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.”
“ould need to receive proof of vaccination from each worker or make them get tested for COVID-19 once a week.
The testing part is what is getting lost in the mix. Some might agree to the testing part.(not that it would justify this monstrous idea of a mandate).
State government powers are different from federal government powers. At least, they are supposed to be.
In addition to what you said, the penalty for not getting the vaccine in the Jacobson case was to pay a fine. That’s it.
So a plain reading of this verse suggests an early to mid 7 years reign of the AC beast group before the rapture. Perhaps when the 2 witnesses get killed and then are raised up...everybody else Christian, (dead in Christ first then the rest) goes up.
(c) Emergency temporary standards
(1) The Secretary shall provide, without regard to the requirements of chapter 5 of title 5, for an emergency temporary standard to take immediate effect upon publication in the Federal Register if he determines
(A) that employees are exposed to grave danger from exposure to substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or from new hazards, and
(B) that such emergency standard is necessary to protect employees from such danger.
(2) Such standard shall be effective until superseded by a standard promulgated in accordance with the procedures prescribed in paragraph (3) of this subsection.
(3) Upon publication of such standard in the Federal Register the Secretary shall commence a proceeding in accordance with subsection (b), and the standard as published shall also serve as a proposed rule for the proceeding. The Secretary shall promulgate a standard under this paragraph no later than six months after publication of the emergency standard as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection.
I see some real problems with the highlighted sections. COVID is not a "substance or agent" (like some kind of chemical) and it's not "toxic or physically harmful" (won't cause you direct physical injury like a gas or acid if you inhale it or touch it).
The standard as I see it just wasn't written to cover diseases. It is clearly targeted towards chemicals/devices/processes that can physically harm a person. Trying to make it applicable to COVID is stretching it beyond reasonableness to me.
Plus, an emergency standard is NOT "necessary to protect employees from such danger." There are other methods of protection like physical distancing, frequent hand washing, masking, remote working, etc. So a vaccine mandate isn't necessary.
IMHO there's NO WAY a mandatory vaccination rule based on this standard is going to stand up to scrutiny.
“the vaccinated carry the SAME viral load as unvaccinated”
Three studies to back that up:
Wisconsin: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v1.full.pdf and https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v3.full.pdf
Massachusetts: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7031e2-H.pdf
California: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264262v1.full.pdf
(Watch out - the peer reviews are in-process - so the FRvaxx-Nazis hate them!!!)
If 25% of the workforce is unable to work because they refuse to get the vaccine, then taxes from withholding will be reduced too. Do these govt bureaucrats never think things through?
Mother is elderly, yeah I recommended it. Brothers have circumstances that immediately impacted vulnerable people. They had it, too. All are fine.
Yet I see no need for this now. The storm is waning…
And they’re doing it to people right before Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Incredible.
“or make them get tested for COVID-19 once a week. “
If that was a cheap ($3-$5), do it at home test, that would be workable.
The Biblical destruction. I am liking the Amish way of living better... we just need to add the ability to go fron zero to 60 in 4 seconds. Set up self sustaining communities like the tribal lands and claim... I am a descendant of a Puritan. Or at least I identify as one.
Sounds good to me!
Perhaps Biden thinks you can give them a computer virus?
-PJ
The word Mandate does not trigger anyone? It sounds like date rape because of the word man and the forcing part against my will in the case of the jab. We have to say birthing people but mandate stands?
The world will probably use the same term for the Mark of the Beast.
2 million bureaucrats runningthis country and making laws while our so called elected officials sit back, scratch their cod’s and draw a nice tidy paycheck
We have been in the fiat stage approaching a hundred years
Even if all the vaccine does is prevent serious symptoms when a vaccinated person gets infected, the vaccinated are much less contagious than the unvaccinated and are contagious for a much shorter period of time.
Because it’s the symptoms that spread the disease. The coughing and sneezing et cetera. The worse they are and the longer they last, the more the infected person is spreading the virus.
The addled asshole just admitted that the frankenshots don't work.
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