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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: 2) by wisnoskij on Monday December 06 2021, @04:21PM (1 child)
I am saying that people that push for more lockdowns, vaccinations, and similar things are often seen by others are cultish and brainwashed because of some very vocal people who currently share those views who didn't back when it most made sense to.
I am saying that unfortunately, even if you never parroted the CDC, world health organization, CNN, or social media you will still be lumped in with the crazies as they are just so vocal.
For your second half. I am not talking about who takes or does not take the vaccine, I am talking about who just parrots blindly. Back when Biden went on recorded every other day denigrating the vaccine and its safety. I could get behind that, I could say yes, we do need transparency, accountability, and proof of safety. But when he just did a 180 and changed his stance the second the election was over, anyone who just followed him is clearly just brainwashed.
Did we really need to get political? Come on man, have some sense. Sure, I absolutely believe that Trump was not hard enough on keeping the virus out of North America back in early 2019. But when he finally got around to trying to close borders and lockdown the countries he was fighting Democrats to do this, he was absolutely a month or so ahead of the curve on this is still 2 months behind sane people and probably over 6 months behind informed and knowledgeable people. But from day one, Trump has been pushing lockdown, border closers, and vaccine. He celebrated vaccines in office, he called for people to take them out of office.
Harris and Biden could of said, "we disagree on a lot of things, but I agree with him that vaccines are safe and effective" Or they could of just said "vaccines are safe and effective" but instead we got:
"If and when the vaccine comes, it’s not likely to go through all the tests that need to be done, and the trials that are needed to be done." - Aug. 6, 2020, Joe Biden
And similar, anything Trump says about the vaccine is a lie, and it will probably be unsafe. And at best we get that if doctors and scientists can absolutely prove its efficacy than maybe we could overlook that Trump endorsed it.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday December 06 2021, @06:53PM
I would rather not. But it seems to be political whether I like it or not. Politics is by far the strongest predictor of vaccination status. It is just a fact.
Politics also seems to correlate with mask wearing. And belief it quite a few conspiracy theories about covid. So it is political regardless of what you and I may want. I would prefer people made decisions based on science, experts, medicine, understanding of how contageous diseases work, etc. The advice of doctors, even your own personal local doctor, and epidemologists, etc.
No matter what Biden said Aug 6, 2020, about 7 BILLION doses of vaccine have now been given globally. About 42% of the global population is fully vaccinated. That is a very solid statistical base at this point to know what problems it might cause and in what percentages of the population.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.