President Joe Biden’s new COVID-19 Coordinator – Dr. Ashish Jha – has vigorously advocated for “vaccine passports” and other hardline measures including mandated vaccines for air travel, despite also defending left-wing protests as “essential”.
Dr. Jha, who will be replacing Jeff Zients and his deputy Natalie Quillian next month, is the current Dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health who has also praised Anthony Fauci as his personal “role model.”
A frequent guest on mainstream media programming, Dr. Jha has routinely used his platform to demand the introduction of vaccine mandates and vaccine passports in America, while insisting “we are not anywhere near the end of this pandemic” in a February 2022 interview.
In an April 28th, 2021 op-ed for The Economist, Dr. Jha outlined his “case for vaccine certificates to beat COVID-19.”
“Vaccine certificates are needed so everyone’s full participation in society can be restored,” he summarized while insisting criticism that the policy represents an “infringement on personal freedom” as “nonsense.”
“As countries administer covid-19 vaccines, having a vaccine certificate—a simple, reliable and secure way to determine who is inoculated—will be critical to making work, school, restaurants, houses of worship and other places safe for everyone,” he reiterates before pointing to programs in New York, Hawaii, and Israel as models to emulate:
“The state of New York has rolled out a smartphone app that verifies a person’s vaccination status or recent negative test result, allowing admission to public events like baseball games. Hawaii plans to pilot a programme exempting those who can show proof of vaccination from mandatory quarantine requirements. Israel, which has already rolled out a “green pass” system, plans to open the programme to international travelers who can show proof of vaccination.”
Similarly, Dr. Jha called for a “vaccine mandate for air travel” in a Twitter thread from October 3rd, 2021.
“Its time for vaccine mandate for air travel Lack of one is becoming an issue[.] So here’s my story from last night that confirmed why we need it[.] Basically, we can’t expect mitigation measures to be enforced well enough to prevent transmission on airplanes forever,” he asserted before sharing a story about sitting next to a woman “whose mask barely covered her mouth” on a plane.
Its time for vaccine mandate for air travel
Lack of one is becoming an issue
So here's my story from last night that confirmed why we need it
Basically, we can't expect mitigation measures to be enforced well enough to prevent transmission on airplanes forever
Short thread
— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) October 4, 2021
“Thank you for being a role model, and I think a lot of us in public health look up to you as the person who has always used science and the scientific process as the benchmark by which we guide ourselves, and there is nobody who embodies that better than you do, Tony. So I want to say on a personal level, thank you for that.”
During the interview, he also revealed when asked about COVID-19 vaccines he will “always essentially try to channel my inner Tony Fauci, as I think all public health people do, and try to think what would Tony say about this” when answering the questions.
Despite Dr. Jha’s hardline approach to COVID-19 restrictions, he appeared to endorse the Black Lives Matter protests occurring throughout 2020 in an oped-for the Guardian, “Why Protests Aren’t As Dangerous For Spreading Coronavirus As You Might Think.”
In the article, Dr Jha claimed:
“Anti-racism demonstrations are the perfect scapegoat for a rise in Covid-19 cases, but science suggests their risks can be mitigated… it is also clear that there is a serious risk and grave public health cost to not addressing systemic racism against black people in America.”
“If we are to confront systemic racism, such mass demonstrations seem “essential”, to use our new pandemic lexicon,” he argued.
Dr. Jha replaces Jeff Zients, the latest Biden regime official to leave the government.
