This is a must read for anyone who needs some hope about the vaccine mandate.
Sundance over at Conservative Treehouse makes an excellent point that outside of the one Biden announcement made about the vaccine mandate, the federal government bureaucracy isn't moving on it. I'll quote the most important part, but strongly recommend that people read the full post on CTH:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/15/something-else-missing/
So, there are three elements: (1) Federal worker mandate; (2) Federal contractor mandate; and the big controversial one, (3) a national worker mandate for companies with over 100 employees.
Focusing on #3, the big one. The only material from the White House on the BIG CONTROVERSIAL national worker mandate is a small paragraph on the WH COVID PLAN section:
… That’s it folks. Almost a week later, and that’s the sum total of everything about the biggest economic and workforce disruption in the history of the nation. That one paragraph posted on September 10th.
Why is this important?
Well, the U.S. Department of Labor website has ZERO mentions of this national mandate. ZERO, nothing… nada, zilch. [SEE HERE]
Looking at the OSHA COVID information portal, used by employers and legal execs, will show you the exact same result. Nothing. [SEE HERE]
Notice there’s no date for DoL or OSHA delivery of any employer guidance or details. Nothing.
Think about this. This is the largest nationwide change to employment eligibility requirement in U.S. history. Nothing else is even close… and yet, if you didn’t watch the Biden announcement or read the media discussion about the Biden announcement, you wouldn’t be able to find a single detail about it – anywhere.
This is not normal; not even close to normal… even for the federal government.
If there was a federal intent to actually force American workers to get forcibly vaccinated as a condition of employment, there would be daily updates from a massive inter-agency network of compliance offices, regulatory agencies and private sector business interests giving updates and briefings. And yes, that pertains only to the anticipated guidance part, not to the actual setting of a deadline and working through the implementation phase of the national mandate.
I’m only talking about the basic guidance aspect. The labor discussions with internal and external customers of the DoL, OSHA, etc. to set a calendar for how to implement “guidance”, just that part. There’s nothing.
The absence of even a scintilla of material to indicate the White House or any federal agency is organizing an action plan of how to structure the guidance itself is telling. The silence of the machine tells us it is not turned on. The bureaucracy has not been triggered. The machinery of the federal government has not been instructed to begin any process to execute on the instruction that OSHA will “develop a rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated.” Nothing.
The silence is deafening.
It sure does seem like they have no intention of ever even triggering the process to get OSHA to begin evaluating how they could even begin to pull this off…. and again, for emphasis, I’m only talking about the tiny step of delivering initial guidance to employers that would indicate to them that OSHA was developing a rule.
There’s no deadline for OSHA to generate the guidance – and there’s certainly no deadline for the OSHA rule itself, which will come as an outcome of that initial guidance part.
Very good read, I'd not thought of this at all until now. You know what I think, is that "they" think they can get away with anything, and that broadcasting this message to the country will literally be enough to scare people into thinking they'll have to get it. Sad truth is that a lot of people will probably do just that--but not all of us.
I'm not worried about any kind of mandates regarding anything until dates come into the picture. No date for mandatory vax, I'm not even worried about it. The vax date for the military has already changed twice (at least) from what I've noticed. First it was this week, then it got bumped to next week, now I guess it's by December? They're just gonna keep moving the goalposts, but this time it's gonna be in a way that fucks them instead of us (I hope).
Feeling optimistic after reading this. One thing I've been saying to my mom about the possibility of more covid lockdowns/mandates/etc. is this: "They're not gonna get away with it, but believe me they're gonna try. It ain't happenin', not long term, but they WILL try as hard as possible until they can't anymore."
I think those days are coming soon. By spring. Fingers crossed that I'm right.