Good:
The press conference is scheduled for 5 Eastern but I thought you’d want to discuss this now.
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Good:
COVID-19 vaccinations will also be required for more than 17 million health care workers at hospitals and other facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement—roughly 50K providers. (This covers a majority of health care workers nationwide.)
— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) September 9, 2021
The press conference is scheduled for 5 Eastern but I thought you’d want to discuss this now.
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Another Scott
Oooh. Nice.
Looking forward to it.
Cheers,
Scott.
lowtechcyclist
Cool.
Betty Cracker
He’s playing hardball — good. We’ll never get the fuck out of this nightmare without putting the pain on the voluntary plague rats, which is exactly where it belongs.
dmsilev
Full story in the Post
Baud
Saw the title and thought it was another post about Texas.
lowtechcyclist
@Betty Cracker:
We’ve tolerated them long enough, and it hasn’t done jack shit. Agreed – time for consequences.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I had to add an “m” to “co” for .com
You’ll want to fix that before you post again.
dmsilev
Mandating vaccinations on federally-controlled transportation (air travel, mostly) would also be good.
Also, I’d like to see a Federally-run betting pool on what completely-absurd “medication” will become the next miracle cure. I’ve got $10 on leeches.
Baud
“The Biden administration took various far-ranging actions today in an attempt to change the subject from the fiasco in Afghanistan.” /media elite
mrmoshpotato
Drop Da Bomb
Baud
@WaterGirl: Yes. I’ve got one more in the queue.
WaterGirl
Hey mistermix, i had a post scheduled for this speech. Shall I unschedule it?
WaterGirl
@Baud: okay, I think you’re all set now.
geg6
Biden bringing down the hammer. Good. About fucking time. Now I want him to do the same for all educational institutions that get Title IV funding.
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
Oh, man, I cannot wait.
Cermet
As a Fed worker, couldn’t be happier; especially if the dead enders leave – win/win!!!!
Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix
@WaterGirl: I’ll remove the video and let’s allow the scheduled one to go. This thread is going to get pretty long. Thanks
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
I’d look for something that’s either about to go off patent in the near future or has been supplanted by a similar but better medication. Some drug marketing person has to have recognized that this is a great way to boost sales and started a guerilla misinformation campaign to convince people it’s a miracle COVID cure.
VOR
It will be interesting to see who sues to block this rule. Because you know lawsuits are coming. I imagine many employers are happy to see the Federal Government create the mandate and take the pressure off the employer.
rikyrah
@Betty Cracker:
No more carrots.
Time for baseball bat sized sticks.
rikyrah
@dmsilev:
Planes
Amtrak
Greyhound
they all should require proof of vaccination.
Geoduck
@dmsilev:
Eh. Harder to run a grift with living things, since you have to sort of keep them alive.
Wag
Best news all week!
leeleeFL
It’s imperative that people get vaxxed, or forced to stay away from the rest of us. The rest of the Country has to be given the chance to move on. As someone who was in the Polio/Smallpox/Tetanus vax era, and the Mother and GrandMother of the vax for all childhood diseases as well Generations, my patience with these shitheads is done! Vax, or live in a cave.
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah:
I believe those are just called baseball bats. ?
Raoul Paste
After Biden’s speech, Howard Stern will be available to take questions from the media.
And we are temporarily suspending FCC profanity rules for Howard’s replies
MomSense
Biden fuck yeah!
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@dmsilev: I’m surprised cyanide hasn’t caught on. I mean, it’s got a 100% cure rate – everyone whose ever gotten Covid and taken a cyanide capsule, well, Covid didn’t kill a single one of them.
dr. bloor
@Baud: There’s a job at Politico waiting for you should you choose not to run in ’24.
mrmoshpotato
@leeleeFL: Is that cave on the Moon?
Joe Falco
Biden: I’m going to drop a bomb.
Press: *bursts into wild cheering*
Biden: Not that kind of bomb.
Press: Awww!
leeleeFL
@mrmoshpotato: That works …
Ken
Put me down for megadoses of vitamin A.
JKC
And no fecking whining about Freedum from these idiots. They’re free to refuse the vaccine; they can just go find jobs in another profession.
Kay
Rite aid sent me a digital verification card. Pretty snazzy!
You guys are probably jealous, with your dog-eared paper cards.
RepubAnon
@lowtechcyclist: I’m glad Biden is channeling his inner Popeye just before the spinach: “I’ve stood all I can stand, and I can’t stand no more!”
leeleeFL
@Ken: That’s probably too simple and bland. No chance of real misery caused, maybe some itchiness or some such.
No it has to be nuts, maybe transfusions of gorilla blood? Or possibly infusions of poop from convalescents? The plasma helped some right?
Baud
@Kay: I still miss paper blogs.
Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix
@JKC:
They’ll whine while they’re lining up for the shot.
This is one case where the politics and policy line up. Biden will be blamed if the pandemic is still raging in a few months, so doing this now is the right thing to do politically. Of course, it’s also good policy. I’m sure requiring vaccinations to board planes, trains and automobiles is just a shot away.
