Biden's 'door to door' vaccine campaign slammed as invasion of privacy

Damocles said:
Your mailman knocks on your door to try to force you to participate in vaccine trials? Jehovas Witnesses have never knocked on my door. Seriously. Not even once. Having the government go door to door to utilize the power of the federal government to get you to do something is jackbooting. Jehovas Witnesses totally leaving me alone, not so much. Nor is a company dropping mail into a box at a different site.
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jeez, you're paranoid as hell
 
anatta said:
he administration aimed to have 70% of adults receiving at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot by July 4. But it fell short of meeting that goal.

"Now we need to go community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and often times door-to-door — literally knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus," Biden said on Tuesday.

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki then elaborated on Biden’s remarks on the door-to-door vaccine campaign.

Republicans questioned the legality of such a concept. “Constitutionality notwithstanding, unless this specific activity was authorized by Congress, it’s illegal,” Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky told the Washington Examiner. “If the president truly believes the most transmissible variants are now circulating, why is he sending possible vectors of the disease to people’s houses?”

Massie and other critics cite the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The 1996 law is intended to protect patient privacy and restricts how insurance firms, hospitals, and other businesses can use a person’s medical data without one’s permission.

Advocates of Biden’s door-to-door campaign argue that if a person volunteers their vaccine history, it is not a violation of HIPPA. But Massie responded that “if the door-knockers have data that informs which doors to knock, then their very presence at someone’s door would disclose that person’s likely vaccine status.”

Massie added, “What right do they have to enter someone’s property, to begin with? At least the census is a constitutionally prescribed activity.”

Rep. Chip Roy took issue with the Biden administration’s “gross abuse of power.” The Texas Republican told the Washington Examiner in a statement, "Nowhere in the Constitution does it say, ‘The federal government shall go door to door pushing Americans into vaccine trials.’"

Roy called the Biden administration vaccination effort “an attempt for the Biden administration to bully Americans into injecting themselves with vaccinations."

Unmentioned, Roy said,
It's unclear if federal government employees or contractors from third-party firms will be the ones who will visit people’s homes in the vaccine outreach campaign.

Additionally, the Biden administration was vague about whether these visits would include questions regarding a resident’s COVID-19 vaccine history and if that resident plans to get the shot in the future.

“It took months to hire half a million people and collect census data. How does Biden practically expect to do this while still paying the unemployment bonus, without further exacerbating the labor shortage?” Massie wondered.

The Kentucky lawmaker thinks funding for such a campaign came from the last stimulus package and “is already flowing to media and social media corporations through the $1 billion program ‘to increase vaccine confidence.’”
https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-door-door-vaccine-campaign-160200832.html
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This article was republished on Yahoo, but it originated from the Washington Examiner, which is a questionable right wing propaganda site.
 
Damocles said:
And you are overly trusting... It appears that so long as there's a D by the name of your "leader" you are willing to go along with any overreach they can possibly invent.
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It has nothing to do with "D" and "R". There is no overreaching in this case.

It was a suggestion for fucks sake. I doubt it will ever pass anyway.
 
AProudLefty said:
Force people to participate in vaccine trials? Got proof of that?
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Did you read the sentence. Does the word "try" in the place it is in possibly change what you pretend I said? Yeah. It's because you are being dishonest.

The party that used to pretend it didn't trust "The Man" desperately seeks approval form "The Man" nowadays. It is my assertion that they always have. If the government does it, according to you, it must be good. I prefer to distrust, verify, then just tell them to F*ck off anyway.
 
Damocles said:
The party that used to pretend it didn't trust "The Man" desperately seeks approval form "The Man" nowadays. It is my assertion that they always have. If the government does it, according to you, it must be good. I prefer to distrust, verify, then just tell them to F*ck off anyway.
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so you're basically an anarchist?

or just an Ayn Rand acolyte?
 
reagansghost said:
hypberbole

did the president have a D by their name in 1908?
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According to the leftists on this site, back in 1908 all the Rs were actual Ds and a magical switch party event happened when LBJ was in office. (Not one Congressperson or Senator ever changed their party affiliation at that time, but that doesn't stop them from pretending they did).

Anyway, supposedly according to the leftists on this site back then the Rs were "really liberals" back then. You'd have supported their jackbooting.
 
Damocles said:
According to the leftists on this site, back in 1908 all the Rs were actual Ds and a magical switch party event happened when LBJ was in office. (Not one Congressperson or Senator ever changed their party affiliation at that time, but that doesn't stop them from pretending they did).

Anyway, supposedly according to the leftists on this site back then the Rs were "really liberals" back then. You'd have supported their jackbooting.
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nope, check your history
 
Damocles said:
Did you read the sentence. Does the word "try" in the place it is in possibly change what you pretend I said? Yeah. It's because you are being dishonest.

The party that used to pretend it didn't trust "The Man" desperately seeks approval form "The Man" nowadays. It is my assertion that they always have. If the government does it, according to you, it must be good. I prefer to distrust, verify, then just tell them to F*ck off anyway.
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Yes I saw the word "try". So do you have any proof that they will "try" to "force" (whatever that entails) them to participate?

Of course one should not trust the government. That is why we have the Constitution and we will do anything to defend it.
 
anatta said:
another gaffe or a fascist move by Biden?
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Neither. He is trying to achieve herd immunity for a virus that has killed 700,000 Americans. There is nothing Fascistic about trying to save lives. He does not have the authority or desire to force anyone to get the shot. He is simply making it extremely convenient to get it. Is there nothing you can not turn into a conspiracy?
 
I received some mail today from President Joe Biden's wife, Dr. Jill Biden. I wonder which of Trump's whores sends his mailers out?
 
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