**BUMPED x2**
As the impacts of the various vaccination mandates take shape, it is worth a review of the current status as it impacts you and your family on a local basis.
As noted by a reader in Washington state, the cleaving of society on vaccinated status is having an unusual impact on many regions even within individual states.
As one anecdotal report is told, the eastern side of Washington state is essentially functioning as before the vaccination mandate; while the western side is seeing a substantial breakdown in local civic society.
Mandates by local officials are creating issues for local services. Local police, fire and first responders are leaving their jobs, creating issues for those in the leftist side of Washington state. Meanwhile the eastern, or more conservative side of the state, is relatively not impacted.
In another cleaving anecdote one business owner in southern California has told a rebel alliance member to discontinue the use of services from a vendor who does not share the leftist political perspectives of the owner; while other right-minded business owners (in the same industry) are looking specifically to gain advantage by seeking out vendors who are skilled, stable and independent.
As would be expected, the vaccination cleaving is creating two unique classes of workers and owners/operators. Those with the best expertise, skillset and work ethic all fall into the group who are more independently minded and not prone to the inherent peer pressure created by the vaccine mandate.
While the data is all still raw in this new cleaved socioeconomic environment, it does appear -in the aggregate- the unvaxxed are better workers, better problem solvers and carry a stronger work ethic. The vaxxed workforce, owners and operators appear less than.
This brings up an interesting dynamic that is still unfolding amid various regions. So the questions posed are these:
What do you see in your town, hamlet, city, neighborhood and/or region?
How are the various vaccine mandates impacting your area?
Additionally, what opportunities or challenges do you see currently? Do you see any benefits to the cleaving as it appears to be underway? Do you have any advice for readers who might be stuck behind enemy lines?
We know that the vaxxed are suffering and dying more than the unvaxxed.
Here in Idaho the news reversed this with the state’s statistics. How does one get true statistics when they aren’t being provided by the state or media?
Me, my son, and his fiance are all federal contractors. We have all been working from home for 20 months. So there is no valid reason for the gov to mandate we get a vaccination since we don’t interact with any co-workers in person.
The entire false pandemic is filled with lies, deceit, backwards science, and no common sense. It’s maddening.
The deadline for me to submit an exemption request is next Friday. I will craft a religious exemption letter and hope for the best, but expect the worst. Luckily I am in a position to retire and have no mortgage payment but was hoping to work for another 18 months to achieve some other financial goals. My wife works in retail and is not in jeopardy at this point.
My son got a call from the President/CEO of the company he is working for and said they are not enforcing the Biden EO at this time. What a relief it was for me to hear that today! I have been praying for him daily. He’s only a few years out of college and is making great money as a software developer.
The news is not as good for his fiance. She has not been pushed but knows there is a deadline of December 8. She, too, makes a great salary as a project manager.
I am so angry that our government is taking away their future and putting so much stress into an already stressful time from all the other crap this country has going on (inflation, CRT, shortages, etc.).
I am so sorry this is happening to you… Have you checked out the AFLD page? https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/ Dr. Simone Gold is not just a highly experienced physician with specialty certifications. She is also an accomplished attorney. On the website there is a legal section https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/2/legal/. They have a section on Getting Legal Help and also they have just filed a class action legal suit for federal employees.
this site focused on legal action against the mandate on federal contractors.
https://vaxmandateinfo.com/
Sorry to hear her situation but understand this is all intentional. The Great Reset is going on worldwide and only a MASS uprising across multiple continents will stop it.
There is no EO. There is a federal registry and the only EOs are SJW types of things. Gab has a religious exemptions template.
I am with you, Cole. As a contractor to the federal government (data analyst) I have been working from home since March 17, 2020. I am also in a position to retire, and so when the “mandate” came down to submit vaccination status earlier this month, I submitted my resignation instead. I simply told them it is time for me to retire from this line of work and look to do other activities. Not the fault of my manager(s), and there’s nothing they can do about.
One of them asked me if the mandate had anything to do with my decision to leave and I was brutally honest with her – yes, I would have liked to continue for a couple more years, but the federal government does not have the authority to force me to inject an unwanted substance in my body in exchange for a job. At least this way I get my retirement benefits (until JoBama decides to take them away as well), and I can move onto something worthwhile. Like politics and removing these bastards from positions of power.
.Love your comment, Joyce! You leave rather than submit, deciding to apply your skills, optimism, energy and obvious determination toward politics to become part of the solution.
Fantastic! I wish you the best of luck.
The point really is a clever way to purge the government workforce of conservatives
Bingo.
But it’s not just conservatives. Apparently there are many in the black community that don’t trust the government (Tuskeegee anyone?).
The dems are alienating their own base with this mandate. It explains why they threw out the hook about $450k payments to illegals. The current quantity of over a million illegals / year is waaaay too low to make up for the number of dems that have decided they’re not too happy with what is going on. They need many millions more of illegal voters to make up the difference. And they’re needed quickly, elections are next year. Look for a flood of biblical proportions of illegals next year with the assurance they will all be resettled (at midnight) and registered to vote.
Yes. The rap community #LGB would make this appear so.
Except for the death and disability part for the liberals who take the shot. They are destroying their own.
Cole,
Here’s a comprehensive list of resources for resisting the jab: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/resources-for-americans-pushing-back-against-mandated-coronavirus-vaccines/?utm_source=urgent&utm_campaign=usa
Check out peggy hall on youtube. Suggestions i have heard include filing a state and federal EEO complaint for harassment and hostile work environment. These filings take 18 months to adjudicate, buying precious time for the medical death plan to unravel enough for the inevitable pushback to achieve full steam.
Another strategy is to gather with like-minded people with the requisite skill sets to create parallel structures, as outlined a bit by Sundance.
One thing to remember is this: you do not “request” a religious exemption. You invoke it. The power structure has arrogated onto itself a conversion of a natural right into a permission-based license. If you believe that you have a God-given right to bodily autonomy – Liberty was initially defined by the Apostles – that itself is a sincerely held religious belief. You do not have to go to church or be a member of a religious group to invoke the claim. You do not have to explain or justify or beg for relief. ALL efforts here must be in writing. No verbal meetings. No water cooler conversations. You must create in legal terms what is known as a record.
Hold your ground
I started with the religious accommodation request posted on locals.com by Barnes Law, then paraphrase. It’s very important to note that the EEOC and SCOTUS have ruled religion includes morals and items of conscience and principle. If you feel so strongly that it guides your life and decisions, it likely qualifies.
Barnes has stated the text is in the public domain, so anyone can use or share it. I reworded it so avoid any chance it looked like I was lying.
I recommend reading Section 12 of the EEOC compliance manual that covers religious accommodations. It clearly states the govt (and companies) lack the expertise to decide something you believe is not religious. The guidance is to approve the religious belief and only question further if the company has information that suggests the stated belief is not a true reflection of the submitter’s beliefs. An example was someone who previously took mandated flu vaccines and suddenly protests about all vaccines.
If companies are honest, every one of us pushing back passes the test. If…
Edit: adding this site focused on legal action against the mandate on federal contractors.
https://vaxmandateinfo.com/
I’m tempted to join the class regardless of whether I get full accommodation approval.
