I'm making this post, after an incredibly stressful couple of weeks. I work for a drug rehab, and I absolutely love doing this job. I go in, and it hardly feels like work. So imagine my horror when my cushy position of supporting people and being what feels like a non essential health care worker has some added policy about being Covid-19 vaccinated.
Let me make something clear. I had just gotten this job recently after being unemployed for 9 months. (California hasn't been doing too great) I was struggling big time and had a few nice paychecks to go off of. I had quite literally every single pro going for me. The pay was great for entry level, with a review, and raise after 3 months. Very close to home, so hardly any use of car. Mask mandates that we don't care to follow. A real people person job where the residents learned your name and appreciated you being there in their time of need. Possible upward mobility with current staff on night shift wanting to leave in future, even the supervisor position. Basically a dream come true.
I thought long and hard, and was about to be just like screw it, I'll get the stupid thing. But there's something so grotesque in my mind about this whole thing, a feeling I could never shake. And so with that came my willingness to lose my job and go back to joe nobody who was unemployed, and struggling. It's California, and I knew a Christian religious exemption would be hard pressed to be approved. So I essentially was about to put in my 2 weeks to my boss. When a feeling told me to at least try to obtain the religious exemption, even if it was likely to fail, as Christianity has been dragged through the mud by so many evil people.
I sent the email, and this is what I got back.
"Good afternoon Anon, you don't have to get the vaccine."
HR
This was a miracle, and on my mind it was a test. God was absolutely watching. I feel this was his way of saying thank you for standing up for me, and standing up for what you believe in. And I can't describe the immense joy I felt when realizing I wouldn't lose my job. Anyhow that's my story, I hope it convinces all of you to be wary of this brand new vaccine, when treatments such Hydroxy chloroquine are on the market. It just made no sense when there's an illness with an effective treatment for it, and 99.5 survivability. I'm not 100% Antivax, but I'm 100% anti this vax. If you're religious, pray to our lord, and let him into your heart. Don't ever be afraid. I held my ground and was prepared to lose it all in the name of my Lord and savior, as to not have an invasive vaccine in my body that he himself would not approve.
Good for you. It makes me think; if the vaccine is so good for us, why do they have to mandate it? Nobody has a law about breathing, we do it automatically because it is objectively a good thing, yet they try to force medicine into our bodies.
Yeah, neither my sister in law, or mother who are nurses have been forced to take it. So I was so angry when I learned my company had got their hands on the Moderna vaccine, and since we have our own nurses working there, they wanted us to make an appointments with them, and come in on a day off or right before a day off to get it. I am the only one that I know of working on my shift specifically that didn't get it. The rest of my shift did. Can't speak for other shifts. But I absolutely was not taking it. I was not expecting any kind of accommodation.
FBI Emergency Response Team
Agent 1: "We have reports of a non vaccinated person in CA, I repeat a non-vaccinated person."
HQ: "Confirmed. Subject should be considered armed with a deadly virus and extremely contagious. Do not approach."
Agent 1: "Advise."
HQ: "We are sending 10,000 troops to assist you, please standby."
Agent 1: "10,000 troops?"
HQ: "Yes, 10,000."
Agent 1: "Are you sure that will be enough?"
HQ: "We also have a woman not wearing a mask in Minnesota, so we have to split our forces."
Agent 1: "Understood, please tell my wife's boyfriend that I still respect him, if I don't survive the Covid."
"And don't forget the barbed wire fence that must be built"
Fren, you need to make a comic strip out of this.
I know, and I'm thankful my job is not mandating it. But when I read about businesses refusing service or employement unless you get it, I get upset. Thanks for your work in healthcare, by the way. Have a nice evening.
There are unfortunately different definitions of "mandating ". I will definitely lose 6 -8 months of work when I refuse the vaccine, because of the environment that I work in.
Common sense to me would be to wait before taking a vaccine that was developed in record breaking time, in which you cannot sue pharmaceutical companies that create it. I'm not the most intelligent man in the world, but I know that waiting to see how others react may seems smart and safer at least for now.
There is no law that we have to wash our hands after taking a dump.
I'm not saying I disagree with food workers getting fired for that. But the point is that for things that are inherently good (post-dump handwashing is good), the government shouldn't need to create laws to force it. Most people are just going to do it because they know it's nasty if they don't. If the government were to come out right now and say "we recommend you all keep wearing your masks, but nobody is required to from here on out", I guarantee that a SWEEPING majority of people would rip the damn things off. It's not something that we've ever had to do before now, and we were fine for however long we've already been alive.
If they really made a measurable difference that we could actually see for ourselves, we would choose on our own to wear masks. But we don't. I don't know if they work or not. Nobody does. I'm not about to radically change my life (yes I do think it's radical) over something I can't prove effective. Nobody should make such changes over something they can't justify. Yet here we are talking about "mandates" this, "laws" that, "punishments" this....
I hate seeing so many people just go along with it, and accept that we will NEVER be allowed to take them off. "This is just how it is now." "It's like putting on pants every morning. Now you'll put on masks, too" "It's just a mask, what's the big deal"
"Things are different now!"
Yes. Yes they are. Not because of any damn virus, though. I know tons of people who had the virus. Even old people. Hell, I'm pretty sure I had it myself a week ago (cough, fever, loss of smell/taste that's just now come back). I obviously don't set the bar myself, but shit man I've been a hell of a lot sicker than THAT. People who've had this virus even admit what's being done to us in the name of "helping" is far worse than being sick with a recoverable illness. Communism won't go away in 2 weeks.