Biden to mandate vaccination or weekly testing for companies over 100 employees
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And that's actually the weakest argument.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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It would actually be more legitimate for him to just demand everybody either be vaccinated or tested regardless of the status of employment. And frankly, there are enough breakthrough cases that they should really demand 100% testing, period.
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@mik said in Biden to mandate vaccination or weekly testing for companies over 100 employees:
And that's actually the weakest argument.
Which is?
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@mik said in Biden to mandate vaccination or weekly testing for companies over 100 employees:
And that's actually the weakest argument.
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@mik said in Biden to mandate vaccination or weekly testing for companies over 100 employees:
It was the best speech he has given to date.
Lots of speechifying, little substance as to how he's going to implement this.
REmember, he's the guy that said, during the campaign, that he wouldn't trust a vaccine developed while Trump was president.
Were you wrong then, or are you wrong now, Joe?
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Another thing.
(disclaimer, I'm NOT anti-vaccine)
By what authority does he mandate employers to implement this policy. This mandate will spend months and months in court.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I agree as a pragmatic matter. Good luck with enforcement.
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@mik said in Biden to mandate vaccination or weekly testing for companies over 100 employees:
I agree. I'm not even sure he can do it for federal employees and contractors.
That has a direct impact on my company. We have service contracts in place with several Military Bands, Walter Reed, NIH, and routinely sell or rent instruments to the government. Everybody that has involvement with those projects (me, the operations manager, technician/tuner, and delivery crew are all vaccinated but none of us like the idea of being forced to be vaccinated and forcing our staff to be vaccinated.
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I don't like it either. I'd like them to be putting out more reliable information about relative risk and the benefit of vaccination. Persuasion above coercion. I'm afraid what he is doing may backfire and simply make the antivaxxers more entrenched in their position.
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I don't like it either. I'd like them to be putting out more reliable information about relative risk and the benefit of vaccination. Persuasion above coercion. I'm afraid what he is doing may backfire and simply make the antivaxxers more entrenched in their position.
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I thought we were supposed to be approaching Herd Immunity according to the CDC? The southern surge is dropping, we can expect a few more Delta surges elsewhere in the country, but the Boosters to the most at risk should mitigate the effects. Is this a solution in search of a problem?
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Provides cover for companies to issue their own mandates.
I don’t really see this as news, the train left the station weeks ago. As more people get vaccinated schools will be able to stay open, less people will die and healthcare institutions will be able to address the needs of their employees and patients much better. Wins all around. If the goal is to eliminate all naysayers in life you will never succeed, you just need our institutions rowing in the same direction.
Mostly this is about stemming the slide in the polls.
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Imagine if he had been that angry against the Taliban?
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Imagine if he had been that angry against the Taliban?
@lufins-dad said in Biden to mandate vaccination or weekly testing for companies over 100 employees:
Imagine if he had been that angry against the Taliban?
He is literally treating American anti-vaxxers with more hostility. He sure as hell isn't calling the latter his "partners."
