Posted on 09/30/2021 3:53:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
They were the best of us, way better than any of the rest of us, by a lot according to the media and Democrats. I’m talking, of course, about the frontline workers who kept us safe and healthy throughout the pandemic. But yesterday’s heroes are today’s history’s greatest monsters…which is what the left is now saying about those they wept at the thought of just one year ago.
That opinions of people change over time is no surprise, Democrats are in the process of purging their own history of all the despots, racists, slave owners, rapists, sexual assaulters, misogynists, homophobes, etc. Weird how the party of “tolerance” has a history littered almost exclusively with people they now rip down statues of because they existed wrong, while they simultaneously defend and push to implement further the policies of those very same people.
That disconnect is for a different day, this is about changing opinions of people praised by Democrats just last year, not those who inspired them their whole lives until they became a political liability. Doctors and nurses are now in the crosshairs of the left, at least those who haven’t been vaccinated.
The choice to get vaccinated or not is, like every other medical decision, a personal one. But the left wants it public, which isn’t really surprising from the people who champion “shout your abortion,” but is odd from the people who have declared it to be just short of a hate crime to ask a man who insists he’s a woman whether or not he’s had any parts removed.
Putting all that aside, last year doctors and nurses were cheered, not only in public but from the privacy of people’s homes – remember when cities erupted with applause at 7:00 pm for them? The cheers are gone for anywhere between 20-40 percent of health care professionals who have not “gotten the jab,” for whatever reason.
Many medical professionals have had COVID-19, which means their bodies are likely lousy with antibodies. With that fact in mind, they know they don’t necessarily need the shot, at least not yet. We don’t know how long the immunity boost from the shot last, nor do we know how long the protection from natural infection lasts, but we do know both are real and one is likely better than the other.
Since the government has no ability for nuance, they don’t take natural immunity into account. Nor can the government take into account the fact that some people simply aren’t interested in getting the shot, no matter what. Some of them are irrational people who believe fluoride in the drinking water is a communist conspiracy to control minds, but the vast majority are sane, rational people who’ve looked at the low mortality rate and calculated their age and suspected co-morbidities and decided they simply don’t want to get it. They believe their immune system can handle it. Can it? The data shows they probably can, no one really knows unless and until they catch it.
As adults, as Americans, that’s their right – they can do what they want with their bodies, or at least that was the mantra from the left until a few months ago. Right around the time the cheers for doctors and nurses died down, so did the left’s enthusiasm an individual American’s right to assert domain over their own physical being. Weird, right?
Now those former heroes are being fired across the country for acting in a way they have each determined is in their own best interest. “Thanks a lot, now you’re fired.”
New York state is so vindictive, but likely not alone, that they’ve even moved to block unemployment benefits for the people they’re about to fire. The welcome mat is laid out for illegal aliens, who aren’t tested or vaccinated by the Biden administration as a matter of policy, but American heroes of just last year are cast aside as undesirable monsters trying to kill us all. There hasn’t been a fall from favor like this on the left since Democrats pretended to care about women and sexual assault during #MeToo and they mildly criticized Bill Clinton for a while.
That “disgust” with Clinton passed as soon as it stopped being useful, the animus toward the unvaccinated likely won’t as Democrats appear to be positioning themselves around COVID powers for the foreseeable future. Clinton gets a joint appearance with the Vice President, disobedient doctors and nurses get segments comparing them to Nazis on MSNBC and CNN. That’s gratitude to the left – they love as long as they can use you, and not a second longer.
A friend in PA who works in healthcare is being forced to vax today.
I don’t know how to save her from this.
She is terrified.
I know that may not be a comfortable/viable thing to do, but....
The American Revolution was kicked off by events such as a 2% tax on tea.
An irony of it all is that the people they’re losing to this idiocy are almost always the smartest and most productive.
That Gulag Archipelago quote that makes the rounds comes to mind. If enough people quit and told them to stuff it, others would be spared.
It should scare everyone, where this is leading.
What kind of job does she have?
If she has contact with patients, she can likely find a job elsewhere is a heartbeat.
For the last ten years the flu shot has been mandatory at every hospital I know. What’s the big deal? Get the shot and go to work, or else change careers. There were always some holdouts on the flu shot, but they changed their minds when their name badge didn’t work in the time clock. This is the life you chose, you weren’t drafted into health care.
So the healthcare workers who were touted as hero’s during all of this are now being fired. Only as good as your last performance I guess. We are the lepars of today, removed forcibly from society because they said so and their Nazi army agrees
Nursing home.
She has lots of people and rescue dogs depending on her.
I’m not sure she can find another job that fast as she’s not in a big city.
I can only speak from my experience in Upstate NY, but every residential care facility I’m familiar with up here is begging for help.
If she can buy time by trying to get an exemption, tell her to start looking.
I have and she has, to no avail.
It breaks my heart.
She is such an angel to people and animals, both.
She does not deserve this tyrannical treatment.
The flu shot is an actual vaccine, unlike the experimental covid-1984 clot shots.
The Flu shot doesn't kill you or cause Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) along with a whole slew of other complications, including mutated strains of COVID.
Forced conformity is such a b!+c#, But this is what happens when the “command-and-control” mindset keeps changing the goalposts.
And that is what we have in many parts of the world today, a reversion to the “command-and-control” regimes that were just about the normal state for most of mankind down through history. Just look at what has happened in Australia, a nation that most Americans consider to be a good reflection of a similar set of values. First they came for the rifles, shotguns and what pistols they could classify as “assault weapons”, in the wake of a serious massacre in Tasmania in 1996. Then, when the opportunity came for securing the nation against a “pandemic”, the people of Australia were forced into their homes as prisoners, not allowed go about on errands that were deemed to be “not essential”. Any unbiased observer would term that to be tyrannical, but now, that is the daily fact of life for every Australian.
And coming to a neighborhood near you, if it has not already.
I am probably in the minority by writing this. I didn’t like this whole hero worship thing to begin with. Heroes, at least to me, are far and few between. My standard for a hero is much higher than just being in a class of workers doing their jobs. I am not ungrateful. I need and receive regular medical care. I thank people for what they do for me, but I maintain objectivity so that I receive correct medical care. I refuse to be blinded by feelings.
There are plenty of health care workers that advocate senseless mandates. That in itself disqualifies all healthcare workers as being heroes.
The whole hero thing was carried too far with healthcare workers for political purposes. That was a feel-good distraction at the time to go along with the flatten the curve nonsense. It was intended to make us feel, instead of think.
Now that leftists are grasping for more control of people, those so-called heroes can be cast aside. They served their purpose. It’s onto a new technique to control people. The root of that technique is, again, feeling. The left vilifies those that do not get vaccinated. That is supposed to motivate you to do what the left wants.
Saw this reply, to a tweet....wondering if true. Any idea? ....
Jeff Putnam | Writer | Man
@Rugged_Legacy
· 5h
They fire nurses for not getting vaccinated and their move is to use national guard soldiers to replace them.
That’s funny because the national guard falls under its states authority until federalized under martial law.
They weren’t subject to the federal military Vax mandate.
Timeline for Guard personnel here...
https://www.ngaus.org/about-ngaus/newsroom/army-outlines-vaccine-mandate-punishments
You’re right. Not all those personnel will be vaxxed.
Could she do in-home caregiving? Maybe some of those agencies are not mandating the shot.
A friend in PA who works in healthcare is being forced to vax today.
I don’t know how to save her from this.
She is terrified.
Have her give her own “shot”. dump it in the ground and inject the needle leaving a mark.
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