Posted on 08/24/2021 4:57:06 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) is not backing Republican legislation seeking to ban so-called vaccine mandates within the state.
Republican state Reps. Jon Hansen and Scott Odenbach are trying to null businesses mandating their employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 through the “COVID-19 Vaccine Freedom of Conscience Act.”
Noem claims such legislation is a slippery slope that could lead to other dictates toward businesses Republicans might not like. “If we mandate one thing, are we setting a precedent for what we are telling businesses they have to do far into the future?” Noem posed.
The Republican governor has, though, banned vaccine mandates for employees in state and local government in SD.
She has also argued that employees of private businesses opposed to a vaccine mandate can go work elsewhere.
“Workers whose employers are mandating a vaccine for continued employment have the power to say no,” Noem posted to Twitter on July 31. “Our robust economy and job market gives them the option to find a new employer that values personal choice and responsibility, and doesn’t force mandates on their employees.”
Preventing mandates of the poisons labeled COVID vaccines is the highest priority.
Mandates of the poisons labeled COVID vaccines force people to get injected with something that will damage their health for the rest of their life.
5. Force them to do something that will damage their health.
Making someone commute to work is a danger to their health and safety — isn’t it?
Nikki Haley-northern version…
She was showing a lot of promise...
Telling private businesses what to do is communism and we already mandate way too much.
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There is a big difference between telling a business what to do vs telling them what they cannot do.
You know perfectly well that that is in a different league from forcing someone to be injected with poison.
Kristi Noem is controlled by the globalists.
Did anyone note that State and Local Government workers in South Dakota can refuse to take the jab and that is totally ok???
Noem needs to be removed immediately by the Trump voters in South Dakota.
She stinks!!!!
Noem Forfeits Girls' Sports for Woke Corps
It is more than a little sad to see posters on this forum mistakenly put business policies over the individual liberty of customers and employees. Just as conservatives and libertarians are rightly concerned about ceding too much power to government, we need to be equally concerned about the danger to liberty posed by corporations. Just as roads and public places are a necessary for all people to have access, so too with businesses who provide necessary goods and services. France today is an example of what this can turn into if people are not permitted in stores and restaurants to buy food. There is a good reason why black people can't be prohibited from the soda fountain.
I will now actively oppose Kristi Noem with every fiber of my being if she ever tries to run for national office. I would rather have known evil like Hillary Clinton over a traitor like Kristi Noem.
I’d be out the door before the notice of the vaccine mandate was on my desk for two minutes. But that doesn’t mean the company can’t mandate something that is perfectly legal.
Or when an employer demands that employees get an abortion or get fired. Seems like an easy way around the employer’s responsibilities under the Family Medical Leave Act, if they can just mandate medical procedures now.
Exactly. In theory I agree with her. However, in the real world it’s likely that many of these companies are either run by libs, who don’t deserve self-determination because they don’t believe in it, or the managers world prefer not to be tyrants and banning mandates would give them an out. On balance, mandate bans are probably good.
That’s the crux of the matter.
It’s not like a dress code, or some other requirement that is innocuous.
Can a company mandate as a condition of employment someone having to ingest or otherwise take something into their body that has the potential to harm them?
Can the mandate medical procedures?
Do they have the medical qualifications to recommend or advise medical procedures?
Would that not be practicing medicine without a license?
Have FReepers noticed that Biden is asking the corporations to demand their workers be vaccinated????
It seems to me that Kristi Noem is following Biden’s recommendations here.
I don’t even know why that song came to mind but if I had a bet on who was going to reply with the line that you did I could have won some big money.
Yeah, that was my point, too. You can’t really justify a hands-off policy on liberty grounds when the anti- liberty forces are hands-on. R’s are always trying to win assymetric warfare. That’s why they call them the Stupid Party.
OTOH, some of those business owners are probably all in, but busybody Karens don’t get self-determination because like I said, they don’t believe in it for you and me.
Kristi Noem isn’t asking companies to do anything. She’s telling the state government to leave these companies alone.
She’s right. Once people start quitting and going to a competitor who doesn’t require vaccines, and they scramble to replace lost employees with others who won’t work for them on principle or are untrained costing companies lots of money they might regret their decision.
They don’t … which is why any company that mandates these stupid injections is asking for a lot of trouble.
Would that not be practicing medicine without a license?
Millions of these vaccines are being administered by people who are t doctors. Are they practicing medicine without a license?
I can’t believe so few Freepers see this in such stark, simple terms. There’s nothing more pathetic than so-called “free” and “conservative” people who reflexively run to their government to demand protection from sh!t they are perfectly capable of dealing with themselves.
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