Gov. Kevin Stitt and AG John O'Connor are giving an update on their legal fight against the Biden Administration regarding vaccine mandates. #okhealth Here's the link if you want to watch.
Stitt repeats the quote that President Biden, right after his election, said he would not mandate the vaccine. top-ranking Republicans, such as U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Here's a look at that. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
O'Connor: We've been asked, why so many lawsuits? "It's because the Biden Administration has rolled out its vaccine mandates on multiple fronts." He says the President does not have the authority under the Constitution or the laws of this country to mandate the vaccine.
O'Connor says nurses, soldiers and everyone else have been working without the vaccine for 20 months. So that proves they can do their jobs without it. "We think it's just a pretext."
So far, this is a repetition of the same rhetorical on the issue and not an announcement of any policy or legal development. (At least not any that we haven't gotten from a press release.)
Because I've posted those press releases, I'm not restating it here.
Because I've posted those press releases, I'm not restating it here.
I will not be repeating any of the sentences about how this will affect staffing at hospitals because we have not seen any local surveys on what resignation numbers will look like.
A nurse from Stillwater is now talking about vaccines being dangerous. Not repeating that either.
A nurse from Stillwater is now talking about vaccines being dangerous. Not repeating that either.
Stitt says that businesses are already struggling to find workers, and mandates will make it worse.
Stitt says lockdown and vaccine mandate states have the highest rates of cases. (We have also been the state with the highest rate of new cases several times throughout the pandemic. That's because nationwide pandemic is made of small regional pandemics on their own cycles.)
Stitt is sharing his favorite quote about freedom by Ronald Reagan. Good reminder the Republican primary is coming up.
@CarmenMForman asks how much OK is spending on outside legal help for litigation. O'Connor says he doesn't know.
@CarmenMForman O'Connor now saying we don't know who we can trust on science and health guidance. His example is that we used to hear natural immunity was stronger.
A lot of the talking points focus on what we "used to" hear. This is a novel virus and we're learning as we go. #okhealth
A lot of the talking points focus on what we "used to" hear. This is a novel virus and we're learning as we go. #okhealth
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