Dr. Joseph Mercola posted yesterday (11/3/21) on how the U.S.
government – which used to work for WE THE PEOPLE – is constantly changing
rules to hide mRNA jab injuries and to prevent WE THE PEOPLE from having legal
recourse when the now
voluminous mRNA jab injuries occur. The article focus is
fraudulently elected Biden EO to force private businesses with 100+ employees
to be mandated to jab with OSHA providing a pass to jab injuries.
Yet fascinatingly, Dr. Mercola leads off with a roughly 10-minute
video of Kim Iverson covering the massive peoples protesting Jab Mandates in
Europe and Australia even with BRUTAL police enforcement trying to disperse
protestors. Iverson sadly points to the lack of Jab Mandate protests in the USA
surmising Americans have become more accustomed to AUTHORITARIAN RULE with an accommodating
SHEEPLE CLASS. I found the report VERY sad and disturbing for America’s future
as the Land of Liberty.
JRH 11/4/21
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OSHA Changes Rule to Cover Up Vaccine Injuries
Analysis by Dr. Joseph
Mercola
November 3, 2021
Mercola.com
[Mercola website posts have a 48-hour lifespan sadly due political
persecution.]
Youtube VIDEO: Kim
Iversen: VIOLENT Protests Show The World Is OVER Covid Mandates
[Posted by The Hill
No date
Kim Iversen details the protests
against vaccine mandates taking place worldwide. … MORE TO READ]
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Ø The
U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has amended its
injury recording rule in a way that will hide the true extent of the damage
that the COVID jab mandate will have on the American workforce
Ø According
to OSHA rules, employers must record and report work-related illnesses,
injuries and fatalities. This recording requirement initially also applied to
adverse reactions suffered by employees who had to get the COVID shot as a
requirement for employment. This rule was changed in late May 2021
Ø OSHA
will not enforce the recording requirement if the injury or fatality involves
the COVID jab, even if required for employment. The nonenforcement will remain
through May 2022. With this change, OSHA is covering up vaccine injuries — and
hindering workers from seeking workers’ compensation
Ø Meanwhile,
federal employees required to get the COVID jab will be eligible for
compensation for injuries through the Federal Employee’s Compensation Act
(FECA)
Ø
Having large numbers of injury reports can
raise a company’s insurance costs. However, if OSHA is going to require all
employers with 100 or more employees to implement vaccine mandates, then
companies will be in the same boat and none will be at a particular disadvantage,
so OSHA really needs to change its recordability guidance back
As reported by Kim Iversen above, around the world people
are gathering for massive protests against COVID shot mandates. In
mid-September 2021, Italy became the first European country to announce the
implementation of mandatory COVID-19 health passes (so-called “Green Pass”) for
all workers, both public and private.
The Italian mandate took effect October 15, 2021. Residents
have been protesting in the streets for months on end and there’s no sign of
them letting up. Demonstrations are also taking place in The Netherlands,
Switzerland, Luxembourg, Greece, Romania, Slovenia, Australia and France.
Even in Israel, mass protests are now taking place as it was
announced Israeli’s will lose their health pass privileges unless they get a
third booster shot six months after their second dose. New York City has also
seen large protests in the wake of its vaccine requirement for restaurants and
other public venues.
Leaders Turn a Blind Eye
Yet, despite massive protests, the push for vaccine mandates
and vaccine passports that will create a two-tier society continue unabated.
With few exceptions, world leaders are simply turning a blind eye and a deaf
ear to the fact that their residents want nothing to do with their new world
order.
At the same time, government agencies charged with keeping
us safe are doing the complete opposite. That includes the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA), which President Biden has placed in charge of
enforcing his unconstitutional edict that private companies with 100 employees
or more must make COVID “vaccination” a requirement for employment or face
fines of as much as $700,000 per incidence.1
OSHA will issue the mandate for employers as an emergency
temporary standard (ETS), but as of this writing, no official mandate has
actually been issued.
According to an October 18, 2021, report by PJ Media,2 OSHA
has sent a draft to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. Since
it’s being issued as an ETS, there will be no public comment period.
Once the OMB review is finalized, the vaccination rule will
be published. Only then will the mandate actually go into effect. That said,
OSHA has already amended an already existing rule in a way that will hide the
true extent of the damage that this mandate will have on the American
workforce.
OSHA Rule Change Covers Up Vaccine Injuries
According to OSHA rules (29 CFR 19043), employers
must record and report work-related illnesses, injuries and fatalities, whether
the employer was at fault or not. As reported May 26, 2021, by employment law
firm Ogletree Deakins,4 this recording requirement initially
also applied to adverse reactions suffered by employees who had to get the COVID
shot as a requirement for employment.
The original guidance stated that employers were required to
record an employee’s adverse reaction to the COVID jab if the shot was a)
work-related, 2) a new case under 29 C.F.R. 1904.6 and 3) met one or more OSHA
general recording criteria set out in 29 C.F.R. 1904.7. OSHA specified that an
adverse reaction to the jab would be considered “work-related” if the shot was
required for employment.
Then, in late May 2021, OSHA suddenly revoked this guidance,
saying it will not enforce the recording requirement if the injury or fatality
involves the COVID jab, even if required for employment. The nonenforcement
will remain in place through May 2022, at which time the agency will reevaluate
its position.
Why would they remove the requirement to record and report
vaccine injuries incurred as a result of a vaccine mandate? According to OSHA,
the agency is “working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations,” “does
not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19
vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers’ vaccination
efforts.”5,6 As reported by Ogletree Deakins:7
“There is no doubt that
OSHA’s guidance created a disincentive for employers to mandate that their
employees get vaccinated. With a mandatory vaccination policy, the guidance
ensured that employees’ adverse reactions (with arguably little correlation to
actual work-related injuries) could end up on a company’s OSHA recordkeeping
logs — which could, in turn, negatively affect its insurance rates and, in some
industries, its ability to bid for work.”
