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From time to time I run across items that need to be talked about but aren’t big enough to stand on their own. Here are five of them.
#1 Spousal COVID Vaccine Fee
Starting in 2022, Ochsner Health, the largest health system in Louisiana, will start fining employees $200 per month if their spouse or domestic partner isn’t vacksinated. Well, it’s not a fine, per se. What they’re doing raising the insurance rates of employees who have unvacksinated family members covered under their plan.
The CEO of Ochsner claims that this isn’t a mandate because employees can choose to purchase health insurance from somewhere else. Also, this $2400 per year fine doesn’t apply to kids. It only applies to spouses and domestic partners.
What a load of horse shit.
But let’s pretend for a bit that this isn’t a stupid idea. Let’s not selectively apply this logic, let’s apply it to other things as well. I just signed up for health insurance with my new employer. No questions asked. No, really, they didn’t ask anything about my or my wife’s health.
I’m an extremely healthy person. I don’t smoke, drink, or do drugs. I never have. I don’t drink caffeine and I stopped eating sugar 20 years ago. I also exercise regularly, and I work from home so I’m much less likely to have a car accident than a lot of other people.
Yet I pay exactly the same amount for insurance as someone who’s an overweight alcoholic smoker who loves to skydive.
Now, I’m not complaining. Because I don’t really think there’s a better way. Well, it’s not that there isn’t a better way, it’s just that the better way comes with some too high of a price.
Once you let insurance companies charge you more for a disease you might catch, do you think it’s going to stop there? Of course not. Soon they’ll be charging you higher rates for other things you don’t have, on the chance that someday you will. Your rates will go up as you age, and it will cost you more based on what your hobbies are. I can easily imagine insurance companies requiring a DNA assessment and then charging you more based on your genetic predisposition for certain diseases.
I want to pay less for my health insurance. But the price we’d have to pay in order to pay less is way too high.
#2 National Guard Deployments
In many areas, the National Guard is being deployed to fill in for healthcare workers and school bus drivers who have been removed from the workforce because they’re not vacksinated.
Hmm. I wonder what could go wrong. What those in power don’t seem to realize is that very few members of the National Guard are full-time employees of the National Guard. Nearly the entirety of the National Guard is made up of people who have full-time jobs doing something else.
So, while Joe Soldier is emptying bedpans or driving kids to school, whatever it is that they normally do at work isn’t getting done. That’s just borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Eventually, we’ll a new crisis because of a shortage of workers that can do what the guardsmen/guardswomen/guardspersons were supposed to be doing.
I’ve never been in the National Guard, but I’ve known people who are. From what I’ve seen, nobody in the Guard actually wants to be called up. Most members would be really happy playing soldier every once in a while, and collecting a check for doing so. Sustained deployment is a hardship on the soldiers and their families. Not only is the soldier’s normal job not getting done, his or her family is going to suffer because of these ridiculous vackseen mandates.
Lastly, the Army doesn’t expect all Guard members to be fully vacksinated until June 30 of 2022. So, either the unvacksinated healthcare workers and school bus drivers are being replaced with unvacksinated National Guard members, or only vacksinated Guard members are being used as replacements. If unvacksinated Guard members aren’t being deployed as backups for various COVID-panic-related workforce shortages, then, in effect, an unfair burden is being placed on the vacksinated soldiers because they’re the only ones being chosen to be deployed.
#3 Unpaid Leave
In New York, teachers must submit to being vacksinated by October 4th or they’ll be placed on unpaid leave until September 22nd of next year. They’re not fired. They’re just placed on unpaid leave. So, what New York is doing is stopping former employees from collecting unemployment by not making them former employees.
It’s not just New York, Baystate Health, Kaiser Permanente and United Airlines are more examples of the many companies doing the same thing. By not just outright firing their unvacksinated employees, they’re withholding unemployment compensation. And, if the employee quits, they’re also not eligible to collect unemployment.
So, the only way an employee can collect wages of any kind from their current employer is to allow themselves to be vacksinated.
How this can’t be considered a form of coercion is beyond me.
#4 Vackseen Warning Labels
I saw an article over the weekend talking about how the European Union has recently recommended updating the label for Johnson & Johnson’s vackseen after they confirmed the possibility of two more serious side effects from the drug.
They concluded that the use of the J&J vaccine is possibly linked with vein clotting and an immune condition that causes the immune system to attack blood platelets.
This isn’t news here in the United States. The FDA amended the J&J Emergency Use Authorization on April 23rd for the very same thing.
In June, U.S. experts concluded there is a “likely association” between rare cases of heart inflammation and mRNA. The FDA said it would move quickly to require the companies to add a label warning that young adults and adolescents are susceptible to the side effect.
So what?
First of all, hardly anyone reads the EUA. And remember, regardless of what Big Media is telling you, all of the COVID vackseens currently available in the United States are still considered experimental and are being used under the Emergency Use Authorization.
Have you read the Emergency Use Authorization for these drugs? I have. But hardly anyone else has. Do you know even a single person who has seen a warning label for ANY of the vackseens? I don’t.
So, who the hell cares what’s on the label if no one even sees it?
Secondly, let’s say that you read the warning label, saw the list of side effects and decided that the potential benefit of the drugs are outweighed by the known risks. What you decide wouldn’t necessarily be relevant. Because your government has decided that your employer can decide that what you think doesn’t matter.
#5 California School Vackseen Mandate
The heart inflammation I mentioned in the last item primarily affects young adults and children. The younger you are, the more likely you are to suffer from this serious side effect. And, we’ve known for over a year that kids don’t typically have serious cases of COVID-19.
Ignoring common sense and science, California has decided to mandate COVID-19 vacksinations for all school children as soon as that use has been approved by the government. Once that happens, if your kid isn’t vacksinated, he or she will have to study at home.
This includes kids in both public and private schools.
So, they’re going to force these drugs on the people who need them the least but have the greatest chance of having serious, lifelong adverse reactions.
I dare you to make an argument in favor of that.
What’s more, teachers in California aren’t required to be vacksinated. They have the option of weekly testing should they decline to be jabbed.
What the fuck.
The vackseens mandate isn’t meant to protect kids because hardly any kids get sick from COVID-19. Multiple recent studies have shown that more kids are dying from the vackseens than from the disease the vackseens were presumably designed to protect them against. The kids are being injected with the goal of protecting the teachers.
As you know, I’m not in favor of any kind of forced COVID vacksination. But how could it possibly make sense to force vacksinations on the kids but NOT on the teachers?
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