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LetMyPeopleVote

(143,998 posts)
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 07:09 PM Oct 2021

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans any COVID-19 vaccine mandates -- including for private employers

My lawfirm and most other lawfirms have vaccine requirements




COVID-19 vaccine requirements by government agencies, cities, counties and school districts were already banned by a previous executive order — which is currently being fought in court by San Antonio Independent School District. The Legislature also already passed into law a ban on so-called vaccine passports — which would allow businesses to require proof of vaccination to receive service. However, Texas had up to this point allowed private businesses to require vaccines of their own employees.

The latest move appears to be partly motivated by President Joe Biden's actions in September that required all employers with more than 100 workers to be vaccinated or test weekly for the virus.

"In yet another instance of federal government overreach, the Biden Administration is now bullying many private entities into imposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates, causing workforce disruptions that threaten Texas's continued recovery from the COVID-19 disaster," Abbott said in his order.
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Comfortably_Numb

(3,776 posts)
2. Profane and simplistic, but fuck Greg Abbott and his trumphumper bullshit.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 07:35 PM
Oct 2021

Killing Texans day to day. Hope we don’t get another freeze because his energy buddies paid his simple ass off and nothing has changed with the grid down here.

2naSalit

(86,031 posts)
3. Perhaps a statewide strike..?
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 07:41 PM
Oct 2021

That or he could feasibly suffer the fate he champions for Dems in Congress... get physically removed by his constituents.

Comfortably_Numb

(3,776 posts)
4. There are still a disgusting number of trump flags when you get out in the rural areas.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 08:06 PM
Oct 2021

These clowns just keep voting for the idiot.

Vogon_Glory

(9,084 posts)
7. How many Texans have to die or ruin their health and finances just so
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 09:52 AM
Oct 2021

Gregg Abbott and other senior members of the Texas Republican Party can make nice with the zanies and nutcases that control the TRP’s right wing?

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