Posted on 01/14/2022 8:34:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
At this point in the vaccine rollout, most believe that there’s nothing that can be done to convince those who refuse to get vaccinated to change their minds. President Biden’s attempts to force a federal mandate on workers via OSHA was blocked by the courts. But that hasn’t stopped Wall Street from barring the unvaccinated from its facilities, even though vaccinated employees are just as likely to spread the virus.
Not long after Citi became the first megabank to announce plans to fire workers who refused to comply with vaccination policies, private equity giant Blackstone will now prohibit any workers who haven’t gotten their booster shot from its offices, Bloomberg reports.
Just yesterday, CNBC’s Jim Cramer casually mused on his show that the side effects from getting a Moderna booster were about as bad as getting sick with COVID.
This puts it on par with Goldman Sachs, which said late last month that it plans to require boosters and double testing for office workers.
Others are taking a softer approach: Bank of America says it will donate $100 to local food banks and hunger-relief organizations for each American employee that registers their COVID booster.
During a conference earlier this week, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warned vaccine holdouts in New York that they won’t be able to work in JPM’s offices, and that “we’re not going to pay you not to work in the office” – a roundabout way of suggesting that workers who don’t get vaxxed will eventually be shown the door.
BlackStone bucked the national trend when it asked workers to return to its offices by early June. And when COVID cases surged later in the year, it let staffers return home for a few months. But as of Jan. 18, they are expected back at the office, and they better have a filled-out vaccination card to show for their efforts.
Given the wide spread of omicron….forcing infected people now with antibodies to get yet another booster…especially those who took 2 shots AND also got covid….puts them at high risk of bad effects. Their immune systems are taking hits.
I could have sworn I read that this lunacy was now unconstitutional.
Not a surprise, with this evil organization. IIRC, this organization is a major owner of various pharma companies. “Support your employer, take the shot!” (or else)
It is also no wonder that the MSM is lockstep on ‘Taking the shot!’. I recall reading an article (likely on FR), that Blackstone is also a MAJOR shareholder on MSM organizations.
Blackstone’s tentacles run deep!
True HOWEVER folks have other places to work now, Blackstone is a commie company LEAVE!!!
Do they mean those who have carefully considered the benefits vs the risks and decided that the experimental vaccines that have lost their efficacy against the new variants are not right for them cannot be swayed by propaganda and force? There is also this thing called natural immunity that most other governments in the world recognize that is also a factor in many people's decision-making process.
“I could have sworn I read that this lunacy was now unconstitutional.”
The gov’t mandating it is unconstitutional. Private business can do what they want.
Class action anyone? These bastards need stopped!
Pick a movie title:
Back to the Future
Back to the Going Forward
The first title is correct.
The second title is a corporate culturally correct construct, that is expected of you, if you join the executive authority. It is a statute of style and a mold. No matter how fake, and/or wrong, the second title is.
If you got polio after taking 2 polio vaccines in a year you’d want to have a long talk with the doctors.
Nope, it went back to what it should always have been a state’s rights issue. If the states want to mandate they absolute can via Jacobson vs Mass it is a sole power of the state not the Fed’s the USSC got that right. As long as an individual state doesn’t have laws on the books prohibiting a business from requiring health care compliance it’s perfectly legal for them to do so. The state already requires compliance to attend public schools and University for vaccinations those have stood the test of time and legal challenges even post Jacobson vs Mass. It’s up to each individual state if they want to mandate I fully expect the Blues ones to use their power to do so in the next few weeks. The red ones will all have executive order barring businesses from mandating those will be challenged based on the same principle that got the federal mandate struck down namely only the legislature’s can pass LAWS regarding public health mandates. If the US Congress passes a public health law with a mandate in it I would expect the USSC to uphold that via the general welfare clause but the executive branch cannot do it without Congress same for the individual states the executive branch aka governors cannot do it either without their legislature’s sending them a bill.
5% of people who got the small pox vaccine got small pox anyways in the first year after inoculation during an active small pox outbreak, that number went up at year 5 significantly. The smallpox vaccine was at best 95% effective against symptomatic infection. Of the 5% who still got small pox 10% of those still died from it that’s a huge cut from the nearly 100% infection rate for unvaccinated people and a 30+% CFR for smallpox. Even with those numbers the world leaders still vaccinated every human on earth in 1960s and some places until the 1990s
True HOWEVER folks have other places to work now, Blackstone is a commie company LEAVE!!!
You do realize that the founder and CEO is a close personal friend as well as serving in his administration to Trump.
On that note:
The difference between “affect” and “effect” has made an *impact* on usage.
So if you live in Florida with no state vaxx requirement and were let go you have a case? If you are living under New York vaxx tyranny then the company is clear due to the compelling state mandates? Sounds logical, thanks for the clarification.
“Private business can do what they want.”
Subject to paying unemployment compensation and not discriminating against a protected category of person.
With all the people fired or who have quit/retired we should start a alternate economy. Lots of brains would just be going to waste. The college professors who have been fired or silenced should start a university that takes NO government money, has minimal administrators and doesn’t tolerate cancel culture. A university that parents can get behind. Lots of brains available for that also.
RE: With all the people fired or who have quit/retired we should start a alternate economy.
OK let’s be real. As much as I wish this sentiment were true, these giant investment banks and asset managers have hundreds of thousands of employees. How many percent of them do you think refuse to be vaccinated or take the boosters? I think the vaccine mandate firings are well within the historical layoff numbers during bad times.
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