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Before disciplining nearly 1,600 Mass. state workers over noncompliance of COVID vaccination mandate, Baker wants to know why
MASSLIVE.COM ^ | 10/18/2021 | Benjamin Kail

Posted on 10/18/2021 6:10:50 PM PDT by bitt

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To: Kozy

They wont jab the homeless because they cant re use the needle....


21 posted on 10/18/2021 6:34:16 PM PDT by Bullfrogg (American by birth, Irish by heritage, and hellraiser by choice)
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To: no-to-illegals

I’ve been hearing 90% kicked around by several CEO’s. I think they are gas lighting their employees into thinking they are a minority and comply. Show me actual, auditable, figures and I may believe them. I say 90% of the people voted for Biden, does not make it so.


22 posted on 10/18/2021 6:34:48 PM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: RBW in PA

Leftists know more tricks than a magic show has. I’ve had leftists tell me they fool Conservatives every day all day


23 posted on 10/18/2021 6:42:00 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. God’s speed FRiends)
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To: bitt

Charlie Parker is ant-Science....


24 posted on 10/18/2021 6:42:17 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: bitt

They’re gonna be disciplined? Like have to stand in the corner until they get vaccinated?


25 posted on 10/18/2021 6:42:19 PM PDT by JoeRed
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To: bitt

Because.


26 posted on 10/18/2021 6:42:45 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: vigilante2

“If 40k people jumped off a bridge would you?”

Sure, with a bungy cord attached :D


27 posted on 10/18/2021 6:44:45 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: bitt

Discipline? For not taking a worthless but dangerous shot?

Are they unruly children?

Did they also not eat their peas?

This is an outrage!


28 posted on 10/18/2021 6:44:58 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: Midwesterner53

Fully Vaccinated is nowhere close to Fully Protected [which is the objective].


29 posted on 10/18/2021 6:45:06 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: TigersEye

Chumming for sharks in a seal suit is appropriate.


30 posted on 10/18/2021 6:46:33 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: no-to-illegals

no-to-illegals wrote:

“Had a report today of managers demanding productivity that is impossible to achieve from those not vaccinated …. This is second hand information but if true is one method of removing those not taking the jab from the workplace. How many can hold up to this method and the other methods that will be utilized to have those unvaccinated comply or be fired due to work performance evaluations ? The leftists have many tricks and no treats.”

A hostile work environment, and unequal treatment, are being put on those who didn’t get the shots.

Time for the folks without shots to document everything and lawyer up.


31 posted on 10/18/2021 6:47:11 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: vigilante2

Only if they were my friends.


32 posted on 10/18/2021 6:49:23 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: WildHighlander57

I agree. Prayers doing such will not increase the hostility toward the unvaccinated


33 posted on 10/18/2021 6:50:15 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. God’s speed FRiends)
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America’s Elites Want To Control You More Than They Want To Control COVID

America’s elites have seized the pandemic to expand their control over our political discourse, our freedom, and our social lives. By Spencer Lindquist: 10 August 2021

Are you wealthier, freer, or happier than you were a year and a half ago? Assuming you aren’t on the board of a large multinational corporation or don’t belong to the political establishment, it’s almost certain that your life, just like the lives of millions of other Americans, has gotten harder since the onset of the pandemic.

But while average Americans have suffered, our elites have taken advantage of the pandemic at every turn to enact new measures that fulfill their overarching agenda. There’s perhaps no example more obvious or egregious than the seismic changes to our voting process that’ve led many to question the legitimacy of our electoral system, but other power grabs have had more acute consequences in our day-to-day lives.

The government-mandated shutdowns, for example, have laid waste to any belief that our freedom to peaceably assemble, even to take part in religious ceremonies, is still intact. For many more, particularly children, lockdowns have stunted their educational and social development, all of which is a small price to pay for our elites to pay for what some are calling “one of the greatest wealth transfers in history.”

Other power grabs have proven just as dangerous, but far more subtle.

The Elite’s Expanded Ability to Curate Information:

Since the onset of the lockdowns, the ability of the state and social media companies to control information has grown substantially. The pretext of public health has been employed to greatly expand the power of those who already have a great deal of it. Now sharing an obviously satirical Instagram meme that mentions the virus or the vaccine will prompt a notification that implores you to read the Centers for Disease Control’s latest guidance.

Just recently, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki bragged about the Biden administration’s collusion with Big Tech to stifle dissent. She even told reporters the White House has asked that Facebook algorithmically boost content the administration approves of. Is it really beyond the pale that these tech giants may one day be asked to algorithmically boost system-approved political speech, or even campaign messages? They’re already banning unapproved speech. Would they even have to be asked?

It is not at all hard to imagine a not-so-distant future where the Biden administration, or perhaps an even more ruthless Harris administration, teams with Silicon Valley’s oligarchs to unveil this same strategy on “hate speech” or “racism,” two terms that have lost much of their meaning but can still carry significant influence when uttered by those in power.

In fact, it already seems that this plan is well underway, with the White House calling white supremacy America’s top terror threat and racism, now a catch-all term used to indict any dissenting opinion, being deemed a “public health crisis” by hundreds of cities.

What does this mean for political communication when the last five years saw every corporate media outlet, every platform in academia, every bit of left-wing rhetoric, and every liberal nongovernmental organization march in lockstep to brand Donald Trump and his supporters as racist extremists?

Regardless of how this ability to curate information is specifically used in the future, it is a safe bet that powers gained by the state or its allied corporations will not be relinquished when they deem the pandemic officially over.

