After SCOTUS' Hit, Companies are Ditching Their Vaccine Mandates Like a Bad Habit

Thanks to the United States Supreme Court’s epic hit, Dementia Joe’s OSHA vaccine mandate has been struck down. But even as far back as December, the handwriting was on the wall. After the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued the preliminary injunction on the OSHA mandate back in November, companies like General Electric and Union Pacific decided to put a pause on their push to force-vaccinate employees. Others have since followed suit.

Enough with the scare tactics, as everybody and their mother knows that omicron is the closest variant to the common cold. In the world of COVID, while cases and hospitalizations may be surging, deaths are not rising. The Biden administration has lost its cudgel, and the media has lost its narrative.

While one SCOTUS decision was reason to celebrate, the justices still upheld Biden’s CMA vaccine mandate which affects healthcare workers. So, sadly, doctors, nurses, and emergency personnel are still subject to suspension and termination if they refuse to get the jab. However, certain hospitals and medical centers have decided that the staffing shortages are too big a price to pay, and are forsaking the ill-advised mandates.

Strong encouragement we can take. It still gives a person a choice. Mandates do not.

While this SCOTUS decision now gives companies freedom to go their own way, as RedState reported last month, certain companies are content to keep their mandates, which were crafted before Biden’s executive order in place. This is all with Biden’s blessing, of course.

President Biden on Thursday appealed to states and companies to require people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus despite the Supreme Court blocking his vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6-3 against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) mandate, blocking it from taking effect while other legal challenges play out. The rule would require companies with at least 100 employees to require workers either provide proof of vaccination or provide weekly negative coronavirus test results and wear face coverings to work.
“As a result of the Court’s decision, it is now up to States and individual employers to determine whether to make their workplaces as safe as possible for employees, and whether their businesses will be safe for consumers during this pandemic by requiring employees to take the simple and effective step of getting vaccinated,” the president said in a statement.
The president vowed to put pressure on companies to voluntarily create their own vaccine-or-test requirements.
He said the Supreme Court ruling “does not stop me from using my voice as President to advocate for employers to do the right thing to protect Americans’ health and economy.”
“I call on business leaders to immediately join those who have already stepped up – including one third of Fortune 100 companies – and institute vaccination requirements to protect their workers, customers, and communities,” Biden added in his statement.

Some companies like Siemens Healthineers will continue to triple and quadruple down on forcing vaccinations and firing the employees that will not comply, as Ophelia, now a former Siemens Healthineers employee who refused the jab, informed me.

“Unfortunately, Siemens-Healthineers made it very clear that their new policy will not change due to any of the rulings from SCOTUS,” she wrote.

What will other corporations do? Only time will tell. But I suspect more dominoes will fall in the direction of ditching the vaccine requirements as the fake COVID narratives continue to crash and burn. Lawsuits and bad PR will only help that along.

"Tucker was criticizing/lambasting Kavanaugh tonight for his insane ruling agreeing with Roberts and the other lib justices upholding the health care workers vaccine mandates."

I'm not a Kavanaugh fan, and was not enthusiastic about his nomination. If you look back through my posting history in recent years, you'll find where I opined that there may be some basis in fact for some of the allegations levelled against him during his hearings. That said, I'm not sure this decision was incorrect.

If you take the king's shilling, you do the king's bidding. When a health care facility chooses to accept medicare/medicaid funds, they essentially agree to the terms and conditions that go with that money. The simple solution is for healthcare facilities to opt out of accepting medicare and medicaid.

The problem is not so much with this ruling as it is with two broader underlying issues:

1. Government involvement in healthcare/single payer. When we allow healthcare decisions to be made by those backed with the force of law, we have set ourselves up for failure. Basically all life decisions can be tied to personal health and when government worms its way into subsidizing health care, it can essentially force those decisions on to individuals participating in that healthcare (be they patient or provider).

2. Fascistic ties between private entities and government. As the gray area between the private and public sectors grows and becomes increasingly muddled expect to see more of this sort of thing. Private grocery stores that accept EBT will be given harsher rules. Private schools and universities that accept public funding will be placed under increasingly rigid guidelines. In the broader framework of the moral degradation of our society, executives and administrators faced with the dilemma of profit vs. principle will invariably choose the former at the expense of the latter.

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