In pulling the rule, the Biden administration acknowledged what most businesses expected: the plan to make companies mandate vaccines-or-tests is over.

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The president of the united states is a corpse flopping around on the table of Capital.

  • Multihedra [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is “the marketplace of ideas”

    The Biden admin put forth an idea—tying employability to individual covid-prevention statuses. The state is really quite sclerotic in this regard, and does not natively support the capabilities to do the testing etc its vision requires. To build them would require Congress, they say, so we will just get the businesses to enforce; to implement.

    That’s the idea that businesses heard, and they didn’t really like it, as pretty much anyone could have predicted. There was, as far as I can tell, no realistic threat of consequence for not playing long with Biden admin’s idea.

    So businesses receive this idea, but based on their own sensory and processing apparatuses (HR statistics, profit statements, baseless belief/sheer willpower, etc), didn’t see this as a particularly compelling vision of the future.

    So it vetoed. A simple exchange of ideas, that’s all. Biden admin thought about trying a (really quite silly) thing, and another party v said they’d prefer not to.

    Everyone knows, more or less, where each of the parties stand on the issues to be dealt with (or not). The market continues on, ready to solve (or not) the problems of tomorrow