Posted on 09/29/2021 5:47:59 AM PDT by george76
The lawsuit names 20 health care providers across Minnesota as defendants.
More than 150 Minnesota nurses filed an expansive federal lawsuit late Monday against policies that would force them to get the COVID-19 vaccination or be fired.
“The Plaintiffs are currently being impermissibly coerced to violate their religious beliefs and their rights under federal and state law,” the lawsuit argues.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, names U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky as defendants.
The nurses filed the lawsuit using pseudonyms out of fear of “being ostracized,” fired or facing “other retaliatory consequences if their names become known.” The lawsuit argues that the nurses would be subjected to “public hate” if their identities were revealed because of the “pervasive climate of fear and loathing of the unvaccinated.”
The lawsuit quotes President Joe Biden, who said: “We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us … For the vast majority of you who have gotten vaccinated, I understand your anger at those who haven’t gotten vaccinated.”
“Influential Americans, including the President himself, are stirring up ‘anger,’ blame, and hostility against the unvaccinated, necessitating anonymity in this lawsuit,” states the complaint.
Biden made these comments earlier this month when he announced a series of far-reaching vaccine mandates that will impact an estimated 100 million workers.
Biden’s mandate will be implemented through federal regulations. He has directed the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to craft a rule forcing all private companies with 100 or more employees to require their workers to get vaccinated or submit to weekly testing.
Biden has also ordered the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to force vaccination on all health care workers at facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid funds. This is expected to impact 17 million health care workers across America, who are already dealing with a crippling labor shortage. There is no explicit weekly testing option for health care workers.
It’s this second mandate that the lawsuit targets. The rule is set to be finalized and implemented sometime in October. But even if the rule is somehow overturned, health care workers would still face separate vaccination requirements from their employers.
Hence, the lawsuit names 20 health care providers across Minnesota as defendants, including Mayo Clinic, Allina Health, Fairview Health, North Memorial Health Care, and more.
“The Plaintiff employees include some whose sincere religious beliefs compel them to refuse vaccinations with the available Covid-19 vaccines, all of which employ aborted fetus cell lines in their testing, development, or production,” the lawsuit says.
Other objectors have been denied religious exemptions, possess “robust natural immunity,” are pregnant or are “unwilling to risk taking a vaccine.”
“Medical workers were hailed as heroes throughout this pandemic, and in fact the Plaintiff employee medical workers have worked with patients for 18 months without vaccinations. Now, however, they are required to be vaccinated or lose their jobs. Instead of being hailed as heroes now, they are chastised and ridiculed as ‘anti-vaxxers’ or worse,” the lawsuit adds.
It also includes a strong rebuke of the media, who spent months praising frontline workers but now attack them “as pariahs who must be set apart from society until they are shamed, threatened, or now mandated into vaccinating.”
The lawsuit asks the courts to declare these mandates unconstitutional and provide protections from termination or unpaid leave to the nurses while the case unfolds.
Would any judge make the argument — you’re free to avoid having an abortion by simply not getting pregnant? Would any judge make the argument — if you’re a gay man and your employer mandates heterosexuality among employees, you’re free to go find some other job? No judge would ever make those arguments.
This country has gone to hell in a handbasket... it’s amazing to me how many people are so unbelievably horrified and living their lives in total fear of a flu that has a 99.9% survival rate. So fearful and psychotically programmed that nurses who just 12 months ago were hailed as “heroes” are now considered selfish “zeroes” for refusing to get a “vaccine” that doesn’t prevent the recipient from getting or spreading the virus once injected. Total insanity thanks to lying, libtard scum.
For a virus that has a near 100% survival rate.
Biden is flooding America with non-vaxxed invaders .
Wanna bet that the regulators in states that are enforcing Deep State’s vaxx mandate will be looking the other way when compliant facilities violate staffing and other requirements...
Note to staff still employed: If you care about your residents, find a way to blow the whistle. Try Project Veritas.
Note to Project Veritas: Check out what’s going on in residential care facilities enforcing the vaxx mandate.
Hint, hint...
All you need to do is convince Biden that the entire Judiciary Nationwide is in Danger and get him to Mandate ALL Persons Entering ANY Court House in America be fully Vaccinated or they will be Terminated and Loss of License to Practice Law in perpetuity
Those who die of the sacred disease surely go to Covid Heaven, they are truly blessed.
Those who do not die but accept the sacrament will too go to Covid Heaven in time.
The excrement who reject vaccination will burn in Hell.
This is the way with harassment and hostile environment law generally.
If you’re actually being harassed by a supervisor, particularly one following the agenda set by the company, all the claptrap about anonymity of the complaint and respect and no tolerance for reprisal is gone.
If, on the other hand, the offense is fictitious and the complainant is one of the privileged victim classes, the process works like an efficient revolutionary French court to convict first and then, maybe, allow a defense by way of admission and obeisance.
As with all things leftist, sold as protection from those in power and used only to consolidate power.
Xavier Becera is a communist ahole
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