Posted on 10/19/2021 9:04:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A last Friday deadline for Los Alamos National Lab employees to get vaccinated has come and gone, with a judge on the same day denying a request by 114 employees there to block the nuclear lab’s vaccine mandate from taking effect.
In the last days the employees, including top nuclear engineers and scientists, have literally taken to the streets outside the lab, protesting the mandate which orders them to get their first dose of the Covid vaccine or face termination.
Concerning the lawsuit filed by the employees, The Hill wrote earlier that "Workers at the New Mexico laboratory, which created the atomic bomb, filed a lawsuit claiming that exemptions to the mandate have been denied without proper justification."
Specifically the workers, among them dozens of scientists, are pushing back against federal contractor Triad National Security LLC, which runs the lab under contract of the US Department of Energy.
It's unclear if any have been fired at this point after the deadline has passed, or if any level of negotiations or understandings are in the process of being reached. The reality is that these employees are seen as immensely valuable to both the advanced nuclear lab and national security, given their government-issued clearance levels.
Local media detailed Monday protests along the main road leading to the lab and outside the entrance as follows:
Some 55 protestors, many of them carrying U.S. flags or signs, gathered on State Route 4 in White Rock at 6 a.m. to get the attention of Los Alamos National Laboratory commuters and others, They were protesting LANL’s policy mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees and the termination or placement in leave without pay status of an undisclosed number of employees by LANL last Friday.
As of Friday LANL officials said 96 percent of employees are fully-vaccinated and an additional 1 percent have had their first dose. Additional protests are being planned in other locations.
Importantly, it appears the bulk of those who face termination are not low-level staffers or new hires, but in many cases scientists and nuclear engineers who have worked at one of America's most sensitive and advanced defense facilities for decades.
Protesters outside the Los Alamos lab facility on Monday. Source: Los Alamos Reporter
The Associated Press had detailed that "The plaintiffs include scientists, nuclear engineers, project managers, research technicians and others who have some of the highest security clearances in the nation for the work they do."
Further the report underscored they would be "difficult to replace" in the short term. "Some of the employees who are part of the lawsuit have worked for Los Alamos lab for decades, while others are newer hires who have relocated to New Mexico from other states and countries," the report added. "Thirty-four of them are named in the lawsuit and 80 have opted to remain anonymous, citing fears of retaliation."
Insane.
Indeed.
You actually think the U.S. is going to let highest clearance nuclear scientists hop a plane to a third-world counyry and set up shop there? Guessing you’ve never had a clearance?
That kind of brainpower resisting the jab should also tell you something about the jab.
It has to be.
The West is purposely destroying their own civilization.
It’s unbelievable; yet here we are.
No sir, I have not. Nor have I had the opportunity or need to seek one.
I have, however, met one such physicist as I mentioned, who worked in Indonesia on some kind of specialized research for the Indonesian government, albeit many years ago.
He did not say what the precise area of research was, and although I am merely a lowly civilian puke, I nevertheless had the good sense not to ask.
Lordy that’s stupid and a waste of taxpayer money
There’s going to be headhunters from nuke wannabe countries competing for these brains. Going to be some massive loss and transfer of US nuke knowhow and secrets to folks that really shouldn’t be getting it. Set our nuke programs in the toilet for what ? A freaking shot that has proven it doesn’t work ? Sounds like a Biden brainless plan.
And what are the muted GOP Senators are doing?
Is the national defense infrastructure really going to capitulate to Marxism? Because that would be suicidal.
Our government and military have essentially employed US citizens at very hazardous positions before this and I don’t know of any past protests by our nuclear science community against the inherent dangers. They had a job to do and they did it. It was more about preserving the peace and security of a new Atomic Age and cold war. They were more conscious of national security as being the most important thing because it was...And then there were the Rosenbergs.
That's an 'understatement'. The security clearances alone for the replacements would take years.
You actually think the U.S. is going to let highest clearance nuclear scientists hop a plane to a third-world country and set up shop there? Guessing you’ve never had a clearance?
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That was the old US, you know, the one we grew up in and served. This new Biden one, would probably buy them the tickets.
I don't think this is likely, but it's certainly possible.
As an aside, I wouldn't want to piss off clever people who design nuclear weapons for a living.
0moeba is trying to destroy the United States through his ex-VP, Biden.
DEMS SEE NO END TO BORDER SURGE: That appears to be the case, judging by the budget Senate Democrats are proposing for the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency. Joe Simonson of the Washington Free Beacon ran the numbers in the bill text and concluded CBP would get $500 million less in 2022 than it did this year.
Not to worry, though, because, Simonson reports, the bill also provides for construction of more immigrant processing centers on the border. That way there will be minimal delays to the border crossers on their way from wherever they come from to wherever in the U.S. they decide to go.
But wait, there’s more!
“The bill forbids Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, from enforcing immigration laws. It instead directs the agency to only focus on ‘the disruption of transnational crime,’ such as drug trafficking or money laundering.
“The proposed cuts come as the southern border faces a decades-high surge of illegal immigrants attempting to enter the United States. Immigration authorities expect to report nearly two million migrant encounters at the border this fiscal year, the first time the number has exceeded one million since 2006.”
Normalcy bias is real.
Well the wealthy psychopaths ruling the West are remaking it to their liking.
Don’t these uneducated people know that they can’t rely on mere facts? They need to follow the science.
> Seems like the really smart people and scientist aren’t the Pro-Vaccine Bullshit either!
I worked at a DOE lab for many years and have lots of friends still there. Based on my discussions with them it seems pretty clear that very few scientists at my old lab (and I assume Los Alamos is no different) who are anti-vaxx or even anti-vaxx mandate. I just spoke with a friend and former lab colleague today who told me that he didn’t know of anyone personally with whom either of us has worked that has come out against the vaccine mandate.
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