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Sound Off for Sept. 12, 2021

Body and choice

I agree with the governor. We must fight back against a tyrannical government. People in this country have free choice, and the government cannot mandate what they do to their bodies. It is their body and their choice… wait, or we talking about vaccines or abortion?

Grave concerns

Here we go, folks! “Herr Dictator” Joe Biden is unconstitutionally forcing you to be vaccinated! We should all have grave concerns over this.

Starkville

A Mississippi city says its employees who are not vaccinated will pay higher health insurance rates, be required to wear masks and will have to use sick leave if they contract the virus. Good for Starkville. The unvaccinated will be the cause of higher insurance rates for all.

Not king Biden

President Biden cannot constitutionally order private companies to require their employees take the COVID vaccination or have the individual tested on a weekly basis if they choose not to take the jab. He is not an emperor nor king.

Insane era

I am only 17 and I know from studying history we are living in the most insane era in human history. I wear a mask, I am vaccinated. Many of our school mates are haters of masks and vaccines. Why? Because of their parents. This group has irrevocably destroyed my generation’s future.

Health law

For those who are about to inundate Sound Off regarding vaccine mandates being “unconstitutional:” Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (or PHSA) allows necessary measures to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases: Jacobson v. Massachusetts, Zucht v. King.

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