OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate is smart public policy
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed an emergency temporary standard (ETS) for employers to cope with the health dangers posed by COVID-19. The centerpiece of the ETS is a vaccine-or-test mandate for employees working at firms with over 100 employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The mandate is good public po...
The article unveils a surprisingly acute and geographically concentrated inflationary shock linked directly to the COVID-19 pandemic, presenting a deceptively simple correlation: higher case counts, higher inflation. It’s not merely a correlation; the narrative subtly frames the U.S. experience as a particularly egregious example, amplified by a unique confluence of factors. The steelman argument here is that the article rightly identifies a shift in demand away from services (restaurants, trave...
