The Center Square
By Derek Draplin
November 8, 2021
(The Center Square) – Republican-led states filed multiple lawsuits on Friday challenging the Biden administration’s private sector vaccine mandate.
The Biden administration is facing lawsuits from at least four different coalitions of states that have filed separate complaints in federal courts. It’s also facing lawsuits brought by business groups and religious ministries.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) this week released details of the vaccine mandate, which requires private employers with 100 or more employees to mandate vaccinations or weekly testing. The mandate, which could affect an estimated 100 million American workers, includes a Jan. 4 deadline for vaccination.
An 11-state coalition consisting of Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming filed a lawsuit Friday in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against OSHA.
“The federal government lacks constitutional authority under its enumerated powers to issue this mandate, and its attempt to do so unconstitutionally infringes on the States’ powers expressly reserved by the Tenth Amendment,” the petition reads.
A similar lawsuit was filed by the attorneys general of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, while another lawsuit has been filed in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by the attorneys general of Tennessee, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma and West Virginia.
Georgia, Florida, and Alabama have also filed a lawsuit in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing the new rules exceed the Department of Labor’s “statutory authority, fails to comply with the standards for issuing an [Emergency Temporary Standard], and conflicts with the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.”
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is expected to file a lawsuit against OSHA in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sometime on Friday.
The Biden administration is also facing lawsuits challenging its vaccine mandate for federal contract workers.
This story may be updated.
This is a long comment that I hope people will take the time to read. There is a growing body of evidence that the vaccines are neither safe or effective and that these mandates are not only unconstitutional but unnecessary. While case counts have dropped in the US in many, but not all states, they are still high compared to states like Uttar Pradesh and others in India. Not only that, but countries with high vaccination rates like Israel, Ireland, and Germany are seeing new surges. Had Fauci and our health agencies embraced the repurposing of therapeutics like IVM and HcQ early in the pandemic, this thing would have been obliterated by July/August 2020.
For proof, look no further than Uttar Pradesh, the largest state in India with a population exceeding 200 million – roughly 2/3 of the US. With a vax rate under 5%, they launched an aggressive campaign to distribute IVM in April 2021 and their daily case counts went from more than 35000 to under 300 in under 2 months from late April to mid-June – that is not a typo. Not only did case counts plummet, they flatlined and have stayed that way. As of November 6, they reported total active cases at 95 with 5 new cases and one death – in a population of over 200 million with now just 15% of the population fully vaccinated. UP is not alone- Delhi, Goa, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and others saw similar results. If you go to times of india / caronavirus, you can easily see which states have used IVM and which have not. The MSM has buried this story, and to the extent they covered India at all was to misrepresent what happened by reporting only on the overall country stats and not individual states.
So, let’s compare that to how well the vaccines are working in the US.
There is a growing body of evidence that vaccine efficacy drops dramatically after 6 months. Not only that, but the data shows that the vaccines are far less effective than Ivermectin across all measures – cases, hospitalizations, mortality, and viral load.
As proof, let’s look at just a couple of states with high vax rates as of November 5. Massachusetts is over 70% vaccinated and has a running 7 day average of over 1200 new cases with a population of under 7 million. California with 61.7% fully vaccinated and over 4600 running 7 day average for new cases with a population of 39.3 million. Maine with 71% fully vaccinated has a 7 day average of 703 new cases – almost double what they had as of October 10 – with a population of 1.3 million. You can go state by state in the US and compare against UP and you will not find one that comes remotely close to UP’s performance against Covid for cases, hospitalizations, or deaths. And as stated before, UP is not the only state to see case counts plummet after wide-spread use of IVM. IN fact, anywhere IVM has been widely distributed and use has seen dramatic improvement across all categories.
Next, let’s compare safety profiles. VAERS data show the number of adverse effects after receiving the vaccines at 856,919 from December 2020 through October 29, 2021. Of those, there were 20,110 life threatening events, 88,910 hospitalizations, 18,078 deaths, 28,112 permanent disabilities, 95,898 emergency room visits and 610 birth defects after vaccinations.
Per the WHO database VigiAccess, which collects adverse effects data on medications used around the world, there have been 7,491 adverse drug reactions for Remdesivir since the drug was introduced in 2020, more than ivermectin has registered over the last 30 years. What’s more, serious adverse reactions from remdesivir are reported in high numbers. For example, in less than two years, those who have used remdesivir have reported over 560 deaths, 550 serious cardiac disorders (such as bradycardia and cardiac arrest), and 475 acute kidney injuries.
For Ivermectin, per VigiAccess there have been 5,674 adverse drug reactions since 1992 with what is now over 4 billion doses administered. Those reactions have been mild and transient with no reported deaths. The largest reported categories for ivermectin include skin issues, headaches, dizziness, and gastrointestinal disturbances such as diarrhea and nausea. The NIH confirms that ivermectin’s primary adverse side effects “include dizziness, pruritis [itchy skin], nausea, or diarrhea. And a recent review of ivermectin similarly describes the common side effects as “itching, rash, swollen lymph nodes, joint pain[], fever, and headache.
Yet the war against IVM continues with the WHO recommending against it and even in India, officials are recommending against it’s use due to pressure from the WHO. The war against Ivermectin is indeed a crime against humanity and we can only hope that those who waged it will face their own Nuremberg.
For those that have read this far and don’t like that I point out basic data and may want to claim I am anti-vax, I am not, I did get the jab twice, but I am anti lying and we have been lied to by our government agencies and the media who made the claim that one of the safest drugs in the history of humanity, as reported in any medical literature you can find pre-covid, suddenly turned dangerous because covid. Doctors who elected to actually treat patients early on found that both HcQ and IVM were effective as early as April 2020 and they wrote letters to the NIH/FDA/CDC, but those letters went unanswered and were ignored. My bet is that big pharma is behind this and if you think that big pharma would not put profits before safety/effectiveness, read up on Merck’s VIOXX scandal or Purdue Pharma’s roll in the opioid crisis. And for those who say “horse medicine” is inappropriate to use are correct, but ignore the fact that there is a human formulation, and that many drugs are used on both humans and animals. Also, repurposing drugs for off-label use when there is no treatment available for a novel disease is not uncommon and pre-covid, was encouraged. It is time to wake up and push back against misinformation and government overreach.
My sources for this information include VAERS analysis, the Nebraska AG opinion on IVM, Trial SIte News, the FLCCC Alliance, The Times of India among others.