Biden Administration to require vaccinations or regular testing of all employees in medium and large size businesses

[Tiny]

I'm at the office so can't listen to this, but at 5:00 PM ET Biden's supposed to discuss his COVID plan. According to the Wall Street Journal, he'll announce all employers with 100 or more employees must require their workers to be vaccinated or undergo not less than weekly COVID-19 testing. Businesses that don't comply will face fines of up to $14,000 per violation.

While I may be the biggest pro-vaxxer in this forum, I'm not sure I like this. If the businesses were doing it voluntarily I wouldn't have a problem. But a government requirement?

[dilbert firestorm]

Very bad idea!!!

[Alyssa XOXO]

This will definitely not turn out well...

[royamcr]

Ya it will save too many texan lives...

[Strokey_McDingDong]

We want to be like Australia, China and North Korea.

[Redhot1960]

Originally Posted by Tiny

I'm at the office so can't listen to this, but at 5:00 PM ET Biden's supposed to discuss his COVID plan. According to the Wall Street Journal, he'll announce all employers with 100 or more employees must require their workers to be vaccinated or undergo not less than weekly COVID-19 testing. Businesses that don't comply will face fines of up to $14,000 per violation.

While I may be the biggest pro-vaxxer in this forum, I'm not sure I like this. If the businesses were doing it voluntarily I wouldn't have a problem. But a government requirement?

BernieBroRINO, you seem to be a little squishy

[Strokey_McDingDong]

Looks like the commie fucker did exactly as OP said

[1blackman1]

Good. Federal employees will be vaccinated and not be vectors. Lead by example. Or they can work elsewhere. Someone with good sense will take their jobs. More employers need to do this.

[Levianon17]

Originally Posted by royamcr

Ya it will save too many texan lives...

What if it doesn't? Nothing is guaranteed.

[Strokey_McDingDong]

Originally Posted by 1blackman1

More employers need to do this.

More employers are being forced to do this. Did you not listen to the speech?

[Jacuzzme]

Even if only 5% of federal employees tell the Mao wannabe to fuck off and quit, that’s ~100,000 fewer bureaucrats. I’ll take it.

[oeb11]

AnyOne who 'thinks' this mandate is a good thing - misunderstands the marxist DPST party appetite for control adn power over the People
This is jsut to open the door - and the tip of an iceberg of massive DPST marxist mandates of control over the People of America.

They do not serve America - They think they Rule America by their fiat.

Stupid DPST party
They will either leave jan 2023 - or by violent Civil WAR!

[Tiny]

Originally Posted by Redhot1960

BernieBroRINO, you seem to be a little squishy

Bernie sucks big time. Trump's a RINO.

[Strokey_McDingDong]

Well, Trump would not be mandating chichom esque orders that say obey me or suffer the consequences.

[Tiny]

Originally Posted by 1blackman1

Good. Federal employees will be vaccinated and not be vectors. Lead by example. Or they can work elsewhere. Someone with good sense will take their jobs. More employers need to do this.

Biden was elected president and is the Commander In Chief. So I can see your point about federal employees.

It's the private sector that's problematic. There are people, some on this board, who think the vaccine is going may kill them if they get it.

Some people refuse life-saving medical care on religious grounds or because they're dumb asses, and we don't force it on them. The case for forced vaccination arguably is weaker, because (a) COVID doesn't kill a large % of people infected and (b) it's now looking like the vaccines, while very effective in preventing hospitalization and death, are only partially effective in preventing contagious disease, and (c) natural infection appears to confer stronger immunity than the vaccines. I know a lot of cases of COVID are asymptomatic, but if the ant-vaxxers would just isolate themselves when they first get a sore throat or whatever, maybe they don't prevent a huge threat to those of us who are vaccinated and judicious in our behavior, the aged and infirm excepted. Now admittedly you're going to save saves with vaccine mandates no matter how you look at it. But is it worth it?