Governor Kristi Noem opposes legislation sponsored by two GOP State-Reps that would ban vaccine mandates within South Dakota. She claims that it would “destroy freedom.” Listen for yourself:
https://twitter.com/govkristinoem/status/1430242835790508041
It is illegal for businesses to hire, fire, or promote on the basis of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, etc., etc., etc. Businesses are required by law to pay overtime to hourly workers after forty hours. OSHA extensively regulates businesses in order to protect the health and safety of workers. ERISA exhaustively regulates pensions. The EPA tells businesses what to do with storm-water runoff.
I could go on and on and on and on and on and on … but to cut to the chase, it does not comport with reality to claim, as Noem does, that banning vaccine mandates and vaccine passports is going to send us hurtling down the proverbial slippery-slope to heavy and ubiquitous government regulation of business.
WE ALREADY HAVE HEAVY AND UBIQUITOUS GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF BUSINESS.
Have we gone too far in regulating businesses? I think so. But I also think we need to have some government oversight and regulation of business. Disagree with me? Then educate yourself about the conditions workers faced at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.
There is no legitimate health reason for businesses to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for their workers or to require COVID-19 vaccines for their customers.
COVID-19 is non-lethal for 99.5% of those who catch it … and that number rises to approximately 99.9% when the very elderly and the very fat are excluded.
COVID-19 “vaccines” are being forced on us by the Left for political, not health, reasons … to justify and normalize the lockdowns, the mask-mandates, government choosing what businesses are essential and nonessential, curfews, capacity limits, and all the other assaults on our freedoms.
The vaccines are being forced on us to break our will and to train us to “shut up and obey” the so-called experts.
Noem and other so-called Republicans … and that includes Sun-King Sununu and his sycophants in the legislature … are NOT on our side.
