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My daughter in law, who is a nurse, got an email from her hospital administrator saying they were forgetting about the OSHA mandate but still had to comply with the CMS mandate because of Medicare/Medicaid money. Apparently they are encouraging religious exemption applications and actually approving them. She got hers, thankfully, and gets to keep her job. She already had Covid anyway. The whole thing is so stupid.

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I’m happy for your daughter!

However, a simple “No, thanks.” should be enough of a response for any citizen.

No special request/approval for an exemption should be necessary! We are free, are we not?

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Makes me think about the Marxist use of their words and phrases too like "vaccine hesitant". There is no hesitancy with many of us...we know what we want and do not want after using our god given critical thinking abilities and conferring with those we trust. Such condescending terminology spewed by the left. Exact same place where the phrase anti-vaxxer comes from or build back better or new normal etc etc...

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Indeed, I loathe the "hesitant" word.

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Exactly. Its a god given unalienable right to simply say no thanks. No need to defend or justify

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"God"

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yes "God"

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Thank you! It should be enough, I’m afraid for our future.

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Yup it shows us the ridiculous of "one size fits all" "central planning(sic)" and government competency (there is none). This is all besides the facts that this is a corrupt, lying, fraudulent time of control and $$$. I just started watching Dopesick on Disneyplus and the COVID role out is all there folks, the pushers/Cartel (Sacklers-with the megalomaniac brother), the enablers (sales reps, Board, cousins and of course well paid (sorry paid off) "expert" doctors, the fear marketing, creating new diseases (even fake ones--hmmmm) to sell their drugs.

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We have one party that wants to strap people down and inject them with experimental gene therapy, and another party that shrugs and says "Whadya gonna do?". Maybe this will encourage people to get more active in politics at all levels.

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LOL!!! why? The system is beyond repair, let it die -- stick to local and groups you know. Save your energy money and other resources for important stuff. Let them wither on the vine. Dont feed them.

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A complete breakdown of society is not a good thing. There are always meaner, more psychotic groups than yours. We're fractured now not just by political party or race, but by suceptibility to brainwashing, right through the middle of families. This is bad stuff.

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Which is why that now - for the very first time in my 59 years on the planet - that I carry a concealed 9mm nearly every single day.

I've never felt this necessary before. But now I feel naked without a firearm within close reach.

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No, it was explained to me that the vax is NOT gene therapy, as the RNA doesn't get into our DNA! I'm so relieved.

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Government could ruin a birthday party! (Or, more accurately, ALL birthday parties)

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/the-failure-of-central-planning

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Fantastic ! Another brick in the wall of tyranny crumbles !

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A court just granted a temporary injunction against the healthcare worker mandate.

https://themissouritimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cms-injunction.pdf

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Oh wow! I hadn’t seen this. Thank you!

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So thankful she was able to keep the job! We need good nurses that critically think!!

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Wonderful news!

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Thank you for sharing your DIL's story with us. I am thankful for everyone who takes the time to pass this information on. The whole situation is outrageous but the story is encouraging.

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My RN spouse (of 22 yrs experience) just submitted her Request for Religious Accommodation for both the COVID and influenza vaccines to her large hospital employer. Our Catholic pastor provided a signed and sealed letter on parish letterhead as backup and explanation for why a Catholic (or indeed anyone) is entitled to a religious conscience exemption.

Her supervisor sent her a group email reminding their unit that anyone without their flu vax or COVID vax by Dec. 1 would be placed on unpaid leave.

It's getting difficult to sleep.

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Hope your wife works in one of the states covered by the court decision.

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We don't - but the state next door is under that court decision. So if she does get terminated, she could conceivably do the 1+ hour drive and maybe pick up a travel gig.

Of course we would still sue the hospital system for violating her 1st Amendment rights and refusing to grant an accommodation. Seems that would be a double-whammy insofar as they lose yet another highly experienced RN, and get sued as well. I'm a retired attorney - I definitely know what I'd be advising them.

Some good news though - her supervisor came to her today and said she *thought* she was getting a religious exemption, but they would see how it goes.

So we will see.

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I wish you both the best. Maybe her employer is quietly figuring out how to retain valued staff given the court decision. Please let me know how this works out. My husband is a retired nurse (retired pre-covid) so have a particular interest in the treatment of nurses.

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PS: She is working an extra 12-hour Saturday shift today because they're short-handed. Not that that has *anything* to do with the hospital's sudden about face on religious exemptions.

A lot can change between Oct. 14 and Dec. 3, I guess. Hmmm.

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Yesterday (Friday) my spouse received official word that her religious exemption requests - for both COVID as well as the flu vaccines - were officially granted.

No comment on the federal court injunctions staying the CMS mandate, OR the Oct. 14 internal hospital management which stated that the Catholic hospital as a "religious organization, will not be issuing religious exemptions."

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Wonderful news. It may be that some employers are looking for a way out of mandates.

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In case you haven't heard a 5th District judge (Terry Doughty) just issued A nationwide injunction.

