Everyone recognizes that OSHA has the authority to keep the workplace free of toxins. Even the SCOTUS wingers. So why can’t OSHA also do it’s best to keep the workplace free of potentially deadly viruses?
Can anyone point to a law that draws that distinction? Seems to me the SCOTUS wingers just made a policy decision - judicial activism at its worst.
Anybody?
Lefty incrementalism writ large.
The answer is because once you telescope purpose beyond initial mission, THE WORLD is your oyster. Scope creep is how our government destroys liberty - especially when you federalize those scopes.
OSHA was supposed to be an agency overseeing/ensuring proper PPE and engineering controls are in place to keep workers safe. Basic parameter-setting.
Now, opportunistic partisans seek to make an argument that preemptive invasive medical choices are now the province of an agency whose expertise involves fall protection, chemical exposures/containment, and personal protective equipment.
This stuff is way out of scope. Administratively. What’s worse, it‘s a MAJOR reach in terms of content. Disease regulators? Seriously? And not just in terms of hygiene…but medical preventive care and invasive preemption…
Not even close. This is bizarre overreach.