Today's News for the Week Prior and Up to January 19, 2022
GOA AND GOF SUBMIT OSHA COMMENTS AMID SCOTUS VACCINE MANDATE RULING FOR LARGE BUSINESSES
Source: Gun Owners of America
January 13, 2022
In the comments, GOA and GOF wrote, “The federal government possesses only the few and limited powers set out in the U.S. Constitution. None of those powers give the federal government a general police power to order mandatory vaccines. The federal government has no other source of authority, such as the commerce power, to command health decisions by Americans.” The comments continued to argue that, “if the OSHA vaccine mandate regulations were to be upheld, it could readily open the door to the federal government infringing the rights of Americans in many other areas of their lives, including their right to keep and bear arms, which is why GOA and GOF have a particular interest in these proposed regulations.”
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Congressman Guest: SCOTUS Made Right Call; OSHA Lacks Authority to Enforce Vaccine Mandate
Source: U.S. Representative Michael Guest (R-MS, 3rd)
January 13, 2022
“Vaccine mandates—a prototypical state police power—are not within the purview of the OSH Act, let alone something on which Congress intended OSHA to take unilateral action under its ‘emergency’ powers. The ETS Mandate proposed by OSHA cannot stand,” the amici curiae argue.
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Rep. Grijalva Votes to Protect Voting Rights and Future of Our Democracy
Source: U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva (D-AZ, 3rd)
January 13, 2022
The Senate must pass this critical legislation. It’s their turn to fight back against undemocratic policies and to prevent Republicans from overturning the will of the people. For Arizona, the stakes are too high. In Arizona and around the nation, we have Republican political candidates running as pawns in Trump’s Big Lie movement using brazen tactics of intimidation and lies to sow distrust and undermine the integrity of future elections.
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Guthrie Responds to Supreme Court Rulings on President Biden’s Overreaching Vaccine Mandates
Source: U.S. Representative Brett S. Guthrie (R-KY, 2nd)
January 14, 2022
“While the Supreme Court’s decision is a win for workers at private businesses with 100 employees or more, its ruling to allow the vaccine mandate for health care workers to move forward is disappointing for our health care heroes and the patients they serve. This overreaching mandate could result in the loss of millions of health care workers and cause delays in health care services for Kentuckians most in need. I believe Americans should make the decision that’s best for them with COVID-19 vaccines and will continue to fight against President Biden’s one-size-fits-all vaccine mandates,” said Guthrie.
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GROTHMAN CALLS FOR MORE MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY TREATMENTS
Source: U.S. Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI, 6th)
January 18, 2022
Last September, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notified states that the federal government would be taking over control of distribution access to mAb treatments. Since then, Wisconsin and other states have experienced significant shortages in access to mAb treatment for COVID-19 patients, despite President Biden’s promise to ramp up distribution.
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Definition of Vaccine: a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
The Ponder's View:
What we are receiving is not a vaccine. If it were, it would prevent the virus from invasion, and shut it down before illness occurred.
What we are receiving is a preemptive treatment. It does not prevent the virus, it helps us deal with the virus when we get it.
There is a difference.
Therefore, Biden is mandating us to get a medical treatment, not a vaccine. That is like telling you that you HAVE to go to the doctor if you have a cold to get it taken care of, rather than taking OTC medications.
