The Federalist

Virginias Democrat gubernatorial candidate is calling on businesses in the commonwealth to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for their workers following the Food and Drug Administrations full approval of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday.

Following the full FDA approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this morning, Im calling on EVERY Virginia employer to require all eligible employees to be vaccinated, McAuliffe said in a tweet. We need every eligible Virginian to get vaccinated to beat this virus. Together, well get it done.

The former governor previously made similar statements at a fundraiser in Las Vegas less than two weeks prior, in which he argued that society should make life difficult for people who choose not to get the jab.

We have 93 million Americans today that are not vaccinated, and we need to do everything that we possibly can, he said. And I tell my private businesses all the time, I hope you mandate vaccines for people coming in. Until we make it hard for people to get on planes or go to movie theaters, people just arent going to do it.

Virginias Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin took to Twitter to push back on McAuliffes comments, saying he opposes any form of a vaccine mandate and that the choice to get vaccinated is a personal decision.

Terry McAuliffe wants to make life difficult for Virginians by issuing a government mandate that attempts to bully them into complying with what McAuliffe and the government thinks is best, and that will clearly evolve into closing down businesses & locking down Virginia again, he said.

If successful in his gubernatorial bid, McAuliffes proposed mandate would disproportionately affect minorities throughout Virginia. According to the Virginia Department of Health, African Americans are the least vaccinated racial group in the commonwealth, with only 51 percent of eligible citizens having received at least one dose of the shot. Vaccination rates among eligible whites remained slightly higher at 55.7 percent, with Hispanic Americans at 66.5 percent.

Demographics that saw the states highest vaccination rates include American Indians at 90.9 percent and Asian Americans at 75.8 percent.

Shawn Fleetwood is an intern at The Federalist and a student at the University of Mary Washington, where he plans to major in Political Science and minor in Journalism. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood

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