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Labor Secretary: Vaccine requirement will help people feel safe at work, boost labor force participation (not satire!)
Yahoo Finance ^ | 11/5/21 | Jessica Smith

Posted on 11/05/2021 9:43:39 AM PDT by justlittleoleme

Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh says the Biden administration's new vaccine requirements will help boost the labor force participation rate. On Friday, the Labor Department said the labor force participation rate was unchanged in October, at 61.6%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the participation rate has stayed between 61.4% and 61.7% since June 2020. 

"We really have to focus on how do we bring confidence back to those folks that are just afraid of coming back," said Walsh in an interview with Yahoo Finance. 

Walsh said he believes the administration's new rule requiring companies with 100 or more employees to mandate COVID vaccines or regular testing and require masks for unvaccinated workers will bring people off the sidelines and into the labor force.  

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"People will feel their workplace is safer," he added. "People might be not going back to their companies, or not going back to work because of their concern about who might have been vaccinated, who might not have been vaccinated."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: 1984; biden; vaccine; vaccines
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Not the Babylon bee.

So so so out of touch.

1 posted on 11/05/2021 9:43:39 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
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To: justlittleoleme

another Useful Idiot in the current administration
or else just a whore for the Big Pharma special interests


2 posted on 11/05/2021 9:45:33 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: justlittleoleme

NO. What it will do is remove the dissenters. Those who remain will be the conformists. That will enable government to hold more power over the companies and remaining employees.

The third shot will become mandatory. There will be more and more mandates passed.


3 posted on 11/05/2021 9:47:26 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The left hates "Let's Go Brandon!" Plaster it all over. Shout it from the rooftops!)
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To: justlittleoleme

They just lie. All of them.
From the president to his witch of a spokeswoman, psaki, they just lie and lie and it means nothing to them.

I do not want to live with these people anymore. Time to split the country in half. As far as I’m concerned, the only decision there should be is if the split should be amicable or violent.


4 posted on 11/05/2021 9:47:33 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: faithhopecharity

Who in blazes is “afraid to go to work”?

What a maroon.


5 posted on 11/05/2021 9:48:51 AM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: justlittleoleme

I thought “baffle them with bull$hit” was an 80’s thing?


6 posted on 11/05/2021 9:49:48 AM PDT by blackdog (Jab Dodger. )
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To: justlittleoleme

The ones I would feel unsafe around are the vaxxed


7 posted on 11/05/2021 9:49:49 AM PDT by roving
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To: justlittleoleme

I feel better now.


8 posted on 11/05/2021 9:50:03 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: justlittleoleme

I worked from home for over a year and then retired a few months ago. I have no desire to be a part of this work force. I feel for my children and grandchilren. I think it’s gonna get very bad.

I see the Vaccine mandates as an attempt at a first crack at the “mark of the beast”. It isn’t the mark, but it gives a taste of not only what we are in for, but proof it is possible and quite likely in the very near future.

Come, Lord Jesus.


9 posted on 11/05/2021 9:50:03 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: justlittleoleme

It would help the ‘Miss Mary’s’ if the Miss Mary’s weren’t such shivering Miss Mary’s…


10 posted on 11/05/2021 9:51:36 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Walrus

they’re mostly not afraid to go to work,

they’re mostly either
1. afraid of the so-called “vaccines” that cause strokes and heart attacks, etc.
and/or
2. just sitting on their fat asses at home watching Oprah reruns, taking all the free money (State, Federal and some local) and free welfare and free health care and free groceries and free restaurant meals and free furniture and free rent and free gasoline and car repair vouchers and free transit passes and free this and free that

pay people to sit on their butts and guess what, you get what you pay for

it really is that simple


11 posted on 11/05/2021 9:53:08 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Walrus
Ok. Following this logic, Biden mandates a faux vaccine because we are too stupid to understand our places of work?

Good as any other garbage coming out of this bunch of humorless punks hiding behind the old man they are holding up in some strange form of public square ekder-abuse?

Brandon's House. Where the garbage inside becomes the garbage we are mandated to eat.

12 posted on 11/05/2021 9:57:02 AM PDT by blackdog (Jab Dodger. )
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To: justlittleoleme

Apparently it doesn’t matter that the vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission of the disease.


13 posted on 11/05/2021 9:57:52 AM PDT by devere
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To: devere

“Apparently it doesn’t matter that the vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission of the disease.”

This.


14 posted on 11/05/2021 10:01:19 AM PDT by Norski (Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. - Thomas Mann)
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To: justlittleoleme

I’m waiting to see the details of the OSHA mandate. What happens when your workplace consists of one person, with no access by the public?


15 posted on 11/05/2021 10:02:08 AM PDT by asinclair (Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
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To: Walrus

I have a public facing job. I travel to several states and hold training events. I meet many people, shake hands, get up close. I refuse the shot. Never once have I been scared of anyone of the people I meet.

I did get covid and while I don’t know who I got it from, I do know it wasn’t anyone related to my job.

I got it and got over it. Now I really don’t care because I am 100% immune


16 posted on 11/05/2021 10:04:14 AM PDT by cyclotic (I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR)
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To: justlittleoleme

The rule of opposites:

The truth is exactly the “opposite” of what they say....

Every time.


17 posted on 11/05/2021 10:05:27 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: hillarys cankles

Good Lord I couldnt agree more! If figure out where dont leave me behind!!!


18 posted on 11/05/2021 10:06:08 AM PDT by dkGba
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To: cuban leaf
I've been working from home off and on since 1986. Continuously with my current employer since Sept 2014. I have no compelling reason to go to the office. My computers, networking, library of books and furniture are orders of magnitude better than what I ever had in a company office.

I just submitted my medical exemption request and HR accepted. That keeps my employment good for a while longer. I'm aiming to avoid anymore visits to company premises for the duration of my employment. My primary exposure comes from my wife working in the police/fire/EMS dispatch center. Multiple dispatchers have had COVID, a couple have been jabbed. The patrol officers continue to be exposed/infected.

I expect the obedient vaxxed to be having serious health problems in the coming weeks. Only the vaxxed are permitted on company premises, so they can share their variants freely in person. Thankfully, a Skype or Teams meeting will suffice for collaboration. I hope my co-workers are not severely impacted. We have worked together for 30 years.

19 posted on 11/05/2021 10:15:21 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: justlittleoleme

No conclusive proof that people who are vaxxed cannot catch the virus from other vaxxed people.


20 posted on 11/05/2021 10:19:27 AM PDT by Az Joe ("Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds")
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