Posted on 10/27/2021 4:05:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Why shouldn’t they, when the risks of the “cure” seem disproportionate to the risks of the disease?
On February 5, 1777, George Washington issued an order for all troops to be inoculated against smallpox. He feared the deadly disease raging through his troops was a worse threat than the British. In Washington’s time, the only way to protect against smallpox was variolation, a procedure involving obtaining smallpox scabs from those sick with the disease, making a small cut into a healthy person’s arm, and then inserting the scab into that cut.
Most variolated people would get a mild form of smallpox and become immune although several a certain percentage would get full-blown smallpox. Smallpox is a dreadful disease, killing many of the people it infects and leaving the survivors disfigured for life. Its 30% mortality rate justified Washington’s drastic order.
Covid is another story. It has a survival rate between 97% and 99.75%. With that survival rate, there is no reasonable way to claim that it’s serious enough to warrant the government mandating vaccination on the population. Nevertheless, Joe Biden seems determined to do just that and to use the full power of his office to force unwilling Americans to submit to experimental mRNA gene therapy.
Americans are fighting back. Florida governor Ron DeSantis opposes vaccine mandates and has flatly stated that Biden’s attempts to mandate vaccination are unconstitutional. California parents demonstrated statewide against vaccine mandates for schools. Thousands of workers across the country are choosing job loss over vaccination. Thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees have refused vaccination and been suspended. Twenty-four states are threatening to sue the administration. Southwest Airlines caved on its threat to put unvaccinated employees on unpaid leave. Business groups met with White House officials to ask for a delay of the vaccine mandate.
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Frightening gullible people is an easy way to control them. Just watch CNN.
Deadly?? Washington had smallpox when he accompanied his brother, Lawrence, who had gone to Barbados for his health.
I think it is safe to say most people who had smallpox knew it and those that survived it did so with life long reminders.
FReepsplainers, commence telling me how covid is worse than smallpox. I know there's got to be at least one of you.
The Tennessee state legislature is holding a special session today to address the mandates. I got an email last week from the university I work at saying I have until Dec. 8th to be fully vaccinated and submit proof of vaccination or to file for religious/medical exemption. I have been working there for 11 years on a 1 year contract that gets renewed every August. I sit in the dining room with my colleagues because otherwise I would have to sit by myself and be labeled as anti-social. My colleagues are all left wing, and the lunch conversation shows how much hatred they have for anyone not conforming. My fear is that if I ask for a religious exemption, then I will be fired by stealth because they will simply not renew my contract. This is exactly what my colleagues at lunch say should happen to anyone not conforming. I really hope the TN legislature addresses this today. If they can pass a law saying an employer cannot demand proof of vaccination, then that might have the greatest chance for success since it is not trying to say the mandate itself is illegal.
It’s about the morbidity, not the mortality. Washington’s soldiers didn’t spend months in an ICU, they just laid down and died.
Death rate from the cove = 1%.
Death rate from the vax = 1%.
Death rate from infected vaxxed = 1%
Vax doubles the chance of dying from covid.
That’s a tough spot you’re in. I pray it works out for you.
Vaccine Hesitancy no. VACCINE REBELLION YES!
Yet here I am, facing firing if I don't participate in an experimental drug trial.
LET'S GO BRANDON!
Sounds toxic, covid or no, vax or no. Eleven years is a good long run but it's not something you can't survive without, is it? You might even find a friendlier place to work, if you got out of this "comfort zone" which is anything but comfortable.
Employers everywhere are looking for reliable, competent people. Shop around rather than wait for the legislature to rescue you because they probably won't. Job hunt now, before you have to lawyer up and be distracted by legal proceedings that take forever and likely get you as little good result as the legislature.
Even if there were a law forbidding employers to demand proof of vaccination, it’s not hard to predict what would happen to an employee who didn’t volunteer such proof.
Problem: The CoupFlu stats are crap. All of them.
Informed consent is an impossibility.
We have been lied to by too many about too much.
“Ask for a delay?”
What about demand a cease and desist?
At the dreaded “end of the day,” I believe there will be class action suits and some sort of restitution (or reinstatement) for many people terminated due to their refusal to submit to vaccination.
In the meantime, in most cases, I’d say a person threatened with termination should stand his ground, and if it comes to that, they terminate him. Quitting is acquiescence and it doesn’t leave a person with much ground under his feet when the legal proceedings get underway.
Not to mention, submitting to the vaccination is Russian Roulette. Odds in your favor, probably; but if you’re one of the unlucky ones, there’s no reset and no remedy. Is your job so precious that you’d risk death, stroke, permanent disability, a shorter and more painful life? To make a flu...maybe less uncomfortable?
As I heard one (WV) county health official say on the news this AM about the legislation re “exemptions” and mandates, “...we wouldn’t even be talking about this delta variant if people had just gotten their shot.”
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