"As more and more companies relent on the mandates, you can bet there will be beaucoup retaliation on the part of petty dictators - local, state and federal - who are furious that people had the temerity to reject their authoritah!
It's the same mentality that is driving the unrelenting insistence on vaccinations when we know now they are essentially worthless in terms of safety and efficacy. Leftists, in case you haven't noticed, are pathologically unable to admit fault. It's like some sort of collective Borderline Personality Disorder.
They will not let this one go. Look for some other sweeping, Draconian legislation to be proposed in coming days as their tantrums go into overdrive."
While agreeing with this comment, I kept thinking "and this is how wars start".....
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/amtrak-suspends-vaccine-mandate-days-after-shutting-down-routes-over-staff-shortages
Businesses are starting to blink. It’s all a game of chicken.
Well, imagine that.
Not wars but insurrection or revolution or civic unrest.
Amtrak is what you get when the government subsidizes a dying industry.
My thoughts turned to Genesis 18, where Abraham was able to negotiate with God, to spare Sodom if he could find 10 good men.
The lesson of that is - even the smallest group of righteous people can save a corrupt system. No doubt the “refuseniks” at Amtrak were a minority, but their beliefs forced a change.
Amtrak is still around? What the....????
Friend of mine works for a railroad company that is considered a federal contractor because they move military equipment, etc. They came out with a mandate right after Brandon dictated it. He wasn’t gonna get the clot shot, but he wouldn’t quit either. A whole bunch of others quit, and the RR is in a bind for personnel. He didn’t quit because he’s 11 months from retirement, but he was preparing to be fired. The RR recently rescinded their mandate after the court ruling, which is going to allow him to keep working.
He told me yesterday that just as soon as he’s eligible for retirement, he’s outta there regardless of what “incentives” they come out for him to stay working.
wonder how many got the jab under the threat of a mandate
I am on a Facebook Amtrak fan group.
Full of liberals.
Recently someone posted about being in NYC on Amtrak and they booted someone out for refusing to mask.
“Amtrak is SERIOUS about COVID safety!”
Basically, everyone in reply applauded their tyranny.
Trump too unfortunately.
It is all about “cover”. If someone stands up and says no!, then one or two more will as well. Soon that starts a flow and someone in authority starts looking around and says ... hey, there just might be something here to the other side’s message. Lets take a look.
That is what the courts have done. Since that has happened, others are “taking a look” and not likeing what they are seeing. I predict the tide will turn.
Soon people will be asking questions like:
If the vaccine requires so many boosters, is it really a vaccine?
Since the vaccinated can get sick, can’t they also transmit Covid?
Why are the vaccinated taking up so many hospital beds?
What to the Covid vaccines really do?
Do I want a person who is vaccinated and carrying a viral load in my house / business / public?
I had no idea Amtrak has regulatory authority to ignore the president? Nice. How about spreading that around a bit?
What really happened was that the suits were catching flack and were on the verge of being booted from their cozy offices and forced to actually go to work.... and none of them had any real capabilities other than watching porn on their computers.
Hi.
I predict the new Rona variant will be called the Andromeda Strain, and the tyrants will demand that if you ain’t vaxed you ain’t participating in commerce.
All of this is/was predictable. There’s a Book on this.
5.56mm
Excellent comments. Ditto
How do their employees who didn’t want to get it, but did get it because of the threat of being fired now feel?
Amtrak is a largely black employee company iirc