Mandate, Mandate, Mandate
by John Lawrence
President Biden has lost his patience with those who choose not to get vaccinated and don't give a damn about putting their families, neighbors and hospital workers at risk. He should have taken these measures a long time ago, and not given them the choice between vaccination or weekly testing. It's only vaccinations that will get the pandemic under control. Would Xi Jinping have hesitated in mandating that all Chinese be vaccinated ... or else? He would have dragged them kicking and screaming into the vaccination booth. That's why China is way ahead of us in controlling the pandemic and most everything else. Finally, Biden is standing up to the anti-Vaxxers and all the right wing misinformation purveyors and even red state governors. So now the Labor Department will mandate that all businesses with 100 employees or more will have to have their employees vaccinated or tested weekly. The door is open for blue state Governors to mandate all businesses that do business with their individual states do the same.
With the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. The OSH Act covers most private sector employers and their workers, in addition to some public sector employers and workers in the 50 states and certain territories and jurisdictions under federal authority. That means that Biden didn't have to limit his mandates that all businesses with 100 employees or more have to have their employees vaccinated. He could have mandated that all businesses have their employees vaccinated. Maybe that will come next.
How does anyone rationalize not getting vaccinated when it puts those around them including their own loved ones at risk? These people clearly don't give a damn about anyone other than themselves. Also they are hiding their heads in the sand about reality. Their stupidity and ignorance is appalling. How could a group of people ever be so dumb? But then people do a lot of stupid things and they do them in groups. They join cults and commit mass suicide, for example. It seems that, when they are dying from COVID, all of a sudden they have a revelation that they should have gotten the vaccination. In the meantime they think they are impervious to COVID because they are young and healthy with no underlying conditions. They could care less about transmitting the virus to those that aren't.
