The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a federal agency charged with protecting workers injured or otherwise health-impacted while on the job. OSHA is in the business of enforcing the Occupational Safety and Health Act, a statute that covers most private sector employers and their workers - in addition to most public sector employers and workers in all 50 states. On Thursday, April 22, 2021, OSHA issued the following statement:
“If you require your employees to be vaccinated as a condition of employment (i.e., for work-related reasons), then any adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine is work-related.”
Just over one month later, OSHA pulled a Fauci – reversing its previous statement 100%. Their website now features this updated statement:
“OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination and also does not wish to disincentivize employer’s vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require many employers to record worker side effects from COVid-19 vaccination through May 2022. We will re-evaluate the agency’s position at that time to determine the best course of action moving forward.”
This is the first significant time since the agency was established in 1971 that OSHA has changed its guidelines away from worker safety reporting. Its entire raison d'être has been to protect the workforce from health impacts incurred while on the job and to compel employers by law to record and report work-related injuries.
To say this is without precedent is putting it mildly. Imagine if the United States Congress just decided not to pass laws for a year and stated they would “re-evaluate” their position next year. Or ruminate on the Department of Defense issuing a declaration that it had decided not to defend America for a year. These two utter abdications of responsibility give some sense of what OSHA has decided to do. Or not to do, to put it more accurately.
In effect, OSHA just vaporized its mission statement by inverting the entire purpose for which the agency was created. What happened?
There is no access to internal decision-making, but on the face of it, OSHA seems to have been pressured by the Biden administration, which wants everyone in America vaccinated. This vaccine is not FDA approved. It has not undergone any long-term safety studies, but it has been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) as the cause of 4,647 deaths. There’s little science that proves this jab prevents infection or transmission of SARS CoV2 – yet OSHA has changed its policy and suspended its decade-long rule to provide cover for employers who want to mandate the vaccine.
Many Americans also don’t know that you can’t sue the manufacturer for adverse events, including deaths resulting from the jab. And now your employer is allowed to shrug off workplace injury resulting from mandating the vaccine for its employees.
Or can it?
Chairman Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel is critical of the inversion of OSHA’s mission directive. He stated:
“The fact that OSHA will not enforce recording requirements does not alter the legal liability of employers who require, coerce, or incentivize employees to take COVID shots. OSHA’s suspension of the recording requirement so as not to discourage experimental COVID shots reveals that the Biden administration could care less about the collateral damage being caused by the COVID shots. The people can see this biased agenda. They are not stupid.”
So perhaps, ultimately, OSHA’s cynical messaging to working Americans – “Good luck – you’re on your own” – won’t hold up legally. But that doesn’t change the fact that this strikes a blow at the heart of American’s medical freedom. Dr. Jim Meehan states has seen hundreds of complaints come into his office from patients stricken by adverse events resulting from the COVID-19 vaccine. As he put it:
“This is the slippery slope towards totalitarianism.”
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