The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling stopping Biden's vaccine mandate. Fox Business. The mandate would require employers with over 100 employees to either vaccinate everyone or have a weekly testing protocol in place. The ruling was a 2-1 decision that over ruled a 5th Circuit Court judge who argued that the mandate far exceeded the constitution and would have devastating impacts on the economy and employees. The case will almost certainly head to the Supreme Court, but may end up being heard by the entire 6th Circuit Court.
My Comment:
What a terrible development, which seems to have been just bad luck by drawing the wrong judges. I don't buy for a second that this mandate is the right solution and thus the court decision is wrong on its face. Legally it seems completely out of left field as well.
The argument that the court made was completely asinine and had little to no relation to reality. A vaccine mandate would do nothing to stop the virus. Indeed, we are seeing major outbreaks now in places like Gibraltar with almost 100% vaccination rates. The vaccine does not stop the virus from spreading so that along destroys the argument the court made.
But it gets worse. The mandate will not stop the virus but it will have an extreme effect on America's workforce. Millions of people will likely be fired and even if the testing option is allowed, millions more will have to undergo what is essentially harassment over a private medical decision that the government and their employers have no business knowing about whatsoever. This will have a ripple effect through the entire economy as the unvaccinated and the undervacinated are the people who make this country run. It will massively increase the already unsustainable labor shortage we are experiencing and make the supply chain issue catastrophic.
What really scares me is the shifting goalposts among the medical community when it comes to vaccination. There are millions of people that are currently "fully vaccinated" which won't be if the definition changes to needing booster shots as well, myself included. As someone who has evaluated the relative risks of the vaccine and the current strains of the virus, I will not get a booster shot. That means that if this policy goes into effect and they change the definition of vaccinated, I might be out of a job as well.
But what is most annoying about this is the fact that the entire world outside of government has moved on. Here in Wisconsin almost all restrictions have been lifted and life is basically back to normal. I have been on vacation this week and the entire time I only saw a few people even wearing masks and that's only because I went shopping in the AM instead of the PM like I usually do and all the old people were shopping. Though people are still testing positive and getting sick, the actual pandemic in terms of public reaction has been over for months now. Nobody cares anymore and they haven't for a long time.
It's even stranger that they are pushing so hard for this now. It's clear that the vaccine won't end the pandemic. If it was going to do so it would have done so by now. Pushing for vaccination isn't going to change anything so the only thing I can think of is that the Biden regime is incapable of doing anything other than doubling down on every issue. And with yesterdays' news about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine causing deaths via clotting, the argument for the vaccine got weaker.
Plus, it's also clear that the Omicron variant, which is well on the way to being the more dominant strain, is not anywhere near as deadly as Delta was, which was in turn less deadly than the original strains. You still get sick with Omicron but it usually doesn't send you to the hospital and as far as I can tell it won't kill you either. I have heard of exactly one death with Omicron and it's not clear if the British man who died with it died from the disease itself. It's essentially a new virus and one that is no more worrisome than the average influenza strain.
In short this is a huge violation of civil rights, with absolutely devastating side effects that greatly reduce the stability of the country and could lead to violence or even outright warfare. All for marginal benefits at best. It's utterly insane and we have to hope that further court reviews reverse this reversal.
And if it doesn't? At this point I have to advocate for active protest and outright refusal. If enough people refuse to go along with this nonsense it will stop. Send letters to your elected officials, write op-eds, do anything you can to stand up and say "no more". And refuse to go along with any of this nonsense. Make them fire you and make it as painful and expensive to do so as possible. Protest, and adapt the practices of the far left. The people that make these decisions have lives that can be disrupted.
And if all that doesn't work, what then? I don't even know, but I do know that it will be ugly. If things reach that point the country is going to be too far gone to matter. Biden's standing in a fireworks warehouse with a book of matches and is doing his best to light it up...
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