you worry about enforcement.
The OSHA requirement was for vaccination or weekly testing to remain EMPLOYED. The companies that employ people (only those with over 100 employees) would do the enforcement, your record of vaccination is not only on the little card they handed you, but also in a database. The company checks with the database and if you aren't in it and you refuse the weekly test they terminate your employment.
And, contrary to some of the replies here, where companies have implemented this strategy (without the mandate from OSHA), it has worked remarkably well, and the repukes assertions that thousands of people would lose their jobs simply hasn't happened.
Not to mention that we, as a populace, have been mandated to get all sorts of other vaccines if we want to attend school. The list is quite long and nobody raised a stink about it before... and the people being mandated are CHILDREN.
The requirement to have an OSHA rule was put in place to give some companies (especially in red state 'merica) COVER to require employees to be vaccinated. Quite frankly the rule should have been in place by June of 2021. We needed 90 percent vaccination rates by now to prevent the nearly 1500 deaths a day we are seeing from Delta and Omicron.
We needed the entire planet to be vaccinated to prevent mutations and keep us all working at our jobs, making goods, distributing goods, etc. The inflation we have today... direct result of NOT vaccinating the world in the Spring of 2021 (almost a year ago). Lack of workers means lack of goods, lack of goods being produced results in higher prices for those goods... i.e. inflation.
Workers like me (older, diabetic) should have the ability to go to work without the risk of catching what has been a deadly disease from an un-vaccinated co-worker. Your lack of vaccine endangers everyone you come into contact with. This is exactly what OSHA was created to prevent... dangerous workplace environments.
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