The Public-Private Attack On Medical Freedom:

The public-private attack on American liberty even extends beyond the digital world, with Americans who are hesitant to take the vaccine facing a two-fold threat. While New York is becoming America’s first major city to mandate vaccines for those who want to hit the gym, enjoy a concert, or even eat at a restaurant, some businesses elsewhere are following suit.

Soul Cycle and Equinox are implementing policies mandating vaccines at their New York City locations and will be extending the mandate to the rest of their franchises. In a move that should surprise no one, CNN fired three employees when they were found to be unvaccinated. Other companies are taking less coercive measures, like the dating app Tinder, which is now offering users a free “super like” if they support the vaccine on their profile.

America’s Newly Deputized Hall Monitors
But the most harrowing development is that much of the elites’ social control has been outsourced to society at large, with average people becoming ground-level enforcement arms of government diktats through shaming tactics that find a comfortable home in our polarized political climate.

Just the other day when riding the DC Metro, a double-masked passenger informed me that I was “supposed to wear a mask.” When I told her I was fine without one, she began to film me, which I greeted with an illegally brandished smile.

She presumably filmed me with the intent to shame me on social media, contact an employer, or perhaps just so she could boast of surviving a near-death experience to friends who “trust the science.” She sat quietly after collecting her dirt on me.

All sarcasm aside, you probably weren’t actually afraid of the police taking you away if you went into a burger joint without a mask or to your neighbor’s house for a barbecue, but you almost certainly had to contend with the glares and derision of your more enlightened peers.

Elites in the media, the government, and the medical establishment have deputized our fellow citizens, giving adults the confidence to relive their glory days as hall monitors. This false sense of superiority has proven intoxicating for those who frame their rhetoric in the language of equality but seem desperate to signal their moral superiority, which they display through sycophancy.

Do Elites Really Care about Controlling COVID?
What’s worse, these power grabs, cloaked under the patina of public health, apparently haven’t even achieved the stated goal of mitigating the virus, with new mask mandates just recently rolling out in DC and much of the Bay Area. Meanwhile, some in the media suggest that another wave of lockdowns may be on their way and others beg for it, even while some data suggests lockdowns may have ended more lives than they saved.

While American citizens could foreseeably be thrust back into another unending “14 days to slow the spread” and even many vaccinated people are being forced to wear masks again, Obama hosted a massive 60th birthday party and Rep. Rashida Tlaib partied without a mask.

Meanwhile, the Biden regime has dumped thousands of COVID-positive migrants into McAllen, Texas, and COVID infection rates have jumped 900 percent in certain areas along the border.

These types of insulting actions from our ruling class and others on the left are not new. Last summer, while some couldn’t even visit their dying loved ones because of lockdown restrictions, rioters gathered en masse, sometimes completely uninhibited by law enforcement, to wreak havoc on American cities.

Meanwhile, many in our medical establishment came out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement’s mass gatherings, which was covered in a hysterically named New York Times piece titled “Are Protests Dangerous? What Experts Say May Depend on Who’s Protesting What.” Some even joined in after they had condemned anti-lockdown protests just months earlier but told the Times, “I have a hard time articulating why that is O.K.”

To call this hypocrisy is far too charitable, as it presumes these neoliberal totalitarians have an underlying set of values that can be betrayed by their actions. For many, it appears ethics exist purely as utilities that can be appealed to when useful and discarded when they become too restrictive.

For our elites, COVID was the perfect storm. It’s why so many of them want a permanent pandemic. It’s also why average Americans, not the ones who benefited from COVID, can’t let them have one.

Spencer Lindquist is an intern at the Federalist and a senior at Pepperdine University where he studies Political Science and Rhetoric and Leadership and serves as Pepperdine’s College Republicans President and the Chief of Staff of the California College Republicans. You can follow him on Twitter @SpencerLndqst and reach him at LSpencerLindquist@gmail.com.


34 posted on 10/18/2021 6:56:28 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Lockdowns will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failures in modern history! Cui bono?)
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To: no-to-illegals

Sadly the unions here in fusa have mostly abandoned their members . I come from a long line of Irish hard working union loving folks and it is sad to see what has become of the unions in America . Grandpa used to tell how he worked 12 hour shifts with an hour in the middle to walk home and get one of Grandmas lunchs . Hot , good , and anointed ! Grandpa made 11 cents per hour . Until the big strike . Steelworkers . After the strike it went up to 27 cents an hour . Big money ! Back in the day the unions were the best thing to happen to America since the industrial era started . There never should have been a public sector union . That was the working mans invention . Private sector only .


35 posted on 10/18/2021 7:04:58 PM PDT by David Moser
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To: bitt
40,000-plus workers are on board with the state’s public health message and are protected against the virus.

If they are protected from covid, why do they care if someone else is not? I'll tell you why, because they are not protected. The vax is specific to the original strain that does not exist anymore.
36 posted on 10/18/2021 7:07:59 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: bitt
and are protected against the virus.

According to "the Science." Apparently they are not protected.

37 posted on 10/18/2021 7:57:53 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Grampa Dave

GOT a link?

that needs posting a thread..


38 posted on 10/18/2021 8:39:01 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

never mind - I found it

https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/10/americas-elites-want-to-control-you-more-than-they-want-to-control-covid/

pretty good for a kid..

https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Spencer-Lindquist-Headshot-3.png


39 posted on 10/18/2021 8:41:50 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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40 posted on 10/18/2021 9:58:08 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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