Friday, November 26, 2021

Pandemic Part 7. The Litigation Edition

 

November 5, 2021.

The state announced its suing over the Federal mandate applying to 100 employees today, even though the mandate turned out to be much less broad than anticipated, accepting masks in lieu of vaccination.

The mandate provides that employees of companies with 100 or more persons on the payroll must be vaccinated or tested weekly and wear masks.

Meanwhile, in Laramie a high school student who was arrested for being on school grounds in violation of her school district's mask order has sued the Governor, state health officials, local school officials and six local school districts.

The Goshen County school district rescinded its mask mandate.


The suit will fail, but like all such things it will kick around in the courts for months prior to that result.

In other news, the disease is experiencing a major surge in Germany and Eastern Europe.

There were large protests in New Zealand over its vaccine mandate.

November 10, 2021

Pfizer asked the Federal Government to allow boosters for all adults.  The Federal Government has in turn opened it up, so all adults may now receive boosters.

There was a protest outside a power plant at Wheatland yesterday over the mandates, although apparently the power plant isn't subject to them.

The Union Pacific and the Burlington Northern have gone to court to determine if they can impose mandates on their employees, which they wish to do. Their unions are resisting the efforts on the basis that the railroads didn't negotiate first. That is, the unions support vaccinations, but they wanted the railroads to negotiate on the incentives first.

The surge in Europe has now spread to Greece.

November 12, 2021

PBS's Big Bird stated on an episode of Sesame Street that he'd been vaccinated sparking the ire of conservative figures, including Senator Ted Cruz.

November 22, 2021

The University of Wyoming is not going to require staff vaccinations until the results of the pending lawsuits are known.

Austria went into a lockdown today, and has issued a nationwide vaccination mandate to go in effect February 1.

November 26, 2021

Denver is putting in place a mask mandate for public places.

A new COVID 19 variant has emerged in South Africa.

Prior Threads:

The 2021 Wyoming Special Legislative Session, Part III. The unvarnished views addition.


Pandemic Part 6. The Delta Surge




Worried.






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