Not offering, just making the obvious observation.
You can tell these vaxxholes ain't been thinking this stuff through, or they wouldn't be pulling these hare-brained ideas out of their own underpants.
As if anyone smart enough to skip the vaxx is just going to sit in the corner and suck their thumb, while contemplating the error of their ways.
That's the sort of jackassery that's going to leave a mark.
Employment vacancies in the state bureaucracy in 3, 2, ...
He's frequently hilarious, and he bats it outta the park at better than a .500 average.
's why he's in the Blog List over yonder. ---->
Should be a regular stop for you, including forwarding the spicier sh*tpost memes, just to piss the other side off and raise their blood pressure until they stroke out.
h/t Odd Job
h/t Phil
That pound of bloody ass in its teeth is about to be that of TPTB.
"O frabjous day! Callou! Callay!"
You were warned.
From Fran Porretto's blog, this past week, some points to ponder:
All the following factors play into an American’s decision to accept or not accept The Jab:
- The probability of catching the disease.
- The probability that the disease will be fatal.
- The probability that the vaccine will prevent the disease.
- The probability that the vaccine will have side effects worse than the disease.
- Awareness of alternative approaches and the probabilities associated with them.
- Any incentives and coercions associated with accepting or not accepting the vaccine.
- The probability of significant changes to those incentives and coercions in one’s personal context.
The most significant thing about the above factors is that all of them have large error bars. No one’s sense for any of the probabilities above can be firm enough for confident decision-making.
That isn’t the case with most older vaccines. The polio vaccine, for example, is well understood. It has been demonstrated to be effective and safe, in the 99%-plus sense in which those words are usually used. But the record of polio vaccine in use is open to anyone who cares to study it. And the polio vaccine wasn’t urged – in some districts, forced — upon us by political forces and agencies with spotty records for veracity.
In other words, we are being asked to make a potentially life-altering (possibly life ending) decision under a dense, dark cloud of uncertainty. In such conditions, the choice made by some will appear unreasonable to others, perhaps even hysterical.
Go there and RTWT.
(BTW, his rationale stated for not getting the jab is beyond dispute, and similar to my own, though I have a number of additional reasons, which I won't go into at this point. He mave have some additional reasons as well, but the only one he expressed therein is merely legal. My own are political, legal, philosophical, medical, moral, and religious, any one of which would be sufficient for carrying the point, but the weight of all of them makes it an absolute root-hog-or-die no-go decision for me, forever, and I'm willing to play with lives - mine and theirs - as poker chips in that dispute.)
However, his points aren't nearly as murky as he states.
In order:
The probability of catching the disease
While there are dozens of variables, maybe hundreds, this isn't that hard.
Per the Johns-Hopkins Kung Flu map/data page, a cursory look shows the US with a smidge over 36M documented infections. Stay out of the weeds about how accurate the tests were, are, or will be, and focus on a simple reality. There are about 330M people in the US. So your raw shot at getting Kung Flu, over 18 months, has been about 1 chance in 9, or 11% (36 divided by 330 + 10.9%). It's higher in NYFC, suburban Califrutopia, or any major city, and damned near nil in BFE, WY or the Dakotas. And that's after 18 months of this nonsense.
Yes, growth can become exponential, but it literally fell off a cliff last February, when everyone stopped being the World's Biggest Jackasses after ever-bigger holiday gatherings for Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years'. This is because overall, on average, people are bastard-covered bastards, with bastard filling.
So if you act like a jackass, and hang around with jackasses, as always, when you play stupid games, you'll win stupid prizes. In this case, Kung Flu.
But the average person's chance for getting it can be curtailed just as easily. So on average, in any given year, your raw chance at getting it is right around 10%. (And BTW, the vaxx does nothing whatsoever, on its own, to alter that percentage. Individual behavior once vaxxed, however, increases your odds for getting Kung Flu, and passing it to others. We'll get to that.)
