The Supreme Court quashes Biden's vaccine mandate but keeps health care vaccine mandate.

 

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The Supreme Court has quashed Biden's vaccine mandate for businesses but kept his mandate for health care workers. Fox Business. The OSHA rule said that businesses with at least 100 employees were required to mandate vaccinations or weekly testing for unvaccinated employees. The Court said that the rule was far beyond the powers of OSHA. But the Court left in place a rule that forced health care workers to get the vaccine if their employers took federal funding. The OSHA case was ruled in a 6-3 manor while the other case was ruled 5-4. 

My Comment:

This was a very bad day for the Biden administration and a very good one for America. Not only did Biden lose his stupid vaccine mandate he also lost any chance of passing his new voter fraud bill. Not to mention the inflation news that dropped yesterday and the record low approval ratings that Biden has. 

I have mixed feelings. The vaccine mandates were in both cases a huge overreach by the federal government. The government has no business mandating a vaccine. Indeed, they have no business at all with private health care matters. 

The Supreme Court made the right decision in the OSHA case. It was obvious from the start that OSHA had far exceeded its powers. OSHA is supposed to protect people from work hazards, not more general hazards. OSHA is right to regulate things like mechanical hazards but something like the Coronavirus, that is a threat outside of work, are beyond their scope. 

I don't agree at all with the ruling in the medical workers case. Like I said they had no right to regulate a person's private health care. From what I understand they left the door open for lower courts to push back on this case but for now it's a defeat. 

I think it is going to have major implications for US healthcare. There is already a nursing shortage and having major problems staffing our hospitals. This mandate will make these problems much worse as thousands of doctors and nurses will be fired. This will lead to more delays in treatment and even deaths. 

The worst part of this is that it's become obvious that the vaccines no longer work as intended. They are basically worthless against the Omicron variant, which evades vaccines to the point where even Pfizer says that two shots doesn't provide any protection. 

Of course the Omicron variant is basically a cold for most people who get it. In a sane world the entire discussion would be moot as the pandemic is no longer a threat for the vast majority of people. Indeed, the main threat the virus poses now is the fact that a whole lot of people will be out of work at the same time. And that's mostly due to our reaction to the virus instead of the virus itself. 

But what does the Biden administration do? Double down, like always. They are already recommending that businesses ignore the ruling and impose mandates anyways. It doesn't matter that the virus isn't a threat anymore or that they just got chastised by the Supreme Court. It doesn't matter that what they are doing is wrong both in the moral sense and against their own best interests. It's all Biden knows how to do.