Posted on 01/07/2022 3:14:34 PM PST by bitt
Right now, all eyes are on the Supreme Court as it hears arguments on the legality of President Joe Biden’s administration’s vaccine mandate for private businesses.
The Justices began hearing arguments on Friday and some of the liberal judges shared some ridiculous thoughts on what they believed were facts regarding COVID-19, The Federalist reported.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rolled out its emergency temporary standard demanding that private employers with 100 or more employees require vaccinations at the request of the Biden administration late last year. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay, however, preventing enforcement.
Challengers of the OSHA standard argued on Friday that the agency has no right to force a medical decision on workers, but several justices pushed back on this idea using false narratives about COVID-19 to justify the federal government’s vaccine mandate.
Justice Elena Kagan suggested that getting the vaccine reduces the spread of COVID-19, a dubious claim that’s contested by the rapidly rising number of breakthrough cases worldwide. Kagan’s opinion is that “this is the policy that is most geared to stopping all this.”
“There’s nothing else that will perform that function better than incentivizing people strongly to vaccinate themselves. So, you know, whatever necessary means, whatever grave means, why isn’t this necessary and grave?” the Justice said.
“We do not contest that COVID is a grave danger,” National Federation of Independent Business attorney Scott Keller responded. “But when the power for it to be necessary… an agency has to consider and explain alternatives.”
Justice Stephen Breyer also appeared to believe that being vaccinated would stop people from spreading the virus, and argued that the argument that more people would leave the workforce due to the mandates was moot because “more may quit when they discover they have to work together with unvaccinated others because that means they may get the disease.”
“And more will quit because they’ll maybe die, or maybe they will be in the hospital, or maybe they’ll be sick and have to stay home for two weeks,” he said.
He also appeared to claim that if everyone was vaccinated the pandemic would stop and no one would get the disease before saying that there were “750 million new cases yesterday,” in the United States, even though the population of the United States is around 331 million people.
And Justice Sonia Sotomayor continued with her own alternative facts.
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Roberts is running a TOTAL Clown Show.
I do. There are lots of thing that can kill you. What matters is to what degree is it grave. The the degree rise to the point that it demands this government response. Critical point to argue.
99% survival rate, yet "grave".
If they lose the case, it'll be for agreeing to that.
This puts the case into a "the constitution is not a suicide pact" category.
The vaccines did stop me and my wife from getting infected with covid. And unlike Biden, I am not hiding in my basement, but carrying on all normal activities for living a life. Even did 2 cruises, 1 in September and another in November in 2021. Both times we had to submit results of a a negative covid PCR test.
And we’re supposed to respect the high court?
One can say that for the 1% who die from covid it is a grave matter.
Hey SCOTUS: Stay in your lane!
The vaccines didn’t stop ME from getting covid..nor any of the multiple people I know with it right now..
thankfully, it is mild..like a cold.
Yep.. The liberal POS spew lies from the scum that provide them lies.
This country needs a serious bitch slap.
Just a regurgitation of the Federalist article. No original reporting in this one.
Guy down the road from me has it. He is in his 7th day and getting better. Here is the kicker, his wife hasnt got it yet.
By now, she should be showing signs of getting it.
Please stop with the “99% survival rate” meme.
CFR is 1.6 - 1.9%, depending on State. You can easily find that out via any search engine.
Simple math..100 - 1.6/1.9 is NOT “99%” unless you want to round (way) up.
And per WebMD and other sources you can easily Google, 43% of COVID cases have long lasting symptoms - some quite damaging to one’s body - perhaps for many years if not your lifetime.
Heck, no [longer].
Roberts has done it in.
AND Roberts will ride to the rescue. Not only wil lbe looking at the 100+ mandate Biden will mandate EVERYONE get injected to even leave your house.
The ONLY usefulness of vaccine is to create anti-bodies for a particular virus. When virus enters your system through respiration, it will infect you. No vaccine can create a virus proof filter in your nose. If there are sufficient anti-bodies present, the virus will be destroyed BEFORE serious symptoms develop. Mild symptoms or no symptoms are the most common results. I could very well have gotten infected, but no symptoms manifested, which could have been due to the vaccine.
Disgraceful
Of course. The fix is already in: “New Normal. Bend over and take your government-ordered gene-alteration therapy in the butt. And while you’re down there, genuflect to the Deep State and the Beast.” Sorry, not me.
I’m getting the idea we have a USSC full of Joe Bidens at this point.
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