Before getting into the weeds on a CBS article warning of a “Looming Showdown” amid large numbers of critical workers who are refusing the mandated vaccination, it is worth setting up the accurate context for the details inside the discussion.
There are 205 million legally eligible U.S. workers between 15 and 74-years-old (census figures) with a workforce participation rate of 61% (BLS figures) which would equal 125 million legally eligible workers. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the number of working Americans at 161 million workers (BLS figures). The majority of the difference between the two figures are most likely illegal alien workers (yeah, lots of them).
Approximately 40 percent of the eligible population are not working. Some people are single family income (wives or husbands who don’t work), and some are just people who choose not to work, cannot work or have not yet started to work (college etc). With somewhere between 125 million and 161 million workers doing the jobs that keep the country functioning, there are also approximately 10 million unfilled job openings.
According to the most recent statement from Joe Biden on October 14th: “We’re down to 66 million — it’s still an unacceptably high number — of unvaccinated people from almost 100 million in July.” Approximately 60 million of those are within the current U.S. workforce.
If we split the difference (census -vs- BLS) and take the mid-point at 140 million workers, then 60 million workers refusing the vaccine mandate represents about 40 percent of the entire population of eligible workers. Put another way, in the best case scenario, if 60 million people quit working or were fired, the national unemployment rate would be at least 35% !
What we call the United States doesn’t function with 35% unemployment; systems of commerce start to collapse, then government, then civil society.
The U.S. economy is currently functioning with 5% unemployment and 10 million unfilled jobs. Just imagine the economic impact of 35% unemployment and 70 million unfilled jobs.
Keep in mind, the vast majority of those 60 million jobs are the productive workforce that keep the entire machine of the U.S. functioning. This is the workforce that keeps the lights on, garbage picked-up, streets safe, shelves stocked, stuff fixed and facilitates everything that makes the entire system of society function.
We are also down to the hardened group who are not going to take that forced vaccination. In quantifiable terms, the increased pressure to force the jab into the arms of the American workforce has now crossed into “the law of diminishing returns.” More government pressure ain’t going to yield the previous level of compliance. This threshold crossed is also quantifiable in the 4.3 million Americans who quit working (242,000 of them in August alone).
There ain’t no way in heck that government or private industry can function with tens of millions of Americans in the workforce getting forcibly removed for refusing the vaccine. I believe that is why you are now hearing from companies saying they will not fire the unvaccinated workers (ex Delta Airlines).
Pontificating leftists and academics, without a bit of sense for what actually happens in the Main Street economy, have no concept of what it looks like if ten million people quit or are fired from working next month…. let alone five times that many. Bottom line: THIS IS A NON-ENFORCEABLE MANDATE, even if they wanted to do it.
The power of the American workforce is in the scale of dependency each person brings to the system when they are united. It might seem like a few thousand here/there, because that’s the way the media are framing it. However, if you add up all those few thousands together you end up with millions.
CBS – In Chicago, the union representing 13,000 police officers is advising members to ignore a mandate from Mayor Lori Lightfoot to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by Friday. If officers don’t get vaccinated or agree to be tested twice a week at their own expense, the city says it’ll suspend them without pay.
[…] “All I can tell you is, if we suspect the numbers are true, and we get a large number of our members to stand firm on their beliefs that this is an overreach, and they are not going to supply the information in the portal, or submit to testing, then it’s safe to say the city of Chicago will have a police force at 50%, or less, for this weekend coming up,” Catanzara told his members.
[…] The Los Angeles police department has been a major source of vaccine resistance among the city’s tens of thousands of workers, although the city’s police chief last week reported nearly two-thirds, or 65%, of LAPD employees as vaccinated, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.
[…] Nearly 900 Los Angeles fire personnel, mostly firefighters, have signed onto a notice of intent to sue the city if they are terminated for not being vaccinated by Tuesday’s deadline. That’s roughly a quarter of the department’s 3,700 employees.
And the L.A. County sheriff last week said he would not force his employees to get vaccinated. “I don’t want to be in a position to lose 5%, 10% of my workforce overnight on a vaccine mandate,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in a Facebook Live event.
[…] Seattle’s police department is dispatching detectives and nonpatrol officers to handle emergency calls due to a shortage of patrol officers. The union representing Seattle police workers predicts staffing woes will worsen as city employees face an October 18 deadline to be vaccinated. About 200 of the 1,075 active police officers have not yet submitted their vaccine status, according to Fox News.
The issue is also flaring up on the East Coast, including in Massachusetts, where roughly 42,000 state workers face an October 17 deadline to be fully vaccinated or risk being fired.
