Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says Biden’s vaccine mandates “divide the country”

(Natural News) Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has said that President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates are divisive and harden the resistance of some people to get vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). The Republican governor on Sunday, Sept, 12, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he believes the president’s vaccination mandates will hurt nationwide efforts to vaccinate Americans instead of supporting them.

On Thursday, Sept. 9, Biden issued several executive orders requiring all federal employees and the majority of health care workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine. A White House plan also stated that Biden would direct the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to mandate that businesses with 100 or more employees either mandate COVID-19 vaccines, require weekly COVID-19 testing or be fined.

According to Hutchinson, the federal requirements are “counterproductive.”

“We talked about the fact that we’ve historically had vaccination requirements in schools. But those have always come at the state level, never at the national level,” Hutchinson said.

“And so this is an unprecedented assumption of federal mandate authority that really disrupts and divides the country. It divides our partnership between the federal government and the states. And it increases the division in terms of vaccination when we should all be together trying to increase the vaccination uptake.”

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