Amidst dark times – a New York Times columnist has called this the “dark century” but he is at a loss to figure out why – we should pause to note genuinely good things that happen. Among them is the sudden collapse of vaccine mandates in Boston and Washington, DC.
With no real explanation that I can find, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser just flat-out said it: the mandate is gone.
Wonderful. But think about it: how often does a government imposition on this scale get rolled back so dramatically, so quickly? Honestly I cannot think of an instance in my lifetime. Government impositions are sticky: once the bureaucrats seize control, they don’t like to give it up. There is a built-in bias such that (as Reagan said) nothing is as permanent as a temporary government program.
Continue reading “The Glorious End of DC’s Vaccine Mandate”