[…] A federal judge in Worcester is now considering a bid to postpone Baker’s mandate by the union for 4,000 state prison guards. A similar legal challenge by the union representing 1,800 state troopers was rejected last month in Massachusetts Superior Court, according to CBS Boston.
[…] The Transportation Security Administration says four-in-10 of its employees — including screeners — are not vaccinated against COVID-19 as a federal deadline looms. Civilian federal government workers must be fully vaccinated by November 22, the Monday before Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel times of the year.
“About 60% of our workforce has been vaccinated; that number needs to go quit a bit higher over the next few weeks,” TSA Administrator David Pekoske told CNN. (read more)
Notice all of those media examples are from Democrat friendly territories. The red regions are even stronger in determination to fight against federal mandates for forced medical procedures.
The system will not function if 50+ million American workers stand united against the vaccine mandate. It really is that simple.
From a commonsense and logistical perspective, regardless of the federal outlook, there’s no way they can pull it off. We are the quiet, and according to those who look down their noses – the “invisible” unwashed masses. However, when it comes to keeping the gears turning, we are the majority. We keep their shit working and just want to be left alone….
Mayor Beetlejuice has ordered all Storm Troopers to enter the death star portal….
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If even big unions are against it in MN it’s going to deteriorate into another stupid idea from the left that they will claim republicans were for.
They want to destroy the US no matter what it takes- Go Bill Gates
If she lives.
“We keep their shit working and just want to be left alone….”
That right there is their problem. Have have not a single darn clue how their s%^& works. That is why they continually malign us. They think the s@#$ works because they are important. They think their food comes from supermarkets. Their clothes come from DKNY. The gas for the luxury cars come from WAWA. As far as they know the little brown muzzled people wave a wand and the s@#$ appears.
Reminds me of my ex. During my recent divorce after a very lengthy marriage, he thought it was all his money. No thought to who did the laundry, cooked, baked, nursed the kids when sick, etc, etc. His life just ran smoothly, what I did too assure that was worthless to him. Very similar to the elites’ mindset.
So sorry to hear that.
The disconnect can be breathless!
And they can just exterminate the non-compliant ones (us) and backfill with whoever fights their way to the top. Thinking its well past tyranny. They will starve us out, or something equally evil. With all the blood shed already for this country in past wars both foreign and domestic there’s no way anyone’s getting out of this unscathed in some form or another. Keep praying for the sovereign will of the Living God.
And be ready to help our brothers and sisters in Liberty.
“…not darn clue how their sxxx works…” Verified by no less than Solzhenitsyn in his history of the Russian Gulag:
After the bolsheviks took over, they removed all the Czarist era workmen who made stuff run, such as the Moscow water works, electric power plant, etc, and replaced them with some of their comrade street thugs. Fiasco ensued.
They had to bring back some of these people to get things right again.
This time, We the People have to stand up. It is either stand up or become a casualty. I choose to go out with my boots on, if necessary.
Me too! I never thought I’d have to say that…
Truth is they’re mostly cowards. Think: Adam Shift. If it ever comes to a real fight I think we would win quickly as long as they can’t coerce the police and military to fight against us.
After what was said to the Navy Seals, I don’t think we’d have a problem with the military.
Keep ones cashe filled with food and plenty of ammo.
And what about all those employees and contractors of the executive branch who JoeBama does have an enforceable Executive Order over!!!??? Agree the non-mandate mandate outside of the Executive Branch have more liberty but what about the EB ones??!!
That’s right! Just because one has chosen to work for the federal government, often for the protection and safety of Americans, doesn’t mean they have no rights! Federal employees are fighting back against the mandate with lawsuits. Check out https://fedsformedfreedom.org/
What ever happened to herd immunity?
herd immunity doesn’t make money for people who donate to democrat candidates.
I herd there was no immunity.
You are so correct. The ultimate goal is always for Democrats to gain or retain power and to gather maximum wealth. By any means necessary.
Herd immunity could only be achieved via the use of the therapeutics to ensure people safely aquired natural immunity.
Getting infected after taking the jabs does not result in long lasting broad based natural immunity. You sacrifice your chance of natural immunity if you take the jabs.
The so called “vaccine” is still classed as an experimental drug, and the final testing is right now being carried out on the people who have and are getting the jab. The deaths and side-effects are horrendous.
When this is all over, those who pushed it on us will face a Nuremburg set of trials for their crimes against humanity.
