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Veteran TV Reporter Fired for Refusing COVID Vaccine
New York Post ^ | October 8, 2021 | Kenneth Garger

Posted on 10/07/2021 11:08:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A veteran TV reporter at a Missouri news station was fired last week for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Linda Simmons, who worked for 14 years at KY3 based in Springfield, wrote on Facebook that she requested a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate instituted by her station’s parent company — but it was denied.

“I value the freedom we all have to make our own informed decisions,” Simmons wrote in the Friday social media post.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: covid19; media; vaccine
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1 posted on 10/07/2021 11:08:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

at least sge will get unemployment

lots of people say nope

but this is an experimental treatment not fda approved, still to this day

companies don’t have powers that allow them to be mengeles or escape nuremburg trials

further if she got ill the company wouldn’t take any liability responsibility

so i’d say with a good lawter she’d kick the company’s ass


2 posted on 10/07/2021 11:12:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

Her mistake is trying to qualify her refusal with a “religious exemption” She should have simply said NO.


3 posted on 10/07/2021 11:21:34 PM PDT by Edward Teach ( )
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To: Edward Teach; nickcarraway
Her mistake is trying to qualify her refusal with a “religious exemption” She should have simply said NO.

Why is a religious exemption a mistake?

4 posted on 10/07/2021 11:24:03 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I heard places in New York were saying they would deny unemployment.


5 posted on 10/07/2021 11:24:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Secret Agent Man
further if she got ill the company wouldn’t take any liability responsibility

I thought I read an employment lawyer say if they force you to get it, they are liable, where if they just strongly encourage it, they aren't. I am not a lawyer.

6 posted on 10/07/2021 11:27:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

they say that sure

but it will go to the courts

courts with juries may rule differently


7 posted on 10/07/2021 11:31:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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People say that this is only a sort of warm up for the end time situation where the ability to work and trade to make a living is directly mentioned — but as soon as it hits an individual like her directly, it’s no longer a warm up.

It has only seemed to be a warm up to those whose lives are not directly affected. And why would there be a warm up?

Either we do or we don’t have the necessary conditions. Either we are or we are not free. Either the election was fair or it was not fair. There are so many examples of this where people are saying oh yeah this is not really it, something worse will be it.

There won’t be something worse because this is already a worst case scenario. Evil has taken over the world we live in. I can’t state it any clearer than that.


8 posted on 10/07/2021 11:50:19 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (a cloud has fallen over the lands of the free )
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To: nickcarraway

They All Lied. Throw Them All Out NOW

“If you were vaccinated you won’t get Covid” - Biden, on multiple occasions.

“If you get vaccinated you won’t wind up in the hospital” - CDC Director Rochelle, Fauci, many others.

“You must be vaccinated because its the only way to end this pandemic” - Many.

All lies.

Not mistakes, lies.

The Government has been analyzing CMS data. Not a shock; they have every person over 65’s medical records, in real time, as everyone over 65, statistically speaking, is on Medicare and the government pays for it. They therefore have the records.

The US Government has been analyzing this data through Project Salus.

They know that:

71% of the Covid-19 cases occurred in these fully-vaccinated people and roughly 80% of the population >65 is vaccinated. In other words they know the vaccines do not stop you from getting Covid.

Both of the mRNA vaccines lose effectiveness between 4-6 months post-injection; the failure rate doubles between 5-6 months as opposed to 3-4 months.

Age is NOT why the vaccines lose effectiveness. It is simply that they stop working.

While Moderna vaccines work slightly better than the Pfizer ones, the key word here is slightly. Both degrade materially and the difference in the 5-6 month timeframe is not statistically significant. Yes, it appears to be slightly better but not statistically so. In other words the damn things do not work to provide durable protection — period.

The nuclear lie: As of August 7th 60% of hospitalizations were among fully-vaccinated individuals. You have heard repeatedly that this is now a “disease of the unvaccinated.” That is a damned, knowing lie and they knew it all the way back to the first of August.