The probability that the disease will be fatal
This past spring, we ran the numbers of 26 states plus the District of Corruption (out of 50 states +). Before politicization, and the rampant Covidiocy from most of America (and the world) having less grasp of actual science of anything, especially epidemiology, than they do of the efficacy of washing their hands before they eat or after they crap, the worldwide accepted CFR for any given coronavirus was 1-5%. Period. (No amount of hand-waving and goat sacrifice will suddenly transmogrify that number down to 0.1%, or 0.000001%, or any other damned thing. If you're doing that, or trying it, you're the witch doctor in that equation. Put down the rattle and bones please.) With Solomonic precision, we assumed that Kung Flu would probably split the middle of that bell curve, assuming no further precautions were attempted.
Well, lo and behold, Hawaii, isolated by an entire ocean, separated into multiple individual islands, and sealed off from air or boat travel for months, had a COVID CFR (deaths-to-cases) raw average of 0.5%. That was the only state we found that got under 1%. NYFS and Joisy, the over-achievers in the group, after leaving the NYFC Subway open every day for months during the height of the pandemic, without even sanitizing the cars in any way overnight for months, and mandating infected elderly be housed in with uninfected and debilitated potential infectees, managed to achieve 2.8% and 2.9% CFRs, respectively. Those are the ends of the curve, for the 26+ states we looked at. (You want to check all 50, knock yourself out.) The nationwide average was about 1.9%. This after draconian nationwide and worldwide shutdowns, mask mandates (observed to degrees ranging from solid to not-a-fucking-bit), the halt of all travel, tourism, air line flights, conventions, employment, or school in the country overall, and in at least 45 of 50 states. Which, we point out for the thick-skulled, is doing a wee bit more than the assumed not-a-fucking-thing when we selected 3% as the round average.
IOW, we nailed this. {Haters, suck on that, and enjoy your 6' party sub sh*t sandwich.}
Mathtards who try to lump the uninfected into their totals to get some recockulous lower CFR are quite simply too short for the internet, and too stupid to know what they don't know. The COVID CFR is damned near exactly 3%, and in all but the afore-mentioned case of Hawaii, fell between the 1% and 5% goalposts, just as unpoliticized science told you it would, from before this was fornicated 50 ways to Sunday by known asshats like Fauch the Grouch.
So you can expect, apart from other factors, a 97-98% chance of survival.
If you weigh 350 pounds, smoke 3 packs a day, have diabetes, emphysema, congestive heart failure, asthma, and you're aged 70+, your survival odds drop appreciably. At the other end of the bell curve, if you're 20, run marathons, have 8% body fat, and bench press V-8 engines, your odds go up in the same way. IOW, math and statistics have not ceased to function just because TPTB listen to idiots. That said, healthy 20 year olds can still die, and train-wreck old bastards in the declining years may survive. It's just not the way to bet. This can all be filed under "Duh."
The probability that the vaccine can prevent the disease
Alone among the list in the easiest answer to arrive at, that probability, per the CDC, Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, and everyone with an IQ above room temperature in Buffalo in January with the windows open, have pegged that probability at exactly 0.000%. ever.
Not 90+%.
Z-E-R-O.
Getting the jab means you can still get COVID again, still get sick from it, and absolutely can continue to pass it on to everyone you contact, like Johnny Appleseed with a sack full of Covid virus and a backpack sidewalk blower. For prevention of anything, including needing to wear a snot mask, the vaccines, every damned last one, are all known and agreed to be, completely worthless.
Getting the vaxx does NOTHING to "help others". Let me repeat that point:
GETTING THE VAXX DOES NOTHING to "help others".
NOTHING.
Those same scientific entities all note that there's a possibility that the vaccine may confer you, the recipient, with lesser symptoms on subsequent go-arounds. Except when it doesn't. Which may sometimes mean the vaccinated will have worse symptoms than the unvaxxed.
