little capacity to mitigate risk. covid-19 in short is a men as in work settings. the proof is all around us. since the disease s on set most american americans have seen workplaces transformed. so the administrative agency charged with ensuring health and safety in work places did what congress commanded it to do. it took action to address covid s continuing threat in those spaces. observera, the occupational safety and health excuse me the occupational safety and health administration issued an emergency temporary standard requiring either vaccination or masking and testing to protect american workers. the standard falls within the core of the agency s mission, to protect employees from grave danger that comes from new hazards or exposure to harmful agents. osha estimates and there is no ground for disputing that the standard they proposed would save more than 6500 lives and prevent over a quarter million hospitalizations just in six months time. yet today the kwort issu
this country. and particularly to its workers. the disease right now, killed almost 1 million americans. it spreads from person to person contact, and is confined in small spaces. that includes work place environments. and in those environments, individuals have little control in their capacity to mitigate risk. covid-19, in short, is a war since the diseases onset, most americans have seen their workplaces transforms. the administrative agency charged with having health and safety in workplaces, told congress what to do. osha, the occupational their safety and health administration, issued an emergency temporary standard. requiring either vaccination or masking and taxing all within recorder of the agency s mission, to protect employees from great danger, osha estimates, and there is no ground for disputing. that the standard that they proposed would save more than 6500 lives. and for over a quarter million hospitalizations just in six months time. yet today, the court
justices elena kagan, sonia sotomayor, and stephen breyer, which did block the osha safety rule for employers requiring workers to be vaccinated or get regularly tested. r now in a separate ruling today, the court did leave in place thp vaccine requirement for people working in a health care setting. but if you don t work in a diin health care setting, if you re stacking i shelves or on the factory floor working in a big open-plan cubicle and your workplace doesn t want to protect you from a covid-rich environment, well, the supreme court just blocked the biden administration from helping you. the supreme court just blocked n the biden administration from being allowed to require that your workplace be made more safe. it s not necessarily an unexpected ruling given how right wing the supreme court is right now and how weird and scientifically uninformed the conservative justices questions were during the oral arguments, but now it is done. we will have more on that ahead toni
in charlottesville, virginia more than four years since white supremacists descended on the city, hard to forget the images from the weekend. white supremacists marching with torches chanting jews will not replace us. defendants here, some of them individuals, white nationalists, neo-nazis designated as hate groups. men who made themselves white power brands. richard spencer, matthew parrot and jason kessler spent a month in federal court for racially committed violence. they said they were exercising their right to free speech and self-defense. during the trial, some of the defendants sat down with me. so why did you say that charlottesville is a success? this is our speaker for the night. did you do it on purpose and do you feel bad about it? it would have been better if they [ bleep ] me and shut the [ bleep ] up. the alt left and right were fighting back. did you plan to follow the law in charlottesville? did the lawsuit push you out of the movement?
replace us. defendants here, some of them individuals, white nationalists, neo-nazis designated as hate groups. men who made themselves white power brands. richard spencer, matthew parrot and jason kessler spent a month in court for racially committed violence. they said they were exercising their right to free speech and self-defense. during the trial, some of the defendants sat down with me. so why did you say that charlottesville is a success? this is our speaker for the night. did you do it on purpose and do you feel bad about it? it would have been better if they [ bleep ] me and shut the [ bleep ] up. the alt left and right were fighting back. did you plan to follow the law in charlottesville? did the lawsuit push you out of the movement? it was absolutely essential to the propaganda strategy to look like a victim. the alt right stopped activism by wore out their usefulness because their views are main stream. looking back on charlottesville is remar