SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Judge blocks Biden vaccine rule, citing “liberty interests of the unvaccinated”
A federal judge yesterday blocked a Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, granting a request for preliminary injunction filed by Republican attorneys general from 14 states.
US District Judge Terry Doughty ruled that the government lacks authority to implement the rule that "requires the staff of twenty-one types of Medicare and Medicaid healthcare providers to receive one vaccine by December 6, 2021, and to receive the second vaccine by January 4, 2022." Providers that don't comply face penalties, including "termination of the Medicare/Medicaid Provider Agreement."
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate regulates over 10.3 million health care workers in the US, of which 2.4 million are unvaccinated. The Biden vaccine rule is being challenged by the attorneys general from Louisiana, Montana, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. The Republican AGs' lawsuit was filed against CMS and the US Department of Health and Human Services.
The preliminary injunction they won applies nationwide except for 10 states that "are already under a preliminary injunction order dated November 29, 2021, issued by the Eastern District of Missouri," a court order said. Those states are Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
What states did not participate in this lawsuit and were not covered by the earlier preliminary injunction — i.e. got swept into this decision?
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Thursday December 02 2021, @06:41PM
We have one: It's called either "critical thinking" or less formally a "bullshit detection kit". Like medical vaccines, it's not 100% effective 100% of the time, but it definitely improves the odds. And also like medical vaccines, there are kids who are too young to get it administered because they haven't developed to the point of being able to handle it, and some who are unable to get it at any point and have to rely on their peers and herd immunity.
And the same people that are trying to stop others from vaccinating against disease are also trying to stop others from gaining even partial immunity to bullshit. Which leads to the conclusion that odds are pretty good that at least some of them are bullshit artists.
For example, your use of critical thinking caused you to actually look at the applicable laws before making pronouncements about it. Whereas the AC you were arguing with plainly did not bother, possibly because they were mindlessly repeating something they heard somewhere, or possibly because they were knowingly spewing bullshit. Unfortunately, in this day and age, it's hard to sort out the dupes versus the liars.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.