That’s a lot, it will take time to digest it all. You went to grad school 25 years ago? Was it medical?
It’ll be 28 years ago this fall. It’s hard to believe how quickly the time has flown by. When I was doing my post-doc, I got accepted to our med school. They told me, “Don’t worry about the money.” But I did. I wish now I had been as bold then as I had with pursuing the doctorate. Oh, well.
At least I’ve enjoyed my time in academic science until the political weirdos decided to drop global warming for what they thought would be a more threatening menace to manipulate people with, and then my school said, “Oh, yeah. We had said before that vaccination was voluntary but in order to get as many people vaccinated as possible, we’re making it mandatory.”
Of course, what that really meant was, “Oh, shit! Almost everyone is telling us to pound sand. The Biden Administration is going to screw us for an ungodly amount of fines. And, no, we’re not even going to wait to see how it turns out in the courts.”
Which, I’ve been happy to point out to them has left them with a pretty huge liability to the people they’ve already fired or successfully coerced into getting shot up with this stuff.
I told them A. I’m never getting vaccinated with something as crazy as that and B. They’re not going to fire me, either and then ccd that letter to a former federal prosecutor who’s working on cases like this and told them I’d send them a copy of my brief, which I did later, also ccd to the attorney in which I went through in great detail all their violations of law, ethical violations, incoherent reasoning and self-contradictions, and serious conflicts of interest.
Their whole Covid policy was one that paid much more attention to what they believed were “the optics” of helping people while utterly ignoring the unintended consequences of deliberately hurting tens of thousands of employees in a variety of ways in order to maybe help a minuscule number of folks to avoid getting infected with a common cold virus that statistically would have almost zero impact on the employee and especially the student population. It was a perfect example of CYA committee-think.