And also last week, Advent Health in Florida, one of the largest chain of hospitals, also suspended theirs. Effective immediately, they will no longer require its 83,000 employees to be vaccinated against COVID.
But who would have thought the City of Phoenix would be so quick to fall in line?
In light of today’s federal court ruling, temporarily blocking a requirement for all federal contract workers getting the #COVID19 vaccine, the city of #PHX will pause implementation of the federal mandate requiring city workers be vaccinated by Jan. 18. pic.twitter.com/0XRW1VtJBt
— City of Phoenix, AZ (@CityofPhoenixAZ) December 7, 2021
In light of today’s federal court ruling, temporarily blocking a requirement for all federal contract workers getting the #COVID19 vaccine, the city of #PHX will pause implementation of the federal mandate requiring city workers be vaccinated by Jan. 18.
Phoenix is a progressive-leaning city in a mostly Republican Arizona, so their quick action is not only huge, but may well be a bellwether on the shift in other cities and states who adopted the Biden administration’s EO 14042 as gospel and goose-stepped accordingly.
Who will be next to change direction and drop their mandates? Los Angeles city, and the entire State of California would be the next logical choice.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has one foot in the city and the other in India, signed legislation requiring all city workers be vaccinated by December 18 or lose their job. Now it looks as though that mandate may crumble before he even gets on a plane.
On July 26, Governor Gavin Newsom was the first out the gate to issue a statewide vaccine mandate on all government employees. Of course, his union friends were exempted, but that’s a story for another day.
Hair Gel left the state for the third time in two months, this time to promote his children’s book. Yet, thanks to Newsom, California remains in a “state of emergency,” because the twin variants of Delta and Omicron are just too scary. Apparently not too scary for him to leave, because some animals are more equal than others.
If we had a real national press, rather than the legacy media cheerleaders, His Hairfulness would get asked why he felt the need to leave his state for such a trivial thing as selling books at such a critical time in its fight against Omicron <insert *eyeroll* emoji>. Then they need to ask him in light of the USDC ruling, will he suspend his vaccine mandate against statewide employees.
We’ll wait….