When my kids were younger, we watched a lot of Pokemon. Yes, I said we. I was as good as anyone at matching the silhouettes to the names. So, when the Jab mandate craze took root, one of my first thoughts was, “Gotta Jab ‘Em All!”
Biden’s administration has done its best to fulfill the notion. Jab anyone, and everyone.
One way was a blanket assumption that anyone who gets a whiff of federal money (your money, and these days your grandchildren) could be force-vaccinated. Use the force Joe!
People will put up with a lot for a federal contract. And the fear culture inspired many to cave early, but resistance is not futile. There’s been pushback. One such instance was a Biden order that all Federal COntractors mandate COVID-19 vaccination or the could (would) lose their contracts.
You could hear the ‘F**k You! for miles. And that shout heard ’round the world just won in court.
A 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the mandate in a 2-1 decision.
“The President’s use of procurement regulations to reach through an employing contractor to force obligations on individual employees is truly unprecedented,” the ruling concluded. “As such, Executive Order 14042 is unlawful, and the Plaintiff States have consequently demonstrated a strong likelihood of success on the merits.”
Truly unprecedented. That has a nice ring to it and maybe just a little bit of recoil. And not just there.
The case is one of the multiple recent examples of COVID vaccine mandates that have faced recent legal challenges. On Monday, a federal judge approved a class action settlement of more than $10 million for workers at an Illinois healthcare system whose religious exemptions against taking the vaccine were rejected.
The scope of abuse excused under a fabricated umbrella of fear will never be known. So many lives were harmed or lost as a result of the response, numbers that will keep rising as vaccine and policy injuries (lockdowns, unnecessary masking, remote living, or isolation, alcohol, and drug abuse or overdose) continue to take people from us.
While it is challenging to fight fear on that scale, massive financial loss resulting from malfeasance has a way of slowing the roll. At least, we hope it does.
HT | The Daily Wire
