# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2021 Breaking News **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [January 1, 2021, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428 "2021-01-01T08:03:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2480
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428/2480 "2021-09-10T12:04:05Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > Biden is speaking right now about [sweeping new vaccine mandates](https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-executive-branch-18fb12993f05be13bf760946a6fb89be): > > From the AP article: > > “The expansive rules mandate that all employers with more than 100 workers require them to be vaccinated or test for the virus weekly, affecting about 80 million Americans. And the roughly 17 million workers at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid also will have to be fully vaccinated.”   There’s a new separate thread devoted to Biden’s speech from yesterday. That speech got so much traction in the news media, I spent much of the day reading about it until my eyes got bleary. I agree with the OP of that new thread that it’s worthy of a thread of its own. I think we’re going to be talking a lot about this in the Near Foreseeable Future. > [@President Biden's speech on the virus September 9, 2021](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bidens-speech-on-the-virus-september-9-2021/950443): > > Rather than overwhelming the “breaking news”, I thought it would be useful to have a thread specifically for the President’s speech. (MODs, feel free to move this into politics, but I hope we can keep it in the Quarantine Zone.) A few thoughts: The “75% WE who are vaccinated” versus the “25% YOU who are not” - was much more of a scolding to the 25% than I expected. To paraphrase: YOU are keeping us from restoring the economy - YOU are keeping the infection rates up - YOU are overwhelming the… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428)._