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Know, as others but we've seen hospitalizations and some deaths among children. it's not nothing. if you are going to be working around nursing home residents, going to be working around people that have undergone cancer treatment or transplants, it isn't enough to say i am making a choice, i respect the choice. you don't want to vaccinate. but you have to, you know, take responsibility. either, mask or don't go to work or don't visit. if your employer -- and i keep coming back to this -- a lot of folks say i don't want the government telling me what to do. your employer says we have got to ma...

What are you going to do about it? >> it's very disappointing. we are disappointed about it. the intention behind that was to keep the american workplace safe. as we put this rule together, we talked to medical experts who supported us saying it was the right thing to do. we spoke to legal experts who said we had the right to do it. on top of it, what we were doing at the department of labor and osha was not a mandate. it was a vaccine or testing option. we will stay focused on making sure the american workplace is safe. i have reached out to companies that might want to institute what we were...

Been vaccinated, and i mean fully with boosters, then they're at risk of getting sick. they may not get as sick, you know, as others, but we've seen hospitalizations and some deaths among children. it is not nothing. if you are going to be working around nursing home residents, you are going to be working around people that have undergone cancer treatment or transplants, it isn't enough to say, i'm making a choice. i respect the choice. if you don't want to vaccinate, but you have to, you know, take responsibility. either mask or don't go to work or don't visit. if your employer, and i keep co...

To the other side of this pandemic without that mandate? >> i don't see how. even the mandate is not going to be sufficient because i think this reflects the biden administration's full-throttle approach to try to use the full powers of the federal government to vaccinate the country, and it is important that he's successful in this. but even then, we are still going to need support from all of the governors to finish the rest of the job and the local and county governments to do this as well. so it is an important first step. it means keeping the workplace safe. i think that's the major drive...