Justice Sotomayor Falsely Claims Omicron 'as deadly' as Delta, 100,000 Children Hospitalized with COVID...Myths Made up out of Thin Air...

by Libby Emmons at The Post Millennial

The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Friday in the case of the National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, wherein the counsel for the NFIB argued that the federal government cannot impose vaccine mandates on employees because it is not essentially a workplace issue.

Justices seemed insistent on weighing the legality of the vaccine mandates against the number of COVID cases in the US, and in some cases, on provably false medical evidence. Justice Sotomayor cited numbers about hospitalizations for children.

Counsel for the independent businesses spoke about the vaccine mandate coming while the Delta variant of COVID was most prevalent in the US, saying that the current variant, Omicron, is of far less worry in terms of serious illness or death.

But Justice Sotomayor interrupted, saying “Counsel, those numbers show that Omicron is as deadly and causes as much serious disease in the unvaccinated as Delta did,” despite this being entirely false.

“The numbers,” she said, “look at the hospitalization rates that are going on. We have more affected people in the country today than we had a year ago in January. We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators.”

“We have over 100,000 children,” she said, “which we’ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators. So saying it’s a workplace variant just underscores the fact that without some workplace rules with respect to vaccines or encouraging vaccines, because this is not a vaccine mandate.”

Here is Justice Sotomayor saying that “hospitals are almost all full capacity” and there are “over 100,000 children” hospitalized with covid “many on ventilators.

None of those things are true. Not even close. pic.twitter.com/MqWEL2UvJg

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 7, 2022

She asked what is irrational about the “rules of that nature,” despite using falsehoods to bolster her question. To date, per the CDC, 694 children between the ages of 0-17 have died with COVID. As to hospitalizations, many children are hospitalized who are found to have COVID, but are not admitted with COVID symptoms as a cause…