The recent COVID-19 outbreak is dealing a major blow to the justification for extreme vaccine mandates.
While there is some evidence that vaccines decrease the severity of COVID-19 infection, the public policy arguments to essentially force Americans to get vaccinated, under threat of losing their livelihoods, are rapidly falling apart as the recent wave sweeps the country.
What we are seeing with the latest surge in cases — attributed to the omicron and delta variants of COVID-19 — is that countless people who have been vaccinated and boosted are getting sick.