Amir Khalid
The post headline made me do a double-take. In my neck of the woods, to drop a bomb is a colloquial expression synonymous with to do No. 2.
It’s a good thing that Biden can finally issue these executive orders. No question that his action is right and necessary.
leeleeFL
@Baud: LOLOLOL. I thought you wrote bags, and didn’t know what you meant!
Joe Falco
@Kay: I had a copy made and laminated for free at Office Max. When I got my 2nd shot in April at one of the sites being managed by the National Guard, one of the soldiers told me that offer when my card was handed back to me. I used my laminated copy for the first time last week when I went to DragonCon in Atlanta!
mrmoshpotato
@leeleeFL: Gorilla poop infusions?
Woodrow/asim
@rikyrah: Job-based is far more impactful than transportation-based. A lot of poorer folx will not step onto even a bus, anytime soon — but many of them will go to a job.
I get that transportation is a major vector of spread, yet I think they are putting the focus in the right place. We’ll see how the inevitable lawsuits go…
Ken
Requiring medical providers who take Medicare/Medicaid to vaccinate is a great motivator. As the motto of the Omnian Quisition held, “Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.“
JaneE
Sounds good to me.
I hope Democrats are going to be out pounding the drums talking about how it is a damn shame that people in this country have to be forced to prevent deaths in their communities. There never has been a “freedom” to kill your neighbors, and the people who refuse to be vaccinated are doing just that, and I for one don’t believe that they know that very well.
dlwchico
Friend of my wife went to our local hospital recently and the doctor she saw mentioned that the hospital is planning on making the vaccine mandatory for it’s employees and he said when they do about a third of the people that work there are saying they will quit.
leeleeFL
@mrmoshpotato: possibly
smith
I really hope the Goobers don’t find a RWNJ judge to put a stay on this, but I’m not holding my breath. It would be great if there were enough of a delay so that when it went to trial vaccination-for-all would be a fait accompli.
mrmoshpotato
@Kay: Well, la ti da, you vaccinated, responsible, caring snob!
leeleeFL
@dlwchico: Bye, all you Felicias!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@dlwchico: Mandates make it harder for people who quit to get another job.
I don’t think most of them will follow through
Benw
Oh oh, Biden, do the schools next!
Roger Moore
@dlwchico:
This is a key reason having a federal mandate for healthcare providers is so important. A lot of those people planning on quitting probably figured they’d be able to get another job elsewhere. Good luck with that if there’s a federal mandate.
planetjanet
This announcement gives my heart joy.
leeleeFL
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Good! Vaxxed for whatever reason is vaxxed.
NotMax
@leeleeFL
Spotted owl jerky.
//
dmsilev
@Kay: County and state both sent me QR codes. Haven’t been anywhere that’s asked to see them, but hey, I’ve got a couple of QR codes!
3 actually, since my employer sent one out as well. That one got used once, though “used” is probably a bit strong. Person at the entrance to an outdoor event asked to see it, looked at the picture on my phone and said “yep, that’s a QR code sure enough, come on in.” I mean, the doorkeeper was someone I know fairly well so she was happy to take my word for it that I’d had the shots, but still….
Kay
@Joe Falco:
That’s nice. I like electronic records because they’re easy and “they” already knew where to find me :)
dmsilev
@Benw: LA is planning on mandating vaccines for all public school students 12 and over; the school board is meeting today to formalize the decision. Hopefully it will be the start of a trend.
Jager
@mrmoshpotato:
Buy Louisville slugger stock, now!
Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix
@dlwchico:
Say one thing, do another, I’ll bet.
gvg
Can this apply to state employees? I am afraid it won’t. I really want it to. We aren’t private employees.
I hate DeSantis and the GOP Florida legislature.
NotMax
@dmsilev
Brings new meaning to the term “magnet schools.”
:)
rikyrah
@dlwchico:
where will they work?
I would want to go to the hospital where the staff is all vaccinated.
geg6
@Kay:
I got a plastic holder to put mine in that is specifically sized for the card. It seals for protection from water. Cost me two bucks for five. I gave the extras to my John and some of my siblings.
Baud
I am so looking forward to the faster internet.
dmsilev
@NotMax: Cosponsored by Verizon, as part of their 5G mesh network buildout.
Benw
@dmsilev: awesome. Hey, NY schools, look what the cool LA kids are doing!
geg6
@dlwchico:
Yeah, sure they will.
cain
One good thing about this is that it will give state govts an out to also do mandatory vaccination. Once big businesses are doing it – the dragnet is going to close for these assholes.
Betty Cracker
@gvg: Did you see a clip of that lying fuck-nugget DeSantis saying he doesn’t understand why masks are politicized? As if he and the bloated orange fuck-knuckle whose leg he constantly humps haven’t been politicizing the fuck out of masks for well over a year? I wanted to throw a brick through the screen when I saw that! Gah!
NotMax
@geg6
Heh. I simply covered mine in plastic wrap. By happenstance I already use a style of wallet into which it readily fits.
Feathers
I’m guessing part of the reason for creating an almost universal mandate is to cut down on people just saying “I’ll quit!” If 2/3s of US jobs will require vaccination, it may be Suck It Up Buttercup time.