I hope your son’s fiance stands firm. I have been reading about the fertility problems, miscarriages, stillbirths, and other issues for women of child-bearing age. These issues and their very lives are so much more important than any job.
Mask and jab mandates in all the hospitals and other medical facilities. Not that many wearing masks anywhere else. Growing numbers here in central Illinois catching on to the con.
In PA, not far from Lancaster County. Mask signs came off of most stores in Spring after the state legislature voted to end Gov. Wolf’s until then endless state of emergency, and the voters voted on it in the Primary election. As soon as that happened, masks disappeared from most places. Masks are still required in “health care” settings , such as hospitals and doctors’ offices as well as in public schools. Other factors that might have contributed: Cousin It (former health director) left for DC, and the fact that we will vote for a new governor in 2022. As a result, Wolf seems to be hiding in the shadows these days.
My son teaches piano at a music store that is part of a larger chain. I’m not sure how big. He got an email from them stating all employees need to be fully vaccinated. He submitted a request for a religious exemption. He mentioned that he had a religious exemption from required vaccines for his 13 years of public school and 4 years of college. The wrote back and asked for proof of those exemptions. The school has told him that his immunization record would have been sent home with his diploma. My son can’t find it and thinks he threw it out. He wrote back saying that his request for exemption is based on his current beliefs and he only mentioned the prior exemption as support. He is the local store’s only piano teacher. If he does not get the exemption, the store will lose their only piano teacher and between a third and a half of their total students. My son says if that happens, he’ll start his own studio, and he thinks most of his students would follow him. Still, I hope and pray that he gets the exemption. My daughter is a student at a college about 45 minutes away. Covid vaccine not required, thankfully. They do have to wear masks in class. I’m retired from college teaching and have been substituting in the local schools. The poor kids wear masks all day, and there is so much other nonsense I could write another whole response about it. I wear the mask when I substitute, but if they ever require the vax, I’ll quit substituting.
Please don’t feel I am criticizing you personally. However, I want to point out to everyone reading here that submitting to the mask is what started the idea that they could force you to submit to the vax. I am retired and don’t have to worry about income – yet. I regrettably took the vax, but I can see the day coming when unless I submit to the booster or the ____, etc., I will lose my pension.
I resisted the mask from the start, but did wear it a couple times on a plane and in health care settings like nursing home. I also wore it in local businesses early on when they first were permitted to reopen. I soon found that most places weren’t really enforcing it and that I could boycott those who were.
But what I see now, and most of you here see it also, the mask mandates were just practice for the shot mandates. And only God knows what comes after that.
Or like in Australia they will take your bank accounts,and all personal property.
I will not wear a mask or be tested in order to visit my 100 mother in a nursing home. They cannot prevent me from checking her out. So that is what I do weekly. They cannot stop me from my weekly visits. They observe me without a mask and bring one to me. I am nice but firm. My Mom still recognizes me. She doesn’t know my name anymore but says, “You are mine. Thank you.” It means the world to me. My family are all vaxed and they disapprove of my visit. I assume they will eventually see the truth and I treat them with respect and love. It has been difficult but my mom and me look forward to leading them to Christ. Maybe this is our mission together.
Your story is beautiful and brought tears to my eyes. Bless you.
Yesterday, I learned that my BFF’s gay, liberal brother who lives in Silicon Valley pushed her to get the booster for her 91 year old mother who is not in good shape at all. She is barely ampulatory and has a surgery wound from skin cancer on her leg that won’t heal and yet this idiot brother is concerned about covid??? Are you kidding me? She is teetering on the edge and I can only imagine what the third dose of spike proteins will do to her.
Coco mama, Lovely post, made my day!
Oh I agree with you. I’m only doing it because, with my son’s job in limbo and me going through cancer treatments, in addition to inflation that’s going through the roof, I really need the extra income. Plus, I really enjoy working with the kids. But you’re right. It could reach the point where they would come after my pension. So I don’t know how long I’ll keep doing it.
I’m in Pa also, in Chester Co. I’m Judge of Elections in my precinct and our instructions for election day this Tuesday are that voters are still required to wear a mask when they enter my poll. I have a draconian procedure to follow if someone comes in and refuses to wear a mask. I was with some people last evening from Lancaster and York counties, neighboring counties to me, and they have been instructed that nobody is to wear masks inside their polls. They couldn’t believe the rules that I have to follow. For the record, I’m not wearing one and I’m not going to require anyone else to wear them.
We never had to wear masks at the polls in Lycoming County.
Thank you for not enforcing this cr@p. Last time I checked, voting eligibility requirements are in the Constitution. I didn’t read anything about wearing a mask. “Regulations” and “mandates” do not trump the Constitution.
Central Washington
Not as peachy as would think not being west-side WA. Lot of go along to get along type of behavior. People talk but don’t stand up for their beliefs.
Probably 90% mask wearers. People don’t give you a hard time or look at you much if don’t. But it is disheartening to feel so out of place. Signs everywhere and people just do it automatically out of habit. Think most here don’t care about COVID but also don’t care to push back on control measures taken against them.
Easier to get exemptions granted to mandates. Good portion of fire, police and nurses that were opposed went that route and had religious exemption more or less rubber stamped.
Teachers supposedly down under 9% that aren’t vaxxed, those that I know were opposed begrudgingly submitted.
Kids in masks. Bus driver shortages. School lunch slimmed down. Can’t get a contractor to even come out to give quotes and ballpark estimates for some work are ridiculous. Surprisingly shelves stocked and still see plenty of people spending, participating in economy. Lines at fast food, parking at restaurants, bounce castles in yards etc.
Everything costs more but people just spend more rather than stop. Maybe more folks here are beneficiaries of entitlement monies? Not paying taxes / paid in cash?
Healthcare already sucked here so if it sucks more not much of a difference. 1 of the 2 hospitals we had went bankrupt few months before COVID rollout began. Don’t really have a doctor, just walk-in clinics and the one ER as a result. So when “hospitalizations are high” it’s like yeah duh, any visit results in an ER
City council just passed ordinance to allow human remains spread in city parks (who, what, why?) and a board to study climate change and how to mitigate impacts. So that’s their priorities
Can’t wait to vote out Newhouse, but then not sure I even find much point in voting anymore if can’t trust it to be free and fair.
“Covid is still here”
Based on a test that doesn’t work…….. perhaps it would be better to stop spreading the results of a false test…….it just helps the coup plotters continue their scare hoax.
North central Arkansas is pretty much back to normal, in spite of our governor. Schools still mostly masked as are all the big retail employees. As with most places you still see a lot of people wearing mask – and yes some alone in their cars. Ran into a couple of ladies in grocery store last week and wife told them we were just stocking up on some things at which point they said their spare bedroom is now a pantry. Lots of us have been accumulating non- perishable food for months. I now have two large freezers fully loaded, two 500 gallon propane tanks and a whole house generator. Wife got the jab against my wishes but so far she’s had no issues thank God. Both my brothers and their wives have gotten them too so we’ll just have wait and see. I will never get it and I pitty the sucker coming to my house trying to make me get it. At 71 years old and retired military I have been in harm’s way and will not back away. Well stocked with gasoline, diesel and all other necessities needed for the upcoming events whatever they may be. As I’ve posted before we should all pray for guidance but also prepare for the battle before us. David prayed too but eventually he had to pick up that stone, place it in his sling and hurl it at Goliath. We may be forced to do likewise.
