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b'Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky said that President Joe Biden\\u2019s vaccine coercion mandates will effectively \\u201cdestroy our economy\\u201d and put thousands of Americans out of work.\\n\\n\\u201cWe\\u2019re about to destroy our economy if Biden follows through with these vaccine mandates,\\u201d Massie said on \\u201cThe Truth with Lisa Boothe\\u201d on Thursday.\\n\\nMassie said one of the industries most affected by this mandate is the trucking industry, which is already suffering a supply-chain crisis created by government-mandated lockdowns and exacerbated by the Biden administration\\u2019s economic policies.\\n\\n\\u201cI just came from a roundtable in my transportation and infrastructure committee. \\u2026 We had experts from the industry that deals with the supply chain, trucking experts, the people who unload the shipping containers,\\u201d Massie said. \\u201cAnd one of the things they keyed in on, is the contractor mandate kicks in on December 8th \\u2026 and then there\\u2019s this OSHA mandate, that\\u2019s going to come out. What I learned is that 37 percent of truckers say they will retire, quit or find another job if they are required to get the vaccine as a result of the federal contractor mandate or the OSHA mandate.\\u201d\\n\\nMassie said that even if just a fraction of those follow through and are forced out of their jobs, \\u201cthis would be a supply chain disaster of epic proportions and we will suffer from inflation shortages.\\u201d\\n\\n\\u201cWe\\u2019ll go back to where we were 18 months ago, where they were euthanizing animals because they couldn\\u2019t get them processed, you know, livestock for food. It will be a dystopian future if Biden follows through, and people will suffer all across the country if he follows through with these mandates, just on truckers, that\\u2019s not even talking about all the other people that are being mandated or about to be mandated,\\u201d Massie said.\\n\\nMassie also noted that getting the COVID shot doesn\\u2019t prevent virus transmission so even mandating it won\\u2019t eliminate the risk of workers contracting it.\\n\\n\\u201cThis vaccine, nobody is any longer claiming, not even the CDC, and especially not the CDC, that this stops people from giving COVID to other people. In fact, there is a study that shows that the vaccinated are giving it to the vaccinated inside of healthcare settings,\\u201d he said. \\u201cThere is no logical imperative for the government to force that on somebody, unless they are your legal guardian. The only person who could make the decision to take a drug or a treatment is the person themselves or their legal guardian. But the situation we\\u2019re in, is the government is pretending that they are our legal guardian now, or that they own us like livestock, and that we\\u2019re receiving the treatment, not to protect other people, but to protect ourselves. But they\\u2019re the ones prescribing it.\\u201d\\n\\nMassie said the government now holds the power and \\u201cthey own us at that point.\\u201d\\n\\n\\u201cThis is why they changed the definition of vaccination in September. They are slowly boiling the frog by changing definitions in order to meet their mandates because their mandate isn\\u2019t ethical, moral, constitutional, or even scientific in the context of your performance of this vaccine. So they have to change the definition, the words, and that\\u2019s what they\\u2019ve been doing. And they may soon change the definition of fully vaccinated to exclude people who had two jabs,\\u201d he said.\\n\\nDuring a House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure subcommittee hearing this week, Massie questioned whether the Biden administration has directed agencies to grant religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.\\n\\n\\u201cHave you received any guidance from the Biden administration on how to process these requests, given that the law requires that religious accommodations be made to the vaccine mandate?\\u201d Massie asked officials at the General Services Administration.'