And it's all bad.
OSHA Vaccine Mandate Released, 84 Million Workers Face Jan. 4 Deadline, the Epoch Times - https://outline.com/Xv23u7
Republicans SUE to stop Biden's 'unconstitutional' plan - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10164953/14-000-fines-unvaccinated-workers-Bidens-new-COVID-rules.html
Statement by President Joe Biden on Vaccination Requirements: https://gab.com/Breaking911/posts/107219945227779307
Edit to add the PDF text of the OSHA regulation, 490 pages - https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-23643.pdf
Skimmed the OSHA reg.
Employees that wish to feign compliance* should just "lose" their card and self-attest.
Companies that wish to feign compliance* might be able do so by having exactly one employee (preferably one off-site) have access to the vaccination database and treat vaccination status as confidential information not to be shared with anyone. Then everyone just does their thing, and if someone doesn't wear a mask people will just assume it's because they're vaccinated. Or simply make it very obvious (preferably verbally so there's no record) that self-attestation is an option, and that this attestation will never be questioned or verified in any way.
But I haven't read the reg in detail, so maybe there's holes in that strategy. But just skimming the reg it looks like it's got enough holes in it that it looks like a deliberate attempt by some bureaucrat saying "we've illuminated the exit door for all of you; just go to the exit for god's sake!"
* Yes non-compliance is best for all, but if someone's not prepared to fight this potentially years-long battle I think those people should also have options as to how to go through this without being injected.
True my Boomer parents are pissed that they "have to" wear masks now that they've been vaccinated, but when I tell them "you know you don't have to; no one's going to arrest you or even challenge you if you don't" their eyes glaze over as if I'm speaking some foreign language.
The Regime is way over-leveraged in its ability to enforce law and order, and locales and even states that start to push back will completely overwhelm its ability to enforce these policies.
Absolutely true. Boomers almost certainly identify non-compliance with the left. Later generations grew up with it as a tactic and fact of life when you don't agree with what the people in charge are doing.
Boomers are literally the only thing preventing this nation from balkanizing along racial lines so yes, I'm looking forward to when a critical mass of people figure out we no longer live in a high-trust society. Old people literally think it's still 1964.
We don't "live in a society," society lives within us. This is why Japan and Somalia look completely different. One was struck by two nuclear bombs and the other is full of Africans.
And that's the big elephant in the room when the freaking President goes out there, makes a big dramatic statement, breaths fire and threatens ruinous consequences for non compliance.
And then the actual implementation sets the stage both for self-enforcement and for any punishments to effectively be targeted, selective enforcement to make examples of people - especially those they don't like - to try and get everyone else to comply.
It's ridiculous and weak. It signals immediately that those writing the rule know it's untenable.
It's 'clever' in the 'No one 'important' (read, the bureaucrats and the presidency) has to take actual responsibility because OSHA is the one waving the stick around while the entire private work-force supposedly plays enforcer. But in reality, the president's reputation, and that of the office, are on the line making a strong stance that can't be pulled off because he just had to 'look tough' on TV.
When is anyone in the Democrat party going to get it through their thick skulls that's it's really not good for the country if the office of the Presidency is so overtly weak and pitiful?
The OSHA mandate is identical to what my S&P 500 employer's policy was, except it was all self-attestation. And it was the same thing: company President comes into an all-hands meeting and makes a big dramatic statement about how the company is going to "take a hard-line stance" and all that shit, and then they come out with their weak-ass policy.
I think I even told some co-workers I confided in at the time "I'd respect the company more if they actually did implement a hard-line policy, but this just makes them look pathetic and weak"