Good job!
Born and raised in SoCal. I am so over this mask crap. I am in Ventura County. Every time I go to the grocery store, I get anxious, like “I can’t breathe”
Today when I was in the store everyone was wearing a mask, except one mom and her daughter. No MASK! I said Yay to myself and took mine off.
Walked around the whole store with no mask.
It felt great!!
“LET’S GO BRANDON!”
I’m in the valley (still LA county tho) and everyone wears masks. I go to the places that don’t enforce it- but sometimes need to go to Ralph’s and they enforce it big time. I still wait for the friendly reminder before wearing one tho.
Sis-in-law lives on Balboa Island and we love that community as so many people fly Pres Trump flags and US flags daily…Sorry, you live in Commie land. Being from AZ, we are there all the time but hate the politics of the state. Go Angels!
Im in Brentwood Los Angeles. Just went out for a night jog. Saw several people out walking their dogs and doing things with masks on. Karens. Its a nice night too. The fresh air felt great rushing through and clearing out my PureBlood Lungs.
Local report from MI:
Help wanted signs everywhere, probably because they require the shot or mask and people have had it they will stay home.
I was released from a shipyard in Mobile, AL, where I have worked for eight years, last Wednesday for refusing the clot shot. A lot of big talk from my former coworkers a few months ago, almost all of them folded at the first rumor of the impending mandate and lined up for their implants. Alabama is fighting the mandates, but my former employer being a defense contractor, there was really no way to dissuade them, so out the door I went. I’ve taken the plunge and started working for myself. I’ve been a licensed homebuilder and master plumber for a dozen years, but have been too scared to strike out on my own until I was forced to.
I’ve already got six months of work lined up and my phone won’t stop ringing. Should have left a long time ago. Screw ’em.
I’m so happy for your new endeavors. Wonderful to have all those skills under your belt and get paid to use them. Sorry how you lost your job but I’m so happy you landed on your feet. ?
That is awesome! I am so proud of you, and I will keep you in my prayers! I have searched and searched for people who can and will do repairs and other work, and people like you with the skills are booked months in advance. I am happy to sit on a waiting list for good workers! God Bless you! Wish I lived in AL!
JMG I hope you stay busy forever!! You deserve to be for standing up for your rights ! Bravo!
I have work for you in SD!
Kudos! Every time I see something like this I get more hope for our fledgling parallel economy.
The best news I’ve heard in a while. Thank you! And way to go.
JMG, that’s the American way. Congratulations on your new business!
Seattle suburb, King County, Wa, Commie country. Everyone still wears the stupid mask even though King County is 97% jabbed. I and my family only put them on when we have to, like going into a store or restaurant. King County started requiring restaurants to admit only jabbed, so we had to forego our usual Friday night dinner out at our favorite restaurant. The waitress let us know on the last “free day” that they weren’t going to monitor (small family owned diner) so we should still come to eat. I would go and rebel, (Scots-Irish so rebel is in my DNA), but my adult son who I go with, is afraid that some nazi from the County would come in checking just on the night we were there and then the restaurant would get fined. It’s sad because they were still trying to recover from the lockdowns and restrictions of 25% and then 50% capacity limits, and now this. The waitress informed us that we are not the only regulars that refuse to get jabbed.
We are on the very northern limits of the County and neighboring Snohomish county has few restrictions so we will just start driving to locations in that County.
Up to this point my immediate family has been able to avoid getting vaxxed. I am retired so unless they punish me by cutting off my social security benefits I am OK, plus have other resources. My biggest stressors are family, I worry about them being able to work and survive. Son works for a large international bank and has worked from home since April 2020. There are 3 people remaining in his department that are not vaxxed and have not been allowed back in the office. Most others he has worked with took the shot reluctantly since they felt they had to. My son expects that an announcement will be made on Nov 9th that jabs will be mandated, and he plans to request a religious exemption. He has a strong case since he has had no vax’s since he was about 12 and he is now 55. Hard to argue that they can’t make an accommodation since he has worked from home for almost 2 years. Daughter works from home for Regence Blue Shield and the company just mandated all employees be vaccinated, even those who work from home and never ever go into the office. She has requested a religious exemption and is waiting for a decision. Oldest granddaughter works in King County and her employer has told them they are not going to mandate the jab; her husband is in the same situation. If they mandate their kids get the shot they will be pulled out of school and I will probably be doing homeschooling. Middle granddaughter is in senior year at WSU and was granted a religious exemption. If mandated shots are still in effect when she graduates she will be moving to a state that does not require the jab to be able to work. Grandson is the most troubling. He is in the Marines, just got first permanent duty and is at Pendleton. He attempted to get a religious exemption while still in MOS and was pretty much mocked and yelled at by his superior. So pretty much told him not to bother with the request for an exemption. The day before he was scheduled for a 10 day leave his sgt told him if he didn’t get the shot that day his leave would be cancelled, he would be written up, and would be detained indefinitely. So he took the shot. Last week they told him he had to decide by the end of the day if he was going to get the 2nd jab, and at day’s end he told them no. So they wrote it up and it’s now working itself up the chain. He has wanted to be in the military since he was about 5 years old so he is really conflicted about his situation. Only time will tell what happens to him, but I can tell you that I am pretty disgusted with Austin and Mille, not even considering the debacle of Afghanistan.
Since this whole BS started, we have lived as normally as possible. Meaning we still got together for family dinners, holidays, BBQ, etc. and even during the lockdown and everything was closed except big box stores, still went out every day for a ride and a walk in the park (Inslee never sent the gendarmes out to give citations to anyone out on the street, thank God).
Upshot, family members are starting to seriously talk about moving to Texas or Florida, or any state with a reasonable job market, where they can work and live without the State’s crazy nonsensical, non-scientific mandates, and the corporate idiots who should know better but just follow orders and do what they are told.
Could you expand on that a little more?
Carol,
I can relate to you as my two boys, one deployed with the CG and one at Ft Hood, HAD to get the vaxx of they would’ve been bounced in their young military careers. It p*sses me off that MY military is not THEIR military today. My son in TX tells me, Dad, all the CDR’s and GEN are all Woke people and don’t care about your rights and freedoms.
They’re all just looking for their next promotion and whatever orders come from DC they are implementing them despite what boots on the ground are telling them. My son in TX, his Colonel used him as the scapegoat saying that NO ONE could go on leave until my son got vaxxed and my son overseas was going to get sent home from his deployment and told he’d be dishonorably discharged if not vaxxed. True? Who knows? but how is a young twenty-something supposed to argue that and all they both want to do is serve their country? They both got in during our real CDR-in-Chief’s term.
