Also... for the businesses, it's requiring employees to get vaccinated or have a negative test once a week. So if businesses choose, they can continue to employ obstinate, lunatic antivaxxers... they'll just have to make sure they are tested once a week.

I don't think it needs to be so black and white. We live in a representative democracy and we allow our government to make these type of decisions for us.

Congress never gave OSHA the power to set social policy or enforce health decisions for all Americans, they gave it the power to set temporary standards to protect workers from emergent radioactive spills and industrial biohazards that become newly discovered in the 6 months pending new, permanent regulations. And now Biden is trying to do that thing executives do whenever they make blatant overreaches they know will eventually get struck down in the courts- he's citing some statute which only tangentially references the power he's claiming and is very obviously neither intended nor applicable to this kind of permanent, nation-wide social policy.

Prove that anti-vaccination rhetoric is "misinformation".

And once you have done that impossible task, try and tell us what you would do to those who purportedly spread "misinformation". Go on. Don't be coy.

I would consider COVID an industrial biohazard.

Do you want to make a fg bet on the ultimate outcome?

Then it should go without saying that the government should accept liability for the result. If the government wants you to vaccinate, and you do happen to die, it's fair to expect that the government provides an appropriate settlement. We can let the economists debate what the exact figure should be. But we can't have a situation where the government controls the decision and forces the liability onto citizens.



So do the Australians, and yet I don't think that empowering authorities to police beer consumption is a productive way to organize society. There are consequences to infantilizing adults. Whether this is legal or not will be for the courts to decide, but we should exercise caution, because we aren't going to be able to go back from this.

We'll find out. Whether it gets struck down or not, I appreciate the effort by a president to try to get a deadly pandemic under control, especially considering it's mostly killing his political opposition. Very unifying IMO.

OSHA actually keeps their template documents for emergency temporary standards public on their website so bureaucrats can draft them by ad libs.
Just gotta fill in the sections declaring what kind of {chemical abstracts service registry number} are being regulated, the {percentage} in solid or liquid mixtures containing that material, and airborne concentrations of {parts per million}, its permissible exposure limits, what kind of dermal or eye exposure or whether its a known carcinogen and provisions for disposal of it as a hazardous waste and labeling required for containers of the material.

I have to say, I'd put good fg on the regulations surviving court scrutiny if we were talking about workplaces shipping in barrels filled with hundreds of gallons of concentrated, liquid coronavirus and dumping them into the river

The "pandemic" is not as deadly as we have been led to believe. Compare covid mortality rates to that of the common cold and see for yourself.

Stop letting the news-media lead you around by the nose.

I don't think that's true, you just need consensus. Take a look at how quickly marijuana laws are falling at the state level. It will be legal at the federal level in the near future.