How your "social contract" of citizens melds with the "Bill of Rights" included in our constitution is beyond my paygrade -- apparently it is about to be argued by the supremes again -- noted this in todays WSJ =========
De Blasio’s Vaccine Mandate Looks Unlawful The Supreme Court has approved only far milder measure
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio this week announced that all private-sector employees in the city will be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of the month. The mayor calls his plan “Key to New York,” and its function is to lock hundreds of thousands of residents out.
The constitutionality of Mr. de Blasio’s mandate will turn primarily on Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905), in which the Supreme Court upheld a smallpox vaccination law. The justices held that state governments have the power to exercise “self-defense” against infectious disease on behalf of the community, so long as the measures were “reasonable” and not “arbitrary.” But Mr. de Blasio’s measure goes far beyond the holding or reasoning of the precedent, to say nothing of the past century of constitutional doctrine.
Jacobson involved smallpox, which before its eradication was one of the most fearsome diseases known to man. It killed 30% of those infected. It disproportionately affected children and commonly left them disfigured by lesions. Covid-19 is serious, but it’s in a different league.
The town of Cambridge imposed a one-time fine of $5 (equivalent of roughly $160 today) on those who refused vaccination. The details of Mr. de Blasio’s scheme haven’t been announced—he promises “guidance” next week. But if it resembles President Biden’s federal mandates, it will impose mounting, ruinous fines. It isn’t the mild inducement the court upheld in Jacobson—it is pure coercion.
Mr. de Blasio boasted his program is the “first of its kind.” Yet Jacobson emphasized that laws requiring smallpox vaccination had been around for generations: “Nearly every state in the Union has statutes to encourage, or directly or indirectly to require, vaccination; and this is true of most nations of Europe.”
Jacobson repeatedly noted that Cambridge was responding to a continuing and worsening outbreak. Mr. de Blasio repeatedly described his mandate as a “pre-emptive strike.” He said it was prompted by the prospect of “holiday gatherings” and the new Omicron variant. He admitted “we are waiting for more facts” about the strain, which may turn out to be quite mild. A constitutional allowance for prophylactic mandates would permit any government interference in individual healthcare on grounds that it might be good in some uncertain future.
Unlike the Cambridge law, which applied to all inhabitants, New York’s mandate applies only to private businesses. But work, as opposed to home or social gatherings, doesn’t pose any special risk for transmission. And it’s difficult to see how employees who work outside (say, landscapers or roofers) or at home pose much risk at all. Mr. de Blasio said the mandate is designed to create a “level playing field” among businesses—hardly a public-health justification.
The city offers a $500 bonus to municipal workers who get the shots. A one-time fine for the unvaccinated might be reasonable under Jacobson. Forbidding them from earning a living goes much too far.
Your "social conract" in real time ========= New York rapidly turning into a miserable, enslaved vaccine police state [excerpt] Disgraced totalitarian Bill de Blasio is trying to make New York City the most miserable place in the United States. He is competing with other fascist, left-wing dictators (from other cities) to turn New York City into a permanently enslaved vaccine police state. His latest vaccine mandates, which take ownership over all private sector employees, will take effect after Christmas on December 27, 2021. “Vaccine mandates are the one thing that really breaks through,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in an interview on MSNBC. “Let’s lean into it even more.”
Bill de Blasio announced the nation’s first vaccine mandate for private sector employers “across the board.” “We in New York City have decided to use a preemptive strike, to really do something bold to stop the further growth of COVID and the dangers it’s causing to all of us,” de Blasio said. In November, a Federal Appeals Court ruled against vaccine mandates on private businesses. Bill de Blasio is flagrantly violating the law, medical ethics, the Constitution, the Nuremberg Code, natural law, and basic human rights. Bill de Blasio to take control over 184,000 businesses, segregate people further than before
These vaccine mandates assume complete control over all private businesses and will use a Gestapo force to ensure that all employers, restaurants, gyms and entertainment venues segregate people based on their vaccine status. Bill de Blasio already implemented vaccine passports earlier in the year, forcing everyone who lives or travels into the city to show proof that they have received at least one shot of spike protein mRNA. Now Bill de Blasio is requiring everyone to show proof of two doses, and this is just the beginning. [all of it] https://www.cracknewz.com/2021/10/bill-clinton-hospitalized-with-sepsis.html
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