Supreme Court refuses to block Maine's vaccine mandate

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/...te=1&user_id=2f3ad75895928d53e10b62cada27fcc7

This is for healthcare workers, the kind of mandate I do support. I'd rather not have mandates for other categories of workers, but healthcare workers are a different category given that they can contaminate unsuspecting vulnerable patients (unlike anti-vaxxer say, the vaccines although not perfect in face of Delta, still reduce five fold the likelihood that someone will be a carrier/spreader of Covid-19), and I do think that in a science-driven sector of human activity, people who don't believe in science have no business working in that sector, so, if some are fired, good riddance.

So far, lower courts had been siding with these mandates, and now the Supreme Court, too, although in this case it did come from only one Justice.

 

Justice Breyer to be clear, did not issue a ruling with his decision. Rather he told them to wait until the Appeals Court either makes a ruling or doesn't make a ruling, by the 29th. Simply, it's too early to take this to the SCOTUS is what Breyer said.

 

Ah, OK. Since the NYT is behind a pay wall and I'm not a subscriber, I just read the title and the first paragraph; it was not clear from that. Thanks for clarifying. So it's still to be decided.

 

Except for the fact that an unvaccinated health care worker who is tested weekly actually has less chance of spreading the virus to others than a vaccinated health care worker who does not get tested weekly.

 

The default position of SCOTUS these days is to remain silent when bodily autonomy is at stake.

Comey-Barrett did it to IU students, Breyer does it for the medical workers.

Maybe we will get lucky and the lower court will stand tall.