[charles_covington]

Decades ago democrats were actually calling for breaking up monopolies yet republicans were like “no no no big corporations are your friends!!!!”

Well now these corporations are owned by leftists and none of them have problems forcing this shit on us because they know we have few to no options besides them

[Alberta's Child]

I don’t think the CEOs of these companies are really the problem — no matter how leftist they may be. As someone who has served in senior management roles in the corporate world, I can tell you that this is how these CEOs have been approaching this COVID fiasco:

1. What they really want is legal immunity against workplace lawsuits arising out of COVID or any related measures imposed over the last year and a half -- protection from lawsuits by employees who contract the disease, lawsuits by employees who are vaccinated under employer rules and have adverse side effects, etc.

2. These CEOs are never going to get that -- for a number of reasons. The biggest one is that tort lawsuits are covered under state law, not Federal law ... so there will ultimately be a patchwork of 50 different state laws that would cover this. Also, Congress would never pass it as long as Democrats have any say in the matter because they are owned by trial lawyer lobbyists.

3. So what the CEO wants is the next best thing: a Federal "mandate" or "regulation" that covers the employer's ass if there ARE legal ramifications to any COVID policy adopted by the employer.

4. I honestly don't think most CEOs really want a vaccine mandate. I suspect most CEOs don't give a damn if any given employee is vaccinated, not vaccinated, "immunized" by some witch doctor who gives exotic potions, etc. What the CEO wants — in the absence of legal immunity — is to get a single uniform standard in place that covers the company's ass and eliminates COVID as a distraction. What this means it that there are effectively two options: (A) "vaccinate" everyone, or (B) eliminate almost every COVID-related measure entirely.

5. Most CEOs of large U.S. companies choose Option (A) for one simple reason: At least 75% of their employees are neurotic, gullible cowards who accept whatever idiocy is peddled on social media and buy into the Branch Covidian nonsense ... and who don't want to work with people who refuse to comply. If 75% of the workers in the U.S. refused to get "vaccinated," the CEOs would be fighting this OSHA bullsh!t much harder.