Red states plan challenges to federal vaccine mandates

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

State legislatures will consider a host of new challenges to the Biden administration's mandates that workers in some settings be required to receive vaccines against the coronavirus, setting up a new front in the tug-of-war that is already being fought in federal courts across the nation.

Several states have already approved new measures meant to circumvent federal vaccine orders.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) last month signed a bill that would bar private employers from enforcing a vaccine mandate and expand the number of exemptions that employees could use to evade requirements. The law imposes fines of $10,000 on small businesses and $50,000 on large businesses that mandate vaccinations, while barring educational institutions from requiring vaccines or implementing mask mandates or quarantines.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) signed a measure last month that would add new exemptions for employees who do not want to get a vaccine. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) approved legislation last month to prohibit employers from mandating a vaccine, with an exception for those firms that would lose out on federal funding if they do not.

As states prepare to return to legislative session in January, many are preparing similar bills. In Arizona, a powerful Republican state senator is crafting legislation using Florida's measure as a model.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/states-plan-challenges-to-federal-vaccine-mandates/ar-AARPQWM

Republican Jonestown

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Is it a function of government to promote behavior with significant risk of death?

I still, just don't get it. Vaccinations during a pandemic with a proven vaccine is as no-brainer as don't fall asleep on the railroad tracks.

[Claire Oh Nette]

2. Invisible hand???

I thought the GOP opposed regulations on businesses.

Dja 'spose DeSantis is aware of his own Dept. of Health?

Florida requires (mandates) certain vaccines to be administered before children may enroll and attend childcare and school.

Immunizations Required for Childcare and/or Family Daycare
Diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP)
Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV)
Measles-mumps-rubella (MMR)
Varicella (chickenpox)
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
Pneumococcal conjugate (PCV13)
Hepatitis B (Hep B)

FL exemption policy is for "established beliefs or religious practices only."

The GOP lied about Bush II's "mandate," and they interpreted TFG's electoral college theft as a "sweeping mandate." Yet Biden's popular vote blowout and the very same EC margin for the victory =/= a "mandate."

Require vaccines to participate in civilized society, or thrice weekly tests at the anti-vaxxer's expense. They're fewer in number, by far. They're just trying to win this argument by volume. Shun them, and charge them more.

[RobinA]

3. I'm Not Sure

where the government gets the authority to tell a private business they can't have mandates. They may have it, I just don't know enough to know where it comes from. Mandates in the absence of states of emergency aren't faring very well, which I have mixed feelings about. I wish people would just get vaccinations so that mandates wouldn't even be on the table. I worry about what would happen if a really lethal epidemic got rolling, I'm talking plague or Ebola here, and the government had its hands tied.

[Mad_Machine76]

4. Is this going to touch off the second civil war?

[Johonny]

5. It's sort of too late

Most of the people compelled by the mandates have already vaccinated. I guess it might hurt future booster plans. In this since, the Supreme Court hasn't been really interested in not having mandates.