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'I wish I had better news': Vaccine mandate poses serious staffing crisis for State Patrol 'There is no accommodation we can provide for religious exemption requests'(WA)
wnd.com ^ | 9/6/2021 | Art Moore

Posted on 09/07/2021 4:37:21 AM PDT by rktman

Like many employers across the nation, the Washington State Patrol is "on a collision course with a staffing crisis" due to a vaccine mandate that has virtually removed any exceptions.

Some WSP staffers were warned in emails Thursday that Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee's mandate does not allow for religious exemptions, reported Jason Rantz, a talk-host for KTTH radio in Seattle.

Rantz pointed out that for more than a year, troopers have successfully worked without a vaccine, using personal protective gear.

Rantz obtained an internal poll of the State Patrol Troopers Association conducted Aug. 9-17 that found 295 troopers said they would refuse vaccination at the risk of being fired.

In a more general question, 449 troopers said they disagree with mandatory vaccinations. Only 19 said they supported it.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: clotshot; convid19; noexemptions; seattle; theclotshot; washington
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Just a few trouble makers right inslee? Keep the faith troopers.
1 posted on 09/07/2021 4:37:21 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Mandates are made by politicians and are not the law


2 posted on 09/07/2021 4:39:59 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: rktman
"No, gee... Really sorry, but it looks like we won't be able to respect your Constitutionally-guaranteed rights in this instance. Yuh see: It's for the greater good! Move on!"

Regards,

3 posted on 09/07/2021 4:41:24 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: rktman

Inslee’s praetorian guard needs to call in sick for a week.


4 posted on 09/07/2021 4:41:53 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ronnie raygun

Sadly, they seem to be like some of the epa regs. No law but carry the weight of. If, BIG IF, someone had the money to fight this crap in court.


5 posted on 09/07/2021 4:45:59 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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The troopers replacements are streaming across the border as I type. Likewise, our replacements are being imported from Afghanistan. Nothing this crowd does is an accident.


6 posted on 09/07/2021 4:49:09 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: rktman

I keep waiting for vaccine mandates to enter the courts.

There must be exclusion/exception clauses.

Some people have allergic reactions to many vaccines and typically avoid them. Then religion also is important.

Gotta get some High Courts to chime in.


7 posted on 09/07/2021 4:52:22 AM PDT by David Chase
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To: rktman

sure, get vaxxed and then? a woman in Australia has all the wrong advice?

7 Sept: 9News Australia: Double-vaxxed Sydney mum with COVID-19 shares message from hospital
By Emily McPherson
A North Sydney woman who contracted COVID-19 after getting her second vaccination says her situation proves how vital it is for everyone to comply with lockdown restrictions...

Louise said she had been following all the lockdown and COVID-safe regulations “to the letter” for the past three months, in part because she was so worried about contracting the virus and passing it on to her son...

Louise said she received her second Pfizer vaccination a week before she tested positive, making it possible her immune system was still developing a response to the jab...
This morning Louise was released from hospital...

Louise said her message to COVID-19 sceptics or those skirting lockdown laws because of a misguided sense of entitlement was simple – “just stay at home”.
“Go get a vaccine and go back home. And stop trying to think you’re clever by finding loopholes. Be sensible,” she said.
“It’s almost like the reason why I have COVID-19 is that people are not paying attention, and they’re not following the rules.
“If we all just followed the rules and did what we were told in the first three weeks when (NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian) asked us, very nicely, then we wouldn’t be in this situation...

Louise said her situation should prove to COVID-19 sceptics how real and dangerous the virus was.
“There are some people who think they’re so smart, and that they know that this is not true and COVID is not a thing - clearly it is a thing.”

https://www.9news.com.au/national/doublevaxxed-sydney-mum-in-hospital-with-covid19-shares-message-for-others/8b2b031f-8137-4117-864f-bc14f87aa280


8 posted on 09/07/2021 4:54:43 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: David Chase

I receive a shot for my psoriatic arthritis that screws with my auto immune system so, why would I get this shot? Probably a case of “Too bad.” But still, even if that were not the case, I wouldn’t be lining up to get it. Simply put, I don’t want it. Neither does Mrs rktman. Nothing political. We don’t get flu shots either.


