Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

The Masking Mandate Charade

October 13, 2021 By Debbie Young

By MandriaPix @ Shutterstock.com

An engineering student at Penn State University describes the result of the mask mandate, in place across his campus. The mandate is in effect inside all school buildings, and it applies to students and faculty alike, regardless of vaccination status, resulting in what he calls a “Masking Theatre.”

Masquerade Mandate Reality

Many students arrive unmasked, then don masks across their chins as they approach a classroom, walking inside with nose or mouths exposed, informs the collegiate informer in the WSJ.

Freshman 15?

In the residence halls, most students walk around mask-less until told to wear one by a resident assistant. Some will even start eating when asked to wear a mask because, as PSU guidelines put it, “masks do not need to be worn when actively eating or drinking.” Walking around with a cookie in hand suddenly makes one immune to Covid, it would seem.

If masks work, why are Americans being asked to mask almost a full two years later?

COVID Jujitsu

Meanwhile, political vaccine jujitsu is causing real harm to Americans and U.S. social harmony, warns the WSJ. Yes, vaccines have saved tens of thousands of American lives. With the spread of the Delta variant, millions more got vaccinated during the summer.

Yet even as the U.S. was turning the corner on Delta, President Biden issued his sweeping vaccine diktats, which he no doubt hoped would boost his flagging public support. Polls show that vaccine mandates are popular with most Americans. But Mr. Biden’s mandate has hardened political opposition to vaccines and turned them into another accelerant for polarization.

President Biden has ordered employees of federal contractors to be vaccinated by 8 December, reports the WSJ. Healthcare providers, for example, risk losing government reimbursements if their workers aren’t vaccinated.

We’re from OSHA and We’re Here to Help

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is drafting an emergency rule requiring employers with more than 100 employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly. Many employers are imposing mandates, and hard deadlines, in anticipation of the OSHA rules.

In a sweeping executive order, Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday banned all state entities from implementing COVID-19 vaccine mandates without including carve-outs for “reasons of personal conscience” or “medical reasons, including prior recovery from COVID-19.”

Governor Abbott on Biden’s Order:

In yet another instance of federal overreach, the Biden administration is now bullying many private entities into imposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates, causing workforce disruptions that threaten Texas’s continued recovery from the COVID-19 disaster.

An Unfair Legal Quandry?

Shouldn’t private employers be allowed to impose their own vaccine requirements? Texas Gov. Abbott’s response to Mr. Biden’s orders, however puts employers in a legal quandary, advises the WSJ. Whatever they do, they will be violating the law.

Not Fair to Businesses

Employers don’t want their workers getting sick. Illnesses can cause business disruptions as well as liability risks if workers infect customers. But employers also have to weigh these concerns against the risk that they will lose workers if they mandate vaccines. The risk-benefit calculation is different for each employer, which is why they need to be allowed to tailor their policies accordingly.

As the WSJ notes, some workers may figure they “can wait out Mr. Biden’s mandates, which may be enjoined by courts.”

But the economic and human costs will compound in the meantime. To take one example: Nursing homes have lost 10% of their workforces during the pandemic and say vaccine mandates are making it difficult to hire and retain workers.

The virus is thankfully ebbing again, and vaccine boosters should reduce the infection and death toll. But the damage to the U.S. economy and individual liberty that Mr. Biden has done may prove more stubborn.

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • COVID Vaccine Mandate, Biden and Fauci Cooked
  • Understanding the COVID-19 Vaccine
  • COVID Deaths Unfortunate but Insignificant
  • COVID-19 Ravages Iran
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • Biden Embraces Modern Monetary Theory - March 23, 2023
  • For the Health of the Planet - March 22, 2023
  • Who’d be Nuts Enough to Have Put Money into SVB? - March 21, 2023

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • “The Goal”: Strong Families, Resilient Faith, Thriving Middle Class.
  • Your Life on Main Street will Never be the Same
  • Progressive Liberalism Has Dragged America near Ruination
  • What Do You Know About Rho-Kinase?
  • America’s Number One Patriot: Naples Florida’s Alfie Oakes
  • CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY: Alabama Becomes 22nd Permitless Carry State
  • “An Epic Struggle Over the Definition of America”
  • Paris, The Palace Hotels: Part I
  • Warning! Your Survival Guy’s on a Boil Water Advisory
  • Key West’s Best Burger

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Pushing Back at ESG
  • Your Survival Guy’s BEST Insider’s Guide to Key West
  • Are You Fairly Wealthy? I’m Listening
  • Cheap Reliable Heating – a Life Saver
  • Who'd be Nuts Enough to Have Put Money into SVB?
  • Biden Has Lost Control of the Northern Border Too
  • Get Well Soon Taki
  • For Whom Is Your Portfolio Serving?
  • Border Patrol Chief Admits U.S. Border Is Out of Control
  • SPIES ON CAMPUS: The Chinese Have Invaded the Quad

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Is Vanguard Voting Against Your Political Beliefs?
  • Are 0DTE Options a Threat to Markets?
  • “I Need Preservation of Principal and Growth”
  • Are You Fairly Wealthy? I’m Listening
  • Treasury Studying How to Increase Deposit Insurance
  • Your Survival Guy’s BEST Insider’s Guide to Key West
  • For Whom Is Your Portfolio Serving?
  • Who’s to Blame for Banking Vulnerability?
  • Mortgage Market Not Expected to Settle Down Soon
  • Are You Living Your Best Life?

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Is Vanguard Voting Against Your Political Beliefs?
  • Call It the Difference between Normal and Crazy
  • “I Need Preservation of Principal and Growth”
  • DEMOCRATIC SENATOR: Biden’s ESG Veto “Absolutely Infuriating”
  • Are You Fairly Wealthy? I’m Listening
  • How Long Is Your Water Supply Chain?
  • Your Survival Guy’s BEST Insider’s Guide to Key West
  • Be Wary of Those Who Wrap Themselves in Capes
  • For Whom Is Your Portfolio Serving?
  • ESG: Are Markets Ready for “A Needed Dose of Reality?”

Biden Embraces Modern Monetary Theory

Is Vanguard Voting Against Your Political Beliefs?

Does Anyone Still Think Ron Paul Was Wrong?

The Kings of Onlywood, Key West, Florida

Rand Paul Surprises Moderna CEO with Inside Information about Myocarditis Risk

Hillsdale College and Victor Davis Hanson America’s Finest

Copyright © 2023 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives