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Vaccine Mandate Helps People Feel Safe [semi-satire]
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 7 November 2021 | John Semmens

Posted on 11/08/2021 9:15:37 AM PST by John Semmens

US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh says "President Biden's insistance that everyone be vaccinated is essential to restoring economic growth. Right now too many people are afraid to go back to work out of fear of catching COVID. Once everyone is vaccinated this fear will be eradicated. This is not a mandate. It is a reminder to do the right thing if you want to keep your job if you're an employee or be fined if you're an employer."

Walsh dismissed emerging evidence of the vaccines' dwindling effectiveness as "beside the point. We're asking everyone to remember when they were children and how the opportunity to cuddle with a favorite teddy bear or doll could banish fear of monsters. Even though we adults recognize that stuffed toys couldn't possibly fend off monsters, the belief that they could made us feel secure. Today, we're asking all loyal Americans to place the same confidence in the vaccines to protect them from disease. The majority have already done this voluntarily, but a disloyal minority threatens to break the spell of confidence that is required if we are to defeat COVID."

"If anything, the current opportunity for all employers of 100 or more workers to enforce a vaccination protocol doesn't go far enough," the Secretary complained. "That's why I have ordered OSHA to include all employers, no matter how few workers they have, to compel their employees to get vaccinated. We all must share the same faith in the government's plan to battle this disease. Once we achieve this unanimity victory will be at hand and the fundamental transformation of this country begun by President Obama will be complete."

To help incentivize compliance, the Department of Labor is also drafting regulations that will bar those who are fired for refusing to be vaccinated will from being eligible to receive unemployment compensation. "Willful disobedience is insubordination," Walsh argued. "Unemployment benefits are meant only for those who lose their jobs through no fault of their own—like a recession—not for employees who won't follow orders."

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) heartily endorsed OSHA's efforts to compel universal vaccination, saying that "there's only one thing that's gonna get us through this completely and that's to get people vaccinated. I wish everyone would just voluntarily obey the President's wish that they get vaccinated. Since some won't fines and firings are our last resort short of forcibly holding them down and jabbing them with hypodermics."

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: biden; coercion; covid; jobs; psychology; satire; vaccines

1 posted on 11/08/2021 9:15:37 AM PST by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens

“...”President Biden’s insistance that everyone be vaccinated is essential to restoring economic growth. Right now too many people are afraid to go back to work out of fear of catching COVID. Once everyone is vaccinated this fear will be eradicated. This is not a mandate. It is a reminder to do the right thing if you want to keep your job if you’re an employee or be fined if you’re an employer...”

Is there anything IN that paragraph that ISN’T a lie?


2 posted on 11/08/2021 9:17:52 AM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: John Semmens

Folks don’t feel safe facing a virus that has a 99.95% overall survival rate? Maybe they should all live in bubbles... just incase


3 posted on 11/08/2021 9:18:42 AM PST by Bob434
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To: John Semmens

Uh, not feelin’ it. Based on some of the actions and comments of the “fooly vaxxed”, this material they willingly allowed to be injected is a mind altering substance.


4 posted on 11/08/2021 9:20:51 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: SMARTY
Is there anything IN that paragraph that ISN’T a lie?

For my part, I'm not sure that it isn't all that far from the truth, sad to say. I've come to the impression that a significant number of my fellow Americans are soulless, gutless hypochondriacs.

Even worse, many of them hold themselves out as being "conservative," yet they would be happy to surrender their liberty (and take away mine) if it would but calm their fears over their own mortality.

Home of the brave, my *ss.

5 posted on 11/08/2021 9:29:23 AM PST by DSH
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To: Bob434

This Fall will usher in ADE (antibody
dependent enhancement}


6 posted on 11/08/2021 10:08:15 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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