Posted on 10/12/2021 4:18:26 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
An airline pilot and activist for individual liberty told Fox News situations such as mass flight cancelations will become more common if the Biden administration refuses to backdown from its hardline stance against coercing Americans to get vaccinated against COVID.
“I’m not going to take a mandate. I’m not going to be forced to do something that I don’t believe in,” he added.
“If you have flights reduced by 30 percent because 30 percent of pilots are fired because they won’t take the vaccine, this is going to affect how your goods get here from overseas, how they are distributed to the store,” he said.
“The same thing is happening with the truckers; it’s happening in the shipping industry. Those Amazon boxes that typically show up in two days, you might be looking at three weeks,” he continued.
While the supply chain has for months been showing signs of bending, this past weekend Southwest canceled thousands of flights, reportedly because of a “sick-out” from pilots and other employees over the company’s vaccine mandate.
No other airline was affected by any staffing shortage or widespread weather issues.
Yoder, when speaking of staffing shortages and logistics, asserted that more shortages of employees, such as the one which that hit Southwest, could come. He blamed Biden for the issues and challenged any notion that the federal government is in control of what American citizens and workers choose with regard to vaccines.
“It’s squarely his [Biden’s] fault,” he said.
“First of all, we have all the control, and the control comes from a simple word, and that’s ‘no,’” he said. “We just don’t need to comply. As far as I’m concerned, I will never promote a sick-out or a work action that is illegal."
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I have taken the jab, but I am adamantly opposed to mandates. The only course of action is to fight back against mandates. The disruptions they are causing in business and industry are a big part of this whole supply chain chaos. The Southwest Airline mess is a good example. All Dictator Biden could do today was criticize businesses for not being more efficient. But, then, after all, he’s an idiot.
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