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Ain't it wonderful? I feel like a kid waking up to a snowday!

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It is not stupid. It is part of communist indoctrination. This is not over by any means. Your leaders in the federal govt, and those in blue state govts are mostly communists, bent on total control of your life from cradle to grave. Yours or anybody else's health has absolutely nothing to do with it, nor does science....except the science of mind control, which you are seeing in action before your eyes.

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Only God and His Son can save people from these lies and fear...and then help them push back to save others and then our nation from the communist takeover which is in full swing.

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I'm old enough to remember Joe Biden calling for Trump to step down...because no President should have that many COVID deaths on his hands.

Who wants to tell Joe?

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Interesting how during all of the puppet's presidency to date the media stopped reporting in the 24-7 constant updates on deaths connected to the whu-flu. Could it be that is was because more have occurred on the puppets watch even with experimental medicine injections in the short 9 months he has been in the WH OR perhaps its because it's not Trump now OR perhaps both ?

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Peter McCullough (and others) says 80% of the people who died thus far died b/c they were not given appropriate early treatment. I'd like to see the split between Trump's time and Brandon's. Both are accountable, as are the media, Fauci and the pharma-captured medical establishment. How are the death rates still with early treatment being suppressed being magnified b/c of the jabs?

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Trump ordered the FDA to make HCQ available through doctors, as China had done successfully. The FDA deep staters countermanded this presidential order, they even brag about it. The coup had already begun, covid was a huge part.How do you hold Trump accountable? The same PsyOp had been successfully run against him for four years. 🤷‍♀️

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I agree that this was used as part of the coup, but there were enough voices of reason there - Dr. Scott Atlas and Dr. Paul Alexander as two examples - that he is still accountable. All of us are accountable for being informed and informing others and not using ignorance as an excuse. Others can choose not to listen to data I present, but then it's on them, not me.

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I wanted to post that same observation. Dr. McCullough appeared on Tucker Carlson back in April (I think) and was almost apoplectic that "VACCINE!" was the only way to go. I recall he was upset that no work was being done on therapeutics--to TREAT those who became sick.

Of course we know why the Fauci et al pushed the vaccines: if there's TREATMENT there's no "Emergency Use Authorization."

And here we are, almost two years into this situation, and more medical professionals are saying "endemic" and "therapeutics."

Look who just caught up!

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And yet there are still so many who refuse to acknowledge there is early treatment like my former PCP. Reading the RFK book on suppression of HCQ and now the section on IVM and being furious that the info on HCQ was out by April 2020 and IVM was out in December 2020. Yet in September, she is still telling me to go home and go to the ER if I had breathing problems. As McCullough says: MALFEASANCE!!

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McCullough has an amazing wealth of information, and can speak so eloquently and simply, on the subjects of covid and vaxx.

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Yes, he is one of my favorite advocates. I can listen to him for hours and never get bored!

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commiecRATS almost always face the music at some point. The thing is they try and take credit for it too as if they knew all along the right thing to do, but was bad for the narrative.

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But HCQ and over next in still not available generally.

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These are crimes against humanity and in a sane wirld nany would be brought up before the World Criminal Court in the Hague. Number 1 on the list would be Fauci and many politicians, in many countries.

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Yes Ely "in a sane world" I believe it is the #1 crisis we face to be honest. ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY on almost every level of society now. Even with many parents and their kids. Where has tough love gone and personal responsibility? Why are so many kids coddled into oblivion where all they expect is handouts now and everyone getting a trophy? The swamp though brings the concept of zero accountability to an entirely different level doesn't it. How is it Fauci is being paid with "our" (we the people) monies decade after decade without ever being held to account? Sure he is yelled at a lot by our swamp servants and brought before congress to be grilled, but have you noticed he is still standing in front of us telling us what he thinks we need to do and its almost 2022 now. ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY!

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Yes Peter and Harvey www.earlycovidcare.org are two who have their fingers on the pulse for sure of the data. As for comparing deaths on Trumps watch vs the puppets watch the puppet is now ahead in terms of #'s attributed to death by whu-flu or with whu-flu. The puppet has done worse in that specific piece of data and in a shorter time span. Just think how the media would be on Trump now every min of every day reporting the totality of deaths and #'s daily. Funny how they barely if ever mention it with the puppet

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The corporate media is part of the plandemic and it's the rules of repressive tolerance - different standards for them b/c they are the elites and so much better than the rest of us.

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PaRt of the mass hypnosis.

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yes for sure!

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Yes, more have occurred in 2021 than 2020.

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Seems likely that the death toll under Biden will surpass the death toll under Trump by spring (361k vs 439k as of now). Awkward given that we've been guided exclusively by The Science since Jan 21 or so. It's almost like pandemics are hard to control.

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The “I’m old enough to remember…” line gets me…every time!…🤪

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Another brick in the wall of tyranny crumbles !

