Former Biden White House doctor slammed ‘far-left’ who think ‘the pandemic is just as bad as ever and we all should be masking indoors.’
Former Biden White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator and current Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, Dr. Ashish Jha, recently admitted most “mandates” during the pandemic were harmful to public trust in government.
Speaking with journalist Chris Cuomo this week, Dr. Jha suggested vaccine mandates would be “much more narrow” if another pandemic were to take place.
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The ex-government doctor said he often reminds his friends in public health that the history of mandates in their field “is not a glorious history.”
“In general, you don’t want to use mandates unless you absolutely have to,” Dr. Jha explained. “And, I say that as somebody who supported vaccine mandates early on. But, I’m also someone who ended all the vaccine mandates when I was at the White House because I thought the era of mandates was well past its prime.”
He continued, “You should use mandates rarely. You should use it very narrowly and I get why people did it. I get why I was supportive of it initially. It seemed to work. It certainly saved a lot of lives, but in the long-run it also bred a lot of distrust and was harmful as well. So, hindsight on this is 20/20 but in the future, to the extent that there are mandates, I think they are going to be very, very narrow.”
Jha also claimed he’s hearing from “loud fringe voices” on both sides of the political spectrum.
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“The left that’s convinced that the pandemic is just as bad as ever and we all should still be masking indoors, and then the right with all of its kind of a lot of, you know, conspiracy theories as well,” he stated.
Speaking to the “broad middle” group of Americans, Jha said he sees “a lot of people who think, ‘That was terrible. We didn’t get everything right. Maybe there are some issues with our government and how it functioned. We’re in a better place, thank God,’ and are still open to listening to reasonable voices. And, I think that broad middle is among Democrats, is among Republicans.”
The bureaucrats and media members who knowingly locked down and silenced millions of Americans are now trying to save face.
