Wed Jan 5, 2022 – 4:22 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — President Joe Biden doubled down Tuesday on his combative posture toward Americans who decline COVID-19 vaccines, blaming them for the pandemic’s continuation and going so far as to suggest that parents only let their children near vaccinated people.
In September, Biden directed the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) to draft a rule to “require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work,” as well as a mandate for around 17 million healthcare workers at medical facilities that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding and one for federal contractors which accounts for roughly a fifth of the U.S. labor market. The health worker and contractor mandates contain no testing option.
The mandates have proven intensely controversial, provoking legal challenges that are slated to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. Biden has responded to the backlash by intensifying his strident tone on the subject, scaring unvaccinated Americans with predictions of a
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