The reason is that with the sheer volume of new cases that we are having and that we expect to continue with Omicron, one of the things we want to be careful of is that we don't have so many people out [...]
If you are asymptotic and you are infected, we want to get people back to the jobs, especially those with essential jobs
I like how they've been explaining it on the Death Panel podcast... for the last 2 years, whenever the US has had to choose between saving lives or making sure the capitalists' profits don't suffer, they choose profits. Every. Single. Time.
When I got home from work yesterday I was wondering when they were going to do this. Since everyone is treating the pandemic as over, and omicron as just a cold, they're not going to want government mandated time off for workers. Come to work if you're sick, spread it even more, get everyone sick.