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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
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 10 2021, @05:28PM (6 children)
To you they would be. Maybe because you leave out personal responsibility for letting things happen?
Picking nits again
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 10 2021, @05:39PM (5 children)
Let's take "personal freedom" as an example.
Why do I NOT have the personal freedom to demand someone prove they've been vaccinated before they enter my property? Why are the people who supposedly like personal freedom passing laws banning me from protecting myself on my own property?
My point about "states rights" is that they suddenly stop mattering when, say, the federal government starts taking people's land to build a pointless wall.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 10 2021, @06:00PM (2 children)
You are arguing with the wrong guy. I never said you don't. Don't take me for anti-vax. I have said all along that your democrat response towards bad behavior is typically weak. Why isn't the DOJ charging every disruptive passenger with a felony diversion of an airliner? Those stories are very frustrating. You're supposed to tell people, *MASK UP AND TAKE YOUR MEDICINE, BITCH!*, but no, gotta "compromise", gonna blow the midterms again.
I still don't see the link between this and property theft. That story is dead for now
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @06:36PM (1 child)
It is the cost of NOT being authoritarian assholes. The DOJ should not interfere in local airports or airline business, the airlines could prosecute if they wanted.
Sure would be nice if fusty had anything other than his narrative to push in every comment.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 10 2021, @07:33PM
:-) It's not up to the airline or the locals. They are committing a felony, breaking federal law that protects our rights. Put your tray-up, bitch
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @07:53PM (1 child)
"Colorado judge finds Christian baker broke state discrimination law by refusing to bake a birthday cake for a trans woman"
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/18/us/jack-phillips-colorado-baker-discrimination-trnd/index.html [cnn.com]
Put your arse on either side of the fence. Either people have the freedom to discriminate anyone on their property, or they do not. But instead you lefties want to have your cake and eat it too; want to discriminate everyone not toeing your party line, and not be discriminated no matter what you do.
This is how an occupying force behaves. Not how fellow citizens do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 11 2021, @06:27PM
What, ya scared of catching "teh ghey"?