Two weeks ago today, President Joe Biden warned that “the unvaccinated overcrowd our hospitals, are overrunning the emergency rooms and intensive care units.”
To combat this “distinct minority of Americans,” Biden said the Department of Labor would issue an “emergency” regulation requiring all employers with more than 100 employees to mandate all of their employees either get vaccinated or provide a negative COVID-19 test once a week.
“Pandemic politics,” Biden said, “are making people sick, causing unvaccinated people to die.”
So what exactly are the details of this new regulation? What negative tests will be admissible? Who will bear the cost of testing? Will workers who have had COVID-19 already still be subject to the mandate? What about employees who work from home? Will they be forced to get vaccines too? What about those employees protected under the Americans with Disabilities act? Will they be exempt?
Well, it has been two weeks, and we still have no answers to any of these questions because the Labor Department, or, more specifically, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, still has not issued the mandate! If this was such an “emergency,” why hasn’t OSHA issued the regulation yet?
It’s almost as if Biden’s entire speech was just political theater designed to distract from Biden’s failed Afghanistan and immigration policies.
