WhiteHouse.Gov details a Executive Order by president Biden that would force corporations to mandate vaccinations or weekly testing.
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is developing a rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work. OSHA will issue an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to implement this requirement. This requirement will impact over 80 million workers in private sector businesses with 100+ employees.
The President also signed an Executive Order directing that this standard be extended to employees of contractors that do business with the federal government. As part of this effort, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Indian Health Service, and the National Institute of Health will complete implementation of their previously announced vaccination requirements that cover 2.5 million people.
To ensure that no worker loses a dollar of pay because they get vaccinated, OSHA is developing a rule that will require employers with more than 100 employees to provide paid time off for the time it takes for workers to get vaccinated or to recover if they are under the weather post-vaccination. This requirement will be implemented through the ETS.
Declaring Independence From a Deadly Virus
$14,000 Fines for Noncompliance
Please recall Biden’s 4th of July speech on Covid.
“Today, we are closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus.”
Well, I guess not.
Businesses that don’t comply face fines of up to $14,000 per violation.
Court Challenge Coming Right Up
The Outrage From Republicans was swift as noted by NPR.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said in a statement: “It is not the government’s role to dictate to private businesses what to do. Once again President Biden is demonstrating his complete disregard for individual freedoms and states’ rights. As long as I am governor, there will be no government vaccine mandates in Oklahoma.”
The vaccine mandate rule coming from the federal government, as opposed to being individually enforced, will shield many employers from facing the brunt of potential blowback, said employment lawyer Brett Coburn of firm Alston & Bird.
“I’m sure there will be a lot of employers who chafe at this for a variety of reasons, but some employers I think may welcome it,” he said. “It kind of takes it out of their hands to some extent to say, ‘Sorry, OSHA said we have to do this and we have to follow what OSHA tells us.’
“The CDC gives us guidelines. OSHA gives us rules. And that’s a really important distinction,” Coburn said, noting that he has seen a growing number of companies in the last month move toward vaccine requirements.
Is This Executive Order Constitutional?
I highly doubt it, but it is a decision corporations can make on their own. Biden’s eviction mandate was unconstitutional as well and already went down in flames.
But neither party cares about such things these days. Look no further than the Clearly Unconstitutional Texas Anti-Abortion Bill.
Expect the Texas hypocrites to scream the loudest. But don’t forget the Democrat hypocrites who got upset with overturned Trumpian mandates.
Of course, two wrongs do not make a right nor do infinite wrongs make infinite rights.
So here we are.
The bottom line is hypocrites on both side do not give a damn about the Constitution, rule of order, or precedent.
Biden just gave the independents who do care about the Constitution yet another reason to think carefully about midterm voting decisions.
Then again, Texas did the same.
A genuine middle of the road candidate would likely be elected in a landslide, especially one tilting conservative on spending and more liberal on social issues.
However, a middle of the road candidate does not seem to have a chance at getting nominated.
Mish
Perhaps the policy is that since you cannot stop it, vaccinate to mitigate the hospitalizations and death
I’m not anti-vaccination, but I’ve had it and recovered so it changes my perspective.
your position is that the vaccinated need to be protected from the
unvaccinated, you BY DEFINITION therefore DO NOT believe that the
vaccines work. But then why are you mandating an experimental vaccine
for everyone?
isnt because, you know, Science. As you say, you are not making any
allowance for people who have recovered from COVID, who have MORE
immunity than the vaccinated.
Easy to have a pandemic of the unvacc’d when you ignore half the population in the study.
This will never pass Court challenges.Even the 3 liberal justices have consistently ruled against these sort of things, except in the case of the eviction moratorium.
to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.
However, if the government has the right to “help” me out with my health why stop with a vaccine? Why not regulate unhealthy food? It kills just as many as COVID does every single year. Why is COVID the only health crisis that matters?
Obesity is an unarguably worse health crisis. If COVID demands government intervention then so does obesity.
Yet, the freedoms you’d have to give up…..
certainly be a MORE THAN the same effects caused by COVID
Biden’s team desperately needs a win. The economy is
slipping badly, it’s losing a lot in the polls and don’t even mention
Afghanistan so covid is the only thing left but to claim victory they must be
seen as having eradicated it totally from the US and in their eyes the only way
to do that is by forcing everyone to take it. Since covid is worldwide
eradicating it from the US is like chasing after rainbows nevertheless when you
don’t have a clue of what to do you keep doing the same thing even if it makes
less and less sense.
