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ELIZABETH: WE HAVE BREAKING
NEWS.
THE WHITE HOUSE IS NOW TURNING
TO THE SUPREME COURT TO GET
SIGN-OFF, APPROVAL OF
ENFORCEMENT OF THE BIDEN VACCINE
MANDATE FOR HOSPITAL WORKERS WHO
WORK AT HOSPITALS THAT GET
MEDICARE AND MEDICAID FUNDING.
WELCOME TO THE SHOW
CONGRESSWOMAN MARIANNETTE
MILLER-MEEKS.
YOUR REACTION TO THAT.
NOW THEY’RE PLAYING HARDBALL,
GOING RIGHT TO THE SUPREME COURT
ON THIS.
WHAT DO YOU SAY?
>> YOU KNOW I THINK IT IS A
ABSURD THE COURTS HAVE ALREADY
PUT A STAY AND RULED THAT IT IS
UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR THE VACCINE
MANDATE FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES
AND YOU KNOW, WE ALREADY KNOW
THAT THERE IS A LABOR SHORTAGE.
THERE IS A SUPPLY CHAIN
SHORTAGE.
NOW YOU WILL HAVE WORKERS WHO
ARE FORCED TO LEAVE THEIR JOBS
BECAUSE OF VACCINE MANDATES.
SO, AND YOU’RE CORRECT, FOR
HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IT IS
UNDER CMS AND FOR, FOR THE
PRIVATE BUSINESSES IT IS UNDER
OSHA, BUT THE OSHA MANDATE WAS
RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
ELIZABETH: SO, YEAH, WHAT
THEY’RE DOING IS, THEY
EFFECTIVELY TOOK A FIFTH CIRCUIT
APPEALS COURT RULING RECENTLY
REVIVED THE VAX MANDATE FOR
HEALTH CARE WORKERS AT HOSPITALS
THAT GET MEDICARE AND MEDICAID
FUNDING.
THAT SLIM VICTORY, THEY JUMPED
RIGHT ON IT AND WENT TO THE
SUPREME COURT.
THIS SHOWS HOW AGGRESSIVE THE
WHITE HOUSE WILL BE ON THE BIDEN
VACCINE MANDATE WHEN HEALTH CARE
WORKERS ARE GETTING FIRED.
THERE ARE LABOR SHORTAGES FOR
FRONT LINE WORKERS ON THIS.
HOW DO YOU THINK THIS WILL PLAY
OUT WITH THE VOTER?
>> I THINK THIS IS GOING TO HAVE
A TREMENDOUS REPERCUSSIONS FOR
THE ELECTION NEXT YEAR.
THINK ABOUT IT, HEALTH CARE
WORKERS, ALL THROUGHOUT THE
PANDEMIC, PUT THEMSELVES AT
RISK.
THEY WERE IN, YOU KNOW IN AN
ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY WERE
HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS, HIGHLY
EXPOSED, GREAT EXPOSURE AND THEY
WERE CONCERNED ABOUT BRINGING
VIRUSES HOME TO THEIR FAMILIES.
SO THEY PUT THEMSELVES AT PERIL
IN ORDER TO TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE.
NOW OUR SPOONS TO THAT IS, WELL
IT WAS GREAT YOU TOOK CARE OF
PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC
WITHOUT A VACCINE.
NOW THERE IS A VACCINE, IF YOU
DON’T GET A VACCINE YOU CAN
LEAVE YOUR JOB.
IT IS UNCONSCIONABLE WHAT THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS DOING.
UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED THROUGH
THE COURT WITH THE VACCINE
MANDATE FROM OSHA.
THIS WILL BE THE SAME THING.
THIS VACCINE MANDATE WILL BE
RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
ELIZABETH: THE VACCINE DOES WORK
IN STOPPING SEVERE DISEASE.
VACCINATIONS ARE SUCCESSFUL.
THEY’RE A GOOD THING.
THEY WORK.