9 posted on 09/07/2021 4:59:17 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: alexander_busek

This is really at the heart of the matter. In this country the ‘collective good’ has always been secondary to the rights of the individual. Individual rights ARE what is in the best interests of the collective. This doesn’t exist anywhere else, not the UK or Canada, etc.

This virus is just being used, primarily, to challenge that mindset. It’s trying to shame people into submitting to the collective, otherwise you’re ‘selfish’. Well, imo, it’s repugnant to demand everyone else get the jab because it makes YOU feel safer, that is selfish...and it doesn’t even work.

This is an ultimate test of the Constitution. Can it be suspended because the collective says so? Many are saying ‘yes’. That is a radical departure and a dark, dark, road to go down - straight to Nazi like outcomes. If a ‘health emergency’ can force (even if just via economic coercion) you to take an experimental shot then nothing else is sacred either.

Get ready for the ‘gun crime health crisis’, global vaccine passports, social credit scores, restriction of movement & travel tracking, peaceful protests only for the jabbed, etc.. In France people are being stopped from buying GROCERIES if they can’t prove they’ve been jabbed. Macron has threatened VOTING if not jabbed. Australia has openly declared that you’ll only have freedom if you’re jabbed. All dictated by government. Everything that many have died to defend against, the truly selfish are willing to give away in a heartbeat without even considering a fight.

How quickly it happens.


10 posted on 09/07/2021 5:46:18 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fuzzylogic

For a virus with a 99% survival rate....


11 posted on 09/07/2021 6:08:47 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rktman

https://thecrimereport.org/2021/08/12/over-500-cops-have-died-of-covid-19-police-union/

religious exemptions is a stupid curtain to hide behind anyway and mocks religion just to sound ‘cool’. Not even the Amish have a ban on vaccination - they may not be hot on childhood vaccines, but when they had a measles outbreak a few years ago they got vaccinated fast. And while there may well be some fringe group out there that doesn’t believe in vaccinations and have practiced that belief, they probably number in the low hundreds if that.

Maybe instead of a stone wall mandate, weekly testing at their own expense when a wave rolls through, might be a workaround? Would that be considered reckless behavior for life insurance purposes?


12 posted on 09/07/2021 6:08:59 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: rktman

Aren’t they the ones who provide his personal security detail? Why not refuse to provide it?


13 posted on 09/07/2021 6:14:30 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: rktman

on a collision course with a staffing crisis” due to a vaccine mandate that
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Intended .

the whole society and nation and globe is on a manufactured crash course

On purpose.

Feature
Not a bug.


14 posted on 09/07/2021 6:15:04 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: MAGAthon

““There are some people who think they’re so smart, and that they know that this is not true and COVID is not a thing - clearly it is a thing.”” Smart enough to realize the “vaccine” did NOT prevent one from contracting the wuhana virus. That came from Chi-Nuh!


15 posted on 09/07/2021 6:18:39 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: blueplum

religious exemptions is a stupid curtain to hide behind anyway and mocks religion just to sound ‘cool’

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Your opinion, and your welcome to it.

Seventh day Adventists are not a fringe group. ( I’m not sda btw)

.If someone trusts God for their best interest what’s that to you?

Btw, secular humanist atheism is also a religon.


16 posted on 09/07/2021 6:21:43 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: fuzzylogic
It’s trying to shame people into submitting to the collective... If a ‘health emergency’ can force...you to take an experimental shot then nothing else is sacred either. This is an ultimate test of the Constitution.

That puts a very sharp point on the issue, especially when the "emergency" is declared by unelected bureaucrats the likes of Fauci.

BTW, if the vaccine is mandated for uniformed military personal, why doesn't that logically include the Commander-in-Chief, his WH staff, the Judiciary and the Legislative branches as well?

17 posted on 09/07/2021 6:22:56 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Helping a tyrant's nation to prosper only makes sense after the tyrant is removed..)
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To: rktman

End of July, this thread:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3980583/posts

Some freepers were taken to task by others for not reading the article, which said that a deeply held personal belief was sufficient. But, that was then. 4 or 5 weeks ago, c’mon man.

Govt continues to push against liberty; and nobody finds it convenient to water the tree.


18 posted on 09/07/2021 6:34:04 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: fuzzylogic

Great post


19 posted on 09/07/2021 6:41:38 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The Vax and masks is not working.


20 posted on 09/07/2021 6:45:06 AM PDT by bray (Time to resign Joe)
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