Posted on 09/12/2021 2:29:32 PM PDT by lightman
President Joe Biden will announce more COVID-19 measures before the United Nations General Assembly meets this week, said U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Murthy did not say what new measures would be announced by Biden.
Last week, the president issued several executive orders mandating that federal contractors, federal workers, and most healthcare staff in the United States get the COVID-19 vaccine. A White House plan also said he would direct the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, to mandate that employers with 100 or more workers either get the vaccine, require weekly COVID-19 testing, or get fined.
Biden’s announcement on the mandate, which will affect 80 million estimated private-sector employees, drew significant criticism from Republican governors and some business leaders. It’s likely that numerous lawsuits will be filed against the order.
But during the CNN interview, Murthy defended the president’s announcement and mandate to attempt to increase vaccination.
“There will be more actions that we continue to work on, especially in the global front,” he said.
The next session for the U.N. General Assembly starts Tuesday, Sept. 14, in New York City, and the first day of general debate begins the following week. It’s not clear why Murthy tied new COVID-19 measures with the U.N. meeting.
“What the president and what all of us have said as public health leaders from the earliest part of this pandemic is that we have to use every level of government, and we all in the private sector have to do everything we can to tackle this virus,” Murthy also said. “The requirements the president announced are an example of that.”
In a separate interview with ABC News, Murthy also defended the mandates, saying that when private companies such as Tyson Foods made vaccines a requirement, it increased the U.S. vaccination rate.
“We know that these kinds of requirements actually work to improve our vaccination rates,” Murthy said. “Tyson Foods, for example, which put in a vaccine requirement recently saw that its vaccination rate went from 45 percent to more than 70 percent in a very short period of time and they’re not even at their deadline yet.” But Republicans said they will file lawsuits against the mandate when it is handed down by the federal government. They described the forthcoming rules as draconian and designed to further divide Americans.
I’ve been talking to my attorney general, he is coordinating with the other attorneys general across the country who share similar views about the overreach,” Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts told Fox News on Sunday. “As we see what these rules are we will be able to know exactly how we will be able to challenge them in court. I’m also talking with my colleagues around the country as well the other governors who feel the way I do, and we’ll be working on other strategies,” he added.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson told CNN Sunday that the vaccine mandates will “[harden] the resistance” that some individuals have to vaccines.
“I’m trying to overcome [vaccine] resistance, but the president’s actions in a mandate hardens the resistance,” he said.
Other governors suggested they would follow suit.
“I will pursue every legal option available to the state of Georgia to stop this blatantly unlawful overreach by the Biden administration,” Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wrote last week. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, called the rule an “assault on private businesses,” adding that “Texas is already working to halt this power grab.” The Epoch Times has contacted the White House for additional comment.
Announce whatever ya want. Still NO!
The UN will not like how they are received.
Forget that crap.
If everybody would use Ivermectin or HCQ for early intervention, we wouldn't need vaccines, "requirements," boosters, mandates, masks, lockdowns, etc, and this CCP virus and it's variants would disappear in a month.
In this article published in April 2021, the NIH admits Ivermectin is effective against COVID-19.
Report on 63 trials showing Ivermectin IS effective against the CCP virus.
Bash Robert’s all you want... it was clearly stated it was a tax on several pages of thousands..
Put the blame on congress and the Republicans for not fixing it.
The uniparty lives.
I dont want UN Nigerians patrolling my street and packing my mailbox daily with those “Dear Sir, we have 5 million dollars...” letters.
No one cares what you do or dont do
I will. The sniveling little smart aleck should have had his lights punched out on the kindergarten playground.
It's a tax was the cleverest little bit of fraud perpetrated on the US Constitution in a long long time.
UN serves the Dictators, Communists and Satan himself.
Biden can kiss my behind..I am fully vaccinated but I stand firm in my support for those who do NOT want the shot. That is their right..we are NOT Communist China where the govt pins you down and forces you to get something you don’t want..gee what happened to “My Body My Choice” or is that only for baby slaughter
All of which I will ignore. 😆
You don’t have to pay anything to read most Epoch Times stories. Most people go there for the comments.
Then make it mandatory FOR YOUR STAFF AND CONGRESS JOE!!
Until then, GFY, you have no standing.
Blue helmets on our soil? Oh, what fun. Lol
“It’s not clear why Murthy tied new COVID-19 measures with the U.N. meeting.”
Well this provax person is gonna join you guys if the UN gets involved in our affairs.
That’s not going to happen. Amirite?
Calling it a tax would have strengthened the opposition to it under the origination clause, since revenue bills must originate in the House and the Senate took an unrelated House bill and gutted its original content via amendment and inserted Obamacare in its place.
Technically, the bill originated in the House but it was not a revenue bill even in the House. Calling it a tax would have meant the Democrats could be accused of using loopholes and trickery to pass Obamacare, so they called it a penalty.
The case against Obamacare's lack of origination in the House was eventually dismissed by SCOTUS.
-PJ
Trying to figure out this idiots “global” angle, as mentioned in article. 🤔
“I will pursue every legal option available to the state of Georgia to stop this blatantly unlawful overreach by the Biden administration,” Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wrote last week. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, called the rule an “assault on private businesses,” adding that “Texas is already working to halt this power grab.”
EASY FIX!!
Use the KELO Decision and begin SIEZING the Personal Homes of FEDERAL EMPLOYEE’S, beginning with Judges and Attorneys, turn them all into AirBNB’s with the proceeds to e used for FIGHTING the FEDS in COURTS, if there are any judges left.
THEY CAN’T STOP YOU, THE SUPREME COURT HAS RULED
They are trying an Australia on us, resist
Meanwhile in N. California in spite of flocks of illegals and visitors from Gay Frisco, the Delta version may be burning out.
Twenty-five people were hospitalized locally with COVID-19 as of Friday. That compares to 23 a week ago. Twenty-nine percent of intensive care unit beds were open, compared to 5% a week ago, the county reported. (So less Covid patients needed an ICU bed than the week before!):
Among those hospitalized with COVID-19, 76% had a known comorbidity, the county reported.
The most common comorbidities were diabetes, hypertension and obesity aka DHO!
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