Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

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X Prime said:
Well no, it means anyone working for a hospital is fucked.
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It's going to be a nightmare for anyone unwilling to leave and form a doctor's co-op or private practice, but I find myself having some difficulty feeling pity for them. The medical establishment had years to pump the brakes on this, and doctors and nurses by and large went along with brutal treatment regimes (that didn't work) and kept life-saving medicines from people for political reasons. Everyone who already protested has been fired and blacklisted or marginalized and barely treats patients already.

Maybe it will finally motivate the remaining holdouts to strike. This plandemic will only end when it gets so uncomfortable for so many people that there's no possible mechanism for government enforcement.
 
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Shaka Brah said:
Leading to no places taking government checks. Win-win?
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I don't have the figures in front of me, but I remember from listening to the SCOTUS hearing that the majority of medical facilities in the United States, especially in poorer parts of the country, require CMS funding to stay afloat, and breaking away from that will almost certainly shutter them.
 
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Some Badger said:
I don't have the figures in front of me, but I remember from listening to the SCOTUS hearing that the majority of medical facilities in the United States, especially in poorer parts of the country, require CMS funding to stay afloat, and breaking away from that will almost certainly shutter them.
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This is the bit that stings. Rural clinics are absolutely doomed, most medical professionals already don't want to work in them.

I don't get why they'd do one but not the other except for hand-wringing about olds in Medicare.
 
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U.S. Supreme Court halts COVID-19 vaccine rule for businesses​


The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job.

At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the U.S.

The court's orders Thursday during a spike in coronavirus cases was a mixed bag for the administration's efforts to boost the vaccination rate among Americans.

The court's conservative majority concluded the administration overstepped its authority by seeking to impose the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's vaccine-or-test rule on U.S. businesses with at least 100 employees. More than 80 million people would have been affected.

“OSHA has never before imposed such a mandate. Nor has Congress. Indeed, although Congress has enacted significant legislation addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, it has declined to enact any measure similar to what OSHA has promulgated here,” the conservatives wrote in an unsigned opinion.

In dissent, the court's three liberals argued that it was the court that was overreaching by substituting its judgment for that of health experts. “Acting outside of its competence and without legal basis, the Court displaces the judgments of the Government officials given the responsibility to respond to workplace health emergencies,” Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a joint dissent.

When crafting the OSHA rule, White House officials always anticipated legal challenges - and privately some harbored doubts that it could withstand them. The administration nonetheless still views the rule as a success at already driving millions of people to get vaccinated and for private businesses to implement their own requirements that are unaffected by the legal challenge.

Both rules had been challenged by Republican-led states. In addition, business groups attacked the OSHA emergency regulation as too expensive and likely to cause workers to leave their jobs at a time when finding new employees already is difficult.

The vaccine mandate that the court will allow to be enforced nationwide covers virtually all health care workers in the country. It applies to health care providers that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid funding, potentially affecting 76,000 health care facilities as well as home health care providers. The rule has medical and religious exemptions.

Decisions by federal appeals courts in New Orleans and St. Louis had blocked the mandate in about half the states. The administration already was taking steps to enforce it elsewhere.

In the healthcare case, only justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito noted their dissents. “The challenges posed by a global pandemic do not allow a federal agency to exercise power that Congress has not conferred upon it. At the same time, such unprecedented circumstances provide no grounds for limiting the exercise of authorities the agency has long been recognized to have,” the justices wrote in an unsigned opinion, saying the “latter principle governs” in the healthcare cases.

More than 208 million Americans, 62.7 per cent of the population, are fully vaccinated, and more than a third of those have received booster shots, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All nine justices have gotten booster shots.

The justices heard arguments on the challenges last week. Their questions then hinted at the split verdict that they issued Thursday.


 

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I guess the workaround would be getting funding from the state government directly, but that would require a tax hike on people who are already burdened by the increasing gas and grocery prices, in parts of the country where the economy is nowhere near as developed as it is on the coasts.

The coastal elites really want to make as much of the country as unlivable as the big cities.
 
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Kramer on the phone said:
As for the supreme court decision. use your head, the riots completely stopped once Biden won, DC was shut down once Jan 6th hit basically. the troops are all back again, you really think its because their side will lose?

I just talked to me girlfriend in Gisborne, North Island New Zealand (AKA the future) and she said that this was the decision. so be prepared when its announced in less than 16 hours View attachment 2883594

look at that smilin face. So much for that 6-3 conservative majority goyim.
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Your girlfriend wasn't telling the whole truth. You should punish her (sexually).
 
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Getting tard comed said:
He who pays the piper chooses the tune. Always be wary of outside funding. That's the core reasoning why the healthcare mandate stood and the other did not.
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Apparently the ruling on the healthcare one is very carefully constructed so that if it's nuked by the lower courts, well, it's nuked. And the wording is such that if they can bring it up with the right case, they'd still nuke it.

It's not over for the healthcare one.
 
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Security forces have barricaded themselves inside the Bulgarian parliament with MPs while protesters outside try to storm the building demanding the end of Covid tyranny


I wonder if U.S. media would label this an insurrection.
 
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