Covid-19 discussion, continued...

Looking forward to reading the patriotic stories of resistance by the Freedom Fighters.

posted by Ironman92

My buddy owns a prominent construction company and has 188 employees…he told me that maybe 35 of them were vaccinated, he’s not thrilled right now.

This is probably going to send a bunch of illegals back to Mexico...finally a reason for QO to get excited about Biden!!!!

posted by gut

This is probably going to send a bunch of illegals back to Mexico...finally a reason for QO to get excited about Biden!!!!

Seems unlike

posted by Ironman92

My buddy owns a prominent construction company and has 188 employees…he told me that maybe 35 of them were vaccinated, he’s not thrilled right now.

He can tell the feds to fuck off. 

The Daily Wire said they won't enforce it, I might see if they're hiring developers.

So far Biden is everything the left cried that Trump would be. It’s hilarious to see how silent they are over this.

 ReSiSt!!!

posted by gut

I mean, they work outdoors AMIRITE?!?

Not all. There is at least one guy that hangs out in a building and ensures that my packages continuously get sent to tdifferent post offices for no reason. 

serious question. what if my company made all of us employees go 1099 instead of W-2. does that get them around this mandate? i say that because there is no chance my company will mandate a vaccine. They will either join a class action suit against OSHA, or they will do something like what i've laid out above to get them under the 100 employee threshold and skirt the requirement.

posted by j_crazy

serious question. what if my company made all of us employees go 1099 instead of W-2. does that get them around this mandate? i say that because there is no chance my company will mandate a vaccine. They will either join a class action suit against OSHA, or they will do something like what i've laid out above to get them under the 100 employee threshold and skirt the requirement.

I’d think there’s way too many tax implications and and group policy implications for a company to just say you’re all 1099 now  

posted by justincredible

It’S a PrIvAtE cOmPaNy

Correct. The part I'm confused about came from a anti-vax (the wacko kind) cousin who argues nonsensically (to me) that government can't mandate companies to require vaccines for their employees, but government (i.e. idiot-boy DeSantis among others) CAN force companies not to have that requirement. To me, they either can or they cannot force their will on private companies..

posted by iclfan2

The U.S. will require companies with more than 100 employees to mandate vaccines or weekly Covid-19 tests for their staff, senior officials said. The requirement covers 80 million private-sector workers. https://t.co/mliuNOGUEL

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 9, 2021

He can now quite simply, fuck off!  

If you want to literally destroy thousands of companies overnight, this is how you'd do it.  We can only hope and expect the courts to completely eviscerate this outrageous and tyrannical abuse of power. 

posted by j_crazy

serious question. what if my company made all of us employees go 1099 instead of W-2. does that get them around this mandate? i say that because there is no chance my company will mandate a vaccine. They will either join a class action suit against OSHA, or they will do something like what i've laid out above to get them under the 100 employee threshold and skirt the requirement.

Without knowing your company, it is HIGHLY unlikely the employees could go 1099; near impossible. 

posted by QuakerOats

He can now quite simply, fuck off!  

If you want to literally destroy thousands of companies overnight, this is how you'd do it.  We can only hope and expect the courts to completely eviscerate this outrageous and tyrannical abuse of power. 

I actually think the companies will not even last overnight once the rule goes into effect.  I predict they will be destroyed that very day.  

Other things that were going to destroy companies overnight:

1. OSHA
2. Sarbanes-Oxley
3. Corporate taxes
4. Environmental regulations
5. Affirmative action
6. ADA requirements
7. EPA
8. Homeland security border requirements
9. Lack of US widespread adoption of the metric system
10. Woke HR
11. Obamacare
12. COVID - working from home
13. Unions
14. Free trade policies

These are just some basic ones.  Stupid as some of them may be to you, well run companies continue to make record profits.  So my guess is they will find a way to endure a vaccine requirement as well.  Just a hunch.

posted by QuakerOats

Without knowing your company, it is HIGHLY unlikely the employees could go 1099; near impossible. 

right now, roughly 40% of our workforce is 1099. we have 464 employees and no lie, more than 300 1099 contractors that work for us. like my manager has 20 people reporting to him, only 6 of us are employees. the rest are contractors.

posted by j_crazy

right now, roughly 40% of our workforce is 1099. we have 464 employees and no lie, more than 300 1099 contractors that work for us. like my manager has 20 people reporting to him, only 6 of us are employees. the rest are contractors.

Must be in a unique industry ......??

Twitter doesn't put a disclaimer on demonstrably false shit like this for some reason.

https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2021/09/09/florida-adds-another-1296-covid-19-deaths-12k-more-cases/

1200 dead of COVID yesterday in Florida.
Not the total for a week or a month, but ONE SINGLE DAY.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) September 10, 2021

posted by justincredible

Twitter doesn't put a disclaimer on demonstrably false shit like this for some reason.

https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2021/09/09/florida-adds-another-1296-covid-19-deaths-12k-more-cases/

1200 dead of COVID yesterday in Florida.
Not the total for a week or a month, but ONE SINGLE DAY.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) September 10, 2021

Bc they’re cucks. And it can only be misinformation if it’s from the right. 

13 gorillas at Atlanta zoo have covid.

So far approx 4,000 Delta Airline employees have chosen to get the shot rather than pay the $200 per month surcharge.

https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/huge-number-of-unvaccinated-delta-workers-got-vaccine-after-200-surcharge-announcement-official-says/

What ptown was saying