Posted on 02/12/2022 8:39:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would mandate that all businesses require their employees and independent contractors to receive the COVID vaccine under legislation announced Friday by Democrat state lawmakers that was immediately criticized by Republicans as government overreach.
New employees would have to get at least one dose by the time they start work and the second dose within 45 days of being on the job. Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks introduced her bill months after delaying an original proposal last fall. The previous version would have allowed workers to submit to weekly testing as an alternative to getting vaccinated, but that is not an option in her new proposal.
Vaccines mandates are highly controversial and there have been many rallies at the state Capitol in Sacramento opposing such requirements. Wicks and other supporters said the mandate is needed even as California moves to ease other requirements and anticipates moving into a new “endemic” phase.
“That’s fundamentally what this bill is about,” she said. “Getting back to some sense of normalcy so we can go on with our lives, and we don’t have these constant interruptions and outbreaks and all these things that we’ve been experiencing for so long.”
The mandate would stay in place unless the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decides that COVID-19 vaccinations are no longer needed.
The bill would require state health and occupational safety officials to advise employers on what qualifies as a medical condition, disability, religious belief and valid vaccination status. Businesses that didn’t comply would face penalties that have yet to be determined.
Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher — “Telling people they can’t feed their family unless they get the vaccine is just wrong. I trust Californians enough to treat them like adults who can make their own health care decisions. It’s unfortunate that a few Democrats in the Legislature don’t.”
Gavin Newsom last year ordered all of the state’s roughly 2.2 million health care workers to to be vaccinated or lose their jobs. He also required state workers and teachers to either get vaccinated or submit to weekly testing. And California’s school children by summer must be vaccinated to attend in-person classes.
Wicks’ proposal is just the latest of several far-reaching measures introduced by Democratic state lawmakers this year. Among others, Sen. Scott Wiener would allow children 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent, while Sen. Richard Pan would eliminate a personal belief exemption for schools.
How is this a Bad Thing? Fer sh!t's sake, they keep fiddle f&cking with the formula, and now they want to continue the jabs forever, every four months, to infinitude.
It's a cull, and we will be able to move in and mop up the leftover Stupids.
These jerks live in a black hole. The entire planet is protesting against this crap, and these clowns are upping the ante on vaccinations.
yep
Good grief, these people are nasty and evil.
and every employee moves to another state ...
Primary Holding
A state may enact a compulsory vaccination law, since the legislature has the discretion to decide whether vaccination is the best way to prevent smallpox and protect public health. The legislature may exempt children from the law without violating the equal protection rights of adults if the law applies equally among adults.
Facts:
A Massachusetts law provided that the board of health of a city or town may require and enforce vaccination and revaccination of its inhabitants, while providing them with a way to get free vaccinations. The state imposed a $5 fine for people over 21 who violated this law, although it provided an exception for children with a doctor's certificate stating that they are not fit for vaccination. The city of Cambridge adopted a regulation requiring all of its inhabitants who were not vaccinated against smallpox in the last five years to be vaccinated or revaccinated. (This was based on the increasing presence of smallpox in the city.) A certain physician was authorized to enforce the vaccination policy. The plaintiff in this case was an individual over 21 who refused to comply with the vaccination requirement and then faced a criminal complaint. He was found guilty and fined, and the court ordered him held in custody until the fine was paid.
Majority
John Marshall Harlan (Author, Melville Weston Fuller, Henry Billings Brown, Edward Douglass White, Joseph McKenna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William Rufus Day
Harlan ruled that the vaccination law did not violate the 14th Amendment because the police power of the state may be allowed to constrain individual liberties through reasonable regulations when required to protect public safety. He reasoned that individual liberty does not allow people to take actions regardless of the harm that they could cause to others. Harlan felt that the plaintiff had failed to show that the vaccination law was arbitrary or oppressive, or not reasonably required for the safety of the public. He noted the increasing presence of smallpox, which prevented the plaintiff from convincingly asserting that the rule had no real or substantial relation to protecting public health and safety. Although the plaintiff presented evidence that some doctors believed that the smallpox vaccine was not effective and could cause further diseases, Harlan pointed out that the opposite view represents the common medical belief and is followed by more reputable doctors.
.....also brought her baby to Assembly when denied voting by proxy.
Continuing their self destruction, these Democrats are!
....”Wicks’ proposal is just the latest of several far-reaching,[bat-sh*t crazy, loonie-to-the-extreme, nonsensical, unreasonable] measures introduced by Democratic state lawmakers this year.....”
there....! fixed that....!!
Already ruled unconstitional. Effing little dictators.
Already ruled unconstitional. Effing little dictators.
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Unfortunately, I think they only ruled on the federal government imposing mandates. They still left the question open for the states.
oh to own a uhaul franchise in CA
The COVID gold mine is going to be around for a while democrats haven’t had a money laundering gig this good for a long time.
These California leftist Democrats are totally insane and must be exposed, challenged and every effort made to kick them out of office. Portraying them as psychopathic totalitarians is the best Alinsky-like tactic to use - ridicule and comparing to known psychopaths such as Rev. Comrade Jim Jones of Jonestown or Nazi. Concentration camp doctor Mengele.
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