VeniceRiley
@Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix: It’s the “If xxxxx wins, I’m moving to Canada!” They’ll get vaccinated.
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: Save your screen, save the brick for him.
mrmoshpotato
@Joe Falco:
Was Puff there?
Spanky
@dmsilev: Spanky’s Leech Emporium is the place to go for all of your leech needs!
MazeDancer
DoJ Lawsuits!
Vaccne mandates!
Go get ’em. POTUS!
Ken
Remind me — that means they can’t collect unemployment?
JoyceH
@dmsilev:
Snake oil. Literally. There’s one sketchy study about a venomous viper in Brazil.
“A study published in the scientific journal Molecules this month found that the molecule produced by the jararacussu pit viper inhibited the virus’s ability to multiply in monkey cells by 75%.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/brazilian-viper-venom-may-become-tool-fight-against-coronavirus-study-shows-2021-08-31/
Before the month is out, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham will be doing for the word ‘jararacussu’ what they did for ‘ivermectin’. And yeah, it’s going to be hard to collect pit viper venom from the wilds of Brazil, but that won’t stop the grifters from claiming that’s what they’re selling.
NotMax
@Spanky
Leeches are the equivalent of juice boxes for vampires.
:)
Betty Cracker
@WaterGirl: I mean…
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker:
What a douche.
The Dangerman
Oh, please, please, PLEASE let me be in on the interviews when all these assholes need new jobs:
Me: Why did you leave your last job?
Them: I wouldn’t get the shot.
Me: Fuck you. Next!
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: Okay, that really makes me want to punch him. And I say that as someone who has never punched anybody.
JML
There’s will be some people who will actually quit rather than get vaxx’d, but the numbers will be relatively small and mostly from people who were already planning on leaving. Most people will talk big, whine a lot, and either get the shot or try to lie about it.
Betty Cracker
@zhena gogolia: The douchiest of flaming douchebags. Honest to dog, I think he’s worse than Trump.
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker: When the biggest asshat in the state is also the governor!
WaterGirl
@The Dangerman: You have that all wrong.
zhena gogolia
OT, but this show Spooks (MI-5) really is good, isn’t it?
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker: I think you might be right.
But my husband would say, he doesn’t have Trump’s charisma. Trump’s charisma is invisible to me, but my husband identified it back when he was being questioned by Megyn Kelly.
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia:
@Betty Cracker: DeathSantis (and others) are the reason for the word “douchecanoe.”
Eunicecycle
@Kay: my husband got one yesterday via text, but I haven’t gotten one yet. And ironically he has a flip phone (old style) so it doesn’t do him any good.
WaterGirl
Biden on now!
edit: Biden is bringing it!
The Dangerman
@WaterGirl: They can complain I’m taking away their freedom as I strap them to the table and jab them while they scream. I’m way past the point of giving a shit about their feelings.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Is that “Wah!” not to scale?
Tazj
This is great news, let the right wing whining begin.
mrmoshpotato
@Tazj:
Oh, it started decades ago and never stopped.
WaterGirl
@The Dangerman: Me, too.
JB
Now make a requirement for airline passengers
WaterGirl
@JB: And Amtrak!
E.
Oh man the right wing website commenters are going nuts. They are calling for violence. “The lib Marxist traitors have forced our hand.” MTG’s Facebook page has gotten even worse, which is hard to fathom. There is going to be some real resistance to this.
sdhays
@Baud: I assume at least 50% of them have already forgotten where Afghan-i-what(?) is.
Uncle Cosmo
@zhena gogolia: Watched a bunch of episodes years back. I thought it was pretty good entertainment as well.**
One thing that did somewhat bother me was how many episodes turned on the use of video from a dense network of surveillance cameras spread all over London. Intrusive much?***
** FTR The series name was changed to MI-5 for US release because the original British name (Spooks) is racially offensive here.
*** Not that I’m complaining – once changing planes at Heathrow I had a rucksack full of computer gear, taken when my back was turned, that Security recovered by means of the ubiquitous video cameras.
zhena gogolia
@Uncle Cosmo: The “CCTV” is a big plot device in all sorts of British crime drama.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: It looks like DeSantis painted himself into a corner, and now wants to levitate his way out.
karen marie
@The Dangerman: I hope that conversation is being held by phone, because they should be checking vaccine status at the door.
karen marie
@Roger Moore: Aren’t medical staff required to be vaccinated against all kinds of other things? Why, yes. Yes, they are!
omfg. These people will be the death of us all.
karen marie
@E.: That she still HAS a FB page tells you everything you need to know about FB.
#DeleteFacebook
karen marie
Did I kill yet another thread? Probably.
quakerinabasement
The commenters over at Fox are already looking for their tiki torches.
Another Scott
rofl.
(via Popehat)
Cheers,
Scott.
Anonymous At Work
@Ken: Jumping in late but $10 on “radium”.
Miss Bianca
@Ken: *guffaw* Even I, with my rudimentary high-school Latin, was able to translate that one.