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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy condemned the Supreme Court’s “disappointing” ruling against Joe Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate, calling it a “setback for public health.”
“It was a setback for public health because what these requirements ultimately are helpful for is not just protecting the community at large, but making our workplaces safer for workers as well as for customers,” Murthy told ABC’s “This Week” host Martha Raddatz on Sunday.
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Murthy said the “good news” is that companies can still force their workers to get the jab if they voluntarily put vaccine requirements in place.
“So, the good news, though, is that there is nothing that stops workplaces from voluntarily putting these requirements in place. In fact, many have done so already. A third of the Fortune 100 companies have put these in place, and many more outside have,” he added.
Murthy then cited the rapid spread of the mild Omicron variant as reason for the U.S. government to continue putting pressure on the American people to get the vaccine and the booster shot.
“Martha, this is about testing, but our response is bigger than that as well. It’s also about ensuring that we get more people vaccinated and boosted,” said Murthy.
“It’s one of the lessons that omicron, that the vaccines are working to keep people safe, to keep them out of the hospital, to save their lives. We just need to get millions of more people boosted, work on expanding our testing supply.”
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Thursday that Biden’s OSHA vaccine mandate that would compel 84 million American workers to get the injection was unconstitutional.
But government bureaucrats like Murthy aren’t concerned about your rights — they’re concerned about your obedience.