Far From Immune To The Never-Ending COVID Regime, Red States Are A Ripe Target — Unless Their Governors Act Now

The Federalist ^ | April 27, 2021 | Christopher Bedford

[Kaslin]

The unending COVID regime isn't a nightmare scenario, it's an existential threat to our liberties, a possible and unexamined risk to our health, and right here among us.

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A plastic recycler in Louisville, Kentucky. A guide at a hiking camp in Alaska. A waitress at a restaurant in Houston, Texas.

What do these companies have in common, besides being featured in a Monday Wall Street Journal story? Two things, both of which should worry anyone skeptical of injecting a novel vaccine with little-to-no long-term testing for possibly serious negative effects.

For one, all three of these businesses require all of their employees to submit to the novel vaccinations, although a lot of companies and schools are doing that these days. On Monday, for example, the Democrat attorney general of Virginia gave private schools the all-clear to demand their mostly teenaged students — a group toward which COVID-19 is virtually non-threatening — get the vaccines, despite nearly zero understanding of its effects on, say, future fertility. They’ll join over 30 colleges and universities nationwide, including a number of allegedly Catholic schools, that have made the same demand of students and prospective students.

The second thing these three companies have in common — and one worth fighting over — is all three are in states where Republican governors have promised the government will not be issuing any kind of state vaccine passports or requiring vaccination for access to government services. Many of these state executives don’t believe that vaccine passports coming to their states through private business are a threat to liberty, and believe they have neither the authority to restrict businesses and institutions from enforcing mandates, nor the moral duty to protect students, machinists, camp guides, waiters, and the rest of us from business mandates.

Don’t feel comfortable injecting the brand-new vaccine? That’s “no problem at all,” the HR director for the Louisville recycling plant, Lastique, explained to The Wall Street Journal. “It’s just you can’t work at Lastique.'”

Thus far, only Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte have banned private businesses and institutions not covered by HIPAA from mandating vaccinations, though Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, in an apparent compromise with the states’ influential corporate interests, at least banned private operations that accept government money from mandates. The parsing of language succeeded in halting St. Edward’s University in Austin’s mandate, but fails to protect the majority of the state’s citizens.

And they need it. A lot of people have been hit hard since March 2020. Restaurants, concert venues, stadiums, offices, museums, hotels — we’re all eager to get back to business, to get back to normal. While most of the wealthy have been just fine, the past year has been tight or even outright ruinous for a lot of others — from the bottom rung up through the class of small- and medium-sized business owners.

While it’s all fine and good to opine that people ought to get a different job or patronize a different business if theirs mandate the vaccine, time, money, transportation, responsibilities at home, and diversity of options all play massive factors in just how mobile — or immobile — many Americans are.

While some folks, like National Review’s Kevin Williamson, believe people should just pick up and move from struggling towns, for a lot of Americans losing a factory job can be devastating. Even for those with significantly more economic mobility, like a young mother who works at a D.C. lobbying firm and does not want to risk her future fertility, the lost opportunities and income her company is threatening by cutting off non-vaccinated work travel create serious economic pressures.

A lot of other people simply haven’t considered the risks possibly associated with any serious injection that has not been tested over the long-term. It’s hard to blame them. The corporate media outlets that dominate the American landscape don’t tell their viewers and readers about the possible risks, and instead harp incessantly on the boogieman of catching a disease that hospitalizes between 1 and 5 percent of those affected, is deadly to far, far fewer, and poses an extremely low risk to children.

How many Americans hold wildly exaggerated views on hospitalization and death, thanks to irresponsible fear-mongering by our media and political classes? According to recent polling, a majority of Democrats and a large number of Republicans.

In the meantime, economic bullying from private businesses threatens to create a second class of citizens who are hit hard by their continued refusal to submit.

The unending COVID regime isn’t a nightmare scenario, it’s an existential threat to our liberties, a possible and unexamined risk to our health, and right here among us. Far from immune, red states are as vulnerable as the rest of the country. It’s time for our governors to stand up and stop it now — before it’s too late.

