Mandates or no mandates we are not eradicating CV19. Contraction and carrier status is still possible with vaccination. The rest of the world is not going to be vaccinated, and we aren't closing the borders any time soon to business and tourism. Admittedly, severity of infection drops and not all exposed will be carriers in the US. The only thing that changes with a mandate is you piss off a portion of the population. A not insignificant portion.

Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag at this point. Instead of focusing on the unvaccinated to direct derision and vitriol, aim it at those truly responsible for the pandemic in the first place. More and more info comes out that CV19 escaped from the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus Laboratory and that it occurred much earlier than we were led to believe according to the Washington Post. The outbreak was then covered up by China, the WHO, Fauci (under his direction the US sponsored work at the lab), the CDC, and of course the media. Now, we will never have conclusive evidence for any theory thanks to China's excellent ability to make people and documents disappear. But I'm fairly certain it was an accidental release from the lab.

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