Forced vaccination for covid sets a pattern. Should we
expect forced vaccination for the Flu now? There is an experimental vaccine for
HIV which has killed 60 million people in the world so you could make a case to
use it to eliminate HIV even if it is still experimental. We have vaccine
passports now with the infrastructure built so after covid what will we use it
for? STD’s maybe or any other communicable disease? I can see good arguments
for and against. It’s a new world that has just unfolded before our eyes. Lots
of investment possibilities although lots of worries about the ethical side. Nevertheless
there is no way of getting out of riding this tiger.
I dunno.I lived in Kenya for a short while, in an area where one in three people had HIV. People were dropping all the time there and still are.Those deaths rarely will get counted as HIV deaths due to lack of access to health care. People just die, get buried and no official records of their life or death ever existed.So I don’t think anyone truly knows the number….but it’s a lot.
Thanks for the correction Eddie. I am not infallible after
all. Only 36 million have died and 76 million have been infected
worldwide. HIV is a much deadlier disease than covid by a very great margin yet
the public health measures taken then were quasi-nonexistent. If we had taken
then the measures we have taken now then the 700,000 deaths in the US from
HIV would have been much less. Looking at the differences in response today vs
before I would hazard to say that risk is not from covid itself but from a
possible future infectious disease yet unnamed that could come on the heels of
this one. Simply put it looks like a dry run to discover the weak points in
implementing a truly effective anti-pandemic plan. The biggest weak point to
date that was impossible to ignore was the weak response of local leaders to
the pandemic and which resulted in allowing widespread gatherings. In a
true emergency that would not have been allowed. There are many other problems
that have become apparent and will have to be corrected. I see Gottlieb has
come out to say that gain of function has also been financed for MERS which is
chilling if true.
But weren’t those guidelines put into place to protect
specifically medical workers only and were not concerned with classic methods
of infectious disease control such as quarantines and closing down centers of
disease dispersal? In the early 80’s if we had been able to do that then many
lives would have been saved albeit at the cost of infected individuals having a
minor loss of certain liberties until things could be under control but a deliberate decision was made not to apply public health measures.
should be mandatory,” he said. “I wouldn’t demand it be mandatory.”
Psaki’s comments came even more recently, on July 23, 2021. “That’s not the role of the federal government,” she said when asked about such mandates. “That’s the role that institutions, private-sector entities, and others, may take.
mandate. “There will be no nationwide mandate,” she said. “I was
referring to mandates by private institutions and portions of the
federal government. There will be no federal mandate.””
The Dems will win because they are more vaccinated. Republicans are dying at a rate of 8 to 1 from Covid. By the midterms a huge voting block will be dead.
using the internet to search for data in order to make informed decisions. What
would you rather have him do?
From the total of injuries recorded, almost half of them (1,076,917) are serious injuries.
Here is the summary data through August 28, 2021.
Total reactions for the mRNA vaccine Tozinameran (code BNT162b2,Comirnaty) from BioNTech/ Pfizer: 11,266 deaths and 900,032 injuries to 28/08/2021
Total reactions for the mRNA vaccine mRNA-1273(CX-024414) from Moderna: 6,029 deaths and 254,648 injuriesto 28/08/2021
Total reactions for the vaccine AZD1222/VAXZEVRIA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19) from Oxford/ AstraZeneca: 4,991 deaths and 965,095 injuries to 28/08/2021
Total reactions for the COVID-19 vaccine JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S) from Johnson & Johnson: 966 deaths and 69 762 injuries to 28/08/2021
*These totals are estimates based on reports submitted to http://www.adrreports.eu/en/background.html. Totals may be much higher based on percentage of adverse reactions that are reported. Some of these reports may also be reported to the individual country’s adverse reaction databases, such as the U.S. VAERS database and the UK Yellow Card system. The fatalities are grouped by symptoms, and some fatalities may have resulted from multiple symptoms.
While the alleged COVID-19 “virus” has almost NO impact on deaths among young people, tragically, we cannot say the same for these experimental shots.
Today, we are closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus.”
Well, I guess not.
I dont get it. People are ok waiting to get sick to take a drug that is safe for humans but being evaluated for covid. But they are not ok taking a vax which minimizes the chance of getting sick in the first place. Oh and the vax has passed clinical trials and has a track record of success.