[1Old Pro]

Cases are beginning to plummet again: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases

[READINABLUESTATE]

A co-worker just returned to work. After getting the first dose. He suffered dizziness and extreme headaches four days later. He spent a day and a half in the hospital complete with ambulance ride.
I really hope the company opts out of mandatory vaccinations.

[Alberta's Child]

Many of these state executives don’t believe that vaccine passports coming to their states through private business are a threat to liberty, and believe they have neither the authority to restrict businesses and institutions from enforcing mandates, nor the moral duty to protect students, machinists, camp guides, waiters, and the rest of us from business mandates.

There’s the dilemma facing anyone these days. Whose “liberty” is the author interested in protecting — the worker’s or the business owner’s? It seems that these two are in conflict, and the author doesn’t address this at all.

I’d also point out that business owners don’t impose these stupid vaccine mandates because they’re iron-fisted dictators. They impose them to cover their asses and protect themselves from lawsuits if/when their employees get sick. How many of the political leaders railing against vaccine mandates have stepped up and laid out a plan for shielding business owners from COVID-related lawsuits?

[cranked]

If a vaccine requires endless boosters, it’s not a vaccine.

[Bon of Babble]

Just got into an argument with a relative who thinks these Red States are immune from COVID mandates.

I explained to him that national companies, such as the major airlines, will mandate masks (and most likely vaccination passports) to fly anywhere, including in and out of the most red areas in the country. Restaurant chains will do same: Want to work at a MacDonald’s in Sheridan Wyoming? You’ll need a vaccination passport. Want to watch a movie at an AMC theater in Dallas, Tx? You’ll need a vaccine to do so.

That is who will control the issue, no matter where their franchises are located.

[pierrem15]

What we need, frankly, is a constitutional amendment rolling back notions of liability to what they were 50 or 60 years ago.

The Left complains about the special exemption given to gun makers from liability lawsuits. But in fact, no manufacturer of anything should ever be held liable for the illegal use of their product.

Similarly in this case, the presence or absence of any infectious disease (unless it's a medical facility) is outside the purview of any employer and so outside their liability and only the government should be able to issue mandates like this with explicit limitations even on that power.

[Kaslin]

Excellent point, and that is why I have no intention of getting it. Besides my husband, son and I are all on “voluntary” Quarantine. My son does our grocery shopping every 2 weeks, and he wears a mask. I do too when he lets me go with him.

[qaz123]

Sounds like you’re all about forcing folks to take something they don’t want.

One of the reasons these companies are doing what they’re doing is because they’ve been allowed to hold the upper hand.

Do what we tell you or we’ll move.

I’m sure in Texas, real Texans would love to see a Trail Of Liberal Tears moving out and heading back to California or New York. Taking all those Democrat voters with them

[bobbo666]

Every state government could easily defeat any corporation’s attempt to force vaccination. All medical procedures and medications are private, via the HIPAA act — I forget the bloody year it came out. Regardless, any activity between you and any doc is private. Got an STD? No ones business. Even your partner in some areas! Get treated for a mental disorder? MYOB! Unless you are an executive upon which a company has a huge investment (i.e., and your kicking off without warning is irresponsible) your medical background is no ones business — by Federal law.
So, every goverment could simply send out a public letter to all companies operating in their state (i.e., ignore corp headquarters — operating even a branch office requires following state law)that HIPAA will be enforced. Leave it at that. Even a raving loony lefty won’t challenge that as they were the ones pushing for HIPAA.

[pierrem15]

The imputation of long term effects on fertility by the COVID vaccines is just idiocy. All vaccines work by provoking the immune system. These just work by tricking some cells into making proteins associated with the virus. Those cells will then be destroyed by the immune system. We've had over 50 million people vaccinated. If there were some additional danger from these vaccines (above and beyond the dangers associated with almost all vaccines) we'd know about it already.

Yes: some people will feel quite ill for a while after getting the vaccine, which is no different from many regular vaccines. A tiny number will get blood clots. An even tinier number will die, just as with any vaccine.

