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Vaccine Mandate Enforcement Threatens To Create A Second Economic Crisis
Daily Caller ^ | 10/07/2021 | Harry Wilmerding

Posted on 10/07/2021 7:52:01 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

President Joe Biden announced a vaccine mandate on Sept. 9, causing experts to debate the potential economic impact of the rule.

Biden directed the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to create a rule requiring businesses with 100 or more employees to require that employees get vaccinated or undergo weekly testing.

The new mandate would affect roughly 100 million Americans, specifically private employees, health care workers and federal contractors who have yet to receive a vaccine, the Daily Caller reported.

“We’re going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers,” Biden said when introducing the mandate, the Daily Caller reported. “We’ll reduce the spread of COVID-19 by increasing the share of the workforce that’s vaccinated in business all across America.”

The mandate announcement came as the nation grappled with a 5.2% unemployment rate and roughly 10.9 million available jobs, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some experts believe that the new rule will hurt the jobs market, delivering a blow to the economy, while others suggest that controlling the virus, especially the delta variant, is the key to economic recovery.

“We are already in an unprecedented labor market right now, and this mandate on private employers adds insult to injury because companies are already facing severe labor shortages,” Rachel Greszler, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Individuals working at companies with 100 or more employees may simply switch to a smaller company to dodge the mandate, Greszler explained. “We certainly know that there are many jobs out there for people who have quit their jobs,” she added.

Employers will also be impacted, as they will need to fire workers who refuse the vaccine or risk a large fine and possibly a lawsuit, Greszler explained…

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycallernewsfoundation.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid; vaccination
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1 posted on 10/07/2021 7:52:01 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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To: Jan_Sobieski

And, like the first economic crisis, created entirely by your government and not the virus.
They’re here to protect you!


2 posted on 10/07/2021 7:58:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Next up. Blaming the recession on the unvaccinated.


3 posted on 10/07/2021 8:05:09 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("Let's go, Brandon!")
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“We’re going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers,” Biden said

Hey, Biden: How are you going to protect vaccinated workers from other vaccinated workers who come down with the virus, you ignorant chicken$hit?

How are you going to prevent vaccinated workers from coming down with the virus?


4 posted on 10/07/2021 8:19:42 PM PDT by laplata
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To: Jan_Sobieski
 
 
This is invoking another lockdown-sort of paralysis of the economy. Last time it was the general service industry, this time it's hitting higher up on the profession ladder, the people who make things go, who got a pass last time but not now.
 
 

5 posted on 10/07/2021 8:22:37 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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6 posted on 10/07/2021 8:43:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Apparently OSHA never got the memo...

They haven’t even started the process of creating new rules, and likely never will. Just the “word” from Biden is all it takes to get the crowd moving.


7 posted on 10/07/2021 8:45:52 PM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: Sir Bangaz Cracka

Why get slammed in court over an unConstitutional government action when your allies in business can do the purges for you eagerly?

Faux-free market RINOs will even defend vax-rape even here on FR, and Big Tech has their H1-B “needs” all lined up.


8 posted on 10/07/2021 8:52:57 PM PDT by No.6
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To: Sir Bangaz Cracka

Biden today:

“Take the vaccine..and momma likey my underoos with batman on a swing licking on a popsicle”


9 posted on 10/07/2021 9:27:58 PM PDT by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!S)
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To: laplata

Indeed. It’s a non sequitur.

“We must protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated!”

“Why? Protect them how?”

“Protect the vaccinated from being infected by the unvaccinated.”

“But wait, isn’t the official party line that being vaccinated means that you’re NOT going to be infected, or if you do get one of those ultra-ultra-rare-unicorn-like breakthrough infections, that you won’t get seriously sick?”

“Shut up, you Trump-loving hillbilly. We’re must protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated!”


10 posted on 10/07/2021 9:48:20 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: irishjuggler

Great post!!

The idiot sheep can’t figure it out. It’s beyond frustrating.


11 posted on 10/07/2021 9:54:59 PM PDT by laplata
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Some experts believe that the new rule will hurt the jobs market, delivering a blow to the economy, while others suggest that controlling the virus, especially the delta variant, is the key to economic recovery.

But the vax doesn’t work for the delta variant so can’t be used to control it.

Also, the mandate is for the vax OR weekly testing, and notice how everyone is going on board with the vax as if that were the only option?

They are ignoring the weekly testing aspect.

12 posted on 10/07/2021 10:37:20 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

a third reason for all this crap


13 posted on 10/07/2021 11:23:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“We’re going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers,” Biden said

Isn’t the vaccine supposed to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated?


14 posted on 10/08/2021 3:27:51 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: irishjuggler

only the vaccinated are allowed to infect the vaccinated


15 posted on 10/08/2021 3:38:34 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: metmom

IIRC there’s no weekly testing option for the federal workers and federal contractors & subcontractors.

Only for the private companies with 200 or more workers.


16 posted on 10/08/2021 5:43:38 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: WildHighlander57

They want everyone vaxxed for some reason. And I can think of no good reason the government would want that because I know it’s not about our health.


17 posted on 10/08/2021 7:14:30 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: metmom
A false choice is no choice at all.

The eldest Oyster looked at him,
But never a word he said:
The eldest Oyster winked his eye,
And shook his heavy head--
Meaning to say he did not choose
To leave the oyster-bed.

18 posted on 10/08/2021 7:22:15 AM PDT by Theophilus (Dems fear fear. Christians fear God. )
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To: metmom

Correction:

200 s/b 100.


19 posted on 10/08/2021 7:52:25 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: Jan_Sobieski
"We're going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers,"
In other words, the vaccine doesn't provide enough protection
20 posted on 10/08/2021 7:57:55 AM PDT by Cboldt
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