I sure hope your brave and serving sons learn lessons of their Political commander’s selling-out their solemn pledge obey and protect the US Constitution (and our Bill of Rights [thx to Geo Mason]) as part of their training. Like the US military leaders – the Warriors- that turned around the US military when President Reagan came into office. Those that saw the failures of weak leadership after Vietnam turned that around. It looks to me like Obama purged the Leadership ranks of warriors, and we have a whole generation of Hacks running our armed forces. I think it is a dangerous time to be in the military with Marxists in control. My prayers are with them and our country.
Re *military*… I can confirm! Grand dtrs future husband stationed at Ft Bragg, took jab! He said they made regulations for not taking so tough that most just adhered.. We are living through some *evil* times…
Yea they will take your SS benefits and give them to an illegal unvaxed person because it is for the general good.
So… the Pandemic is sooo totally bad, that in my City of San Francisco, which orders businesses to require proof of Vaccination to enter, which forced an In & Out to close due to lack of compliance… is having OUTSIDE LAND in Golden Gate Park.
Outside Land is a Concert. Funny that because the city of San Francisco is profiting from this Concert, they have no problems with it. The city of San Francisco has no problem inconviencing the people who live around that area with Trash and people taking a piss on the sidewalks, but to get Ice Cream at a Mom & Pop place you have to run through regulatory hurdles just to get an over priced Ice Cream Cone.
From San Francisco… Let’s Go Brandon!
How many homeless were found dead on the street or in their tents dying from Covid?? The homeless would have been the first to succumb to covid if it were truly as deadly as it was made out to be.
Name the last pandemic America or any country had where we fired the healthcare professional?? This is NOT a pandemic and never has been anything more than a power grab by governments around the world.
I am an RN. I will be fired on Dec 8th. I refuse to ask for exemption or to submit to immunity proof. Why? I do not need to prove health. I will not give them bodily fluids, I will not submit. I will not ask to be exempted. No one needs the vax. No one. Covid was a killer of the weakest and sickest with poor immune health. Now the vaxx is destroying the healthy. I am seeing cardiac events without prior history. All will be affected in time. How many jabs will it take? How long do they need to wait? Many thought they were fine. Months go by and the vaxx damage comes to light. I have seen fast-growing cancers that were non-operable with pallative/hospice the only option. I have seen people stop walking, pain, neurocog disorders, brand new seizures, heart failure, a-fib, cardiac inflammation, heart attack, stroke. It WILL come. They all say, “my doctor doesn’t know why..”
They want rid of us- anyone who sees it. This is crystal clear. You drink the kool-aid and take the paycheck or you’re out.
I planned for this. Saw it clear as day back in March of ’20. Yes i did. Sold my home and left Seattle where i was working for #1 covid service.. a hospice. I can talk for hours.
Never once was I fooled. I was not just newly awakened. If you had any idea how the last decade plus push for vaccines has been to change public thinking….
And they have been tracking with EMAR.
I knew.
I have an interview no vaxx, no test. I will be fine.
I planned. No blue state politics for me. I will stand and fight if it kills me but my family and I would rather starve than submit.
This is about your WILL, not your health. And let me tell you- i have seen more people than you can fathom as patients. YOU WILL have a health event and when you do, it will be from the vaxx.
Get ready. Once it’s in, you cant undo it.
I live in Paul Gosar’s district in Pinal County – Queen Creek area of AZ and our entire community has been against this vaxx and mask since the beginning. When all the stores put up MUST wear masks on their doors the majority (I’d say 65%) would still just walk in maskless into the business.
We’d get looks by the employees but they knew they didn’t want to lose 65% of their customers. Even the 35% that were wearing masks half of those were doing it because they didn’t want to be confrontational which I believe is many of the mask wearers today. Heavy conservative area out here in the Easy Valley of Phoenix.
Same for Cave Creek/North Scottsdale area! I have rarely (maybe once in 1 1/2 year) worn a mask outside doctor’s office. I never wore one at Walmart’s.
I am losing my job with a Danaher subsidiary because I can not take the mRNA injections. I have a congenital heart condition and I can not take the risk of Myocarditis. I have natural immunity, as I had Covid and recovered. HR made it clear that there will be only very few “disability” and religious exemptions. To apply, one has to submit all documentation and review their 10 page agreement which will then have to be approved by their medical and legal teams. In other words, its very unlikely to happen. They are calling those who are refusing “voluntarily resigned” so that we do not get any continuation of benefits though Cobra, no unemployment, no accrued vacation pay which some states require that an employer pay out after firing an employer. Danaher sent out communications to all employers which were filled with misinformation and both coercive and passive aggressive threatening rhetoric. I object to being threatened and strong-armed and soon I will be out of work for no reason other than being strong, with a desire to preserve my health which I have worked hard to attain. Happy Holloween.
So sorry Ed. God’s blessings to you and provisions for you.
Thank you! I am not alone in that there are hundreds of others in my company who are not going to take these dangerous mRNA injections. Danaher and my op-co company are going to suffer greatly when thousands will not be able to meet their “mandate” and sales, manufacturing and support will tank. If you have invested in Danaher, short it because in Feb. 2022, they will tank.
Ed can you take legal action? I know they have a massive war chest and legal teams, but perhaps a good attorney with connections to media (to spread the word about such heinous actions toward those medically at great risk).
Not sure why it’s taking so long for court cases to get going overall. I hear of many being plotted or in process. Hopefully something will emerge. Doesn’t help that the corrupted SCOTUS keeps punting back temporary stays. Burns me up to see the frat boy and Mrs. Squirrel aligning with the compromised Robert’s and his leftist friends.
I am looking in to it….however they will fall back on the fact that Danaher is a “government contractor” even though my customers have nothing to do with the government. Biden’s Executive order for all “government contractors” will apply to all Danaher Op-Cos (companies that Danaher owns) and that will give them blanket coverage against lawsuits.
I am in sales, and earn about $160K. Ive been in sales for 25 years and have had ups and downs, however I earned this ability to be in 6 figures due to my expertise and experience. Now it is being taken away from me by FJB.
Ed, if you haven’t already get another job. Good Companies are hiring, now time to make a great move. Let’s Go Brandon….
Thanks. I am looking to move from LA to Nashville. I have another 2-3 months left before Danaher’s mandate goes in to effect. I should close another $1 million in business by then, which is about $40K in commissions to me as well as my salary. After that I will get out and move to a state which just passed an anti-Mandate legislation. I went to school in Nashville in the 90s and it was great. I am working hard to position myself in the next 90 days for success.
Stay Strong. Stay Pure. Together we can beat this oppression and dictator.
A sibling just moved from Franklin Tn back to GA. Said Nashville is starting to go blue like Austin Tx has 🙁
PS If Brandons’ other mandate goes in to effect….it will apply to all companies over 100 employees. Red States are stepping up to fight this. You know that SCOTUS are cowards and will never rule in favor of the people.
Get a lawyer.
Textbook workplace harrassment.
Sounds like justification for a class action suit, if ever there was one.
Great! Another covid recovery story (me too)! Yet never any statistics or articles about us *survivors*… Just recently starting to read re “natural immunity”.. More people need to comment about having the virus. their symptoms etc..
Here in Wake County, hardly anyone wearing masks.. Don’t know of any business vax mandates.. Schools still require kids to wear masks..
calling it voluntary separation is fraud.
