Last night Alex Berenson very briefly noted a development that could be significant going forward: The UK government has backed down from trying to institute a vaccine passport, following widespread public outrage.
This morning Zerohedge has the somewhat more detailed version, although it all boils down to the same thing:
Naturally the government’s talking heads claim that, well, they never really liked the idea of a vaccine passport, anyway. Right.
However, Berenson does make the point that if one major government backs down, could the dam be about to break? Will other governments follow suit and bow to public unrest? We can hope.
On the mandate front, Reason has a very nice and readable article about the mandate’s legal basis in OSHA regulatory powers:
Where Does Biden Get the Authority To Mandate Vaccination?
Emergency OSHA rules are frequently struck down by courts.
The author, Walter Olsen, goes into the technicalities regarding OSHA’s two different types of regulatory authorities: its standard “notice and comment” authority and its emergency authority:
Ordinary OSHA rule making builds a detailed record and rationale, including time for objections, which allows judges to hold the agency to some semblance of legality. Emergency powers bypass that. Were courts to adopt a posture of abject deference to claims of emergency, they'd leave OSHA in a position to order around the nation by diktat.
In short, don't be surprised when the new Biden vaccine mandate ends up in court. Should it reach the Supreme Court, it will be amid fresh memories of the eviction moratorium debacle, in which a majority of justices clearly signaled that it would be unconstitutional for the Biden administration to renew the expiring Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decree, and the White House went ahead and did so anyway. Slapping that down took less than a month.
In other words, OSHA and the Resident will face an increasingly hostile judicial environment. No doubt we’ll be hearing much more, but for a basic understanding of the field of play, this is a good place to start.
Mark, Something else I thought about the vax passport change of heart by Boris. After reading your prior posts on Covid Mania as well as that video on how mass hysteria takes root and the methods used to "terrorize" people into submission/compliance, the announcement for me, although a good thing, I view with some skepticism.
Given the methods of wearing down folks though giving and then taking away rights, privileges, freedoms, etc. , along with perfect examples like Xioe saying he wouldn't force the vax last year and now he is, I'm just hoping that Boris isn't just screwing with them with the intent to pulling a Fauci later on down the road. Let's go with cautiously optimistic for now.
Anyone who reads this and thinks the jab won't hurt them probably didn't read it. I saw it on Friday, but put in on the back burner given I'm burned out reading all these studies, but there's a lot in it that will be of use to those already vaxed and those who haven't.
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"Now, more than six months later, new discoveries in the immunology of SARS-CoV-2 [5] have caught up with the rushed vaccination schedule, confirming and extending the experts’ prior warnings. The good news is that we are more comprehensively protected against COVID-19 by our own pre-existing immunity than was previously understood. On the other hand, this pre-existing immunity aggravates the risk that COVID-19 vaccines will induce blood clotting and/or leaky blood vessels.
This risk must be expected to escalate with each revaccination. Vaccine-induced harm to our blood vessels is unlikely to be rare."
https://doctors4covidethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Vaccine-immune-interactions-and-booster-shots_Sep-2021.pdf