This week the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s OSHA mandate in what is undeniably good news. However, lurking just past the headlines lie worrying undercurrents that the government’s ability to override your medical preferences is still growing.
Healthcare Worker Mandate Upheld
The most obvious red flag is the healthcare worker mandate being upheld. Here, the court basically found that if government is paying for a service (in this case Medicare/Medicaid), then they get to establish the rules for payment of that service.
That thought should be terrifying, because it’s only a stone’s throw to “If you want to USE Medicare/Medicaid, you must be vaccinated” or even “If you want to get Social Security, you must be vaccinated.” It’s even LESS distance to “Actually, you need a booster (or two).” And if this is allowed to stand, you can bet your bottom dollar that it won’t stop at THIS ‘vaccination.’ Whatever product Big Pharma rolls out next will certainly be added to the ‘regular’ rotation….
We already know how this goes. Unjabbed nurses will be fired, many of whom already got over covid and have better protection than the vaccinated, and hospitals will be closed.
The Long Beach Emergency Department, operated by Mt. Sinai South Nassau hospital system, fired about 72 employees who had religious exemptions from the jab mandate. The state officially ended all religious exemptions for healthcare workers on Monday.
“Some of these six dozen employees are ER nurses who the hospital said are not easily replaced due to training and other factors,” NBC New York reported. “The emergency department, which sees about 10,000 visitors annually, will be closed for at least a month.”
Pretty embarrassing for a state to blow up the healthcare system that everybody had to stay home to save. California was faced with the same problem, so now they’re allowing covid-positive nurses to work.
With the highly infectious omicron variant continuing to surge, California is taking an unprecedented step to try to avoid an overwhelmed health care system: allowing doctors and nurses who test positive for the virus to return to treating patients immediately, so long as they are asymptomatic and masked up.
This is literal madness. The state fires unvaccinated workers, many of whom have already beaten covid and can’t pass along the virus, and then tells COVID-POSITIVE nurses they must come back to work to alleviate the worker shortage caused by the initial firings! Clearly this is all about public health.
To see an example of what we avoided by dodging the OSHA mandate, take a look to Washington state, where the mountain passes filled with snow and the state refused help from unvaccinated county workers.
After all, Jay Inslee doesn’t suffer when the passes are untraversable. It doesn’t cost HIM anything to have the state come to a standstill. (Thank you, mail-in voting!) This is yet another example of why central planning always fails. The ‘leaders’ become hyper-focused on one thing, to the exclusion of everything else. So we get huge disruptive NPIs (which aren’t even effective) so just so the politicians can claim they are doing something.
This is why we have cities like New York and Chicago demanding vaccine passes, while most the country has already moved on. (Spoiler alert, Chicago hospitals are still 85% full)
Let’s remind ourselves of what that looks like in real-life:
All for a vaccine that doesn’t stop transmission. And they know this. Yet Biden is still yelling at companies to impose their OWN vaccine mandates, even after being shot down in the courts. This is standard practice for Biden, who’s acting like the dictator the press told us Trump was.
Edit: Just read this and it’s too good not to add:
“Washington is the Joe Biden of states.”
In the long term, these healthcare worker mandates may prove to be a good thing. Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s all disgusting and will no doubt hurt/kill many in the short term, but frankly, the medical industry has been beyond the point of repair for a long time now. Centuries perhaps:
https://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm
There’s a lot of information on that page and I certainly don’t agree with all of it, but it does raise questions about the fundamental premises of how we handle matters of health. And those premises have been off the table for discussion for too long. With the obvious profit motives of symptom-control instead of healthy prevention, I feel we all need to re-examine what we think we know. And even how “scientific” any of modern medical research methods are. We often cannot prove causation and settle for big data correlations. They are useful, but leave room for interpretation.
Basically, the more people end up walking away from the medical establishment (even if they’re forced to) may end up being a win for all of us eventually. Personally, at this point, I only think that most doctors are only useful for correcting physical trauma. If I was shot or in a car accident, I would want to be taken to the hospital. For everything else, an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of “cure.”
Hopefully none of this comes off as too callous, but I do not believe we can simply fix these systematic problems within the system that created them. And as long as healthcare remains a business, there will never be motivation to actually prioritize individual health.
“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship...To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic..., and have no place in a republic...The Constitution of this Republic should make special provisions for medical freedom as well as religious freedom." - Dr. Benjamin Rush
I totally agree with your assessment re the SC upholding the healthcare worker mandate because of federal funding. I immediately thought well the Powers that Be will tie receiving Social Security, Medicare and other federal benefits to getting vaccinated and then whatever next thing that they want to put into our bodies.
And yet, am I remembering correctly that withholding federal funding to cities/states that were illegal-alien sanctuaries was found by some court (SC?) to be unconstitutional or wrong for some reason? I recall that Trump was threatening to do this or actually did this. If so, what level of court said that this was wrong and under what basis? Could that be a Hail Mary if the loss of bodily autonomy will be a requirement to draw Social Security/Medicare? Thinking out loud here...