It is. I sent a personal email to the Danaher CEO Rainer Blair, who makes $14 million per year for this Globalist Conglomerate. I also sent a personal email to the President of my op-co, who is a far-Left software engineer in Germany somehow telling us Americans how to live. I let them both know how disgusting their mandate and rhetoric is. They both lied and said that the mRNA injections are “100% FDA approved and safe”. They are putting people’s health in jeopardy for their profits.
Neither coward responded.
I was informed last week by the large tech company I work for that I will have to be vaccinated by Dec 8 or be placed on unpaid leave starting Jan 8. It disgusts me. Unfortunately, at my age and life stage I’m in a bind and will be forced to take the jab. I could quit, but all the other tech companies I would work for will have similar coercive mandates. Mentally, I just see civil war on the horizon. The Democrats did this to the county and it’s very difficult not to hate them for it.
DON’T GET THE SHOT. You will find when a door closes, a window will open. TRUST YOUR FUTURE in GOD’s HANDS;
Try and find a job now. Look like your life depends on it!
Find my post above.
Find another way. Read it. I’m a nurse.
It will kill you. It is a matter of time.
Don’t take the jab, or you will die within 3-5 years, especially with boosters! Please consider banding together with the PureBloods.
If you absolutely need to do it…then find a medical professional who will squirt the mRNA injection down the drain and sign off that you had it. You may need to bribe them, but its worth a shot.
Lots of tech postitions listing on Gab’s Group No Vax Jobs: https://gab.com/groups/49159
You may need to move, but there are other options.
There are also other sites that promote no vax jobs.
There is hope.
Articles to read tonight:
https://www.conejoguardian.org/2021/10/21/ventura-county-nurses-blow-the-whistle-on-crisis-in-local-health-care/
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/26/1046432435/ers-are-now-swamped-with-seriously-ill-patients-but-most-dont-even-have-covid
Here’s another. Medical personnel forum with 2000+ posts on vaccine injuries
https://www.medscape.com/sites/public/covid-19/vaccine-insights/how-concerned-are-you-about-vaccine-related-adverse-events?src=soc_fb_share&fbclid=IwAR0mmHOgEpAmKHb4t5O2Tdmf8RRuI7-KIiaVxgTPpP5ruvg63N3buaqgjnE
Excellent article, the first one. I haven’t read the second one yet. Since I’ve been in treatment for breast cancer for a year now (doing well and just in maintenance treatment now), I am in several Facebook groups for integrative cancer treatment ( my only reason for staying in Facebook, but these groups have knowledge that is life saving). Anyway, one woman whom I’ve seen in the groups for a long time recently posted that her oncologist just started pushing her to get the Covid vaccine. She said no, she was absolutely not going to do that. The oncologist then said, “actually I’ve seen a lot of patients whose cancer spread aggressively or who stopped responding to treatment after getting the vaccine. ” The patient said, “So why did you try to convince me to get vaccinated?” The oncologist responded, “because I have to. ” Now, this isn’t someone I know personally, but I have been communicating with these people for about a year. Also, we don’t usually talk about Covid, we talk about cancer. This woman was just really frustrated with her oncologist and shocked that she would say such a thing.
https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/want-to-see-the-effects-of-the-covid-shots-in-autopsies-this-scientist-shows-you-video/https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/want-to-see-the-effects-of-the-covid-shots-in-autopsies-this-scientist-shows-you-video/
Video was removed…
ituation Update, Sep 24, 2021 – Prepare for epic CRISIS THEATER following AZ forensic audit results (which may be RIGGED also)
VIDEO SHOWS BLOOD CONGEALING AFTER VAX=MINUTE MARK ABOUT 16.
https://www.brighteon.com/d3138854-5dc3-489b-b8aa-5dc691991e75
The airlines are saying these cancellations are weather related. Massive amounts of FA’s are banging in sick, along with many pilots too. The airline managers are woke dem liars. Everything they touch turns to foul excrement.
SE Wisconsin resident. Few mask wearers in the area since Spring, things pretty much normal. The State is about 55% Vaxxed and that number hasn’t grown much since July. Hospital chains decided to require the Vaxx and turned down religious exemption requests wholesale claiming ‘unable to accommodate.’ In one of those chains it WILL cause a cancer clinic to close down as they are losing more than half the staff there, including RN’s. THey also tried the ‘voluntary resignation’ trick but they’re getting pushback and some damn good lawyers are raising ‘issues’ with that gambit. So last week–only 2 weeks left before Firing Day–the rumor is that the hospitals are going to loosen up on the religious exempts.
We are visiting in Atlanta area and there is a lot more mask-wearing than at home–but that is in ATL itself. In MTG’s district, masks are rare, just like in SE WI.
Here in my county in central North Carolina we are 51% fully vaccinated. Most here don’t wear masks. They require masks in municipal buildings. Things are normal. I am surprised it’s only 51% as we have a large senior population. The hospitals here lost a lot of employees due to their Vaxx mandate. The folks I see who are masked now are a few elderly and a lot of Blacks and Hispanic. Dem Governor has imposed a lot of stuff but most don’t abide by any of it.
Tennessee legislature met in special session. Final bill caved to hospital lobbyists and Ford motor company, abandons anyone who works for federal government or Medicaid/Medicare dependent facilities. Worst of all, the bill will terminate 7/2023 and undoes a previous law that prevented covid vaccine from ever being on the state vaccination schedule. Extreme federalism does not work in RINO run states an more than it does in dem run states
Bob Corker…the Haslam family….yeah Tennessee has a special kind of RINO.
Our governor needs to go. Biggest hypocrite on the planet. Called for “a day of fasting and prayer” and then did everything in his power to cave to tyranny. That’s not what I call a Christian. I’m 100% disgusted with him. But, what did I expect… healthcare is the biggest industry in TN so he’s for sure lining his pockets. Oh how I long for real men to stand up to tyranny in this country. How I long for Christians to be real Christians and not Pharisees. Sorry. Not Sorry.
Walgreens says take the jab. My wife says no. Looking to be fired. By the grace if God we will fine.let’s go Brandon.
Listen to your wife. Your health is worth more than all the gold in the world !
Autumn here in Maine brings the wife and I up to Portland to restaurant and bar hop. We could easily drop $250 on a Saturday afternoon. But no more! We will not let ourselves be subjected to the woke mob and their dictates.
Rhode Island: We are no longer Rogue Island. I wonder where all the people are hiding their tails? According to the new Gov. McKee ( our old corrupt governor Raimondo works for FJB), 90% of all adults 18 and over have had at least 1 dose of the vaccine. Mandated vaccines for ALL health care workers, firefighters, and EMTs. I am unable to work because I am an unvaccinated health care provider but have natural immunity. This includes school nurses and even massage therapists. Last week at a vaccine update, our Dept of Health top doc warned that vaccines would be mandated for all children once “approved” by the CDC. The Gov then stated he had no reason to mandate vaccines for children. Calls for her resignation or firing are many. The progressive candidate for the gubernatorial race 2022 has stated he will mandate vaccines for entrance into all public spaces.
