I've said it before, but it bears repeating. We cannot treat Covid-19 as an individual issue. Each of our actions has consequences on our broader communities. As we've seen with Omicron, vaccines help (greatly) but are insufficient at completely insulating us from the choices of other individuals. Workers should be able to go to work, to earn a living for themselves and their families, with the knowledge that their employer has done everything possible to keep them safe.
To say that Covid-19 is not an occupational hazard is an outrageous logical contortion.
I had naively thought that Republicans were unhappy with what they called legislating from the bench, but that's what the GOP majority on the court did today and can be expected to do in the future.
As our rights slip away, drip by drip by painful drip, there are times when key events speed up that process. Today was such a day. We don't have to look hard to see the promise of America die in front of our eyes.
This is a travesty, workers will now have to work in environments with countless number of unvaccinated coworkers, risking their own health and safety and their families too. My son-in-law works in such a place, more than half of the employees are out from COVID, his bosses, boss just died from it and his boss is retiring in a few weeks. No one wears masks and they continue to spread the virus amongst themselves. Those vaccinated are now doing the jobs of the sick. This Supreme Court has proven itself to be a partisan corporate friendly entity that cares nothing about the people in our country. Time to expand the court and put term limits on justices. Enough!
This country is spiraling backwards at an alarming rate. We seem hell bent on proving (to steal a bit from Aaron Sorkin’s Will McAvoy) that we’re not the greatest country on earth and if we can be, we have no desire to do what that would require. As a child of the sixties, looking to a future of progress, rationality, education and charity, I’m appalled at the country I’m leaving to my children and grandchildren.
The Supreme Court has shown they are ready, willing and able to hide behind "lack of authority" or "procedural' technicalities without truly deciding whether something is constitutional or not.
As you pointed out, OSHA was specifically created BY CONGRESS to provide a safe place to work.
That should include protection from contracting Covid while at work!!!
A place they must show up in order to earn a salary.
If we (as a nation) do not act soon on the augmentation of the Supreme Court, and put strong term limits on those so-called Justices, we will be on our final approach to democratic oblivion.
In addition to the broader implications for justice, an immediate implication will be more people quitting their jobs to find safer ones. Maybe there will be more union activity as a result of this ruling. Unions can make safety measures a top issue in their negotiations.
So tired of isolation, masks and boosters. I respect other peoples’ rights, but not when it steps on mine, not to mention the health of the whole planet. This is an exceptional situation. I didn’t want to take the vaccine but considered it the only real choice I had as well as my civic duty. For heaven’s sake people sacrifice their lives and bodies for this country. There should not be a need for a mandate. Let’s diddle around until the next variant comes along (sarcasm.)
I agree. The Supreme Court justices are, effectively, practicing medicine without a license. They have zero expertise in infectious diseases or epidemiology, yet they substitute their own opinions for those of experts. That is why I said awhile ago in this forum that maybe we need to simply ignore the Supreme Court, in order to protect the country from harm. Another weird idea I had: impeach the six right wing extremist justices, along with the relevant district judges and circuit judges, for practicing medicine without a license. They would not be convicted, of course, but it would send a message.
And now the Supreme Court majority ignores science and other circumstantial facts. New rule: The Supreme Court must now change its name; it's far from supreme.
Too, this decision bolsters need for either term limits or expanded number of judges or both.
Unfortunately, Supreme Court reform is on a list for which we struggle to channel Sinema and Manchin who prioritize media attention and conflicts of financial interest respectively over effective policy-making and governing in pursuit of democracy.
Right-wing thinking is often guided by a social Darwinism that holds that businesses and the individual people who populate them ought be left to sink or swim. Hence, not in favor of terminating unwanted pregnancies, but not in favor of social quality of life programs. I can’t see that today’s decision is an example of anything other than this sort of privileged, exclusionary thinking.
The unSupreme Ct continually contradicts itself not left and right, but right and farther right. Today's "judgment makes absolutely no sense. None at all.
As a biologist, I am absolutely appalled by this decision. This proves this court becomes nothing more than a corporate rubber stamp when the conservative judges are in the majority. We must add more liberal justices to stop the democracy destroying rulings the conservative justices have put in place, most notably "Citizen's United."
