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COVID: OSHA Vaccine Mandate Heads to the Supreme Court

re: COVID

Real science is never settled, and anyone who has certainty on such things is not qualified to discuss it.

Courts are loaded with conformist judges, good at massive memorization of cases, but with no critical thinking skills.

Brownstone Institute: OSHA Vaccine Mandate Heads to the Supreme Court

2021-12-18. Emphasis added.

The 6th circuit Federal Court of Appeals has weighed in on the crucial mandate from OSHA that all employers with more than 100 employees must institute extreme Covid controls, while providing liberalization on the condition of vaccination. In practice, it is a vaccine mandate that covers vast numbers of workers, and it is likely to be expanded to cover everyone. The opinion was decided in OSHA’s favor, 2 to 1.

The majority begins its decision with a chilling announcement that smacks of ideological bias

Recognizing that the “old normal” is not going to return, employers and employees have sought new models for a workplace that will protect the safety and health of employees who earn their living there. In need of guidance on how to protect their employees from COVID-19 transmission while reopening business, employers turned to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA or the Agency), the federal agency tasked with assuring a safe and healthful workplace….

We are unaware of a single business in America that “turned to” OSHA with that question: what should we do?

The court majority continues with an announcement not of law but of panic: in the face of this disease, just let the bureaucracy rule! 

The record establishes that COVID-19 has continued to spread, mutate, kill, and block the safe return of American workers to their jobs. To protect workers, OSHA can and must be able to respond to dangers as they evolve. …

On multiple occasions, this tone is repeated, along with highly questionable claims: “The number of deaths in America has now topped 800,000 and healthcare systems across the nation have reached the breaking point.”

Given this situation, says the court, “it is not appropriate to second-guess that agency determination considering the substantial evidence, including many peer-reviewed scientific studies, on which it relied.”

The “Science” prevails over law

...The court concludes with a statement that is factually questionable in every word:

The ETS is an important step in curtailing the transmission of a deadly virus that has killed over 800,000 people in the United States, brought our healthcare system to its knees, forced businesses to shut down for months on end, and cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs. …

First, it will be many years before we can fully sort out precisely the number of people who died from as versus with Covid, given the likely inaccuracies of testing and the financial incentive to misclassify. Regardless, the presumption of liberty embedded in the American system was never made contingent on pathogenic mortality data. 

Second, many hospitals in the US were “brought to their knees” not by Covid but by the mandates that blocked them from serving patients  with elective surgeries and diagnostics, as issued by many governors early in the pandemic. As a result, many health-care centers in the US sat empty as people skipped cancer screenings, vaccinations for other diseases, and other routine checkups. This is complete rewriting of history. 

Third, businesses were not shut down by the virus but by the force of law (businesses in South Dakota did not shut down because the governor did not proclaim that they must shut down). 

Fourth, hundreds of thousands of workers are losing their jobs not from the virus but from lockdowns and mandates. 

It’s remarkable that a court could make such claims.  The dissenting opinion is more on point:

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WIND: courts are loaded with conformist judges, good at massive memorization of cases, but with no critical thinking skills and no respect for human dignity or the principles of the Constitution, unless it suits their ideological bent. They aren’t even following the fucking law.

At least there is one dissenting opinion, which is obviously based on being able to think and reason. But the majority demonstrates no such ability; it clearly has personal biases based on hallucinations (CNN and MSNBC?), while ignoring the law.

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