What Ogletree fails to address is that by not enforcing this
recording requirement for COVID jab injuries, OSHA is intentionally covering up
the ramifications these vaccine mandates might have on employees’ health.
Meanwhile, employers are still required to record and report COVID-19
infections and COVID-19 deaths among their employees.
Federal Employees Get Special Treatment
In related news, federal employees must be fully
“vaccinated” by November 22, 2021, or face the unemployment line. While
coercion of this nature is abhorrent under any circumstance, federal employees
at least get special treatment if they’re injured by the required jab. As
reported by Stacey Lennox for PJ Media:8
“… October 1, 2021, the
Federal Employee’s Compensation Act (FECA) issued a bulletin regarding coverage
for vaccine injuries.9 FECA did not traditionally cover
preventative measures and any resulting illness or injury. As of September 9,
2021, when President Biden announced the federal mandate, adverse reactions to
COVID-19 vaccination are covered.”
As indicated in FECA Bulletin No. 22-01, dated October 1,
2021:10
“… this executive order now
makes COVID-19 vaccination a requirement of most Federal employment. As such,
employees impacted by this mandate who receive required COVID-19 vaccinations
on or after the date of the executive order may be afforded coverage under the
FECA for any adverse reactions to the vaccine itself, and for any injuries
sustained while obtaining the vaccination.”
“This bulletin is an interesting turn of events given
previous OSHA guidance to private employers,” Lennox writes.11 Indeed,
while OSHA is selectively choosing to hide the vaccine injuries of private
employees, federal employees will have access to financial compensation for
their vaccine injuries, over and above the Countermeasures Injury Compensation
Act (CICP).12
Who Will Pay for Private Employees Injured by the Jabs?
On the whole, it’s clear that private employees will be at a
distinct disadvantage in terms of compensation. If their employer requires them
to get the jab to keep their job, and they get injured by it, the only recourse
they have is to file a CICP claim, which is near-impossible to get. By not
requiring companies to record vaccine injuries, it effectively shuts down the
path for an employee to seek worker’s compensation if they’re injured by a
mandated COVID jab.
“While OSHA recordability
does not govern worker’s compensation, after managing both for several
employers, I have never seen a compensable injury that is not OSHA recordable,” Lennox
writes.13
As for CICP, in its 15-year history, it has paid out fewer
than 1 in 10 claims.14,15,16 It also offers rather limited
help, as you first have to exhaust your personal insurance before it kicks in
to pay the difference.
Even if they can get it, CICP awards are likely to be a drop
in the bucket for most people. The average award is $200,000, and compensation
for fatalities are capped at $370,376.17 Meanwhile, you can
easily rack up a $1 million hospital bill if you suffer a serious thrombotic
event.18
“Private sector employees
deserve the same protection as federal employees in the face of mandatory
vaccines. The mandates will put a severe risk between them and their ability to
earn a living for some people ... If employers don’t want the liability, they
should fight the mandate. ~ Stacey Lennox, PJ Media”
Perhaps most egregious of all, it’s your responsibility to
prove your injury was the “direct result of the countermeasure’s administration
based on compelling, reliable, valid, medical and scientific evidence beyond
mere temporal association.”
In other words, you basically have to prove what the vaccine
developer itself has yet to ascertain, seeing how you are part of their
still-ongoing study. You must also pay for your own legal help and any
professional witnesses you may need to support your claim.
Union Workers Now Have Another Bargaining Chip
The fact that federal workers who are injured by the
mandated COVID jabs will be covered by FICA now gives unionized employees a new
bargaining chip though. As noted by Lennox:19
“Without the OSHA ETS, unions
would have bargained about having a vaccine mandate as a term or condition of
employment at all. Now, unions should still have an opportunity for effects
bargaining to ensure their members are covered if they sustain a vaccine
injury.”
Recordability Guidance Must Be Changed Back
As mentioned earlier, the OSHA requirement to record vaccine
injuries was scrapped because it disincentivized employers to mandate the shot.
Having large numbers of injury reports can raise a company’s insurance costs.
However, if OSHA is now going to require all employers with 100 or more
employees to implement vaccine mandates, then most companies will be in the
same boat.
Since no employer will be at a particular disadvantage, OSHA
really needs to change its recordability guidance back, Lennox says, adding:20
“Private sector employees
deserve the same protection as federal employees in the face of mandatory
vaccines. The mandates will put a severe risk between them and their ability to
earn a living for some people.
If they [employers] cave,
they should be liable just as every taxpayer is now liable for a vaccine injury
to a federal employee. If employers don’t want the liability, they should fight
the mandate.”
Sources and References
2, 8, 11, 13, 19, 20 PJ Media October 18, 2021
4, 7 Ogletree.com May 26, 2021
5 OSHA FAQ
Vaccine Related Questions
6 OSHA
Protecting Workers, COVID-19
9 FECA Bulletin 2020-2024 (Archived)
10 FECA
Bulletin No. 22-01 October 1, 2021
12 Congressional
Research Service Legal Sidebar CICP March 22, 2021 (PDF)
14 Life Site News June 15, 2021
15 Insurance Journal August 14, 2020
16, 17 Insurance Journal December 29, 2020
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countermeasures have nothing to do with public health and everything to do with
ushering in a new social and economic system based on totalitarian,
technocracy-led control. So, it’s not misinformation they fear. It’s the truth
they want to prevent from spreading. Pick
up a copy of this best-selling book today before it’s too late. -By Dr. Joseph
Mercola
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