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posted by martyb on Friday September 10 2021, @07:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the get-vacinated-and-wear-a-mask dept.

With COVID out of control, Biden unveils hefty vaccine mandates:

President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a sweeping six-pronged plan to try to regain control over the COVID-19 pandemic, which is wildly raging once again in the US.

[...] The main focus of the president's "Path out of the Pandemic" plan is on reducing the number of unvaccinated people in the country. As such, the plan's most prominent elements are hefty vaccination requirements for millions of federal employees, health care workers, school employees, and even employees of private businesses.

Biden signed an executive order Thursday requiring COVID-19 vaccines for millions of federal workers plus millions more federal contractors. The new vaccine mandate eliminates a previous option that allowed federal workers to undergo regular testing in lieu of vaccination.

In addition to mandating vaccines for federal workers, Biden will also require vaccination for over 17 million health care workers who work at facilities that receive federal funding. The administration had previously required vaccination for all staff of federally funded nursing homes. The new requirements will extend vaccine mandates to hospitals, dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgical settings, and home health agencies—most facilities that receive Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements.

[...] The administration is also working on a rule—to be implemented through the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration—that will require employers with 100 or more workers to ensure that their workforce is fully vaccinated or submits to regular COVID-19 testing. The rule is expected to apply to over 80 million employees nationwide. OSHA is also working on a separate rule that will require those employers to provide paid time off to get vaccinated.

For schools, Biden will require vaccination for the nearly 300,000 staff in federal Head Start and Early Head start programs. He will also put pressure on governors to get all teachers and school staff vaccinated. Last, the administration will push more schools to implement regular testing, which will be funded by $10 billion the administration already allocated to schools earlier this year.

Also at CNN, www.aljazeera.com


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @10:27AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @10:27AM (#1176555)

    Wow, you can almost hear the whoosh as you move those goal posts...

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @10:41AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @10:41AM (#1176557)

    Well, the vaccines have negligible effect on infection and transmission. No effect on mortality.

    There is a decrease in severe covid (for now, it is only a matter of time until the vurus mutates around this), but since there is no effect on mortality that must mean there is an increase in some other major health issue. Or the risk of severe covid is a rounding error on top of qll the other risks.

    Assuming you are a 50 yr old male, your chance of dying in the next year is 1/200: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html [ssa.gov]

    Covid may change that to 1/190 or something but so does going on that road trip. You don't want to create an immunity monoculture, those that join are at far greater future risk than they are avoiding via the vaccine. And you better bet there are military labs all over looking to target exactly that immunity too. It is a MAD scenario.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 10 2021, @03:12PM (4 children)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday September 10 2021, @03:12PM (#1176644) Journal

      No need to move goalposts when you're so willing to just blatantly lie!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @04:48PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @04:48PM (#1176695)

        You know that perfectly well, doing that a dozen times a day.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @05:15PM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @05:15PM (#1176720)

          Playing the martyr is a despicable way to spread lies.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @07:33PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @07:33PM (#1176761)

            I am sure you know that intimately. Now go project the death rattle of your conscience onto somebody of same persuasion as you.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 13 2021, @08:17PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 13 2021, @08:17PM (#1177491)

              Irony thy name be dumbshit brainwashed rightwinger.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @07:36PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @07:36PM (#1176765)

      You don't want to create an immunity monoculture

      What the hell are you talking about, do you actually know what a monoculture is?

      A monoculture is when a group of individuals are all genetically identical, this means that they would have a near identical response to an infection and that an infection that can evade the defenses of one can do so for all (see afore mention Irish Potato Famine).

      A vaccine doesn't do this, a vaccine does expose all individuals to an identical stimuli (or 3 different ones since the 3 shots are all distinct) but the bodies reaction to those stimuli is an individual response, each body is activating its own best defense against the spike proteins it is exposed to. This is also why the vaccine is less than 100% effective, some people's best defense still sucks. The point of a vaccine is the same as a reconnaissance mission in a war, you want advanced warning of what you are up against.

      Don't get me wrong, a monoculture IS a bad thing, but you get that by cloning (like we often do in the agriculture industry for plants) not by vaccinating.