In the 5-6 month timeframe the hospitalization protection also is wildly ineffective; the rate per 100,000 approximately doubles between the 3-4 month and 5-6 month time periods.

Prior infection is highly protective but post six months vaccination has become much less-so. Note that “prior infection” now goes back 18 months to the first wave. Do we still need to have a conversation about “natural immunity”? No: THE US GOVERNMENT KNOWS DAMNED WELL AND HAS PROVED THAT INFECTION PROTECTS BETTER THAN THEIR FRAUDULENT JABS.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243789


9 posted on 10/07/2021 11:54:01 PM PDT by afchief
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Better to be fired than dead or debilitated.

All of these crimes against humanity will be punished. I would like a front row seat at the hangings. The liars who deliberately ruined people’s lives OR who forced the jabs that ended so many lives will get what they deserve.


10 posted on 10/08/2021 1:13:17 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: nickcarraway

11 posted on 10/08/2021 4:07:10 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: nickcarraway
I thought I read an employment lawyer say if they force you to get it, they are liable, where if they just strongly encourage it, they aren't. I am not a lawyer.

A Jury of your peers will be fully 'vaccinated'.

12 posted on 10/08/2021 4:29:11 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!!)
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ESPN reporter Sage Steele was fired for making TRUE statements about mandates and Barack Obamas ancestry (he’s half white!). ESPN said they valued diverse opinions but then fired her for having a diverse opinion.


13 posted on 10/08/2021 5:34:58 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Somebody tell Hunters dad that the American public are losing patience with him.)
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To: Pontiac

To not to have to take the shot is a basic human right.
My religion matters not. I have a right to my life, my liberty, and the pursuit of my happiness.


14 posted on 10/08/2021 7:39:42 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.)
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To: Delta 21
I have a right to my life, my liberty, and the pursuit of my happiness.

Bwa-ha-ha-ha! That's a good one!!

Not where taking the "vaccine" is concerned. It's your duty! It makes ALL of us safer, Comrade!! Besides, if it fails a bit, you can come into the hospital where we have some wonderful CDC approved treatments we can, ...um, ...heal you with for free!

15 posted on 10/08/2021 8:10:57 AM PDT by Gritty (All those who’ve lied about everything for 5 years are the ones demanding I take the vaccine-JKelly)
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To: Secret Agent Man
at least sge will get unemployment

lots of people say nope

I'm one of them. I wish her well and admire her for having the courage of her convictions. But fired for cause means no unemployment.

16 posted on 10/08/2021 8:13:58 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Delta 21
I have a right to my life, my liberty, and the pursuit of my happiness.

And your employer has the right to give you all the free time you need to pursue your happiness by firing you.

17 posted on 10/08/2021 8:16:29 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: BipolarBob

They suspended her from being on-air for a week. About an hour before they announced she had “CoVID-19” and would be out of the office as a result. I don’t remember seeing they fired her.


18 posted on 10/08/2021 8:56:45 AM PDT by ro_dreaming ("We seem to have gone from 'We the people' to 'Me, the president' in a scant 8 months." - Me)
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To: DoodleDawg

I can see this going bad eventually for a few “employers-slavers”. According to the Chamber of Commerce Republicans the employers own your ass and can tell you to kiss monkeys, that all employees to wear sun dresses backwards and pray to the Coke machine in the break room and you will do it or they terminate you and these same Chamber R’s will do it with glee and a smile on their faces.

One day they will push the wrong person and fire them for one of their petty reasons like the jab(not a legitimate reason such as poor performance of their duties) and they will lose everything, family, home, life and at that point they have nothing to lose and the plantation master that did the life altering damage will be called upon to pay for their petty and vindictive behavior by the employee they destroyed.

I am not saying it’s right by any means but neither is firing people because you as their employer/master demand the right to become their doctor and make medical decisions for them, instead of it being the employees choice along with their doctor.


19 posted on 10/08/2021 11:04:32 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: ro_dreaming
I read she was off the air and I just assumed that meant fired.
20 posted on 10/08/2021 2:35:16 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Somebody tell Hunters dad that the American public are losing patience with him.)
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