It’s never been about a virus . I mean, that was clear after George Floyd, right? But some of my friends still think it is, even though they themselves don’t know any victims of Covid. I looked up the global population for another reason and sure enough, it rose from 2020-2021 roughly the same 1.03% as any other year. And that’s with declining birth rates
FL is recruiting businesses.
The Biden years will be berry good to FL.
On the “customer vaccine mandate” front there is a store with a suit winding its way through to exclude unvaccinated customers.
Bead Abode, a Sarasota store, filed in Leon County, against the FL Surgeon General.
Close to where I live (in Tallahassee) they’re constructing an Amazon warehouse. This thing will be huge! There is construction going on everywhere you turn.
Uh-oh. That’s a business you don’t want. They’re all huge – the one where I live is crazy. Terrible place to work
Old Joe said he’d get OSHA to enforce this against private businesses with 100+ employees. Of course, with no OSHA regulation, he was really betting that private companies would do this anyway to enforce his agenda. Surprise, surprise, it worked.
I cheer everyone who refuses to go along with this. It’s not about a virus, it’s about control.
“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.”
I’m very glad to see people taking a stand against mandated vaccine shots. It comes down to a basic FREEDOM OF CHOICE.
End of story!
Here you go. Shove this in their fascist faces:
European Journal of Epidemiology – 30 Sep 2021
Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/
Findings
At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days (Fig. 1). In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people. Notably, Israel with over 60% of their population fully vaccinated had the highest COVID-19 cases per 1 million people in the last 7 days. The lack of a meaningful association between percentage population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases is further exemplified, for instance, by comparison of Iceland and Portugal. Both countries have over 75% of their population fully vaccinated and have more COVID-19 cases per 1 million people than countries such as Vietnam and South Africa that have around 10% of their population fully vaccinated.
Facts don’t matter to these people. That’s been clear for a while with all the fact-based please from citizens at school and county Board meetings.
I recommend everyone concentrate of your Constitutional Rights. A Mandate is not a law and mandating a medical intervention is unconstitutional.
Do Not Comply.
Any anti-Jab protests in your area, I advise you to go. Any local Tea Party organizations, join. Call congress, tell the aides politely about various stats, and websites exposing the truth. Run for whatever local/county/state/federal office you can or want. If you are in a solid MAGA area, run as a DINO. Democrat In Name Only. While speaking to the media you can point out how the Democrat party has gone full blown Marxist, owned and controlled by Wall St, special interest groups, George Soros, & billionaire Bolsheviks and does not represent the working people of America.
Gather small groups of like minded people locally and protest/run for office/sue if you are in the position against their cultural marxist/medical marxist tyranny. resistance is NOT futile
what good is taking a vaccine that doesn’t work?
Schwab said the jab had markers to track compliance. The Mark of the Beast? Jim Jones of Jonestown fame said it only works if everyone drinks the Kool-Aid.
jim jones quote is a meme, fake.
the “markers” are antibodies. vax antibodies are different than natural antibodies. but that’s the case for ALL vaccinations. you can tell if someone has had say, chicken pox or the chicken pox vax because the vax will be for a single DNA sequence rather than the “in the wild” natural variations.
they’ve actually used immunity DNA markers to tell twins apart for criminal investigations. so your markers, right now, vaxed or unvaxed, are a way of telling you from someone else.
it takes time and a large blood sample right now. that will change.
Starting Monday (day of vaccine deadline) Seattle Public Schools is cancelling 142 bus routes due to driver shortages.
Navy apparently is reporting 2% unvaccinated
a friend at work just had is brother graduate from bootcamp. they woke up unvaxxed recruits every hour, put them at parade rest, to see if they had changed their mind. they had to declare it to the entire company.
once an hour….while everyone was trying to sleep.
eventually all of them relented.
Now we know China is eliminating is from within. What complete and utter b.s.
that’s horrible.
Navy is reporting 98% have been vaccinated or have provided proof via handwritten CDC cards. FIFY ?
More Than Half a Million Health Care Workers Quit Their Jobs in August
Seems to me, people shouldn’t be quitting. Make the f*ckers fire you; with the cause in writing. I’ve been helping my wife file a medical AND religious exemption. If she still gets fired, we’ll look at suing. Never sued anyone, but this might be the time.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/10/the_unvaccinated_are_looking_smarter_every_week.html
I am not getting nearly much as grief now vs 6 months ago with my status from those who may guess my position on this topic. I exercise, take my vitamins, eat properly, continue to use hand cleaners and rarely mask.
Over the last month I have attended a wedding, school anniversary, funeral and small get togethers with some being complete strangers.
