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BOYCOTT VACCINE MANDATERS
boblonsberry.com ^ | 08/24/21 | Bob Lonsberry

Posted on 08/24/2021 6:22:56 AM PDT by shortstop

I refuse to do business with any enterprise that mandates the covid vaccine for its employees.

I refuse to be part of any sort of coercive scheme that holds a family’s livelihood hostage in order to take away a worker’s right to make her own healthcare decisions.

I won’t be partner to that.

And I don’t trust that a business which so disrespects its employees is going to have any respect for its customers.

So I’m keeping my money and my patronage where they respect human dignity and freedom, and where they respect their employees’ right to decide what to or what not to put in their bodies. If businesses want to be dictators, they can do it without my help.

This comes on the heels of passionate calls by Joe Biden and Andrew Cuomo, the most popular national Democrats of 2020, for businesses to mandate the covid vaccine for their employees, and sometimes even for their customers. Biden wants people fired if they don’t get vaccinated, and Cuomo wants them denied service.

Biden, in the middle of the worst stretch of American presidential incompetence in generations, gleefully called yesterday for companies, hospitals, schools and governments to make the newly approved covid vaccine mandatory, a requirement for employment. That means, obviously, that those employees or job seekers who choose not to be vaccinated would be shut out of the job market.

Moms and dads would lose jobs, incomes would be lost, careers would be destroyed.

Because Joe Biden said so, and a heartless boss went along.

A heartless boss, and a foolish boss.

Because in the midst of a national labor shortage caused by Democrat stimmy checks and plush “emergency” unemployment benefits that pay people more for not working than they would get for working, it would have to be a pretty foolish company to send a quarter to a third of its employees out the door with few prospects of being able to replace them with new hires.

With labor costs already at near-record highs, would it be smart for American business to blackball unvaccinated workers and reduce the labor pool even more?

Did Joe Biden think about that?

(Sorry, cheap shot. As Afghanistan shows us, Joe Biden doesn’t – or can’t – think about anything.)

And even if he didn’t, smart enterprises will. When you can’t staff your hospital, restaurant or grocery store, being the government’s vaccine enforcer loses some of its luster.

Especially when the vaccine turns out to be something less than what was promised.

When many jurisdictions are reporting that 40 to 50 percent of new covid cases are among vaccinated people, and studies show that vaccination does nothing to reduce likelihood of transmission from infected individuals, and intensive care units are increasingly seeing vaccinated people among their patients, the argument for vaccination gets weaker and weaker.

Certainly, the vaccine is a good thing, and most people will choose to get it. Encouraging vaccination, recommending vaccination, incentivizing and rewarding vaccination, are all good things. But mandating vaccination is not. Americans are a free people, and “My body, my choice” applies to more than just the uterus. No government, directly or through business intermediaries, should compel the introduction of a foreign agent into a free citizen’s body. And no enterprise – of any sort – should think that the prerogative of the employer extends to imposing health choices or medical procedures on its workers.

Hopefully, common decency and respect would keep an employer from imposing any such rule on his employees. It would be a cold-hearted tyrant who would think his authority extended into those recesses of workers’ private lives. Holding a paycheck over someone’s head to compel their compliance in a situation like this is dishonorable.

Hopefully, bosses realize that.

But in case they don’t, if such considerations are beyond them, then perhaps math can be persuasive.

The math that says they can’t afford to lose the workers; and the math that says they can’t afford to lose the customers.

Because vaccine mandates will lose you both – employees and customers – and you can’t afford to lose either.

And don’t buy the Cuomo/Biden argument that being vaccinated-only will help your business. People attracted to such a situation are less prone to be in-person customers than people who would be repulsed by such a situation.

It’s like they say: Woke is broke.

And you don’t want to take the mandatory-vaccination knee.

It won’t help you medically, and it will certainly hurt you economically.

So, respect your employees, and your customers will respect you. Disrespect your employees, and your customers will abandon you.


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Because vaccine mandates will lose you both – employees and customers – and you can’t afford to lose either.
1 posted on 08/24/2021 6:22:56 AM PDT by shortstop
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To: shortstop

AMEN! I’m IN

Maybe we should start making a list.


2 posted on 08/24/2021 6:27:58 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: shortstop

I call them Pfascists.

Don’t ever do business with Pfascists.