The notion that these vaccines pose some special risk to reproductive cells is just nonsense.

[JCL3]

Lawyers are going to get rich.
https://topclassactions.com/coronavirus-covid-19/1011610-no-jab-no-job-how-could-a-mandatory-covid-19-vaccine-affect-my-rights/

Mandating use of EXPERIMENTAL INJECTIONS(only approved under EUA) will have legal repercussions. Should the legal system fail, I would look for survivors to hold company executives and their families personally responsible for injury, disability, and/or deaths associated with forcing these on employees.

And more: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/first-lawsuit-challenging-mandatory-7190156/

How about an OSHA recordable if employee-vaccination causes injury? “OSHA states that if you require employees to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine, any side effects from the vaccine will create a recordable event and you have an obligation to include that information on your OSHA 300 log. If you only encourage the vaccine, you will not have that obligation.”
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/workers-covid-19-vaccine-reactions-5966756/

And this:
https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/23/federal-law-prohibits-employers-and-others-from-requiring-vaccination-with-a-covid-19-vaccine-distributed-under-an-eua/

[Rurudyne]

You know, my opinion of the Left is so low that I suspect that sooner or later, if not already as happened a few times we know of from China at the start of this, there will be a kind of Covid tourism where contagious people go to ge around folks that they don’t like.

[Salvey]

Two things, both of which should worry anyone skeptical of injecting a novel vaccine with little-to-no long-term testing for possibly serious negative effects.

I just got back from seeing my primary care physician for a sinus infection. He told me that he had Covid back in March of 2020 and is still showing a strong antibody load. He had intended not to get the jab, but reluctantly accepted it a few weeks ago, because the hospital required it as a condition of his privileges. He told me that the vax should not be administered before it's been studied for at least three years, and preferably five.

[Alberta's Child]

Sounds like you’re all about forcing folks to take something they don’t want.

Absolutely not. I'm just saying I UNDERSTAND why employers do this.

If I was an employee facing a decision like this I'd be out the door and working somewhere else. In fact, I left my last job in a senior corporate management role and started my own company because I got tired of the idiocy like this that was coming down from above on a regular basis.

I’m sure in Texas, real Texans would love to see a Trail Of Liberal Tears moving out and heading back to California or New York. Taking all those Democrat voters with them.

Hmm ... from 2018:

[Alberta's Child]

What we need, frankly, is a constitutional amendment rolling back notions of liability to what they were 50 or 60 years ago.

It's more complicated than that.

For one thing, you'd need a constitutional amendment to completely change the way Federal and state courts work. Torts are covered by state law, not Federal law -- unless the issue at hand involves a Federal party or an issue covered by Federal law. What you're proposing would completely revolutionize the way civil lawsuits are adjudicated in the future.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

“ The notion that these vaccines pose some special risk to reproductive cells is just nonsense.”

What’s nonsense is YOU making this claim with zero evidence. Where is your peer reviewed study?

I’m all for freedom. Take whatever YOU want to take, but I’ll fight you endlessly if you try to force something on me. You sound like a good non-thinking follower, parroting the narrative without evidence.

I personally don’t know if there is a harmful risk to reproduction (neither do you) so I don’t make baseless claims that it’s safe. Try that.

[Cold Heart]

The pharmaceutical companies have immunity to lawsuits regarding the vaccine.

Any person or company or entity requiring vaccination should not have immunity.

[Valpal1]

I’m curious as to how they can legally require a treatment that doesn’t yet have full FDA approval?

[qaz123]

I’ll argue that the polls were taken with a heavy sampling from the cities and surrounding suburbs. Where all the liberals and recent democrat immigrants live.

started my own company because I got tired of the idiocy like this that was coming down from above on a regular basis..........it amazes me that idiocy is in every single aspect of our professional lives. Doesn’t matter if it’s a senior corporate manager position or being a cop.

Liberal ideology and the Good Idea Fairy ruin everything.