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It just keeps coming… (dominos falling?)…

“The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has suspended the enforcement of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses.

The announcement came shortly after a U.S. appeals court rejected a challenge by the Biden administration on Nov. 12 and reaffirmed its decision to put on hold OSHA’s mandate, which requires that businesses with 100 employees or more ensure that workers either be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4, 2022, or be tested weekly and wear a mask.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/osha-suspends-enforcement-of-vaccine-mandate-after-court-block_4108842.html?

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Yes, just read a different version of that.

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On Zhou’s mandates:

"An appeals court dominated by Republican-nominated judges was chosen at random Tuesday to deal with the flurry of lawsuits against the Biden administration’s private business COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was the winner of a lottery that was triggered by multiple appeals courts receiving challenges to the mandate, which was promulgated at the behest of President Joe Biden and would affect every business with 100 or more workers if it’s allowed to take effect.

Thirty-four petitions for review, or suits, were filed against the mandate. At least one petition was filed in every single court of appeals in the nation.”

The court was chosen by lottery. Article explains.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/conservative-majority-court-chosen-to-decide-on-bidens-private-employer-vaccine-mandate_4108156.html?

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Random works for me.

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The CDC has thrown in the towel and admitted what experts have been telling us for some time. Eradication just won’t happen:

"Herd immunity against the virus that causes COVID-19 may be impossible to reach, a federal health official said in little-noticed remarks earlier this month.

“We would discourage a strict goal of a threshold where we think if we reach that, that community transmission will then cease,” Dr. Jefferson Jones, a medical officer on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) COVID-19 Epidemiology Task Force told a panel of the agency’s vaccine advisers.

“I think thinking that we will be able to achieve some kind of threshold where there’ll be no more transmission of infections may not be possible,” Jones said.”

More here:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/herd-immunity-against-covid-19-may-not-be-possible-cdc_4107058.html?

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Jones darned near tied his tongue in knots getting that convoluted little speech out. And his remarks were “little-noticed”. Maybe none of their great minds could decipher them? Even doctors speak bureaucratese...

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Or they didn't want them to be noticed.

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More likely. But his language could not have been more obfuscatory.

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From Andrea Widburg, American Thinker:

“The Otherization of Unvaccinated People is Proceeding Quickly”

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/the_otherization_of_unvaccinated_people_is_proceeding_quickly.html

I’ve apparently been Otherized. (How will I get all of this on my sweatshirt?)

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It's an excellent article--with one flaw. She implicitly exaggerates the risk to older people. Sucharit Bhakdi--himself an older person--has emphatically pointed to what is right there in the stats: healthy older people do well, too. It's simply that older people tend to have the comorbidities that are problematic.

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We know of only one friend who contracted Covid - and that was after he and his wife had been vaxxed. His doctor gave him monoclonal antibodies and he says it was like a bad cold. His wife continued testing negative.

I have been watching my vaxxed DH as one might watch a volcano. He had a cold a while back. Was it Covid? Who knows. He got over it. Because of previous adverse reactions to injections and to cipro antibiotic, I chose not to be vaxxed.

Waiting out being a pariah. An Untouchable.

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Getting a cold is probably a good way to keep your immune system tuned up for Covid.

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Good point. I hadn’t thought of that...

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Just did a ddg search and all the top stories attach "misinformation" to the poor doctor. It's really shameful that so many will put maintaining a narrative in front of trying to save lives.

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I saw that story. Pure evil.

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And therein we have the makings for criminal prosecution of such officials responsible for such orders and such policies. Murder. They have been withholding lifesaving treatments from the beginning. Indict them all.

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Not Pfizer. J&J is splitting due to the talcum powder suits.

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