Posted on 10/14/2021 5:01:26 PM PDT by Mount Athos
This week, a month after Joe Biden announced his COVID vaccine mandate on all business with 100 or more employees, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) submitted its proposed rule to the Office of Management and Budget for review.
The Labor Department stated, “The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been working expeditiously to develop an emergency temporary standard that covers employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workers are fully vaccinated or undergo weekly testing to protect employees from the spread of coronavirus in the workplace.”
A “feature” of the new OSHA rule will require employers to give paid time off for their employees to get the COVID vaccine and for recovery if needed. Those companies caught not complying would face “substantial fines” upwards of $14,000 per violation.
It will be interesting to see how the new OSHA regulation will handle another issue — thus far only one of the vaccines, the Pfizer/BioNTech version, has received FDA approval. Will employees who have already received the Moderna or Johnson&Johnson vaccines still be considered in compliance under OSHA’s rule despite the fact that neither has received FDA approval?
Meanwhile, 24 states’ Republican attorneys general have been waiting for OSHA to produce the finalized rule so they can follow through on their threat to sue the Biden administration over this “disastrous and counterproductive” mandate. Biden lectured when announcing his mandate, “We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin.” Yeah, well, the feeling is mutual.
The final observation is the fact that many individuals have decided not to get a COVID vaccine because they have already contracted and recovered from the coronavirus and therefore have natural immunity. Nevertheless, because the Biden administration, companies, and other entities are still ignoring the science of natural immunity, these employees will be ostracized and forced out of their jobs. Indeed, a record 4.3 million workers recently quit their jobs, often because of such mandates. As we noted earlier this week, that has affected everything from police departments to airline flights.
In Boston, 812 city employees — equivalent to 4% of the city’s workforce — were just suspended without pay for failure to meet the city’s vaccine mandate. Now, thanks to Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate, what’s happening in Boston will be repeated across the entire country. Let’s go, Brandon.
“The President cannot “ORDER” or “dictate” to a department to make a rule. That would be a “dictatorship”.”
And to think that Trump was a dictator, according to the libtards.
If the vaccine works,
then the vaccinated are safe.
If the vaccine doesn’t work,
there’s no reason to take it.
Either way there’s no need to mandate vaccines except to continue the ‘pandemic’ and the emergency powers that come with it.
Now the lawsuits can officially start being filed against OSHA and Xiden.
True. There is a reason why Napoleon did not say “God is on the side of those who have the most reams of paper documenting their legal arguments.”
There won’t be enough test kits, even if the simplest self administered tests are allowed.
They just suspended the unvaxxed without pay until further notice!
TITLE 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
21 U.S. Code § 355 - New drugs
(…)
(i) Exemptions of drugs for research; discretionary and mandatory conditions; direct reports to Secretary
(…)
(4) Regulations under paragraph (1) shall provide that such exemption shall be conditioned upon the manufacturer, or the sponsor of the investigation, requiring that experts using such drugs for investigational purposes certify to such manufacturer or sponsor that they will inform any human beings to whom such drugs, or any controls used in connection therewith, are being administered, or their representatives, that such drugs are being used for investigational purposes and will obtain the consent of such human beings or their representatives, except where it is not feasible, it is contrary to the best interests of such human beings,….
(…)
[ EMPHASIS: “…informed consent…except where it is not feasible, it is contrary to the best interests of such human beings,…” ]
{ ===> They decided informed consent is not in your best interest. }
The available Pfizer jab hasn’t received approval either.
Only EUA jabs are available and it is illegal to coerce people to take such experimental shots.
Not, of course, that our captured judiciary is doing anything about that...
But of course even if a vaxx “works” that doesn’t necessarily make a vaxx “safe”.
Yep.
That ship sailed January 6.
However, that section refers to the administration of an approved drug being given to someone "in their best interests." Think of it as giving a mental health drug to a homeless person who is arrested and brought to a mental institution.
The more relevant section of US Code is 21 U.S. Code § 360bbb–3 - Authorization for medical products for use in emergencies:
I underlined the part about "consequences, if any, of refusing administration of the product" because I believe this pertains to the medical "consequences" of not taking the drug. It does NOT give permission to businesses to place "consequences" on employees who don't take the drug. The former gives the recipient the choice, the latter is coercive consent under duress.
-PJ
Thanks for posting this!!
Neither Resident Biden nor OSHA has ANY Constitutional authority to force this on ANY business.
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