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Biden Administration Submits Private Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Review
The Epoch Times ^ | 10-12-21 | Zachary Steiber

Posted on 10/12/2021 8:27:14 PM PDT by MNJohnnie

President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday submitted a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers for review, the first solid step it’s taken since Biden announced plans for the requirement last month.

Biden said the Department of Labor would develop the mandate, centering around a provision that every company with more than 100 employees would need to receive proof of vaccination from each worker or make them get tested for COVID-19 once a week.

A Department of Labor spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email late Oct. 12 that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an office within the agency, has been working “expeditiously” to develop the mandate, which it described as an “emergency temporary standard.”

Earlier Tuesday, as part of the regulatory review process, the agency “submitted the initial text of the emergency temporary standard to the Office of Management and Budget,” the spokesperson added.

Once the office concludes its review, the mandate will be published in the Federal Register. The public can view it and submit comments about it.

The submission is the first concrete step the administration has taken since Biden made his announcement on Sept. 9, leaving many business owners stunned.

“The bottom line: We’re going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers. We’re going to reduce the spread of COVID-19 by increasing the share of the workforce that is vaccinated in businesses all across America,” Biden said from the White House.

The White House had said previously it wouldn’t support forcing Americans to carry proof of vaccination but has since ordered federal workers to get a vaccine before announcing a private company mandate.

The mandate has drawn significant pushback, with state-level officials in over half the states promising to fight it once it’s unveiled.

“The reality is, the president of the United States cannot just make up laws. That’s outside of his purview, outside of his constitutional role. The executive branch implements laws … that’s their job,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said on EpochTV’s “Crossroads” last month.

“That’s not the way the Constitution works, so we are pretty sure what he’s doing will be unconstitutional, if it is what he said when he made the statement. So obviously, that would be for our first line of attack, just to say, ‘Look, you didn’t have the authority to do this,'” he added.

Many companies have expressed displeasure with the prospect of a mandate, though some have indicated support for the pending rule.

The White House has said the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 grants the Department of Labor office the authority to impose a mandate.

“I would say that requiring and mandating for businesses of 100 people or over vaccines is not a small task. That is a big bold proposal idea and something that we want to implement with as much clarity as we can,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Tuesday. “We know there will be questions, even after these rules are put out, we understand that. But that’s why we wanted to take a little bit of time, not too much time, to get it done.”


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: biden; california; covid; demagogicparty; mandate; nancypelosi; policestate; vaccine; vaccinemandate
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To: MNJohnnie

… further more, the extremely absurd statement that the President made can be used against him in court, and destroys the purpose and his fundamental reason for issuing the vaccine mandate in the first place….we need a vaccine mandate to… “Protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated”.

I rest my case your Honor.


21 posted on 10/12/2021 8:56:46 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: SaveFerris

Mark of the beast.


22 posted on 10/12/2021 8:57:25 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
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To: MNJohnnie

“The bottom line: We’re going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers. Biden said from the White House.”

The above is absolute classic “doublethink” which could have come right out of the Ministry of Truth:

The Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Plenty are the four ministries of the government of Oceania in the novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” by George Orwell.

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.

Note: The novel was meant to be a warning, not a manual ... and yet here we are today, just 37 years late.]


23 posted on 10/12/2021 8:59:39 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The world is certainly heading that way, my FRiend.

This is a step towards that day.

I have zero doubt that the Mainstream Media will promote the Mark of the Beast, when that day comes in the wake of the abomination that causes desolation.

Then shall be Great Tribulation, such as never was.


24 posted on 10/12/2021 9:00:02 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: MNJohnnie

Anyone who lets them shove ethylene oxide up their nose and into their brain just might as well take the shot. It may prove to be just as deadly.

Also... looks like the purpose of those nasal swabs is more geared to collecting DNA. The material on those things is extremely too high tech to be just a collection medium.