IT’S, IT IS SORT OF LIKE WEED
INTO TO HAVE A HEARING JUST TO
HEAR WHAT THE HOSPITAL WORKERS
ARE SAYING ON A WHY THEY’RE
OPPOSED TO IT.
BUT, DOING TOP-DOWN BULLYING,
PEOPLE GET REALLY UPSET WITH
THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, AT
THE FEDERAL LEVEL WHEN AGAIN AND
AGAIN THE SUPREME COURT SAID IT
IS POWER TO THE STATES TO DO IT.
I WANT TO MOVE ON TO THIS.
AMERICAN AIRLINES AND SOUTHWEST
CEO’S QUESTIONED THE NEED
FOREMASK ON AIRPLANES.
THEY SAY YOU DON’T NEED TO WEAR
THEM.
WE HAVE HEPA FILTERS VERY
POWERFUL TO LIMIT TO THE
EXPOSURE TO COVID.
LISTEN TO THE SOUND BITE.
WATCH.
>> THE STATISTICS I RECALL IS
99.97% OF AIRBORNE PATHOGENS ARE
CAPTURED BY THE HEPA FILTERING
SYSTEM AND TURNED OVER EVERY TWO
OR THREE MINUTES.
YEAH I THINK THE CASE IS VERY
STRONG THAT MASKS DON’T ADD MUCH
IF ANYTHING IN THE AIR CABIN
ENVIRONMENT.
IT IS VERY SAFE, VERY HIGH
QUALITY COMPARED TO ANY OTHER
INDOOR SETTING.
ELIZABETH: BUT INSTEAD OF
LISTENING TO HIM, RIGHT, INSTEAD
OF HEARING OUT THE FACTS THEY’RE
GETTING BLOWBACK ON THAT.
YOUR RESPONSE?
>> I WAS SURPRISED THAT THEY
CAME FORWARD AND SAID WHAT MANY
OF US KNOW IS FACTUAL, THE
VENTLATION SYSTEMS IN THE
AIRPLANE IS VERY HIGHLY
EFFECTIVE.
THAT THERE HAVE NOT BEEN CASES
WITH CONTACT TRACING THAT WERE,
THAT CAME BACK TO EXPOSURE OR
CONTAGION FROM AIR TRAVEL.
AND SO I WAS SURPRISED WHEN THEY
CONTINUED THE MASK MANDATE ON
AIRLINES.
I THINK IT IS TIME TO REVISIT.
THAT IF INDIVIDUALS WANT TO WEAR
A MASK ON AN, YOU KNOW, ON A
PLANE, THEY SHOULD FEEL FREE TO
DO SO.
THEY SHOULD YOU KNOW, DETERMINE
WHAT THEIR LEVEL OF RISK AND
WHAT THEIR LEVEL OF COMFORT IS.
I’M FULLY VACCINATED.
I VACCINATED PEOPLE IN ALL 24
COUNTIES IN MY CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT.
I RECOMMEND PEOPLE TO GET
VACCINATED BUT I’M WHOLLY
AGAINST THE VACCINE MANDATE.
I THINK THAT THERE WILL BE
TREMENDOUS BLOWBACK IN THE NEXT
ELECTION CYCLE AND I REALLY
PRAISE THESE AIRLINES CEOs
COMING FORWARD AND SAYING YOU
KNOW WE DON’T NEED A MASK
MANDATE ON AIRPLANES BECAUSE THE
VENTILATION SYSTEM IS FAR
SUPERIOR.
REMEMBER ONE OF THE REASONS THAT
WE COULDN’T REOPEN SCHOOLS WAS
BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO UPGRADE
THE VENTILATION SYSTEM.
ELIZABETH: GOOD POINT.
>> UPGRADED VENTILATION SYSTEM.
YOU HAVE EXCELLENT VENTILATION
SYSTEMS IN PLANES.
TIME TO ELIMINATE THE MASK
MANDATE ON PLANES AND LET PEOPLE