I've said it before, but it bears repeating. We cannot treat Covid-19 as an individual issue. Each of our actions has consequences on our broader communities. As we've seen with Omicron, vaccines help (greatly) but are insufficient at completely insulating us from the choices of other individuals. Workers should be able to go to work, to earn a living for themselves and their families, with the knowledge that their employer has done everything possible to keep them safe.
To say that Covid-19 is not an occupational hazard is an outrageous logical contortion.
I had naively thought that Republicans were unhappy with what they called legislating from the bench, but that's what the GOP majority on the court did today and can be expected to do in the future.
As our rights slip away, drip by drip by painful drip, there are times when key events speed up that process. Today was such a day. We don't have to look hard to see the promise of America die in front of our eyes.
This is a travesty, workers will now have to work in environments with countless number of unvaccinated coworkers, risking their own health and safety and their families too. My son-in-law works in such a place, more than half of the employees are out from COVID, his bosses, boss just died from it and his boss is retiring in a few weeks. No one wears masks and they continue to spread the virus amongst themselves. Those vaccinated are now doing the jobs of the sick. This Supreme Court has proven itself to be a partisan corporate friendly entity that cares nothing about the people in our country. Time to expand the court and put term limits on justices. Enough!
This country is spiraling backwards at an alarming rate. We seem hell bent on proving (to steal a bit from Aaron Sorkin’s Will McAvoy) that we’re not the greatest country on earth and if we can be, we have no desire to do what that would require. As a child of the sixties, looking to a future of progress, rationality, education and charity, I’m appalled at the country I’m leaving to my children and grandchildren.
The Supreme Court has shown they are ready, willing and able to hide behind "lack of authority" or "procedural' technicalities without truly deciding whether something is constitutional or not.
As you pointed out, OSHA was specifically created BY CONGRESS to provide a safe place to work.
That should include protection from contracting Covid while at work!!!
A place they must show up in order to earn a salary.
If we (as a nation) do not act soon on the augmentation of the Supreme Court, and put strong term limits on those so-called Justices, we will be on our final approach to democratic oblivion.
I’m curious if this Supreme Court would rule seatbelts and traffic lights as unconstitutional?
In addition to the broader implications for justice, an immediate implication will be more people quitting their jobs to find safer ones. Maybe there will be more union activity as a result of this ruling. Unions can make safety measures a top issue in their negotiations.
So tired of isolation, masks and boosters. I respect other peoples’ rights, but not when it steps on mine, not to mention the health of the whole planet. This is an exceptional situation. I didn’t want to take the vaccine but considered it the only real choice I had as well as my civic duty. For heaven’s sake people sacrifice their lives and bodies for this country. There should not be a need for a mandate. Let’s diddle around until the next variant comes along (sarcasm.)
I agree. The Supreme Court justices are, effectively, practicing medicine without a license. They have zero expertise in infectious diseases or epidemiology, yet they substitute their own opinions for those of experts. That is why I said awhile ago in this forum that maybe we need to simply ignore the Supreme Court, in order to protect the country from harm. Another weird idea I had: impeach the six right wing extremist justices, along with the relevant district judges and circuit judges, for practicing medicine without a license. They would not be convicted, of course, but it would send a message.
Justices???? How about Just Useless!!
And now the Supreme Court majority ignores science and other circumstantial facts. New rule: The Supreme Court must now change its name; it's far from supreme.
Too, this decision bolsters need for either term limits or expanded number of judges or both.
Unfortunately, Supreme Court reform is on a list for which we struggle to channel Sinema and Manchin who prioritize media attention and conflicts of financial interest respectively over effective policy-making and governing in pursuit of democracy.
Right-wing thinking is often guided by a social Darwinism that holds that businesses and the individual people who populate them ought be left to sink or swim. Hence, not in favor of terminating unwanted pregnancies, but not in favor of social quality of life programs. I can’t see that today’s decision is an example of anything other than this sort of privileged, exclusionary thinking.
The unSupreme Ct continually contradicts itself not left and right, but right and farther right. Today's "judgment makes absolutely no sense. None at all.
An awful decision - far beyond the knowledge of SC justices and any modicum of common sense!
As a biologist, I am absolutely appalled by this decision. This proves this court becomes nothing more than a corporate rubber stamp when the conservative judges are in the majority. We must add more liberal justices to stop the democracy destroying rulings the conservative justices have put in place, most notably "Citizen's United."