There has always been strong cynicism amid those who accept the intellectual argument that everything around COVID-19 is political. From that viewpoint, the federal vaccine mandate was always just a Biden talking point, a way to weaponize a fear they created and create controlled division. A memorandum circulating today lends evidence to that perspective.
WASHINGTON DC – The White House’s Office of Management and Budget is telling federal agencies they should hold off on suspending or firing federal workers for not complying with the vaccine mandate until after the holidays, according to a memo obtained by ABC News.
This change, which has not yet been publicly announced, comes as President Joe Biden is putting pressure on private employers to embrace their own vaccine mandates.
Ninety-two percent of federal workers have already had at least one vaccine dose, according to the Office of Management and Budget. The federal workforce’s compliance rate stands at 96.5%, meaning employees have had at least one vaccine dose or have a pending or approved exception or extension request. (link)
If the latest Omicron variant was factually all that Biden is claiming it to be, this contradiction would not be evident – but it is. However, the exponentially and rapidly climbing list of contradictions and hypocrisies from officials, institutions and agencies can all be reconciled with one simple acceptance: It’s all political. All of it. Every element, no matter how granular or big picture, is all political.
It is also important to note the recent NBC poll on this issue amid the outlook of the vaccine mandates. A majority of the country do not support the vaccine mandates, and worse still, the number of unvaccinated workers is essentially unwavering in the past six weeks {poll data}. Remember, the number of Americans who willingly quit their jobs increased to 4.3 million in August {link}, and then increased again to 4.4 million in September {link}. People are not f**king around now.
Chuck Todd on Sunday tipped off the Democrats’ plan for 2022:
The Democrats are the party that cares about Co-Vid. The Republicans just don’t care.
The caring argument has historically gone over big with the low-info electors who vote Democrat.
The Democrats care about the poor, the Democrats care about the environment. Now Co-Vid.
It won’t gain seats, but it may hold some of their standard wins in Congress.
if covid is never fixed then democrats never have to be accountable for failing on their promises.
They care so much they forced thousands of seniors into nursing homes for further care.
Just don’t mention that their “caring” spread like wildfire causing the care of thousands to suddenly stop.
That would mean something to most people, but not the low info voters the Democraps are targeting, because they get whatever news they hear of, from media outlets that don’t report such “conspiracy theories”.
Save a bunch of $$ if death came to visit congress.
At the rate things are progressing, it will soon become apparent to many politically oblivious folks, that the Democrat party is not the savior of the poor, it is in fact the creator of poverty.
Unfortunately many people only start paying attention when they cant pay their bills.
Pain is on the way.
The pain will be felt by the younger families who are working minimum wage jobs, while raising their fledgling families and trying to achieve the American dream. Those in poverty will be getting an increase in their income, and the older population has been preparing. Sad and scary times for the USA.
Good theory, however, this time, the “lo-info voters” are typically the ones who do not want to be vaxxed, i.e. Tuskgee 2.0.
Thus far, the Omicron variant—with its zero deaths and few serious cases—seems to be less dangerous than the Delta variant. If this trend continues, let’s pray that Omicron becomes the dominant variant.
I don’t believe in any of these variants, anymore.
Agreed – I don’t believe a word they say
So, speaking of, did anyone else notice the Delta and whatever the other one was just vanished into thin air? As long as the swamp (cesspool) exists, so shall the new “variants.”
Delta is the dominant one now in the U.S., but it’s running its course and going away.
It’s simply the next stage after Delta: more contagious but less lethal. Probably at a common cold level.
Actually, I’d bet Delta is also common-cold level, and it only seems more dangerous because of hospitals killing people with remdesivir.
What’s the strategy to beat back the Jan 6 drum pounding/harassment when it is coupled to the 2022 elections?
Time to start the opposition is not after the first salvos are fired.
truth is nothing starts until the midterms are stolen .
I disagree. Why would we wait until midterms? The fraud has already been proven. There had better be a reckoning about what has been proven so far.
In the elections with the same equipment, doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
Omicron Is “Extremely Mild” Says Doctor Who First Discovered Strain; Numerous Mutations “Destabilize” The Virus
Contrary to the panicmongering unleashed by western mainstream median, Professor Barry Schoub, chairman of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Vaccines, told Sky News on Sunday that while South Africa, which first identified the new variant, currently has 3,220 people with the coronavirus infection overall and while the variant does appear to be spreading rapidly, there’s been no real uptick in hospitalizations
“The cases that have occurred so far have all been mild cases, mild-to-moderate cases, and that’s a good sign,” said Schoub, adding that it was still early days and nothing was certain yet.
Most importantly, and running counter to the fearmongering narrative being pumped out 24/7 by the mainstream media, Schoub said that the large number of mutations found in the omicron variant appears to destabilize the virus, which might make it less “fit” than the dominant delta strain.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/omicron-extremely-mild-says-doctor-who-first-discovered-strain-numerous-mutations
And there are reports that some people dont even know the have Omicron
Australian minister of health said he hopes it spreads so it can replace the Delta strain before christmas
Now you can see why the vaccines were a mistake.
Under what circumstances do we see antibody dependent enhancement? That
is, a situation in which the virus uses your overall vaccine induced
antibody response to its own advantage, leaving you worse off than if
you had never been vaccinated in the first place. They determined it’s
pretty easy: You take Delta and you add these four mutations:
If healthy, 32 year old, triple vaccinated, people are getting infected and spreading this thing, then your vaccine is useless.
