Section 1. The federal government shall be given the power to declare a public health emergency in any state or region of the United States of America, or the entire country, and to mandate necessary and corrective measures to resolve that emergency.
Section 2. No state, county or local government can pass laws, and no non-federal court shall pass judgements, that will interfere with or halt those necessary and corrective measures included in the mandates of Section 1.
Section 3. Only the federal government shall have the power to determine whether the public health emergency. declared by the federal government using the powers vested in it by Section 1, has ended.
Okay, I’m no constitutional lawyer, so maybe my attempt at legalese above is a bit flawed. But don’t we need something like this?
This power would be similar to the one already used by the federal government to declare disasters in states or regions. No one seems to complain about that, but many more people have died from Covid in Louisiana, for example, than from disastrous weather events. And a public health emergency is a disaster. In fact, more people have died from Covid than all US wars combined, including the war on terrorism (9/11, for example). We’re approaching 700,000 Covid deaths in the official stats, but everyone knows a lot of Covid deaths have beeb mistakenly counted as caused by something else! Public health safety trumps your freedoms. Period.
Why #28? Because, of all the amendment proposals sent to the states after the Bill of Rights (some of those were badly written, by the way, like the second), only 27 total have been ratified (the ERA was never ratified).
Amending the US Constitution is hard. But we obviously need this one! The Covid-19 pandemic is both a national and worldwide public health emergency, a huge disaster. People absolutely do not have the right to kill their fellow human beings! One of five hundred people in the US have died from Covid! If that isn’t a national public health emergency, I don’t know what is.
From teachers-union members and healthcare workers to fascist Trump followers, I observe idiots screaming “Test me!” and not “I’m vaccinated!” Others are demanding antibodies treatment. Einstein thought human stupidity might be infinite. I believe there’s no “might be” about it: Human stupidity is infinite. Most people are “marching morons” (especially Trump’s followers). More than a year ago, all we had was testing, masks, social distancing, and antibodies treatment (the latter never approved and only for the rich) because there were no vaccines. Now all that is mostly irrelevant—we have three excellent anti-Covid vaccines that are incredibly effective!
Teachers and other education personnel and healthcare workers (who all should know better), cops and firefighters (vaccinations protect them like they protect us), and other people who make their living serving the public have no excuse. At the very least, they should be fired for not being vaccinated. I’d support stiff fines and jail terms as well. Otherwise, they’re aiders and abettors to mass murder!
I don’t accept that “freedom” plainsong when a public health emergency grips the land. I definitely don’t accept any religious objections. Those “religious freedoms” end for exactly the same reason.
I do accept that some people can’t get vaccinated: cancer patients and others with compromised immune systems and children under twelve are examples. It’s precisely for those people that everyone else should be forced to vaccinate against Covid. Testing and those other programs are no longer the right solution. Vaccination is. Period.
If you don’t get the anti-Covid vaccine and you’re a person who can, you’re the reason a federal mandate is needed. In fact, if you don’t want mandates and you resist vaccination, you deserve to die. You don’t deserve to walk among sane people. I just want to make sure you don’t take innocent people along with you.