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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SCOTUS has no reason to even be hearing this. The lower court stopped it, case closed.
“the injections are extremely dangerous”
They often have unpleasant side effects, but their extremely dangerous side effects are extremely rare.
“The EU’s drug regulator said on July 9 that five people had died due to the side-effect after receiving either of the two mRNA vaccines in the European Economic Area, all of whom were elderly or had other diseases. More than 200 million mRNA doses have been administered in the region.”
“The mRNA from the vaccines does not enter the cell nucleus or interact with the DNA at all, so it does not constitute gene therapy.”
https://www.genomicseducation.hee.nhs.uk/blog/why-mrna-vaccines-arent-gene-therapies/
Can’t wait until the EO to osha on AIDS, hepatitis and STD compliance protocols if they decide to allow this. It will be precedence.
From what I've read, Delta was 24% of the cases 2 weeks ago, 10% this week. I suspect less next week.
Went to medical school. Was taught that virus mutates to strains that are less pathogenic and spread more because infectious people aren't sick enough to stay home.
Usually they offer immunity to the original virus that was more deadly and spread less because the people who have the original infected variant stay home and didn't spread it as much.
This is what we are watching now.
Kinda common sense.
i.e.Science and God's vaccine.
>> CFR is 1.6 - 1.9%, depending on State. You can easily find that out via any search engine. <<
Antibody testing shows that far more people have contracted COVID than have been reported as having tested positive. At one point, it was about five times more. Covid appears to have a 0.6% lethality rate.
When SCOTUS can tell bald faced lies like this it is an indication how destroyed America has become. This is the same SCOTUS that refused to listen to anything about the fraudulent 2020 presidential election....
Traitor Roberts needs a tighter fitting and more restrictive mask.
And we’re supposed to respect the high court?
No, probably didn’t lie. She likely hired affirmative action folks, like herself, and gets the results she did.d
What a stupid requirement.
You can get your PCR test in the morning, stop for lunch on the way home and get catch the virus in the restaurant.
Breyer, Breyer, pants on fire!
Sotomayor is a liar!
Good memes!
Not anymore.
What the heck are they smoking?
picky...picky
Who is that on the far left? Kagan? Looks like one of those oxygen mask demo illustrations you’ll find on the emergency card on the seat in front of you on the airplane.
Appears to be Kavanaugh, then Kagan
Maybe they didn’t lie - maybe like most liberals, they’re stupid.
God works in mysterious ways!
The only logical reason for these PCR test being required and I have seen this in my highly regulated industry is to show the regulator that you are doing something.
Another reason is to give the customer a false sense of security, some assurance that they are safe even if it an irrational sense of security.
In other words it is false advertising.
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