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A Siemens Employee Brings ‘The Forgotten Mandate’ to the Forefront – Opinion

As my colleague Streiff reported yesterday, no one should be taking a victory lap over OSHA walking back its enforcement of Joe Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate. Unrelated to the Biden administrations, corporations have (and continue) to be able, independently, create and push their own mandates on employees.

Earlier today, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it would suspend all “activities related to the implementation and enforcement” of the vaccine mandate imposed by Joe Biden’s fiat. It comes after the Fifth Circuit imposed a nationwide moratorium on the implementation and enforcement of the mandate in a blistering decision that stopped about two verbs short of calling the hastily cobbled together rule both stupid and duplicitous (see BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court Denies Biden Admin Request to Lift Stay on Vaccine Mandate).

There is no reason for anyone to take a victory lap over this decision for the reasons I laid out in The Fifth Circuit Slapping Down Biden’s Illegal Vaccine Mandate Is Meaningless in the Face of a Lawless Presidency.

OSHA only lip-services to the court decision that the Biden group is actively campaigning to undermine.

Frankie, our brave Siemens employee, sent me an email to inform me about their progress in achieving this mandate and confirm exactly what I wrote.

We’re still plugging away here at Siemens under the threat of job loss as a result of mandates started by executive orders. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay against the OSHA mandate. This was known to everyone. The courts had so many cases that they consolidated and assigned to the 6th Circuit. Together, my state attorney general as well as the AG from Kentucky or Ohio filed in the 6th.

OSHA yesterday suspended its ETS, a move that was cheered widely. However, large corporations are following an executive order that required federal contractors’ employees to get vaccinated. OSHA ETS is the primary focus. This was forgotten. This I consider the forgotten mandate.

Frankie refers to the Executive Order 14042 forgotten mandate. This EO is applicable to federal contractors. It is also the one Siemens uses to draft and enforce the vaccination mandates. Biden continues to insist that all companies comply with it.

Starting at New York Post:

White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that the Biden administration believes it can still win the court battle, but said firms should create their own mandates in the meantime as 26 state attorneys general sue — and as even some Democrats, such as Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly objected to the federal directives.

“We think people should not wait. It is important to not delay in taking steps that can keep you and your employees safe at work. It is important and critical to do and waiting to get more people vaccinated will lead to more outbreaks and sickness,” Jean-Pierre said at the daily White House press briefing.

“This is about keeping people in the workplace safe. And so what we’re seeing is more businesses and school closures and more lost jobs that keep us keep us stuck in a pandemic that we’re trying to end.”

Frankie says that the Biden administration wants corporations to keep doing his bidding.

If OSHA is declared unconstitutional by courts, I believe it should apply equally to contractor EOs as well as those that originally requested it. In a letter I wrote to Tennessee AG last week, I made this point. Federal contractors employees are still under scrutiny.

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Siemens might allow workers to continue working if they have regular mask testing and undergo weekly blood tests. Concerning the testing, my employer must provide false positive rate percentages. I will be demanding this. It should be 10%. If this is the case, an average employee will test positive falsely up to 5.2 times per years, which would mean a 14-day quarantine.

You know companies are going to find a way to limit testing or quarantine when productivity and workforce engagement suffers—and it will suffer. Quarantine times of 14 days are unsustainable in many workplace environments.

Another point is to mention that COVID can be spread by those who have been vaccinated. One example is the fact that a few people are out of work due to being exposed to COVID. COVID was contracted by an employee who proudly stated to everyone that they had been vaccinated and they also caught the disease from another person. So, our most recent COVID exposure was from a vaccinated person and not from one of the “unclean.”

Biden, Rachelle Walensky (CDC Director), the Department of Health and Human Services and legacy media tried to minimize, deny, and erase from public conversation natural immunity of people who have recovered from COVID. These claims are despite scientific proof supporting and affirming this.

Then there is the trope that every new surge of COVID is caused by the “unvaccinated,” when studies have also shown that breakthrough cases are becoming more and more prevalent.

Frankie and other employees believe that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ stay allowed them more time to expose what their employers are doing, even when it seems no one is paying attention. Many are looking for ways to make the mandates of vaccines more permanent and to create a way to apply them. Biden’s administration seems determined, as do large corporations, to make compliance impossible by all means. The Biden administration doesn’t recognize that necessity and means diminish over time.

 

This post was last modified on November 18, 2021 11:04 pm

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