CDC Extends Ridiculous, Unscientific COVID Vaccine Mandate—for Some Travelers

The U.S.A. wants to be an outlier among nations, but not in a good way. The Centers for Disease Control announced Thursday that it was updating its policy requiring proof of COVID vaccination for non-citizens to enter the country from overseas. Most of the mainstream lapdog media reported this development along the lines of “CDC eases certain Covid-19 vaccine requirements for international travelers to US,” but the real news here is that the agency is continuing to require them at all.

Vaccine requirements for only a subsection of travelers have no safety benefit and have shown no effectiveness at slowing the transmission of the virus. It also puts us in the same exclusive club as Angola and Indonesia, two of the very few countries still enforcing such a counterintuitive mandate.

The updated policy:

The US will allow travelers that have received at least one vaccine dose on or after August 16 into the country. The CDC says this is because many who have received a one dose since this date may have received the more-protective bivalent shot…

Recent studies have shown the Covid vaccines, while able to prevent hospitalization and death, are not as effective against transmission of the virus.

A 2022 paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that after 25 weeks, the protection the Pfizer vaccine gave to recipients against Omicron infection fell to just nine percent.

The policy makes zero sense because the plane and the airport will be full of American citizens who may or not be vaccinated and may or may not have been exposed to the COVID virus. Singling out one section of passengers does little to protect anyone, especially when it’s been proven over and over that vaccinated people can and do transmit the bug.

Meanwhile, millions of illegal immigrants are pouring across our southern border—no vaccine required.

Worthy of ridicule

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2023

Says Dr. Doug Badger, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation:

Vaccines reduce the risk that an infected individual will develop severe illness, but they do not prevent transmission.

The administration should follow the science and rescind this policy.

One of the things that bugged me the most during the height of the pandemic was the total loss of common sense among the public, but even more importantly, among our supposed leaders and experts.

A flimsy piece of cloth over your mouth is going to stop COVID. A man paddleboarding in the ocean by himself is a danger. Don’t buy seeds, but wipe your Amazon packages with disinfectant, wear a mask while riding alone in your car, walk on the wet sand but not the dry. It’s a “pandemic of the unvaccinated“—ignore the fact that many of your fully vaccinated friends are coming down with COVID.

Such idiocy led to a massive loss of public trust in our institutions, and it’s unclear if it can ever be recovered. The CDC’s latest nonsensical directive is yet another move in the wrong direction, and it’s xenophobic (remember this?) to boot.

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