25 posted on 10/12/2021 9:00:18 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: MNJohnnie

Even the famed 1906 car law they really upon allowed for natural immunity. This structure does not. This is a different case without precedent. Couple the 10th amendment and this time will have so many lawsuits, it will be mired in court for the next 10 years.


26 posted on 10/12/2021 9:01:34 PM PDT by Solson (DeSantis/Hawley 2024!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
None of it makes any sense

Magically if you work at a company with 99 people you are protected but once you hire that 100th, BAM you are at risk.

Working American “must be protected” but tens of thousands of illegals are being shipped by the Biden regime around the country's with no requirement to be vaccinate.

The is a pressing “national emergency” requiring immediate executive action on a disease that has a 98% survival rate with a vaccination protocol that has not been subjected to required clinical trial and formal FDA approval.

If we had any sane Judges left that take one look at this and say

“No, you want to do this, get Congress to pass a law”

27 posted on 10/12/2021 9:01:35 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Solson

Car= case


28 posted on 10/12/2021 9:02:08 PM PDT by Solson (DeSantis/Hawley 2024!)
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To: All

Matthew 24:21-33
King James Version
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

25 Behold, I have told you before.

26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024%3A21-33&version=KJV


29 posted on 10/12/2021 9:02:33 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Solson

The famous Jacobson vrs Mass case all the Lying Media propaganda bots like to throw around specifically sites that STATE LEGSILATIVE action had to be followed by the Court.

It is totally useless as a justification for rule by Executive decree


30 posted on 10/12/2021 9:04:10 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: MNJohnnie

I refuse.

Nice career, while it lasted.


31 posted on 10/12/2021 9:04:24 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The unvaccinated have to be vaccinated to protect the vaccinated from what they got vaccinated for because the vaccine didn’t protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated.

Until the next variant comes out. Of course.


32 posted on 10/12/2021 9:05:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Does this make ANY sense to anyone?

None. I have quietly become a Conscientious Objector to my company’s equally silly mandate that the unvaxxed also wear a mask at work. (No one has said anything thus far)

I have Covid immunity from a prior infection, and my “test” is the fact that my unvaccinated 82 yr old mother has not been infected by my weekly visits.

I care way more about her than I do my co-workers and if I felt a mask would protect her I’d wear one.


33 posted on 10/12/2021 9:05:35 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Back after a long hiatus. Now mygrandkidsgrandma)
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To: SaveFerris

Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world - 1 John 4:4

I am going to be thinking about this verse alot.


34 posted on 10/12/2021 9:05:45 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Uncle Miltie

The United States, nice country while it lasted.


35 posted on 10/12/2021 9:07:12 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: MNJohnnie

Amen to that.

Been listening to this in the the car, several times over the past few days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFTwWNijJjA


36 posted on 10/12/2021 9:09:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: MNJohnnie
Well based on this there is going to be a whole lot of wrangling before this rule can even be mandated

I agree. And, in the abstract, I would find this to be a sketchy action, to say the least. But three decades working in the legal game have left with me with no faith in any court. We seem to be experiencing the eschatological "lawlessness" of which the Bible speaks.

37 posted on 10/12/2021 9:10:24 PM PDT by DSH
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To: DSH

Yep watching Judges that should know better tie themselves in knots trying to rationalize this insanity.

We sure have a lot of cowards in black robes. More worried about bad press then doing their duty.


38 posted on 10/12/2021 9:12:23 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; CynicalBear; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; tang-soo; righttackle44; ...

A rare ping moment (these days)

Blood-Bought Church (loooooong version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCdtE6VzR5o


39 posted on 10/12/2021 9:20:51 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: DSH

[We seem to be experiencing the eschatological “lawlessness” of which the Bible speaks.]

A perfect storm which could give rise to the Man of Lawlessness. (IMHO)

He’ll have to confirm the 7-year “peace” deal to the world.


40 posted on 10/12/2021 9:23:48 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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