Yes, really. Hand to God Almighty. You could look it up.
Notably, these truths aren't on the "Get Vaccinated" PSA posters or ads. Wonder why...
They didn't tell you. I just did. Sorry if this is news to you.
The probability that the vaccine will have side effects worse than the disease
This was poor wording on Fran's part.
The disease kills you. And in at least 7000 or so US cases to date, so does the vaccine.
So the way that was worded, the vaccine is just as bad as the disease, but not worse.
Oh, there are also another 6000+ people that we know about with permanent disabilities from the vaxx. Strokes, heart attacks, blindness, etc. It's on the CDC VAERS website. Go look. And BTW, those adverse reactions have nothing whatsoever to do with age or co-morbidities. Being debilitated, and having your young, healthy lifetime stolen overnight, coupled with a lifelong disability, may be considered by some people to be a fate worse than death. Especially with a disease with a 97+% survival rate.
There have been another 250,000 adverse effects reported. That we know about. All those numbers may have been fudged harder than Detroit election returns last November, and we'll probably never know that, or by how much, either. Ever.
What we do know is that of the 11% of the country that's gotten COVID, about 2% of that 11% died, and probably another 2-4% (SWAG there; feel free to link any actual specific numbers) were severely ill and hospitalized, some with permanent damage and disability as a result.
The probability of an adverse reaction (up to and including death) from the vaxx is about 0.2%, as far as we know.
So the vaccine, in raw numbers, is only about 1/10th as lethally harmful as the disease.
Unless you're one of the ones who dies, has a heart attack, stroke, and a small army of other serious consequences. Just like Kung Flu is no big deal to the 98% of people it doesn't kill. But if you die, or your dad, mom, brother, sister, etc, dies, it's kind of a bitch, and it doesn't matter to you at that point that you had good odds, but died anyway, does it?
FTR, in the 70s, there were a small number (53, nationwide) of deaths recorded from receiving Swine Flu vaccine. It was pulled from use immediately and in perpetuity, and that's the last you heard of that. COVID vaxx has killed at least 140 times as many people, yet it hasn't been pulled, and in fact, TPTB want to kill almost as many more to get to 100% vaxx numbers.
At gunpoint, if necessary. For your own good.
For comparison, when 19 ragheaded fanatics flew four planes into NYFC, the Pentagon, and a PA farm field, and killed only half as many people as the COVID vaxx has to date, we went to war worldwide, sent half the military of the US to kill the perpetrators, and laid waste to two entire countries. One wonders when the Army, Navy, Air Farce, and Marines will start napalming the CDC, White House, Congress, Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson, which would seem to be absolutely indicated, and which eventuality we would cheer until our throat gave out.
Just saying.
But wait! There's more!
The vaxx has only been around a few months, less than a year even in the earliest experimental forms.
We therefore have no wild idea what new Hells it will unleash on the recipients at 2,3,5,10, or 20 years out. Nor what happens when those recipients reproduce for the next generation and more. Nor will we until 2,3,5,10, and 20 years, and the births (or not) of succeeding generations.
I'm not speculating; just stating the obvious facts. These mystery concoctions may do unimaginable harm to everyone who's gotten it, and to succeeding generations, beyond anyone's wildest imaginations.
Awareness of alternative approaches and the probabilities associated with them
We know there are alternative treatments, which when applied early, make COVID less of a threat than a dose of clap. Hydrochloroquine (HCQ) has been used against malaria for decades, with safety far beyond anything seen for the COVID vaxx jabs. And while it was derided out of Trump Derangement Syndrome rather than scientific and medical rationales early on in this pandemic, even the Enemedia at ABCNNBCBS has had to circle back, and retract their farcical critiques, to admit it both works and is safe.
What we don't know is how much more effective and how much safer HCQ, Ivermectin, or anything else is, because there aren't billion$ of dollar$ in patent royaltie$ for sale worldwide at stake for drugs in common use for decades. Nor does the use of easily-manufactured and safe remedies offer TPTB the prospects of unbridled control over one's entire life, including the power of life and death, let alone work, travel, and such paltry other concerns as being left the hell alone to freely enjoy one's personal birthright of liberty.
The probability of significant changes of those incentives or coercions in one's personal context.
Here, precisely as with the farcical inability of the "vaccine" to provide any protection from the disease, we are on rock-solid footing.
Government overreach, at all levels, only ratchets one way: UP.
The only wrench that corrects that, in all of recorded history, is to start stringing the bastards up by the neck to the nearest tall object, or to shoot the m*****f*****s in the face.
Period. Full stop.
The old Soviet maxim was "plunge the bayonet inwards until you strike steel."
The head of SAC's well-known answer to that was straightforward:
BTW, if the only successful value of "Enough" is 100% of them, I'm just fine with that.
Say "When".
Historians rightfully ridicule Roman excess in having a Caesar who made his horse a senator, and yet we have Califrutopia, which has gone even farther, in making a horse's ass its governor.
Apparently, Jackass-In-Chief Gabbin' Nuisance has confused himself with Caesar, in decreeing, ex deus, as if he possessed that power, that as of September 30th, all health care workers must be fully vaccinated for Kung Flu.
Good luck with that, Fucktard. You want a personal war, that's where it's going to start.
And worst case: I can be a practicing RN in an ER in Las Vegas or Phoenix in about 4 hours drive, and still fight this tooth and nail the other four days a week, without a hiccup.
And that's just on the legal side.
I've consulted the State's Constitution, and when last I looked, the governor's powers don't seem to include making medical decrees aimed at an entire class of employees, to mandate injection with an aborted fetus vaccine so experimental it's not even approved for use on animals, as if he were some sort of demi-god, let alone set aside all other personal Constitutional rights at the stroke of a pen or on a bong-fueled flight of whimsy. Not in this state, nor any state.
He's in for a wee bit of trouble over this level of shitheadedness, and it only remains to be seen whether it's from a pack of enraged Norma Raes, or a small army of Dorners, but either way, grab some popcorn. Because what you really want in a state with a decades-long nursing shortage, is to make a significant percentage unemployable, and/or flee the state in perpetuity. That's going to leave a mark.
This is the beginning of things, not the end, and his odds don't look too good for a man facing recall in a few months.
Maybe he just wants to go out in blaze of glory. Or a puff of red mist. I honestly can't tell. But he's definitely confused himself with some sort of deity, and that sort of sociopathy never ends well for any politician.
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No, you're not being Rick-rolled; I'm serious.
When you look like the test tube love child from the DNA of Howdy Doody, Richie Cunningham, and Anthony Michael Hall, and you still crank out a pop hit on your debut album that rockets to Number 1 in 25 countries by 1988, you've accomplished something noteworthy. The Vevo video above has a billion YouTube views (not too shabby for a guy who peaked 30 years before Taylor Swift arrived), and that's not counting the rick-rolled gazillions, which phenomenon pre-dates when this version was originally uploaded.
Rick (Don't call me Jon) Astley was such a good sport about the whole thing that he pitched in to rick-roll the entire world on live TV in person for the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.
h/t Phil
And why would they mandate that?
The shot doesn't work to prevent COVID transmission;
The vaccinated are just as contagious as the unvaccinated;
Vaccine passports based on the jab are pointless, worthless, and stupid;
And even getting the shot doesn't eliminate the need for masks in public venues.
But they're still thinking of going for a third dose of the pointless vaxx!!
Don't believe me. Listen to the head of the CDC >spit!< tell you herself:
Oh, wait, you can't do that because the CNN interview on YouTube was already pulled, in less than 24 hours after it escaped into the wild. Bravo, Comrade Partyline! Motherland Is Proud!
Too bad it was uploaded to Rumble already.
Stick a fork in the cover stories. They're done.
As for the population Control Freaks (for all values of that phrase):
Oak stake through the heart, or bayonet through the liver.
Dealer's choice. Either one robustly recommended.
The latest Covidiocy REEEEEEEEEEEEEE! is renewed frothing and barking from Karen Officialdom for "vaccine passports." Apparently they're upset that they're not swinging from lamp posts already.
{BTW: if the Kung Flu vaccines worked, then the over 60% of the country who's gotten both doses should be shutting the fuck up by now, amirite? So that must mean...waitaminute?!? WTH???!!!}
Let's quit fucking around, and just go with the old-fashioned solution to their problem:
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Let's just hand these out to everyone who won't take the not-a-vaxx, and require them to wear it prominently in public. I mean, that's where they're headed with this anyways, so let's just get it over with, right?
And if anyone anywhere thinks I won't pin one of those on 24/7/365 the minute any sumbitch tries to tell me the vaxx is mandatory, including at work, you don't know me very well. If necessary, by having it tattooed on permanently, in someplace un-hideable.
Word To Your Mother:
A new Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is going to be a lot funnier with 1,000,000,000 guns in circulation, instead of 2.
Mark my words.
One works, the other one doesn't, yet you're bassackwards on both.
Bonus points if you can't figure out how you keep getting more pandemic, less political power, nor why you're watching your freedom go up in flames.
Countries with the highest vaccination rate have the highest infection rate.
Um, no. And what follows is aimed at the original generator of the content, not the re-poster of same:
1) Let's bear in mind, the headline summary was generated by a retard. While they still bear some stiff kicking, we'll use soft shoes.
2) Say it with me: "Correlation Is NOT Causation".
IOW, countries with the highest vaccination rates, also have the highest rate of elephants in their zoos, Coke machines in their airports, and the highest number of deaths from plastic surgery. This does not mean that elephants cause COVID infections, nor that COVID vaccination causes death in plastic surgery, nor that it's spread by Coca-Cola bottles, unless you're a fucktard with a sub-80 IQ. (Don't raise your hands. We'll spot you in Comments, to a metaphysical certainty.)
3) Demonstrably false. The US, with something like 60% vaccination, has an infection rate of maybe 10%. Mexico's infection rate is reportedly something like 2%. But their death rate is 10 times higher in Baja California, than in American-side Califrutopia, right next door. Yes, medical care in Meh-hee-co sucks balls, unless you're rich. (A Ha! There's one reason for the difference that has nothing to do with vaccinations!) But does anyone seriously think that the virus, which generally kills less than 3% of victims, is magically 5-10 times more deadly just from eating burritos and drinking horsepiss cerveza? That's simply fucktarded stupid, contrary to actual science, logic, and common sense. What it should tell anyone with a basic issue of common sense, is that Mexico probably has 5-10 times as many cases as they're reporting, (which ergo, nota bene, means their infection rate is as bad or worse than the US, even though their vaccination rate is in the piss-poor category, undoing the entire recockulous premise) but they have no money for testing, just like they have no money for treatment, nor vaccinations. So another 10-17M people with no to mild symptoms never got tested in Mexico, because they're living barefoot, on beans and goat meat, and the local hospital uses reading goat entrails and chicken bones as a treatment modality, because the "doctor" there has a bone through his nose.
Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
3) Let's try:
"Countries with the highest testing rate have the highest infection rate."
IOW, when you've tested your entire country twice, the rate is one helluva lot more accurate than it is in a country that hasn't mastered flush toilets, and hasn't the money to test anybody but the rich people who are also very sick.
And countries that can afford to test people on a whim, can (and have) also paid up front for the not-a-vaxx at much higher rates than Shitholian and Traschanistani countries who still shit in the gutter in front of the house.
4) None of that means that the not-a-vaxx, which is apparently more worthless by the day, except to cull surplus population, is not increasing the number of new strain variations, because viruses gonna virus. Bummer for vaxx early adopters, huh?
