Chris Wallace Grills GOP Gov. Pete Ricketts on Oppostion to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates – The Daily Beast

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace repeatedly confronted Republican Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts over his opposition to the Biden administrations new coronavirus vaccine mandates and requirements, highlighting the governors seemingly contradictory position on other vaccines.

After President Joe Biden announced a new series of rules that will mandate all federal employees to be vaccinated and require many private-sector employees to either be inoculated or tested weekly, several Republican governorsincluding Rickettsthreatened to fight the presidents requirements in court.

Have at it, Biden curtly responded to the GOP threats.

Interviewing Ricketts on Fox News Sunday, Wallace asked the governor why he was fighting the administrations new COVID-19 rules, especially since Ricketts insisted that hes been encouraging vaccines and believes they work in combatting the pandemic. The Nebraska governor, meanwhile, said he felt the government shouldnt be mandating vaccinations.

I've talked to a number of people, Rickets declared. They've told me, if they make me take the vaccine, I'm just going to be fired.

Wallace retorted that Nebraskas school system actually requires students to be vaccinated against a series of diseases, wondering aloud why Ricketts appeared to be fine with those requirements but not a mandate for the COVID-19 shots.

You say its a personal choice. In fact, to attend school in your state of Nebraska, children must be vaccinated against a number of diseases. They must be vaccinated against Diptheria, tetanus, and pertussis; polio; measles, mumps, and rubella; Hepatitis B; chickenpox, the veteran anchor said.

If the polio vaccine is okay for parents and they have to comply with it to send their kid to school, why not for a lot of people, not just kids, the vaccine for this disease?

Chris Wallace

Why are those mandates that parents in your state must comply with and do comply with routinelywhy is it that theyre not so objectionable and such a violation of personal freedom but Bidens vaccine mandates are? Wallace continued.

After the Republican governor responded that those other vaccines have a long history of use and that Americans dont know what to trust with the COVID-19 vaccines, Wallace pointed out that the polio vaccine was quickly mandated after it first became available and Americans viewed it as a blessing at the time.

Were in the middle of a pandemic, the Fox News Sunday moderator added. There is a new vaccine that Donald Trump was largely responsible for. Its been approvedfull approvalby the FDA. Again, if the polio vaccine is okay for parents and they have to comply with it to send their kid to school, why not for a lot of people, not just kids, the vaccine for this disease?

Ricketts asserted that the surging coronavirus pandemic is very different from polio before claiming that children are no more at risk for the coronavirus than they are the ordinary flu. He also noted that the majority of COVID-19 deaths in his state were among senior citizens, adding that most state residents over 65 have already been vaccinated.

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