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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: 5, Touché) by edIII on Saturday September 11 2021, @01:31AM (3 children)
Again, the idiots speak. Taking precautions is cowardice. Wearing a mask is cowardice. Taking a vaccine is cowardice. If I'm flaunting my cowardice, you are sure as hell flaunting your toxic masculinity and arrogant, selfish, stupidity. You remind me of Vizzini from Princess Bride, "Perhaps you're relying on your great strength to save you...". COVID doesn't give a fuck about your bravado, and your YOLO attitude is the character fault. It's not like you're an idiot risking your life like in death defying stunts that only affect you and your family. You risk us all.
Bend over backwards? Wearing a mask during a pandemic, stand 6ft away, and take your fucking medicine is bending over backwards? What a fucktard you are. You didn't consider that is you asking us to bend over backwards to accommodate your selfishness and arrogance? What is killing society is the overly masculine Fox-news programmed idiots such as yourself. You're the reason what some hospitals now need to resort towards rationing of care. You know extreme measures like battle field triage?
You act like a big man calling it a scary, scary, viwus! News flash dipshit, which is ironic because you would claim it fake, over a half million people have died from it, and even more are going to suffer long term effects.
As for people dying from those other causes, I don't remember 10 years ago hearing that hospitals were all of the sudden overwhelmed by those other causes. I don't remember a time when the health care system was this stressed. I don't remember a time when a dozen teachers died in the first couple of weeks of school and they needed to shut down the school system. You're attempt to downplay the virus only makes you seem like the mindless drone programmed by those like Tucker Carlson and related filth at Fox News.
You're the perfect example of what I was talking about.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 11 2021, @06:55AM (1 child)
you know someone's desperate beyond belief when all they have to attack someone's argument in the year of our lord 2021 is "bawwww you're a stupid toxic fox news watching chud!!!". every fucking word of this post comes off as neural network-generated reddit gibberish and i am appalled that mouthbreathers like you are allowed to blindly spew propaganda like this online, let alone on a website that's as unassuming and low-key as this one. with every single passing day i continue to quietly pray that a solar flare comes along and knocks us back into the early 1900s so i never have to read boomer-y agitprop about a crappy, ineffective bioengineered cold ever again
(Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday September 11 2021, @11:21PM
They made an argument?
Don't worry. Keep not wearing masks and not taking the vaccine and you will be off this planet soon enough.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 12 2021, @08:49PM
So...you have asteroid impact insurance, right? And you have your alien abduction antidote with you at all times, right? I'll bet you don't even drive--because driving increases your risk of dying.
What? You don't? Are you a fucking nutjob, religious extremist?