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My employer had been telling it's unvaxed employees it had no choice but to follow the OSHA mandate or face stiff fines. Yesterday, one day after the court's ruling, they informed all employees they plan to continue the mandate against unvaxed employees by choice. This means oppressive weekly testing, over 35 miles away, that will cost them time and money without compensation. This is coercion, plain as day. Failure to comply will be considered insubordination and termination follows. Since the science proves any employee can bring the virus into the workplace and infect the entire workforce, regardless of their vax status, what is the purpose of persecuting the unvaxed employee? It most certainly has nothing to do with health, based on scientific evidence, yet that is what they claim to be concerned with.

Right now, the SCOTUS stopped the vax mandate, but private businesses are already announcing they will still require employees to get vaxed, test weekly on their own time and at their own expense, or be fired. If you don't think it's happening, you are not paying attention. My employer just announced it yesterday. Many restaurants will not let you in if you didn't get the jab. Police are throwing people out of restaurants or arresting them if they won't exit. Remind you of some time in history down south? The mental toll on healthcare providers is not from some massive surge in covid patients either. It's because much of the healthcare workforce has resigned because of the mandate and more are about to do the same. Blaming the unvaxed for that is just ignorance of the truth.

From the moment COVID-19 appeared, the pandemic became inseparable from politics. Political frenzy was inevitable since the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have escaped from a level-4 security virology lab in Wuhan, China. The rapid-fire spread soon threatened to indict the Chinese communist government for nearly destroying the world economy and killing millions. Western elites, in response, feared that their own lucrative investments in China would be jeopardized by such disclosures—and so acted accordingly in defending Beijing. Nonetheless, one scenario that remains intriguing is that the escaped virus was birthed by gain-of-function research scientists, overseen by elements of the Chinese communist military. Worse, the lab was given subsidies by U.S. health authorities, routed through third parties. Hiding all of that damaging information warped government policy and media coverage. Belatedly, a panicked China shut down all domestic travel in and out of Wuhan—but not flights abroad to Western Europe and the United States. The rest is history. From the outset, the World Health Organization simply spread false talking points about the outbreak from the Chinese government, delaying a robust global response. Former President Donald Trump’s political opponents initially told Americans to shop and travel as usual—only to pivot as cases mounted and they blamed the president. The U.S.’ 2020 ban on travel from China was met with charges of racism and xenophobia from presidential candidates. Ironically, many were simply channeling racist and xenophobic China’s propaganda. Many doctors kept hammering the need for therapeutics, including taboo off-label use of cheap generic drugs. The use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin was widely ridiculed, despite continuing studies from abroad attesting to their usefulness. Trump’s Operation Warp Speed project to develop vaccinations was also pilloried. Candidates Kamala Harris and Joe Biden did their best to talk down the safety of the impending inoculations. But once in power, they projected their own prior harmful rhetoric onto so-called anti-vaxxers. Then they claimed credit for the initial success of the Trump vaccinations. The Pfizer corporation had promised a major preelection announcement about its likely rollout of a vaccine in October, just days before the 2020 election. Then, mysteriously, Pfizer claimed the vaccine, in fact, would not be ready before Nov. 3. A few days after the election of Biden, the company reversed course and announced the vaccinations would soon be available. Then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo obstructed most all federal help with Trump’s fingerprints on it. That way, Cuomo became a media, Emmy-winning darling—before resigning in disgrace. Cuomo’s policies of steering infected patients into long-term care facilities doomed over 10,000 of the elderly. New York is now illegally using race to grant preferences in the allotments of tests and new drugs. The rhetoric of the media-progressive nexus that mandatory, massive lockdowns were necessary all but destroyed a booming Trump economy and denied critical medical care to millions. Emphasizing therapeutics, natural herd immunity, and the resilience of the youth to the disease were all pronounced “anti-science” by the demagogues on the left. Various celebrities and politicos—such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton—boasted the pandemic lockdown offered the perfect crisis that must not go to waste politically. Actress Jane Fonda even crowed that COVID-19 was a “gift from God to the left” in helping to end Trump. In the waning days of the 2020 campaign, Biden went so far as to blame Trump personally for all the deaths from the virus. Once the vaccinations had seemed to work in early 2021, an upbeat Biden boasted that he would end the virus by summer 2021, by following “the science.” He went so far as to claim that no one had been vaccinated prior to his inauguration even though 17 million, including Biden himself, had been. Then Nemesis answered such hubris. The unforeseen delta and omicron variants hit. A new phrase, “breakthrough case,” revealed that the vaccinations often could only prevent serious illness, but not infection or infectiousness. Suddenly the best and brightest people with three shots, who had blasted the red-state rubes as the ignorant unvaxxed—got sick. More have now died from the virus on Biden’s than on Trump’s watch. A warped economy amid renewed COVID-19 outbreaks helped to further destroy Biden’s waning popularity. In reaction, the left now calls for realism, emphasis on treatments, and acknowledgment of the value of natural immunities. It is even newly curious about the origins of the virus, and the need to “get back to normal.” We are suddenly told that thousands had died “with” rather than “because” of COVID-19—the exact opposite of what we heard in the Trump era. A skeptic might suggest terror over the impending midterms finally made the left face reality. Politicizing the pandemic is a euphemism. In truth, thousands of Americans have died needlessly because of weaponized disinformation about China’s culpability, vaccines, useful drugs, lockdowns, racial preferences, and long-term care facilities. Victor David Hansen (C)2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

