© Carlo Allegri/ReutersA woman holds a placard as people march to protest against New York City’s COVID vaccine mandate in New York City, October 25, 2021.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has suspended implementation and enforcement of the Biden administration's
vaccine mandate for private employers after a federal court blocked the measure.
The
OSHA website page dedicated to the COVID Vaccine Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) reads: "While OSHA remains confident in its authority to protect workers in emergencies, OSHA has suspended activities related to the implementation and enforcement of the ETS
pending future developments in the litigation."
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit fully blocked Biden's executive order requiring companies with over 100 workers to mandate vaccination for their employees after temporarily
staying it on November 12. The court ordered that OSHA
"take no steps to implement or enforce" the vaccine mandate "until further court order." By its mandate, the Biden administration is claiming that the federal government, through congressional legislation, has regulatory power to issue a medical mandate for the sake of public health and therefore general welfare.
However, since the directive was announced,
many legal scholars have challenged its constitutionality, given that the legislation it relies on for authority explicitly states that
an ETS can only be issued when employees are exposed to a "grave danger" that necessitates immediate action. That case is becoming increasingly difficult to argue, given the fact that some vaccinated individuals can transmit the disease and that treatment options for COVID infections are expanding. As of Tuesday, the Biden administration is planning to purchase 10 million doses of Pfizer's antiviral medication to treat patents with COVID.
Some lawmakers and pundits have speculated that Biden's strategy with the vaccine mandate recognized that the order would likely be
indefensible in court but
hoped that its chilling effect would pressure employers to comply in advance of any litigation.
After the federal appeals court first issued a motion to stay the order, White House Press Secretary Jen
Psaki still urged employers to implement coercive measures to increase vaccination numbers among their labor forces, although without the teeth of government enforcement.
Comment: A number of world leaders have stated outright that the real reason for these mandates is to '
persuade' the remaining unvaccinated into joining the world's largest experiment. Because, for some reason, that isn't backed by any science or reason, governments worldwide are hellbent on injecting as many people population as they can. Where the threat of mandates hasn't worked, actual mandates are now being enforced - on the less influential professions at first - and now lockdowns for the unvaccinated are being
trialled.
The legality surrounding much of this manufactured crisis has been subject to numerous legal challenges and even court rulings deeming lockdowns, the restrictions, and the vaccine authorizations, to be unconstitutional, only for these just rulings to be overturned by more powerful government bodies; and so it remains to be seen whether this particular suspension will become permanent.
One wonders whether the mass walk outs and the threat of others, particularly with Christmas period up ahead, played a part in the temporary suspension of the vaccine mandate. Because, at least in the US, a number of high profile mass walkouts certainly showed that if the mandates went ahead there could be serious issues keeping the country running:
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Comment: A number of world leaders have stated outright that the real reason for these mandates is to 'persuade' the remaining unvaccinated into joining the world's largest experiment. Because, for some reason, that isn't backed by any science or reason, governments worldwide are hellbent on injecting as many people population as they can. Where the threat of mandates hasn't worked, actual mandates are now being enforced - on the less influential professions at first - and now lockdowns for the unvaccinated are being trialled.
The legality surrounding much of this manufactured crisis has been subject to numerous legal challenges and even court rulings deeming lockdowns, the restrictions, and the vaccine authorizations, to be unconstitutional, only for these just rulings to be overturned by more powerful government bodies; and so it remains to be seen whether this particular suspension will become permanent.
One wonders whether the mass walk outs and the threat of others, particularly with Christmas period up ahead, played a part in the temporary suspension of the vaccine mandate. Because, at least in the US, a number of high profile mass walkouts certainly showed that if the mandates went ahead there could be serious issues keeping the country running: