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.
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.