There needs to be criminal charges brought against people who are persecuting unvaxed folks without regard for the scientific proof that ANYONE can carry and spread the virus ANYWHERE. So treating the unvaxed like 2nd class citizens is just discrimination based on prejudice!

When you start debating political humor, you know you have a problem.

NPR is a biased propaganda machine for the DNC and is funded by leftist billionaires and Progressive causes, not to mention taxpayers. That's why Trump cut them off. There comes a point where you simply determine they are not worthy of your time.

I didn't see a single one while hunting them last May.

Didn't see a yote but did have these birds come within 30 yards without seeing me. There were 8 of them and all long beards.

Forcing the vax on the masses is not supported by the science!! "The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities, so these are people who were unwell to begin with." —CDC Director Rochelle Walensky ("There have been 836,000 covid deaths in America. 75% of 836K is 627,000. This means they shut down the country, stole two years of education from children, sent thousands of businesses under, and caused mass hysteria when only 209,000 deaths weren't people already deathly sick." —Greg Price)

Hillary. And she lost because they didn't work to install massive amounts of fraud, assuming she was a shoe in due to the media telling them most Americans were idiots.

The Gov is focusing on the tired old leftist idea of "preventative law", where you may be considered guilty of potentially committing a crime because others have committed crimes. The focus needs to be on removing from society, people who have actually committed crimes! What sense does it make to monitor the entire population if criminals won't be jailed for crimes?

They did. They picked Biden!

People often ask for this info and this table provides it very well. Store Brand/House Guns (leeroysramblings.com)

Choosing not to prosecute "resisting arrest" has got to be the most insane thing I have ever heard a leftist DA do. What the hell does this idiot think is going to happen when that becomes the norm for every criminal in the city? What does the DA think cops will have to do to arrest people now? Or does the DA just plan to tell cops, "If they resist arrest, you can't arrest them." This isn't hypocrisy, this is stupidity.

A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United States . He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, "Thank you Mr. American for letting me into this country, giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and a free education!" The passerby says, "You mistaken, me Mexican." The man goes on and encounters another passerby. "Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in America ." The person says, "I not American, I Vietnamese." The new arrival walks farther, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand, and says, "Thank you for wonderful America !" That person puts up his hand and says, "I am from Middle East . I am not American." He finally sees a woman and asks, "Are you an American?" She says, "No, I am from Pakistan." Puzzled, he asks her, "Where are all the Americans?" The Pakistani woman checks her watch and says, "Probably at work.."

The pandemic has served to exacerbate a migration trend of Americans moving out of blue states into the greener pastures of red states. While the increasingly onerous taxation in blue states has served as the primary motive for moving over the last decade, the arrival of COVID served to significantly speed up the migration due to the disparate governing responses of blue and red to the pandemic. Republican-run states have largely worked to preserve individual liberty, keeping schools and businesses open, while Democrats have done the opposite. People have responded by fleeing authoritarianism, and the result is that 25 mostly red states have seen a combined population growth of over 800,000 since the spring of 2020.

I'm leaving NY as soon as I retire and can sell my place for what it's worth. If you think it's easy to leave NY for most people, either you don't own much or just live in a fantasy world and have no idea what all is involved in moving your entire life and family in a short period of time. Nobody wants to bail at a tremendous loss when they go. If done systematically, you can leave without too much cost and then thrive in a free state for the rest of your life. I moved here when NY had a lot to offer outdoors, even though it had little to offer in any other area. Had I know how fast it would embrace totalitarian tyranny, I never would've moved here at all.

You mean the hush money for the economic damage done and the extortion at the gas pump?

Leftists always accuse their opposition of offenses they know they are guilty of. That's the hypocrisy the O.P. was referring to here. The fact they are doing it in this thread as well should be no surprise.

Men can get pregnant. Inflation is a good thing. Trans men have no advantage over female athletes. Burning cities is a peaceful form of protest. Police need to be defunded. Jails need to be abolished. I leave that in the hands of the jury.