No issues, in fact it seems some people who do know me are beginning to question what the media and some politics continue to spin. I have been given cold shoulder from some but really, if they can’t understand or respect my feelings and appreciate the US Constitution, as I do theirs they were not a friend to begin with.
I am doing the same, exercise, eat right, no mask and take vitamins. My entire immediate family is the same. We all got covid in the last three weeks. We all survived with bed rest and fluids. Now I have natural immunity, which I trust over the clot shot.
For is it wasn’t easy. We took hcq and ivermectin. But we lost a month of our life. I’m glad we got it and survived but I don’t want to say it was easy.
I firmly believe we would have died of not for banned meds and our children forcing food when I was so weak.
Also, doctors refused any regular scripts if they worked on covid symptoms. Stock up if possible.
A hospital in Maine has closed its neonatal intensive care unit because of a staffing shortage due to the state’s impending vaccine mandate for health care workers.
Employees at Central Maine Healthcare in Lewiston are required to get vaccinated against COVID-19. In 18 days’ time, WGME-TV reports, any health care worker who is not vaccinated faces termination.
Staff resignations in protest of the vaccine policy have forced the hospital to close its NICU, leaving only four other NICUs open in the state.
Refreshing perspective
I hope and pray that all of this insanity from our demonic leaders comes crumbling down around them.
Maybe that is what they want. After all, the global cabal running this show have theirs.
Create chaos then martial law.
Pentagon: 46% spike in suicide among U.S. Army’s active-duty forces in Q2 compared to same period last year
46% are patriots that felt abandoned and would not WORK FOR HITLER or STALIN.
I’m questioning the absolute date of Dec 8 for firing contract workers.
In order for the mandate to apply, the contractor would have had to agree to a contract stipulating jabbed workers only.
For continuing work, that could be a BIG problem for the contractor. As such, the contractor may need to demand much higher pay rates for the new Jab-Compliant workforce.
Indeed, a contractor may not definitively know whether or not they could continue to perform the on-going task given the contract’s stipulations.
Yes, its not as cut and dried as this, but I don’t think its as hard and fast as Dec 8.
We’ll see…..
And 98% of GOPricks.
Sure seems like the Five Eyes countries are the biggest stalwarts in all of this. The less-interested ones (Scandinavia, Croatia, Romania, soon to be more I’m sure) are abandoning the voluntary self-destruction. I wonder why…?
Maybe they’re sharing among themselves about a threat the rest dont know about
I saw that the Delta CEO isn’t mandating vaccines. That seems like a small win. They don’t want to end up like Southwest Airlines. Treating unvaccinated employees differently than vaccinated is still a problem though.
Step 1) send an altert to the propaganda team
Step 2) that team releases some story of more Danger, more Graver Threat
Step 3) National Security Emergency Mandate
Step 4) Delta CEO says his hands are tied (as he grins)
Very small win. The “deal” he offered is the unvaxxed can keep their jobs, but will pay an additional $200 per month on their health care insurance premium.
Because, as we all know, the vaxed do not get covid and incur medical bills like the unvaxed do /s
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Things moving in the right direction eventually. BUT even here, Delta is still adding a 200 dollar per month premium to the employee portion of the health insurance costs if unvaccinated.
Smoke and mirrors.
All new hires are required to be jabbed. And, those refusing have to be tested twice weekly and still wear masks.
Don’t applaud Delta. They are still fascist.
Joe and his ‘ho have had a couple shots of saline for a photo op. Maybe a bit of injectible dementia meds as well for him.
Exactly! Also we need to get ready for FEMA employees to come and take over the jobs that unvaccinated people are being forced to leave. This evil is so planned. Somehow we all need to ban together and stand up to the communism that is being implemented. It is here and it has to be stopped.
FEMA can’t fly airplanes, and I’m not interested being on (another …) Delta flight where the captain fell dead in mid-flight. What if the co-pilot had been “vaxxed” too?
It will be the first airplane crash that occurred because no one was left alive who knew how to land it. But maybe not the last.
You’d feel ill-used if you got killed on the interstate by a dead truck driver …
It isn’t just the raw numbers of employees who quit over injection mandates, they tend to be the most productive with higher cognitive skills.
Business efficiency and competitiveness will be harmed at a much higher factor by who the lost employees are, rather than just the numbers.
So true. The sheep are not leaders.
No rewarding hard work? Lowered productivity? Destroy the middle class? No private ownership? Sink all the boats? Reward herd mentality?
Sounds like a Communist/ totalitarian’s dream!
Could it be that the Great Helmsman Mao was on to something when he forced the acedemics and intellectuals into the countryside to see how the peasants lived. What a wake up call that would be.