Masks are required for the non-vax in the general public and all students and school staff. Wal-mart, McDonald’s and probably other woke corporations require masks for ALL who enter. I don’t wear one. At the market, perhaps 45% of the customers wear masks and almost all children have them on. I even see a few double maskers. I do not engage with people wearing masks. There is a severe shortage of health care workers. Nurses and CNAs. A small percentage of nurses/cnas lost jobs due to the jab. New nursing minimum staffing requirements take effect for nurisng homes this year. This will only exacerbate the shortages.
I am disappointed that those who are vaxxed and reasonable only give lip service to the rights of the unvaxxed to work. Legal challenges against the mandated vaccine fell on deaf ears. Exemptions are being denied.
My advice to people behind enemy lines is to find like-minded people and stay away from the herd/sheep. Join Jeffrey Prather’s Team America in your state: https://jeffreyprather.com/join-team-america/
Change medical providers if possible, especially when you disclose you are NOT vaxxed and their demeanor suddenly changes. A few providers refuse to see patients who are not vaxxed. Out-of-state family members have already informed us and extended family members only those who are vaxxed will get to see them and their new offspring during the Holiday season. Go to church. Renew your faith and the community of being in the same building as other worshippers. Our church conducted Masses via facebook and radio transmission for those outside until indoor services were restored. Communion was always given. In the middle of the pandemic (early 2020) church members and our priest drove to parishoners homes with the HOLY EUCHARIST. We were lucky as other priests did not feed their flock when it was most needed. Some parishioners did not return and whenever we see them we encourage them to return, especially those with children.
The challenge I see is to stop at all costs becoming Australia. I fear for young children who are now the newest guinea pigs. This will not end well especially if some children become severly effected or die from the vaccine. Many may view the deaths as for the greater good. I predict more cleaving will happen in the school buildings as more parents will leave to homeschool or use private religious schools with fewer restrictions once the clamor for vaccines for the under 12 crowd grows dangerously louder and more invasion than poison ivy. 90% of ALL adult citizens vaccinated could potentially mean 90% of all kids 5 and over will be vaccinated. Time will tell. More advice: Improve your health, lose weight, prepare for a covid infection before it happens: FLCCC has great advice and resources. FOLLOW IT. Many of the treatments are OTC. I recommend using idodine (Lugol’s solution) from this link. https://www.jcrowsllc.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxI6o2MH08wIVgoyGCh0fgQCfEAAYASAAEgIQb_D_BwE
The FLCCC recommends using it in a nasal spray, and you may even ingest small amounts as I do. KNOW your neighbors, stay out of the feral cities in blue states. Keep cash on hand and be prepared to barter. Cigarettes, alcohol, diapers and female products and of course TOILET PAPER are great bartering items. Get a genator as I believe the power outages might be the new normal. Install a wood stove if this is practical. God helps those who help themselves.
Thank you for the detailed report from the neighboring blue state.
I am having someone in next week to estimate installing a whole-house gas generator. I am the last thing from handy with arthritic hands and need something totally automatic. Would rather put $$ into house investment now than let it degrade by inflation. I figure that in New England this investment will pay off. I also am betting that this year’s record-setting precipitation trend will continue and become a bad snow year, one that we haven’t had for quite a few years now – we’re due. (And no, that’s not mythically-anthropomorphic climate change – it’s just New England weather.)
I was told by the plumber (I’ve used them frequently) that some models are subject to the supply chain nightmare but some are not – presumably they will deal with it, I hope so!
Wood Elf – I now live in MA but grew up and lived in RI most of my life. Except for my household, my family is all in RI.
Thought you might be interested in a Freedom March happening tomorrow (11/1) where MA and RI will join together starting @ 1:00 PM.
I plan to attend. Here is the link to the details.
https://fb.me/e/1aPdT1msu
The majority of people I know have yet to be effected by the mandates. Many of them work in industries that are not being pressed at this time. My sense is that industries like healthcare have met or exceeded Vax deadlines and either complied or submitted for an exemption. A solid percentage of these folks have refused to comply and are now in the process of loosing their jobs. Others have alerted their supervisors, who are faced with severe labor shortages if they press the matter so seem to be ignoring the mandate. The only way that this administration can continue to insist on this mandate (which hasn’t been officially enacted) is through corporate or industry-based enforcement. We haven’t got a nation-wide policing agency to enforce compliance—which may not be constitutional. My hope is that more resistance whether passive or active in this will render the mandate irrelevant. Hopefully by then the science on the vaccines will show whether taking the vaccine is prudent. If it is not, more resistance to it will upswell.
In general, most people here are not concerned about the mandates. Those that are seem to be consumers of msm/public news outlets and are fearful of the unvaxed, which this administration as characterized as the real pandemic.
Strong words from German MEP Christine Anderson, who is against the vaccine mandate and the vaccine passport. She said this the other day:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-meps-protest-oppressive-vaccine-passports-question-why-political-elites-push-agenda
None of what she said is news to any of us here who read here every day, but I find it encouraging that others are finally realizing we are all being played.
Bossier City, LA. Very few masks-mostly on employees. Businesses, grocery, every place I passed today, open. Heavier than usual traffic flow.
Talked with local USPS postmaster yesterday, he laughed when I asked about vaccine requirements, testing. He said nobody, is required to be vaccinated, be tested, or wear masks, the unions wont have it. Even his federal contract cleaners and truck drivers that he hires are not required to be vaccinated.
I work in healthcare and had my religious exemption approved. Message me (if possible) if you would like a copy of what I wrote. Best to all who are standing up and fighting for our liberty!
@PatriotPoet I couldn’t figure out how to direct message you. Could u please send me the letter to kjullion at gmail dot com
I personally want to apologize to passengers of American Airlines for having to cancel thousands of flights due to “high winds”…..
I overdid it at the Friday night all-you-can-eat chili cook-off.
???
There must be deplorables nation-wide eating unheard-of amounts of chili.
Here in Ozark MO we have no mask mandate and while shopping here in Ozark , Springfield and Lake of the Ozarks Missouri I found no requirement for masking and no demand from any employee to put one on and no inquiry as to my vaccine status. Most employees were wearing masks.
Middle TN (just south of Nashville metro), I haven’t worn a mask in months. The only time I was forced to wear a mask was to go in the grocery store back in 2020 and I was always quick in the store. Max 15 min. Even my dental and doctor office has not asked for the mask this year. I see a few people wearing a mask but not many. I work in a very small office of 6 people, half have gotten the 2 shot jab. Two of them won’t be getting another but the other one has major health issues so I’m sure he will get another jab. I haven’t missed a day of work (going into the office) since this whole fraud began.
I am sorry for those who are being put in the position of having to choose their health vs a job. It’s surreal and evil.
I neglected to say this yet, but I too am sorry for everyone in the job vs jab situation, and appalled at this travesty. I’m retired so my only fear is Medicare and Socialist Security, both of which are undoubtedly on the enemy’s list for further liberty abuse.
One of my few (and precious!) unjabbed friends is in the position, but she is probably going to land on her feet. And she is going to have the added bonus of becoming increasingly redpilled/smarter, because before all this started, she was a typical blue-state Dim – not a barking moonbat, just accustomed to voting that way.
