The 5th Circuit (Texas) has issued an emergency stay of Biden’s vaccine mandate

alexberenson.substack.com ^ | November 6,2021 | Alex Berenson

[Hojczyk]

The mandate is coming apart at the seams. The trucker exemption is particularly absurd - is there a more obvious vector for disease transmission than a long-haul trucker? If you are working ALONE AT HOME the mandate applies, but truckers are exempt. (NOTE: See update at end.)

Because science, or maybe because even the bright boys have realized the supply chain will collapse if they push this nonsense too hard.

I predict that by this time next year the vaccine mandates will seem as absurd and political as school closures do right now. Remember how the unions and the media told us in 2020 that the coffins would be stacked high outside Little Johnny’s Elementary if the teachers had to go back? They would like to make that little episode disappear.

But it won’t. And this fall’s insanity won’t either.

NOTE: As readers have pointed out, the new OSHA mandate does exempt home workers. However, most large employers are ALSO covered by federal contracting rules mandating vaccines - this is why they required shots even before OSHA’s rule last week - and they have generally insisted that those rules apply to all employees, even those who work remotely. I should have been clearer about this distinction in the original story.)

[fwdude]

I’m asking because I haven’t seen the answer to this: are “company size” determined by work center, or by entire company size regardless of individual work center size?

In other words, can Safeway be required to mandate vaccination even though only 80 people work in a single store?

[eyeamok]

Have all OSHA employee’s been Jabbed? How About the Executive Branch that gave this order, is EVeryone Jabbed?

[SuperLuminal]

IMHO, he’ll ignore it...
Just as obunghole did in similar situations...
Just as state & local commissars are doing all around the country...

[Iowa Slim]

“...The trucker exemption is particularly absurd - is there a more obvious vector for disease transmission than a long-haul trucker?”

That’s one of the most colossally ignorant statements I have read this month.

[steve86]

I was wondering that as well. And what about franchises of a major company. Do they go by franchise employment count or overall? Hard to see how out-of-state employees should be counted.

[Mygirlsmom]

Interesting concept. I work for a company of perhaps slightly over 100, but there are less than 40 at the Corporate location

Not that it matters....they drank the Covid koolaid long ago.

[Ancesthntr]

“That’s one of the most colossally ignorant statements I have read this month.”

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Agreed. Long haul truckers work alone most of the time, and most have very little contact with people even when picking up or dropping loads - and it is VERY easy to avoid contact if either the truckers or those at pick-up or drop-off sites wish it.

Dumbest statement by someone other than Biden or Harris this year.

[DrewsMum]

I read the mandate q&a and it says working at home you aren’t required to vax

[octex]

headline error...

The 5th is located in NOLA; not TX.