S Carolina Senate panel revives COVID-19 vaccine ban bill

[Eugene]

Also: SC senators advance ‘attention getter’ to deter COVID vaccine mandates (The Post and Courier)

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Source: Associated Press

S Carolina Senate panel revives COVID-19 vaccine ban bill

February 21, 2022

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Republican leader in the South Carolina Senate is reviving a bill to prevent public employers from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine and adding a proposal to fine private companies requiring the shot $7,500 for each person fired because of that mandate.

Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey presented his proposal Thursday to a Senate Finance subcommittee considering an anti-mandate bill passed by the House in December.

One big change proposed by Massey is to add a fine to the unemployment insurance taxes paid by a private company requiring the vaccine.

The fine would be equal to 10 times the state’s highest unemployment tax rate, or roughly $7,500 per employee fired for four years, The Post and Courier newspaper reported.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-south-carolina-232831f667fda9c062654904f033920d

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Source: The Post and Courier

SC senators advance ‘attention getter’ to deter COVID vaccine mandates

By Seanna Adcox Feb 17, 2022

COLUMBIA — A bill advancing in the Senate would ban South Carolina’s public employers from mandating COVID vaccinations, hike taxes on businesses that fire workers and forbid vaccination-for-service requirements.

Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, who authored the proposal, said Feb. 17 he remains uncomfortable telling employers what they can and can’t do in their workplace, but “I feel I’ve been forced to do this” by ultimatums he didn’t envision happening in South Carolina.

Two things that “pushed me over the edge,” he said, were North Charleston’s firing of 25 unvaccinated first responders shortly before Christmas, followed by the Medical University of South Carolina warning people they faced removal from organ-transplant waiting lists.

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Read more: https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/sc-senators-advance-attention-getter-to-deter-covid-vaccine-mandates/article_5048db5a-9003-11ec-9649-e3e85ff636f0.html

[Turbineguy]

1. Employers could spend that much on "peasant insurance".

[Botany]

2. We should crush these mother fuckers in 2022 and 2024

They are pro deadly virus, they support a Russian asset and con man in TFG, and Joe B & the Dems are doing
a great job.

Christ this is stupid. Does S.C.'s Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey want to bring back measles and polio?

[PortTack]

3. How is it that they want to ban something a private company can do, but then turn around and

And make demands on the same private company?

Make that make sense

[Claire Oh Nette]

4. Invisible hand of the free market

Now the GOP wants to tell employers what they can and can't do. Huh.
I thought their whole schtick was allowing foxes to guard the henhouses and self regulation.

Seems what they really want is to rule over others and decide for them what is and is not in their best interest, based on their "Conservative" beliefs, rather than nifty things like facts, data, statistics, and science.

[Claire Oh Nette]

5. No Vax? Not eligible.

Two things that “pushed me over the edge,” he said, were North Charleston’s firing of 25 unvaccinated first responders shortly before Christmas, followed by the Medical University of South Carolina warning people they faced removal from organ-transplant waiting lists.

Of course, there are over 600 first responders in Charleston, and what put this guy over the edge is less that 5% choosing not to meet the requirements for the job knowing that failure to do so would result in termination.

25 anti science tough guys think they are special and the rules, regulations, and safety guidelines don't apply to them.

Bummer about choosing to lose your job. How's it feel to cut off your nose to spite your face?

And I have zero fucks to give for those in advanced organ failure who , again, choose to disqualify themselves. My husband received a kidney 9 years ago.

No organ transplant center is going to waste a valuable organ or their teams 5 year survival rates on morons who ca't be bothered to get vaccinated. In fact, we don't give livers to active alcoholics, and we don't give lungs to smokers. When the call comes, that organ doesn't have six weeks to wait around for Mr. NoVaxx to get his act together. If he's not vaccinated, then he is not eligible. Bummer.


Politicians with religious axes to grind have no business playing doctor. Nor should the Anti-Science contingent rewrite the inclusion exclusion criteria for live organ transplants. They're playing games with real live life saving. Anyone selfish enough not to vax does not deserve the gift of life from someone who died to give that gift.

Enough.