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Vaxxocalypse Now
American Thinker.com ^ | November 20, 2021 | Janet Levy

Posted on 11/20/2021 2:33:12 AM PST by Kaslin

My first encounter with vaxxport tyranny took place last week at a Los Angeles gym, where I have been a member for two years. Abiding by an edict from the governor of California, the reception staff asked to see my vaccination card or a QR code before allowing me access to the facilities. I told the newly anointed gatekeepers that whether or not to partake of the vaccine was a personal medical decision, as in "my body, my choice." I made clear my resentment of the tyrannical invasion of my privacy — especially for the COVID "virus" that has demonstrated a 99.5+% survival rate for healthy, fit people under 70.

To be able to exercise that day, I later succumbed to the pressure, but not before snidely remarking that no one asks for the results of my TB test or hepatitis titer. After all, those diseases are more infectious and lethal than COVID.

My gym story does not end there. It took a pleasant twist, and yet drove home a cautionary tale tinged with irony. But I'll save that for the end. The bigger concern is that, across the world, countries are imposing severe restrictions on the unvaxxed. The unjabbed are denied access to places they should be rightfully free to use. In some places, such as Australia and Austria, interstate travel is proscribed, and they are mistreated and shamed for refusing vaccines cleared under dubious standards of emergency use approval (EUA). Their reasonable suspicion that Big Pharma is orchestrating a con game is scorned and derided. Any fear of vaccine despotism is ridiculed, and protests are ruthlessly put down, minimized, or ignored.

In America, such interdictions — ridiculous as they are — come from the very top.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: covid19; covidvirus; mandate; passport; vaccine; vaxmandates; vaxxocalypse
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1 posted on 11/20/2021 2:33:12 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
To be able to exercise that day, I later succumbed to the pressure, but not before snidely remarking that no one asks for the results of my TB test or hepatitis titer.

Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but it sounds like the author is a jackass who ranted and pontificated about COVID vaccines and “my body, my choice” … but had actually been vaccinated anyway.

2 posted on 11/20/2021 2:41:45 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest, ‘til a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: Kaslin

Vaxx vapor rub. Get your viraxx.


3 posted on 11/20/2021 2:45:41 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Cornpop was a good dude.)
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To: Kaslin
The conclusion is a bit "meh" ...

Now for how the gym story ended, leaving me gobsmacked. The staff complained about my tirade to the owner, but she wrote me a conciliatory email, saying she is an immigrant from a communist country and believes strongly in freedom of choice. She wrote that she was gravely alarmed at the degree of repression and censorship in America today, but as a business-owner who built her American dream from the ground up -- three facilities in upscale Los Angeles neighborhoods -- she was determined to survive and avoid onerous daily fines. Instead of banishment from her gym (what I expected), she offered private outdoor sessions under her tutelage -- sans mask and authorization papers.

4 posted on 11/20/2021 2:54:39 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Alberta's Child

So he, like me, is not opposed to the vaccination but is opposed to the mandate.


5 posted on 11/20/2021 3:12:03 AM PST by axxmann (If McCain is conservative then I'm a freakin' anarchist.)
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To: Kaslin
“ If enacted, the mandate will deny unemployment benefits to those declining the vaccination.”

First time I’ve seen this.

6 posted on 11/20/2021 3:33:31 AM PST by misanthrope (Deranged, sinister, deplorable troll)
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To: Kaslin

My body my choice is exclusively owned by the democrats and their lemmings like racism is owned by the blacks


7 posted on 11/20/2021 3:42:46 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Kaslin

A Catholic claiming a religious exemption when the Pope says to be vaccinated? That’s rich. A whole lot of people are finding religion these days.


8 posted on 11/20/2021 3:56:29 AM PST by Babba Gi
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To: Alberta's Child

Some medical centers in my area are denying treatment unless patients get a Covid-19 test first.


9 posted on 11/20/2021 3:57:47 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: Alberta's Child

What’s so odd? She chose to get vaccinated, as was her right, but objects to intrusive inquiries about her medical history. She didn’t rant or pontificate about the vaccines at all.

BTW, your tagline misquotes the lyrics of The Boxer.


10 posted on 11/20/2021 3:58:17 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: misanthrope

I’ve heard that some employers are putting employees on “Leave without pay”. That means they just stop sending you any paychecks. But you’re not fired. And you didn’t quit. So no unemployment benefits for you. It’s evil and spiteful.


11 posted on 11/20/2021 4:24:41 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Alec Baldwin has killed more people than the Jan 6 protesters. And he will serve less jail time.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
Then her "my body, my choice" argument is misplaced. That's an argument for getting (or not getting) a vaccine, not an argument for reporting (or not reporting) it.

Thanks for the note about my tagline. If the line is misquoted, then the source where I got it is wrong! LOL.

I'm due to change it one of these days anyway. I try to update it every month or so.

12 posted on 11/20/2021 4:30:32 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest, ‘til a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: Kaslin

The guy caved, had the Vax and provided his papers. Pathetic POS.


13 posted on 11/20/2021 4:42:43 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Alberta's Child

I don’t see it. She pointed out that her vaccination was a personal choice, as a justification for asserting that her personal, private choice was not the gym’s business. She didn’t use it as an argument for or against vaccination in general, because it isn’t.

In other words, “my body, my choice” carries the implication of “and therefore none of your business”. That’s what I see here.


14 posted on 11/20/2021 5:04:20 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: maddog55; axxmann

The author’s name is Janet Levy, so I’m assuming she’s a woman. I could be wrong.


15 posted on 11/20/2021 5:06:44 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: maddog55
Exactly. That's the other side of the article that completely discredits the author:

To be able to exercise that day, I later succumbed to the pressure ...

P.S. -- This is why government and business leaders have no reservations about imposing these outrageous mandates. At least 60% of the population supports them, and at least half the remaining 40% are such compliant and docile p#ssies that they'll cave on it anyway.

16 posted on 11/20/2021 5:09:15 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest, ‘til a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: stars & stripes forever

“Some medical centers in my area are denying treatment unless patients get a Covid-19 test first”

While harsh, there’s some logic to it. Testing allows the medical centre to decide which team gets to see you.

In the UK there are A & B teams at the ED. A treats infected - or those where their condition is not known - or they refuse to be tested. B treats those with no detection of the virus. It helps reduce the risk of cross infections on wards etc. It also means that medical staff, who are at higher risk if they catch covid, are in the B team.


17 posted on 11/20/2021 5:11:43 AM PST by LordOddsocks
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Exactly.


18 posted on 11/20/2021 5:17:35 AM PST by Cats1
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To: Babba Gi

Freedom of religion says NOTHING of following the human words of the Pope. Catholics pay attention when the Pope speaks “ex-cathedra” as the only time he speaks infallibly.


19 posted on 11/20/2021 5:32:39 AM PST by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

stars & stripes forever wrote:

“Some medical centers in my area are denying treatment unless patients get a Covid-19 test first.”

Which ones?


20 posted on 11/20/2021 5:39:32 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((The more you tightened your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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