A great many in blue states have been blind their entire lives. It takes time and encouragement. While stuck behind enemy lines I do everything I can to open eyes, carefully, delicately…
In Ohio, Liddle Mikey DeRINO had his Covid mandate power taken away by the Ohio Legislature after much public pressure…. peaceful protests.
Unfortunately, the legislature is still in the pocket of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce (run by former Congressman Szechuan Steve Stivers) and the Ohio Business Roundtable which is run by former Congressman Peking Pat Tiberi.
Thus, efforts to stop mandatory masking with private business or vaccine mandates have stalled but anywhere outside of the City of Columbus is mask free and pretty laid back.
Speaking of Columbus, the mayor of Columbus, Fat Andy Ginther, put a mask requirement in just the City of Columbus that is being ignored by many but not enough. I’ve noticed most mask wearers in Columbus are women younger than 40, and honestly, African Americans.
They are the college indoctrinated and CNN or local news TV watchers.
I’ve come to the idea that DeRINO knows he’s unpopular and may announce a retirement in January instead of running for reelection but that’s not a 100% certainty. His minion Jon Husted would run in his place.
If DeRINO stays in, he’s counting on uneducated voters and the fake cowboy Joe Blystone to split the Republican primary vote in May 2022.
Rural OK (about halfway between OKC and Dallas), people seem to be living normal lives; no masks except for some workers in some stores – appears to be individual preference. Most shoppers just being normal.
Took a road trip 5 hours away a weekend or two ago and there were very few masks observed in AR. Some people (mostly elderly) would put on a mask when go into the supersized Wal-Mart, but fuel stops and other stores, shelves fully stocked and people behaving like normal human beings – even had to wait in line for the ladies room and people weren’t “social distancing” or wearing masks!
So far no shortages noted, however this morning I will travel to a Dollar General nearby and a different store. Also going to stop for fuel at a busy station near I-35 in the nearby county.
Will report back later.
In Louisville, the city Health Dept is begging people, even the vaccinated, to get tested every week that one has any contact with those outside of your household. They are anxiously awaiting to report a covid super spreader event at the schools, at football games, etc.. but no luck so far. The Gov was almost estatic when a 7 week old died “from” covid a few weeks ago only to report later that the child had several other issues and from what I suspect, never made it out of the hospital so they must have tested positive while in the hospital. That story was buried very quickly. Downtown still pretty much a ghost town but that is a mixture of work from home and past peaceful protests that chased so many dining establishments away. Have a friend who goes into the office a few days a week and he says there is a sub place that has a line down the block almost daily at lunchtime since they are one of the few eateries still functioning. Mayor is starting to bribe the police, fire, etc.. with the “Free money” if they get the jab but alot are still balking or moving to the suburban cities where there is no mandate. Only thing I have really noticed is that some days we may not receive mail. Of course the blame is all on covid but our local post office has been a mess for years and they finally have a bogeyman that no one will question.
Interesting. I’ve noticed the mail thing ever since PDJT was cheated. I get it maybe 2 or 3 days a week, rarely on weekends at all. And many times I get a rubber-banded batch of it all at once.
A friend sent me a priority mail package 5 weeks ago and it has not yet arrived. I’ve tracked it at the postal website. As of yesterday it had left the “regional distribution center” but still has not been delivered. When I inquired at the post office they referred me to the website. Yet all those Biden ballots got delivered right on schedule? Not credible.
Buy a stamp and they’ll give you an 18″ long receipt (someone’s brother-in-law must have the contract to provide paper). I think the post office is collapsing under its own weight and that has nothing to do with “covid.”
I’m in N. CA – in Placer County. Somes stores have signs that say “Regardless of vaccination status – you must wear a face mask to enter.” 8 out of 10 walk in without a face mask and no one monitors the doors any longer or asks shoppers to leave. Several loved ones have had ultimatums given in writing from employers with a threat for last day to get injections or will be terminated. You can get a covid shot at any drug store, or grocery store and there is no concern for your medical history. Any person with cognitive decline or alzheimer’s could easily get repeated or multiple shots at different stores because there is not real record keeping & confused elderly people are not proctected. Two people close to me that got two covid shots & then a recent booster have suddenly died. They have plausible deniability & the politicized medical care is dangerous and depressing.
Any small privately run store that has a mask requirement sign is off my list.
And the store next t0 it with no signage gets extra biz from me – even if I barely need anything in it, I try to find something small to buy.
Recently ( month of October 2021) traveled through rural Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado in a RV and never asked to wear a mask, never asked vax status at stores or restaurants. Most places exhibited pre-covid scam behavior. It was almost like being back in the good old USA!
Ventura County CA. Article released last week:
https://www.conejoguardian.org/2021/10/21/ventura-county-nurses-blow-the-whistle-on-crisis-in-local-health-care/
Northern Minnesota. Haven’t seen anyone wearing a mask fo a long time. Iron Ore workers got threatened with their jobs over Vax, as did some healthcare professionals. A friend if mine, whom is a ER nurse, took religious exemption. Weather is getting colder. Snow bird friends are mostly heading to Texas this year.
Advice… something like, better dead than red.
Illinois is in the midst of passing a clarification to their healthcare conscience act, which has protected physicians and patients from repercussion for refusing treatment as a matter of conscience (either giving or receiving). The clarification will remove protection specifically related to COVID-19 related treatments. The original Act stated:
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It is the public policy of the State of Illinois to respect and protect the right of conscience of all persons who refuse to obtain, receive or accept, or who are engaged in, the delivery of, arrangement for, or payment of health care services and medical care whether acting individually, corporately, or in association with other persons; and to prohibit all forms of discrimination, disqualification, coercion, disability or imposition of liability upon such persons or entities by reason of their refusing to act contrary to their conscience or conscientious convictions in providing, paying for, or refusing to obtain, receive, accept, deliver, pay for, or arrange for the payment of health care services and medical care."
The amendment which passed and has gone to Governor JB Pritzker to sign states:
Sec. 13.5. Violations related to COVID-19 requirements. It
is not a violation of this Act for any person or public
official, or for any public or private association, agency,
corporation, entity, institution, or employer, to take any
measures or impose any requirements, including, but not
limited to, any measures or requirements that involve
provision of services by a physician or health care personnel,
intended to prevent contraction or transmission of COVID-19 or
any pathogens that result in COVID-19 or any of its subsequent
iterations. It is not a violation of this Act to enforce such
measures or requirements, including by terminating employment
or excluding individuals from a school, a place of employment,
or public or private premises in response to noncompliance.
This Section is a declaration of existing law and shall not be
construed as a new enactment. Accordingly, this Section shall
apply to all actions commenced or pending on or after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General
Assembly. Nothing in this Section is intended to affect any
right or remedy under federal law.
Does the bill define “COVID-19”? Serious question.
The GOP controlled Tennessee General Assembly voted for mask mandates on Friday 10/29. The Governor will not sign the bill into law.
My son’s college just decided to stop their mask mandates in the commons areas of the school and in classes. The Dean , however, makes all fraternities keep an online log of members and guests, who are in the fraternity classes at all times. The houses are not on campus. The Dean does this to control the number of people in the fraternity houses.
