President Biden’s administration is on the clock today to respond to a federal appeals court regarding new COVID vaccination and weekly testing mandates for private U.S. companies with at least 100 employees.
According to the court document,
The Government shall respond to the petitioner’s motion for a permanent injunction by 5:00 PM on Monday, November 8. The petitioners shall file any reply by 5:00 PM on Tuesday, November 9.
OSHA news release: US Department of Labor issues emergency temporary standardto protect workers from coronavirus
At the heart of the court proceedings is the question of government overreach on private business.
In its Nov. 4th news release, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced a new emergency temporary standard that forces companies with 100-plus employees to require vaccination as a condition of employment and set up employee testing protocols for those who are not vaccinated.
In its news release, OSHA cited that the nation’s unvaccinated workers face grave danger from workplace exposure to coronavirus, and immediate action is necessary to protect them.
The push of this latest emergency standard raises several questions. How does vaccination status change the inherent risk of exposure to the virus on the job? How does that exposure change on the job versus in society at large (i.e. the grocery store or any activity for that matter)? How will companies protect the privacy of employees’ health records? How will this new requirement create double stands for those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious purposes?
These questions and more are part of the case for BST Holdings v. OSHA, 5th Cir., No. 21-6084.
Two days after OSHA declared the emergency temporary standard as an “effective immediate” standard, a federal court granted a temporary stay that was also effective immediately.
The New Orleans-based Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the petitioners:
An emergency motion to stay enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s November 5, 2021, Emergency Temporary Standard (the “Mandate”) pending expedited judicial review. Because the petitions give cause to believe there are grave statutory and constitutional issues with the Mandate, the Mandate is hereby STAYED pending further action by this court.
5th Court of Appeals case 21-60845
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah, along with businesses, and advocacy groups, have all filed similar lawsuits.
While waiting for the government to respond, Americans are left wondering how this will impact their jobs and when will the government’s overreach end? Will it end once we’re not in emergency status as a nation? When will we see an end to the emergency status dictatorship?
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And yet even the CDC itself had revealed that the Almighty Coronavirus is over 99% SURVIVABLE. How is this an insurmountable peril? Of course it will kill certain people, just like the Flu. But if COVID is Russian roulette with ONE cylinder loaded, it now appears that the Frankenstein COVID Vaccine is Russian roulette with TWO cylinders loaded, maybe MORE.
Screw you OSHA! You don’t have the authority to make any dictatorial decrees, but then again, neither does Brandon’s whole worthless regime!
DO NOT COMPLY!
Too late NO emergency should have done so on March/Apr 2020 alone Then
TOO late now
NO