{"id":139385,"date":"2021-09-21T17:55:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T17:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=139385"},"modified":"2021-09-21T17:55:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T17:55:34","slug":"boris-johnson-slams-biden-vaccine-order-suggests-using-sweet-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/boris-johnson-slams-biden-vaccine-order-suggests-using-sweet-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson slams Biden vaccine order, suggests using &apos;sweet reason&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u2018People feel very strongly about not having state mandate\u2019: Boris Johnson slams Biden\u2019s vaccine mandates and says he won\u2019t do it because Brits &#8216;love liberty&#8217; and tells president to use \u2018sweet reason and persuasion\u2019<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>UK Prime Minister Johnson spoke with NBC amid the UN General Assembly\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He avoided commenting on President Biden&#8217;s vaccine mandate directly\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But he quickly shut down the idea of a vaccine mandate in the United Kingdom<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The United Kingdom rolled back most of its health restrictions in July\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Johnson has touted his vaccination campaign as the reason the UK is opening<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Biden&#8217;s US vaccine order was met with legal threats from Republican-led states\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson dismissed the idea of a sweeping vaccine mandate like the one President Joe Biden announced two weeks ago, adding that Britons are &#8216;great lovers of liberty&#8217; in an interview on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Johnson suggested Biden might be better off using &#8216;sweet reason and persuasion&#8217; to convince people to get a COVID shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to NBC&#8217;s Savannah Guthrie in New York City\u00a0amid the\u00a0United Nations General Assembly, the UK leader was asked whether Biden&#8217;s unprecedented order would narrow the gap between Americans&#8217; vaccination rate and that of Brits&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You have 81 percent of your eligible citizens vaccinated right now. We&#8217;re at 64 percent. The president has turned to mandates where he has the legal authority to do so. Do you think that&#8217;s the right idea?&#8217; Guthrie asks.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson begins by playing up the differences in each country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s different strokes for different folks, ok &#8211; it&#8217;s up to different countries to decide how they want to approach this, this is a very controversial area.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But he adds, &#8216;People feel very strongly about not having the state mandate something in my country.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/09\/21\/14\/48196709-10012855-image-a-1_1632229724321.jpg\" height=\"354\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson sat down with NBC in New York City ahead of the United Nations General Assembly<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re great lovers of liberty. We&#8217;ve had to do it by sweet reason and persuasion. And that&#8217;s working.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Guthrie asked him what happens when persuasion alone doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Keep going. More sweet reason,&#8217; Johnson answered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On September 9 Biden stood in the White House and announced that he was directing the Labor Department to require private businesses with 100 employees or more to either enact a vaccine mandate or a weekly testing rule.<\/p>\n<p>He also ordered employees of the federal government to get vaccinated &#8211; throwing away a previous testing option.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s sweeping order would affect more than 100 million US workers. It&#8217;s already prompted legal threats from mostly Republican-led states.<\/p>\n<p>It came as the US hit a turning point after its summer COVID surge, though several Southern states still lag below a 50 percent adult vaccination rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The president sent a stark warning to those still choosing not to get the shot, &#8216;Our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom rolled back most of its COVID restrictions in July on what Johnson had called &#8216;Freedom Day.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Cases in the country have also been falling recently. As of Monday, new COVID infections in the UK were down 17.7 percent from the week before, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has credited his vaccination campaign for the UK reemerging as &#8216;one of the most free societies and one of the most open economies in Europe.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Last week he announced that booster shots would be available to people 50 and over and first shots for children aged 12 to 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/09\/21\/14\/48196675-10012855-image-a-2_1632229850606.jpg\" height=\"442\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The US COVID infection rate has begun to slow down after a summer surge<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/09\/21\/14\/48196699-10012855-image-a-11_1632230121023.jpg\" height=\"503\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the US vaccination rate has slowly begun rising after a dip earlier in the summer<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/09\/21\/14\/48197241-10012855-image-a-4_1632230034898.jpg\" height=\"378\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The UK COVID infection rate has also been slowing down, which Johnson credited to his vaccination campaign<\/p>\n<p>In the US, hospitals across the South, particularly in states with largely unvaccinated populations, are still buckling under the strain of the most recent surge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vaccination rate, which had fallen significantly in the early summer months, began rising steadily in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Fully inoculated UK travelers will soon be able to enter the US from November, a sign of global confidence in the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 will also be a central topic at the United Nations General Assembly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden will deliver remarks before the UNGA this morning before going back to Washington in the afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There he and Johnson will meet for a bilateral meeting. It comes after they signed a new defense pact with Australia aimed at containing China&#8217;s growing influence in the Pacific.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10012855\/Boris-Johnson-slams-Bidens-vaccine-mandates-says-wont-Brits-love-liberty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018People feel very strongly about not having<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Boris Johnson slams Biden vaccine order, suggests using &amp;apos;sweet reason&amp;apos; - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/boris-johnson-slams-biden-vaccine-order-suggests-using-sweet-reason\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Boris Johnson slams Biden vaccine order, suggests using &amp;apos;sweet reason&amp;apos; 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