3 posted on 08/24/2021 6:39:33 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Safrguns

Lets include those who donated to BLM and other woke insanity. POWER OF THE PURSE, USE IT! Proof of vaccination for entry on anything, avoid. Anything form china don’t buy. Many ask what can I do, this we all can do in concert


4 posted on 08/24/2021 6:41:06 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (t)
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To: shortstop

The fda and cdc approved the tuskegee syphilis study for 40 years,the government told the african american people it was safe,,,does this sound familar?


5 posted on 08/24/2021 6:42:51 AM PDT by Craftmore
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To: Safrguns
Maybe we should start making a list.

We should. My fear is that given the oligopolistic nature of most major industries, it will quickly become as difficult to source clean product as it is to avoid Red Chinese manufacture.

Another conundrum, a LOT of the shots-required products might well wind up being among the few U.S. made products left. And of the good ones available, many might be from ma and pa shops that sell through Amazon, which a lot of us also avoid.

We are being boxed out, and quickly.
6 posted on 08/24/2021 6:43:12 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: shortstop

Speaking of vaxx mandates, anyone else wondering why NYC isn’t making folks who use mass transit show a vaccine passport...

Bars, restaurants, etc, but not places where you’re crammed in together cheek by Joel.

Go figure.


7 posted on 08/24/2021 6:44:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Safrguns

This will have an effect only if you make it public.

Send a letter, yes, an actual dead tree letter — this will be noticed everywhere in company. Do you recall “Miracle on 34th Street”? Thousands of postcards are addressed to supposed Santa on trial.
That is an optic that will be spotted throughout any company. Can’t be covered up like a thousand eMails.

A simple postcard with : I am no longer a customer if you mandate medical procedure for your employees or customers.
Don’t even mention Covid — that will get your post thrown out as Qanon crappola.


8 posted on 08/24/2021 6:45:05 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, WuhanFlu)
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To: Safrguns; All

We can start with the cities of:

New York
LA

Please add to lists other cities mandating vaccines.


9 posted on 08/24/2021 6:45:05 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: shortstop

Pfascist korporations mandating COVID shots are mandating the spread of variants.


10 posted on 08/24/2021 6:45:57 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: shortstop

And don’t just do it but also inform them of it. If boycotts didn’t work the left wouldn’t always do them! They just want to control you and even now Democrats want to mandate vaccines for domestic air travel. I watched a video of Tim Pool on the FDA approval igniting a wave of new mandates, and you can check it out in crawler link top of page at Whatfinger News. The problem is the Pfizer ‘vaccine’ the FDA ‘approved’ only confirms covid ‘protection’ for 7 days! That isn’t a real vaccine! Leftists got away with the election theft and we have to push back now or lose our freedoms forever.


11 posted on 08/24/2021 6:46:14 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: Safrguns

Might be easier to list the companies NOT involved.


12 posted on 08/24/2021 6:46:49 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: Dr. Sivana

We need our own economy.

Our own grocers, restaurants, tailors, retailers, auto service shops, media, etc...

I’ll bend over backwards to patronize anyone local to our former republic.


13 posted on 08/24/2021 6:46:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: ronnie raygun

Yes, the “trained Marxists”. They changed their web page (finally) but the WayBackMachine (archive) is forever!


14 posted on 08/24/2021 6:48:29 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: woodbutcher1963

Portland. Seattle. ...


15 posted on 08/24/2021 6:49:11 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: Craftmore

are you positive the FDA involved


16 posted on 08/24/2021 6:54:46 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: T.B. Yoits

Pfascist korporations mandating COVID shots are mandating the spread of variants.

Where's your evidence that the vaccines cause the spread of variants? 97% of hospitalized COVID patients are unvaccinated. I don't think it should be illegal to play Russian roulette with your own health, no government goons should be forcing a needle in your arm, but if a private business wants to mandate the vaccine, how is that any different than a private Christian school refusing to hire homosexual teachers? Their business, their rules.
Delta variant among unvaccinated

17 posted on 08/24/2021 6:57:50 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: shortstop

Same here.


18 posted on 08/24/2021 7:00:25 AM PDT by cp124 (Focus on treatment and not an experimental vaccine/flu shot.)
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To: shortstop
By definition.

Cuz I won't vax.

19 posted on 08/24/2021 7:08:13 AM PDT by G Larry (Those destroying the Constitution must demonize those who would defend it.)
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To: mewzilla

If these draconian mandates continue to spread and are actually enforced, you can expect a nimble, widespread non-mandate economy to spring up, and it’ll do a booming business.


20 posted on 08/24/2021 7:09:28 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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