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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And you should stop your advocacy of the gene therapies on FR.
If that is mandated, WAR. Not kidding. Will NOT comply.
You can get your PCR test in the morning, stop for lunch on the way home and get catch the virus in the restaurant.
The virus incubates in your body for three to five days.
You get your PCR results back on the second day. Get on the boat the third day. And start displaying symptom on the fifth day when you are two days out to sea.
I am not saying don’t go on cruises, my wife and I have a cruise booked for May.
What I am saying is that these requirements are equivalent to tilting at windmills.
The virus is a dragon that can not be slain by their puny attempts.
You and your wife must be special.
I never “advocated” that anyone should take the vax.
If you read my posts, I very clearly have said everyone needs to do what is right FOR THEM.
That said, the amount of utter rubbish / nonsense (5G activation! Luciferian Enzymes! Microchips! Everyone who gets vaxxed is dead in 2 years, max!) is ludicrous and not worthy of discussion on FR.
From Twitter: For the curious. If this artist's depiction is accurate, only Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito were unmasked. Not pictured, Sotomayor zooming in. (Everyone in the room had to test negative to be there.)
I think this shows you how the vote (and the country) goes down.
Vaxes:
. fail to make people immune to COVID.
. fail to stop COVID transmission
. can cause clotting and heart issues that can kill
. don't keep people from dying of COVID
. can cause shedding of variants of the virus to others
. destroy people's immune system
. can kill via diseases allowed thru weakened immunity
Unvaxed people:
. can get COVID
. can spread COVID
. can die from COVID
. Have a 99.6% chance of recovering from COVID
. won't die from a vaxine or thru weakened immunity
Very special !! I will soon burn 82 candles. Wife is a fighter, and doing OK 4 years after diagnosis of stae-4 cancer.
The vaccines did stop me and my wife from getting infected with covid.
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Tell that to the 13 VAXED co-workers in my shop. 13/15 were VAXED! The other 2 were unvaxed, but never had the C flu. Myself and another had the C flu in August, ( we now have natural immunity) and are taking up the slack. Three facts: 1) the jabs do not work 2) the vaxed are spreaders 3) natural immunity is real, we have what the vaxed can never have- natural immunity.
Also note, the latest variant is less deadly.
Of those that die, most of those are elderly and/or have comorbidities.
And a long lasting symptom is not "grave".
They aren’t lying if they believe it. I’ll bet these idiots do.
Except for Clarence Thomas, it’s essentially the STCOTUS*.
*Supremely Traitorous Court of the United States.
Lying or just dumber than shit?
SCOTUS has no reason to discuss the effectiveness of the vaccines, or even the vaccines at all. The issue is liberty and the Constitution, not healthcare.
You can be pretty sure that out of say 100 workers, at least one eats regularly at a restaurant or shops in a store. In my area, probably about one in five adults is unvaccinated.
I suspect a majority of office workers visit a restaurant or store with unvaccinated patrons several times each in just a week.
Mr. Typical Worker might breathe in air recently exhaled from over thousands of different people in the course of a year.
When federal offices empty out at around 5pm in DC, many federal workers take public transit home. Biden’s transit mask mandate is full of gaps above the nostrils.
Omicron has morphed Covid into the common cold.
Are we at the 99.999999% survival rate yet?
I was told when very young never to back an animal into an area it could not readily flee.
Delta is still around.
I believe testing sites need to ensure people in testing lines with low death risk omicron don’t catch higher death risk delta from others in testing lines.
Testing should be by appointment to help prevent the spread of delta to omicron-infected persons.
Id like to suggest a quick read, go to Wikipedia - 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak. I know there’s plenty of Freepers old enough to remember 1976. You might find some insightful information.
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