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Kidney blockage and resulting sepsis is being seen more and more in the vaccinated.
This is a prelude of things to come. Please review the book of Revelations in the bible. Revelation 13:17 (NKJV) and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 13:17 (NLT) And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name.
Luciferase.
The globalists want to be able to leave their bunkers when all this “unpleasantness” is over.
Then, they wish to find <500 million beat down slaves of the NWO.
I am behind enemy lines and work for one of the largest State agencies in communist Washington State. Our governor is an idiot and there is no way in hell he was re-elected. I have applied for and received a religious accommodation for now. Our legislature session starts in February 2022. That is when I expect them to remove religion exemptions for vaccines. I only expect to keep my job about 4 more months before I am fired. I started my job as a conservative and I am ending it as a constitutionalist. The Government in the 22 years I have worked for them has not made one decision to improve the quality of life of Americans, only illegals.
How do you think he was put in office? Thank you for your perspective.
We are starting to see what the Power of NO! LET’S GO BRANDON!!!
Mandatory testing in place of getting the jab means your DNA is captured in the enemy’s database to use against you in the future.
Love the working class! The globalist atheist elitists wish to make them slaves but, the Lord blesses them and give them courage to confront evil. Our country would collapse without our working class, but won’t miss the media, entertainers, social media scum, CEO’s, politicians and all the “progressive class.” Go ahead, make our day!
Go on your own personal strike too. Make it clear that you’re not feeling charitable while Biden has unilaterally decided that you or anyone else can’t have a job.
I volunteer at a fairly progressive Catholic church. I’m telling them nope, not while we’ve got this threat hanging over our heads. Also progressive family that want attention, people that want favors. Nope.
Who is John Galt?
https://rumble.com/vlzihf-the-story-of-ivermectin-and-covid-19.html
https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/2/frontlinenews/former-pfizer-vp-clear-evidence-of-fraud-in-pfizer-study-claiming-95-efficacy/
Leave us not forget that, not too many years ago, Thalidomide was “aggressively marketed” to pregnant women without ever having been tested on “pregnant anything.”
And, believe it or not, the stuff is still being sold – now as a cancer treatment. ?♂️
Likewise, this stuff is being sold(!) to millions of people without ANY testing whatsoever. “Damn right you say ‘NO!’” Because Big Pharma really doesn’t care at all what happens to you. Not at all.
Imagine that amount of sand in their machine! Makes my heart glad!
Also, the underground economy will begin to flourish; the MAGA/Trump economy since we will be working for cash, paying with cash and avoiding the government surveillance.
The Patriot Nurse and America’s Frontline Doctors will make sure we can be treated with good, natural, trustworthy protocols, and the unvaxed law enforcement can help with our protection.
Time to bring it all crashing down around their ears!
“What we call the United States doesn’t function with 35% unemployment; systems of commerce start to collapse, then government, then civil society.”
Sundance
I believe they consider that to be a FEATURE of their plan, not a flaw. Collapse of civil society is their goal.
Could not agree more!
Cassidy just got reelected until 2026.
They will try to annex the burbs for taxes…….other people’s money.
The FDA issued a 13-page Letter of Authorization to Pfizer for their currently distributed BioNTech COVID 19 vaccine and approval for a new yet to be produced COMRNATY vaccine. The letter states, in no uncertain terms, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID‑19 Vaccine has not been approved or licensed by FDA, but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA, under an EUA. This EUA is not to be confused with the FDA Approval of the COMIRNATY vaccine that will be produced and distributed in the EU, not the US. The FDA did a bait and switch on what vaccine was approved and what is still under EUA. The SECDEF’s order mandates the approved vaccine which doesn’t exist. However they are still kicking out military that don’t take an unapproved vaccine. Why isn’t this front page news? These are public documents, but no conservative news organization has even responded. Will you? Now I, as a military contractor am being forced to get the shot or be fired. How is this mandate possible with EUA? Where is the mandate anyway? And is the EUA even legal? There is no emergency, which is a prerequisite to issuing EUA and EUA renewals for COVID vaccines.
-There is “no serious or life-threatening disease or condition.”
-Vaccines do not diagnose, treat or prevent SARS-CoV-2 or COVID. In fact, it makes one more susceptible to variants.
-Known and potential risks of the vaccine outweigh their known and potential benefits including tens of thousands of deaths and miscarriages.
-There are adequate, approved and available alternatives to vaccines.
-Healthcare professionals and vaccine candidates are not adequately informed as required by law.
We need a nation wide strike!
Refusing the mandate IS a nation wide strike!