When you try to generate a highly identical immune response against this virus in everyone, to protect 0.3% of the population, you’re setting your whole society up for disaster when some variant of this virus comes into existence that isn’t affected by this vaccine induced immune response. Hello, Omicron and its children.
https://www.rintrah.nl/now-you-can-see-why-the-vaccines-were-a-mistake/
Someone is seeing the handwriting on the wall. There was a previous report of a federal judge ordering POTATUS to actually consider Religious exemptions, after it was found over 16,500 requests were made by those in the military, and not a SINGLE ONE were allowed.
Look over any Diversity, Inclusion or other leftist nonsense program on any of their web sites, and you see the constant demand for all kinds of lunacy to be automatically accepted and celebrated. LGB_QWERTY, Race of certain people, etc., all must be not only highlighted, but you must accept these as perfectly normal and promote them.
Notice how Islam is not being pushed as much as it was during Urkel’s Reign of Error?
In their mad march to stamp out religious beliefs, it wouldn’t help to show their hypocrisy by stomping on the rights of some and ignoring others.
Luckily I will be retired by the end of the year. I feel bad and helpless for those who don’t have that option.
With the mask mandate (August, needed to get to October) in our company, I was forced to retire or bend the knee. I wanted to retire with benefits but I ended up short by 150 hours of work time in the year. That caused quite a bit of loss ($) on my part. So it was either get fired, retire, or bend the knee. I retired.
This a lie… there is no where near 92-96% vaccine compliance in the Federal Gov’t….. maybe 52 to 56% at best…. I am a Federal LEO Agent with a DHS agency and we have about 50% compliance in our office…. and the one’s that did comply are refusing booster shots…
This was part of the percentage: “have a pending or approved exception or extension request.”
But they are claiming that 92% of Federal Workers have had at least one shot which is still a lie… if you combined the pending exemptions and those who have complied I could see the 96% number, but IMHO they are just making up numbers at this point to hide that about 40-50% of federal employees that are outright refusing the clot shot…
“Ninety-two percent of federal workers have already had at least one vaccine dose, according to the Office of Management and Budget”
This shocking admission tells you everything you need to know, as it pefectly explains the way federal employees behave towards us.
There are Holidays forthcoming, for years and years… ; )
Maybe the science knows something,
or the bug knows something,
about holidays?
So, dc opted to share the latest science, or what the knows?
Sarc
I do not know…
[ or,
someone’s like to miss apply coercion…control…. via forced compliance ( which they miss call, ‘unity’?….]
All kinds of possibilities…
[ or maybe, someone’s getting a signal that American production / work is good to be accomplishing. ( and coercion is a hindrance from good).
Sorry for those that have already succumbed to months of miss leaders miss pressures – and distractions:
take vax ( or else…be dismissed from good work) pressures…
Also sorry that the record of success of the vax is increasingly questionable.
Meanwhile, ( no thanks to main media )
glad that there are successful therapeutics
( made available by some ‘ do no harm’ doctors since early 2020…)
[ a lot of this is an ongoing, unwanted ‘wooden-nickel’ lesson… ]
“Prove all things,
hold fast to that which is good.”
Thess 5:21
i.e.
more simply,
‘ Do not take any wooden nickels.’
said Grandpa over 40 years ago, to Grandson …
There is room to learn…by all…
Love thy neighbors…
One of the hallmarks of tyranny is capriciousness.
The cruel fickle arbitrary and inconsistent implementation of power.
King George was famously insanely capricious.
Avatar Resident Bidan and his programmers have surpassed crazy King George
Sundance:
Your statement about this being political, is spot on.
I don’t deny that there is a real virus.
But there have been real, serious viruses for 1000s of years. Nothing new under the sun.
But this thing, starting with covid 19, is bio-political-media engineered…from China to America, Australia…etc.
I had the Hong Kong flu years ago, 106+ fever. They told me it should have fried my brains.
Well, thank God, it didn’t.
Did they lock the world down back then?
Rhetorical question.
That H3N2 strain of the influenza A strain was far worse and horrible than covid.
I was burning up, but people prayed me through it.
LBJ was Potus back then, but the elitist-globalist weren’t quite on the all-controlling throne of media and medicine yet as they are today.
I would not have survived a Dr. Fauci back then.
Bless all of you who have survived every evil thing determined against us from day.
You are here, as I am, because there is a God in Heaven Who refuses to let the other easily wipe us out.
Be thankful!
When the truth is known( and it will be), the retribution must be TERRIBLE!
I see the evolution of the issue as this:
1) Everyone will WANT to take the shot. So no problem.
2) Most will WANT to take the shot. So no problem.
3) Too many people DON’T want to take the shot and point to how many ‘in the know’ working for the government are also not taking the shot.
4) We must remove that finger pointing by mandating that all the government workers take the shot (unless you are congress or their staff).
5) But wait! All those government employees are pointing the finger at their private employee equivalents not having to take the shot.
6) We must remove that finger pointing by mandating that all private companies impose the vax. And to get they to see the light, lets put on a fine they can’t afford.
7) No one would be so foolish as to give up a job just for a personal freedom!
HOLD MY BEER
My question is it optics? Is the delay just being used to lessen the effects or optics of “firing” employees before Christmas? This Adminstration does not YIELD against its citizens. Also, they still have not addressed those employees that have applied for religious exemptions and I feel that this Administration will DENY all that have applied. I have no hope from the Supreme Court.
I guess this is good news. It means that we will still have a semi-functioning military for a few more weeks.
Is there anyway we can tell how accurate their numbers are on the percentage of the population that has gotten the vax? If true, it really saddens me to see that many of my fellow country men fall for such an obvious flim flam.
And anyone who quits or gets fired should never ever consider going back to work for the same company who may do something just as stupid in the future. We are in the midst of a business war for good employees, and those companies that followed the politics may not survive, while others will thrive from the highly skilled workers who are now in transition.