How much that increases ADE variations is exactly the point under question, so assuming one's hypothesis in the headline is a wee bit of circular reasoning. (For Common Core grads, that would be logic-jargon for "another piece of fallacious horseshit." You could look it up.)
So FFS, think - for maybe a minute, at least - before you post or repeat anything as jackassical as the above headline. It's diaper spackle, not data. Pleeease. I'm begging you. Stop being Charlie Brown every time some dumbass Lucy tees up the football.
And any blogger, reporter, or or anyone else, who can't figure all this out in 3 seconds of staring at that headline can probably tell you what the windows on the short bus taste like, from memory.
If you're just shit-posting for clicks, FOAD.
But for equal time on how to post a blog headline that asks a damned good question instead of push-poll answering it, try this example:
How Is The Delta Variant Spreading If There Is No Direct Delta Variant Test?
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h/t John Wilder
They won't get what they like, and they won't like what they get.
Guaran-damn-teed.
Gonna be a real cast-iron bitch when they find out that One has a l00000000ng string of zeros after it. Those calling the tune can rest assured they'll be paying the piper.
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Saw senior management today for a totally unrelated issue. As meeting wrapped up, they noted they had no record on file of my COVID vaccination status.
Me: Decline to answer, thanks anyhow.
Them: This is what we're getting as guidelines from the Califrutopia Department of Public Health.
That was their killshot. They really think they can tell employees to jump off a cliff, and then point to the state and say "They made us tell you." Um, ...sideways with a dull rusty chainsaw, bucko.
Me: This company hasn't done anything stupid with regard to COVID from last year until now. You really don't want to start doing stupid things now just because the state recommends them. You're going to get a lot of pushback, including from me, of a kind you don't want.
Them: We've already gotten a lot of pushback.
Me: My second call, if you follow through on this, will be refusal on all grounds, and a telephone call to someone with "Esq." after their name. I won't be tortured, and I won't be singled out, on capricious and arbitrary grounds, nor tolerate a hostile workplace environment. The state may be pushing this, but management and employees here are where the rubber is going to meet the road, and you'll end up paying a heavy price to "go along". Please, pass those concerns up the chain.
Them: But...but...but...reasons!
Me: In so many words:
Them: Good talk! Bye!
Word.
If you've never seen Risky Business, I highly recommend it.
And while Tom Cruise's Joel is the Hero in this tale, it's important to note that in the end, he lost everything he thought he'd gained to the Villain, Guido the Killer Pimp, played masterfully to a junkyard dog "t" by Joe Pantoliano. Joel was lucky to walk away with almost the status quo ante, sadder but oh so wiser.
Guido's words, above, and that ultimate lesson, thunders down through the ages from unlikely font of wisdom, then-rookie director/writer Paul Brickman.
That wisdom should never, ever be lightly disregarded.
For all kinds of reasons.
I don't want to write this post, but I don't think I can duck the issue.
I was unofficially informed that apparently it will be the policy of my employer to require all employees, presumably including myself (they think), who have not received any COVID vaccinations, to submit to twice-weekly testing for COVID. This would involve shoving a swab up both nostrils two times a week, indefinitely.
Um...no.
If they try that, and make it official, my opening answer will be to invite the person who puts that suggestion into action to tell me exactly how far up their ass they'd like to stick that policy, and would they like my assistance in that endeavor?
Followed by the following blizzard of queries:
1) Who told you I did or did not get vaccinated?
2) Do you have a copy of my signed authorization to release that personal health information to any third party?
3) Lacking any such authorization, how would you possibly know my actual vaccination status?
4) Lacking that knowledge, how do you know which employees to even approach with this suggestion?
5) "Have I been vaccinated against COVID?" That's none of your fucking business.
6) Now you're asking me if I'm vaccinated against COVID? Again, that's none of your fucking business.
