Did Biden say my patience in Gone and would not end well for unvaccinated?
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Executive summary
No — President Joe Biden did not say the phrasing “my patience in Gone and would not end well for unvaccinated.” What he said, repeatedly in September 2021, was a uniformly reported line along the lines of “We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin,” and in at least one version he added that “your refusal has cost all of us,” remarks made while announcing sweeping vaccination requirements and urging the unvaccinated to get shots [1] [2] [3].
1. What Biden actually said: the plain quote and its variants
In a September 9–10, 2021 White House address and accompanying clips, Biden told unvaccinated Americans “We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin,” sometimes framed as “We have been patient, but our patience is wearing thin,” and in several transcripts and broadcasts he followed that with “and your refusal has cost all of us,” language carried verbatim by outlets including CNN, Yahoo, The Guardian and Mediaite [1] [2] [4] [3].
2. Context: policy announcements and why the line mattered
Those sentences were part of a broader “action plan” to confront the Delta surge that included vaccine requirements for federal employees, contractors and large private employers and emphasized protecting vaccinated workers from unvaccinated coworkers; news organizations ran the line while summarizing those policy steps [4] [5] [6].
3. How the line was used, amplified and reframed across outlets
Mainstream outlets published the quote almost identically and paired it with video and policy description [1] [2] [4], while conservative and partisan sites repackaged it as a threat or “declaration of war” against the unvaccinated or as evidence of presidential overreach, sometimes adding rhetorical flourish not present in Biden’s original words [7] [8] [9]. In short, the core quote is consistent across reputable reporting, but its tone and implications were amplified differently by partisan outlets [8] [7].
4. Where the misquote likely originates and how to spot it
The phrase offered in the question — “my patience in Gone and would not end well for unvaccinated” — appears to be a garbled paraphrase rather than a direct quotation; none of the reporting catalogued in the sources records that wording, and the documented variants center on “patience is wearing thin” and “your refusal has cost all of us,” not on threats promising specific negative outcomes [1] [3]. When checking contested quotations, primary sources such as full video or official White House transcripts are the definitive reference; secondary summaries and partisan commentary are where distortions commonly appear [1] [10].
5. Political and public reaction to the phrasing
Reactions tracked in the press split predictably: many public-health and mainstream outlets presented the remark as an expression of frustration tied to policy action meant to raise vaccination rates [2] [5], while critics portrayed it as coercive or authoritarian and used stronger language to criticize mandates, arguing the phrasing signaled a punitive approach [8] [9]. Reporting shows the quote became a focal point for debate about mandates and civil liberties rather than a standalone new policy promise [6] [5].
6. Bottom line and limitations of this review
Bottom line: the available reporting confirms Biden said variants of “we’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin” and in some reports “your refusal has cost all of us” while announcing broader vaccine requirements — the specific phrasing in the question does not appear in the sourced record and reads as a misquote or paraphrase [1] [3] [2]. This analysis relies on the provided news clips and summaries; if a verbatim White House transcript or full unedited video from the speech is required for legalistic precision, those primary documents should be consulted — they were not supplied among the sources here [1] [10].