I’ve been trying to get time to read the whole thread before my comment from behind enemy lines, but it’s just too long, so I hope this isn’t too repetitive…
I have an odd and maybe paranoid suspicion about how the “cleaving” is working here in my solidly leftist state of blueMA. I don’t know the current percentage of jabbed in the state, but last I heard it was in the high 90’s.
I pay no attention to the “cases” because of bogus PCR testing, so I can’t speak to the numbers on whether illness rates are high as in higly jabbed Israel. I personally know of no one who is sick except the few I’ve mentioned here who had obvious bad results to their jabs earlier in the year.
The suspicion I have is that TPTB, and the big box suppliers, may be favoring blue states during the shortages. Yes, there are holes on shelves in my suburb outside Boston and my friend’s exurb. But they don’t look quite as drastic as what I see in other pictures from around the country. The prices also don’t seem to be skyrocketing quite as quickly, which is confusing. Gas has increased only by about a dollar since a year ago.
No one is asking for jab proof in any serious manner anywhere I go, though admittedly I get out only to groceries, my gym, general shopping, a couple of music venues sometimes. By “any serious manner” I mean that there may be signs and draconian statements on web sites, but in person, there’s no issue.
Therefore, I think TPTB are quietly keeping their favored ones in somewhat benign status while heavily persecuting the areas they see as their enemy. Of course they can’t control their own runaway inflation so this can’t last – but I see it happening now.
As for daily life, in general everyone just assumes everyone they know is “in the jab club.” I therefore have been relatively careful to keep my unjabbed status quiet. Psychologically this feels like “passing” and is quite stressful but I consider it part of what I must do.
My handful of unjabbed friends and I have formed a very strong fellowship bond. We use the Signal app to communicate about it and share factual medical data.
And before anyone asks – no, at my age escaping to a red state cannot happen because of close ones to whom I have family responsibility.
At the end of one of Robert Heinlein’s novels – I think it was called The Man Who Sold The Moon, and set in the 1940’s – the main character who makes travel to the moon possible, is at a very elderly age denied passage on the moon ships on a medical basis (general infirmity).
He finally bribes someone to take him to the moon in an older and unreliable rocket. He stumbles out onto the moonscape, sits down, and waits for death there.
I now view real personal freedom as something I may achieve years from now only by some less, but also drastic for me, means.
Northcentral PA here. The tyranny is no longer being carried out by Gov Wolf. He has faded into the background…for now. The corporations and schools are carrying it out now by forcing employees and students to wear masks. If it weren’t for them the “pandemic” would be an afterthought. Vaccine mandates are quietly and systematically being implemented one company at a time. It almost feels like it is a coordinated plan of attack. One profession, one company at a time to make the holdouts feel isolated and soften the unemployment blow of those that do stand strong. I think they are lying about the vaccination rates. Half of the people I know are not vaccinated. I’d say 25% of them would never give in under any circumstance, but close to 50% will fold immediately when their job is threatened. The real battle will be over the kids. I’d say 60-70% of parents I know will never allow these vaccines into the arms of their children under any circumstance, which is why I think they will hold off on the mandates until next school year. They will take the carrot approach first. Vaccine = no more mask in school. Many employers like mine are waiting for the osha rule to come out and will immediately implement the mandate. My employer faces a problem though. They have been threatened with a boycott, by just one customer, and it has them shook up. I work in sales in the building materials industry. Our customers are contractors from all walks of life: roofers, siders, masons, big commercial contractors, residential contractors, general contractors, the Amish. They all have three things in common: they have the skills to do work that everyone needs and will always need, they spend big money and they live their lives how they see fit. They can’t be canceled, they can take their money elsewhere, and many will when they find out the good people they have dealt with for years are being fired. I recently found out that one of our medium sized 100k a year guys caught wind of the company email that was sent out asking for vaccine cards because of the “expected federal rule announcement”. He immediately called his sales rep and told him he would never buy from us again if we fired good people over a vaccine mandate. It took about an hour for that to make it up the chain of command and the employee who “leaked” that info was immediately questioned. “You have to keep quiet about that. You can’t tell people that.” They sure were terrified at the thought of their customers finding out what they planned to do to their employees. If even one of the big dogs feels the same way, they are screwed. Boycotts are the answer. Imagine the power of someone like President Trump calling for boycotts of companies with mandates. One at a time, just like they are rolling out the mandates. It would be over in a matter of weeks.
The good news is that our side grows by the day. The bad news is that there will be economic casualties. Doctors and nurses have the financial means to weather the storm. They will be able to find equal or better pay at some point. Many people will not be able to replace their pay and advancement they have earned through years of employment, and nobody is going to be there to bail then out if they take a stand. This is why many will fold. I do believe enough people will sacrifice whatever is necessary to fight this though. I am one of them. I have a good job that won’t be easily replaced and my family will suffer when my turn comes, but we will do whatever it takes.
Maybe a better question to ask is, what are the exit criteria for declaring the pandemic is over and that COVID should now considered endemic along with the flu and colds? And not only endemic, but also treatable with a number of cheap, easy-to-obtain prophylactics such as ivermectin, hydroxychloroquin, z-packs, monoclonal antibodies, etc.
Such a declaration by one of more governors* would make it harder for the Feds to impose more restrictions and vaccine mandates. It would also put pressure on the deep blue states to justify continued restrictions.
If, for example, DeSantis declared Florida’s pandemic over, he’d have more justification for taking action against local mask mandates.
(* Someone said that Iowa has already declared such, but I can’t confirm)
Folks,
I’m in eastern PA, and here it’s a stalemate. Both houses of the state legislature are GOP controlled; granted, they’re more of the corrupt, RINO variety, but nevertheless, they’ve put a check on Fuhrer, er Governor, Wolf. Fuhrer Wolf would LIKE to emulate his brother in arms, Andy Cuomo in NY, and institute more draconian restrictions; thanks to the legislature being in GOP hands, he has to rein in his inner Hitler.
As I understand it, the state legislature voted to outlaw vax passes, but it was a weak bill; it only prohibited passes in gov’t buildings and schools, while allowing private businesses and organizations to do whatever they want, i.e. require passes if they’re so inclined. That bill also contained provisions to limit Fuhrer Wolf’s emergency powers. On those grounds, Gov. Wolf vetoed the bill. So, we’re in a legal stalemate here at the moment.
As for life on the ground, outside of healthcare settings, e.g. hospitals, doctors’ offices, etc., one doesn’t have to wear a mask. You might still see some signs; you might see some people wearing them; that said, the masks are, by in large, not enforced anymore. If one didn’t see the signs and a few mask wearers out and about, one would almost think that’s 2019 here; life where I am has pretty much gone back to normal outide of healtcare seattings.
That concludes this ground report from eastern PA.
Sarasota, Florida. Almost no masks seen here (although some wear one on the beach!). Stores have signs requiring or suggesting masks, but no one pays attention to them. Just moved here partially because of this attitude. And we have the real President.
Bill, the mask wearer is more likely avoiding the red tide. Newbies that go out to beach during a “bloom”