7) Submitting to receiving experimental therapies and becoming an unpaid medical guinea pig with respect to their effectiveness and potential complications was not and is not a condition of my employment. If it were otherwise, you'd have noted that from the outset. Trying to bluster and bootstrap it in now as if it were anything less than that is egregiously intrusive, entirely recockulous, and wholly unwelcome.
8) None of the vaccines for COVID are authorized for anything but emergency use. The makers have no liability for what happens to those who receive them. To date, the VAERS reports over 11,000 deaths from those COVID vaccines in just the U.S., and a quarter of a million adverse events. More of both deaths and adverse reactions than the total for every vaccine ever invented in human history, combined, for as long as we've kept records. Those COVID vaccines are therefore unsafe at any speed. And you have no more right as an employer to compel me, either directly, nor by onerous policies for non-compliance, to receive such an experimental therapy, any more than you could demand I submit to gender reassignment therapy, get an abortion, or have a limb amputated.
9) It's my body, and my choice. Shall we call in the company's legal counsel, and see how they'd like to sell the case against that legal position in court?
10) Ask counsel how they'll feel when the next three words I bring into the conversation are "hostile workplace environment". Then go over words like "mental stress and cruelty", "back pay", and "treble damages, plus all legal costs".
11) There are literally hundreds of other communicable diseases I (or any other employee) might or might not bring to work, many of which have no available vaccine. Are you going to test me for those bi-weekly as well? Why, or why not?
12) Are you going to be testing every other employee of the company for those dozens to hundreds of other communicable diseases? Why, or why not?
13) If I'm being singled out and categorized, isn't that the definition of "arbitrary and capricious"? How does corporate counsel like his odds in court defending that plan?
14) Why would you think you need to test me now, 18 months into a pandemic, for a disease for which I've shown no symptoms whatsoever, ever, to date, despite being a front-line caregiver with the sickest of the sick non-stop since the outset?
15) Are you aware the CDC reports that 75% of those fully vaccinated are the overwhelming bulk of those with the newest COVID variant? Will you be testing everyone twice a week, given that that's a far more sensible policy than proposing to test unvaccinated persons (bearing in mind you have no valid idea to which of those categories I belong)?
16) Are you aware that the CDC also reports that vaccinated persons carry the same amount of communicable virus in their bodies as unvaccinated persons? What's your plan to deal with that, and how do you intend to protect the unvaccinated from those vaccinated super-spreaders?
17) Are you aware that according to the CDC, despite being fully vaccinated, a person could suffer a more serious infection than an unvaccinated person? Knowing that to be the official position of the US government agency responsible for propagating communicable disease policy and procedure, why in hell would you suggest anyone get vaccinated, since it confers no immunity to the disease, no inability to spread the disease, and promises no diminution of symptoms if infected, despite getting the vaccinations?
18) In light of the above official CDC reported information, isn't promoting further vaccinations just about the most gobsmackingly dumbass thing you possibly could do, short of suggesting that people lick toilet bowls?
19) Given everything in #1-18, above, would you like to continue this discussion with lawyers, a judge, and a jury, in open court, or would you rather just quietly shitcan this silly-assed scheme, and allow all parties to pretend it never happened?
I'm old, ornery, and smart, and I won't be taking any shit, but I'll happily give it out by the metric fuckton if they try to push this sort of nonsense. I like my odds.
If my employer wants to test my resolve to go all "No, fuck YOU!", and become the poster child for why employment is not indentured servitude, they've grabbed the wrong tiger's tail. If they want to be the poster child on what not to do, I can only warn them that the stove is hot. But as Mark Twain said about the man who picked up the cat by the tail, they're about to learn something which they can learn in no other way.
I'll keep you posted, as appropriate.
If I'm betting, I'd give good odds this jackassery will be quietly strangled to death in a basement broom closet in about 5 minutes' time. Time will tell.
