Approved overwhelmingly in a 67-3 vote on Tuesday, House Bill 417 seeks to amend Idaho’s code pertaining to workers’ compensation to “provide that vaccine-related accidents or injuries shall be compensable” by employers or insurers. “If the employer is telling you, you have to do this in order to work here, …
Read More »US federal judge overturns Texas ban on school mask mandates
In a ruling on Wednesday, US District Court Judge Lee Yeakel said that Abbott’s May executive order – which barred government agencies, including public schools, from mandating face masks – was at odds with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and put children with health conditions at higher risk. “The …
Read More »WATCH Protesters against vaccine mandates square off with counter-rally in Boston
Organizers behind the main protest – dubbed Rise Against Tyranny – said they were demonstrating against “vaccine passports, face diapers, mass layoffs, and unconstitutional mandates.” Counter-protesters, however, tried to drown out the anti-mask crowd trying to play music at the event through speakers or with a full brass band in attendance. …
Read More »Clashes, arrests as hundreds protest against Covid mandates in Leipzig (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
A large police force was deployed to Leipzig where a total of 12 protests were scheduled to take place. Armored police vehicles were seen on the city’s streets. More than 1,000 people gathered in the city center near the Leipzig Opera to voice their discontent with the measures taken by …
Read More »I am fully vaccinated – but Joe Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandates are un-American, unethical and fundamentally illiberal
During a recent CNN presidential town hall, Anderson Cooper brought up the issue of some city workers refusing to comply with Covid-19 vaccine mandates. “I’m wondering where you stand on that,” Cooper asked President Joe Biden. “Should police officers, first responders be mandated to get vaccines? And if not, should …
Read More »‘I know more about being healthy than 99% of doctors’: Surf icon Slater rips into vaccine mandates in row with Aussie Ironman star
Slater courted contention earlier this year when he said he would not be comfortable getting jabbed but insisted that he was not anti-vaccine. The 11-time World Surf League champ has now ignited more anger, this time with his response to a seemingly innocuous post from a little-known Australian account on …
Read More »Republican candidate campaigning to end ‘tyrant’ Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates bizarrely parallels Kyrie Irving jab ruling with HIV
Congress candidate Lavern Spicer, an ardent opponent of the Democratic Party who has branded US president Joe Biden a ‘tyrant’ in a petition urging an end to vaccine mandates, has grabbed the headlines and earned an avalanche of derision for a baffling take on the controversy surrounding Irving. A scandal has erupted …
Read More »Arguing for vax passports and mandates on the basis some schools require polio jabs for kids is infantilizing and dishonest
Canada, France, New York and San Francisco now require proof of vaccination for entry into restaurants, gyms and other public venues. Similarly, the Biden administration has made increasing vaccination rates a priority, and wants to mandate that all employers operating in the country with more than 100 employees require vaccination …
Read More »Vaccine mandates ‘good for the economy’, White House claims, chalking up Southwest flight cancellations just ‘a little hubbub’
During a Tuesday briefing, Psaki was asked if vaccine mandates are negatively affecting the workforce, the question coming on the heels of Southwest recently canceling thousands of flights not long after they began enforcing the requirement. “I know world-renowned business, travel, and health expert Sen. Ted Cruz has made that …
Read More »Texas Gov. Abbott BANS all vaccine mandates, including for private entities, insisting jab is ‘effective,’ but must be ‘voluntary’
Signed Monday, Abbott’s executive order states that “no entity in Texas can compel receipt of a Covid-19 vaccine by any individual… who objects to such vaccination” for whatever reason – whether that be religious-based objections, medical concerns or other reasons of “personal conscience” – threatening a fine of up to …
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