SenatorBobHallTexas

On Thursday, September 9th, President Joe Biden announced his newest plan for the expanded federal pandemic response to COVID-19. That plan includes steps to mandate vaccinations in ways which clearly violate both individual and employer rights. Most notably, President Biden stated that all employers with 100 or more employees must either require their workforce to become fully vaccinated or require unvaccinated employees to test weekly. The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will develop and enforce the rule, which will have an impact on over 80 million employees in the private sector. Employers are not agents of the state and should not be used as such by being coerced into implementing governmental mandates. This is one of the most oppressive, overbearing, and dictatorial governmental COVID-19 measure we have seen to date. Social distancing can be kept. Masking can be removed. But the unintended adverse reactions to a vaccination required for an individual to keep a job is permanent. This mandate violates free market principles, but even more importantly it violates individual liberties by requiring a forced medical procedure as a condition of employment. An employee will be forced to choose between continued employment or potential negative health risks. In addition, President Biden signed an order requiring all federal executive branch workers to be vaccinated, as well as any employee of a contractor which does business with the federal government. He is also encouraging states to require school employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as well. Finally, he is launching an attack on our healthcare workers at the frontlines of the pandemic by requiring workers in facilities which receive Medicare or Medicaid dollars to be vaccinated. All of this is bad news for the millions of individuals who constitute the American workforce. Therefore, I am working on legislation which will protect the medical freedom of Texans from the heavy hand of the federal government. No one should ever be forced or coerced into receiving a medical treatment they do not want to receive. Using it as a term or condition of employment―essentially, "take this vaccine or you're fired"―is un-American and wrong. No one should have to choose between keeping their job or taking a vaccine they do not want. In addition, I have filed other bills to protect employees and other individuals from both employer and governmental vaccine mandates. It is inappropriate for any level of government to tell businesses they must issue vaccine mandates on their employees. For that matter, it is wrong for any employer to mandate vaccines as a condition of employment without appropriate exemptions. I fully support minimal government regulations on business. However, our nation and state were founded upon principles protecting the rights of the individual, not business. With so many employers already issuing vaccine mandates before President Biden's announcement, legislation which protects employees' rights is also appropriate. When our nation was founded, the 10th amendment to the constitution ensured that all rights not expressly given to the federal government were retained by the states. Medical freedom is one such right and Texas must protect her citizens from oppressive federal mandates.

Over the last year, frontline doctors through the US and worldwide have demonstrated that C-19 “early treatment” significantly reduces serious illness and death. While supplements like Quercetin, Vitamins C, B and D3, Zinc, Magnesium, which are well known to boost the body’s natural immune system are very effective, Washington bureaucrats, who are basically controlled by the big pharmaceutical companies, have refused to recognize these safe, inexpensive, and effective therapeutics in the fight against C-19. While the bureaucrats have persistently offered no preventative or early intervention therapeutics, they have pushed the ineffective and dangerous drug Remdesivir once a person has been hospitalized. However, one experimental drug that has received FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) is Regeneron, a monoclonal antibody. The approval is only for out-patient treat during the first ten days of symptoms. Texas has been quietly making this treatment available for several months through Infusion Centers, but because there has been little to no public promotion of these centers, few Texans are aware of their existence. The purpose of this post is to make as many Texans as possible aware of this FDA approved early treatment and provide the information. The FDA has granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for two new treatments for C-19. These treatments are what is referred to as monoclonal antibodies, and both have been authorized to treat non-hospitalized adults and children 12 years of age and older. Monoclonal antibodies are laboratory-produced molecules that act as substitute antibodies to restore, enhance, or mimic the immune system’s function to attack foreign cells, in this case the C-19 virus. These treatments attack a C-19 protein making it more difficult for the virus to attach to and enter human cells. These treatments are designed for non-hospitalized adults and children who have recently tested positive for C-19, are within 10 days of symptom onset, and are at high risk for progressing to severe C-19 and/or hospitalization. To request infusion of monoclonal antibodies and a medical team at your facility, you may call the 24-hour State Infusion Hotline at 1-800-742-5990 or go to the web site meds.tdem.Texas.gov. I am honored to have my good friend and Liberty 8 classmate, Senator Lois Kolkhorst, Senate Health and Human Services Chair with me today to help explain the Infusion Center service and how Texans can receive C-19 early treatment at no direct cost to them.

Texas has a medical Bill-of-Rights and a hospital Bill-of-Rights specifically written to protect patients. You can be an advocate. Take every step you can to be well-informed and prepared for what you need to do, or what should be requested, in the event that the virus affects your family. C-19 hospitalizations and deaths are far higher than they should be but it is not because people are dying of the C word. It is bad hospital policy that is killing C-19 patients who are unfortunate enough to be hospitalized. Two facts you need to know but, your government or the main stream media will not tell you: 1. C-19 patients are being hospitalized because they are not receiving preventative or early treatment. 2. Hospitalized C-19 patients who die, do so because of hospital protocol policy; not because they have the C word. Kate Dalley, our guest in this interview today, recently saved her husband who had contracted C-19, from a sure death not from the C-19, but from draconian “hospital protocol policy”. You are going to want to watch and listen all the way to the end as she tells us how she was able to get the hospital’s ineffective C-19 treatment policy set aside and replaced with the treatments advocated by the frontline doctors who have been saving C-19 patients for over a year now. Her information equipped me, like it can you, to take ownership of our right to look and ask for the treatments which we or our sick family members need. We need not be intimidated by hospital captive doctors who will try to convince us otherwise. We can listen to the frontline doctors who know what they are doing and actually care about the outcome, not just the money. I truly believe in the treatments for C-19 symptoms advocated by the frontline doctors, which have helped many individuals recover successfully, and I intend to use them. Remember, neither Kate Dalley or I are doctors and we are not giving medical advice. We are simply sharing with you our experiences and what we have been told by independent, “non-hospital” doctors who have been and are continuing to successfully treat the symptoms brought about by C-19.

Tune in as I visit with a legal professional on different COVID issues, including some key discussion points for employees that are being required to vaccinate. Texans were assured earlier this year that their personal decision not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine would not affect their ability to move about freely in our society. While employees of Texas businesses are still in need of similar protection, customers have already been guaranteed this ability, which is now codified in statute. I will continue to fight and push for passage of legislation to ensure employees are guaranteed the same protections as consumers at the same business. It is time to stop treating the unvaccinated as though they are already infected with the virus by default. Information is key. Please SHARE this information with your friends and loved ones.