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I wish all companies were rolling it back. Krispy Kreme didn't, and now I'm out of the job! They will take my job, but not my soul or right to decide for myself:

https://www.ididnotcomply.com

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F*ck Krispy Kreme. Never shopping there again.

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It's mostly toxic for ones' health anyway.....gag.

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Krispy Kreme also offered a free donut every day for a year for people who get the vaccination. No matter that the overweight and obese have constituted the largest percentage of deaths since the beginning of this pandemic. But, you know, just get the jab and keep eating our crap. Science!

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What person agrees to take a donut to get a jab. What is their typical day like? Can only imagine. I guess if the jab cost money, but was free with a donut I can sorta maybe not really understand, but WTF!

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Yes, what sort of person indeed? I know lots of cities and states offered free beer or wine or even marijuana where it's legal...because, you know, this is about your health!

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I just emailed investor relations. My family will be boycotting that company.

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Thank you for emailing! I have loved Krispy Kreme as a company for many years and I hate to see it doing this.

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Woke is as woke does...

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i emailed them as well, letting them know I will never buy another Krispy Kreme doughnut until the mandate is rescinded.

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Bad for your health anyways. Come to think of it why isn’t there a ban on donuts? Joking of course. See how ludicrous the whole situation is.

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That's easy! I haven't seen a hot donut from Krispy Kreme in ten years! They suck!

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I actually don’t eat donuts, so I wouldn’t know. Sounds like they suck as a company.

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Thank you Sabina for emailing them!

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Keep showing up for work....make them remove you! RESIST!

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Oh I did - except for a 4 day strike. Then they put me (and another co-worker) on admin leave. The rest of the story is on my Substack blog (https://14TheLamb.substack.com).

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yea... the story ain't over till the fat lady (and/or judge) sings

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Actually love Krispy Kreme, but don’t need them. I’ll email too and let them know they will not get my business with their mandate. F them.

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Sorry to hear that, 14TheLamb. :( Can you find a pro bono lawyer and sue?

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Their donuts suck anyway.

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Exactly what I told the Epoch Times... A company built on sugar is dictating the health care decisions of its employees. They really botched everything about this thing too... I tried raising alarms, risks, um... sanity, but nothing.

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Yeah, I think reality eventually hits. It’s one thing to mandate a vaccine that’s effective. It’s another to mandate one that wears off precipitously and to wonder if you as the employer are going to also have to mandate boosters, and wonder if your also going to have to mandate new vaccines for new variants. The pandemic is over, yes Covid is still here but we just have to go on with our lives.

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The mandates going bye-bye will be a huge problem for Fauci. He needs everybody vaxxed to eliminate the control group. Otherwise, we will be able to see that the vaxxed are the ones having heart attacks and strokes. If everybody is vaxxed, Fauci and his ilk can blame these terrible outcomes on the variants and the lockdowns.

This is not Fauci's first rodeo with a dangerous vaccine. I wrote about it myself last month. Now I'm reading RJK Jr.'s book and he says the same thing. The mandates serve one purpose for Fauci: They help get rid of the control group.

My free series is here:

https://darbyshaw.substack.com/p/faucis-glaring-cohort-problem

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We knew of Fauci's ways decades ago...glad its being shown now to the fresh minds and ears. RFK's book is so well referenced. A read for ALL! Scott Atlas book "A plague Upon Us" is excellent too. Exposes the lil Napoleonic narcissist Fauci well!

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3/4-through Dr. Atlas' book. I agree: Excellent, too.

Need to finish it tonight. Tomorrow is "PANDEMIA" day.

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Agreed!

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We already see this.- whether people want to say the truth to themselves or others OR act on it is the issue. Fauci is in this for himself -power and money and he has both. Why is this a huge problem for him? sorry?

My read of RFKs book is that medical research has been thoroughly corrupted and with the huge money at stake Fauci has gained power and money from doling out money to his world favourites. Like a drug leader picking his favourites to get the best corners. All US medical research universities/colleges as well as lots of those world wide are totally dependent upon his money for their jobs and survival. You could remove Fauci today and the system would keep on going.

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My husband, who is an internal medicine physician, finally sees that, and it's very depressing. I remember telling him about ivermectin and how studies were showing it was very effective, and he said, "But the American Society of Infectious Disease doesn't say you should use it." Over time, he realized that the Society of Internal Medicine, etc., etc. have all been taken over by Big Pharma and Big Government. Now he's prescribing Ivermectin himself.

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Good for him. It's too bad my (former) PCP refuses to catch on and hides behind her internal med boards. At some point, ignorance is no longer going to be an excuse.

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Good for him 🥰 I too (though distant from research Uni's ) hear complaints from colleagues about the same thing. It seems that being a GP (after figuring out how to keep the Pharma reps out) is the safest Practice these days. I moved to natural holistic medicine and boy I have never regretted it.

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Part way through RFK’s book….a great read. Teeny Fraudchi, Gates and more need to be brought up on crimes against humanity. How do we do it? I’ll pay for a share of a team of brave attorneys.

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Yes, I've read only about 50 pages, but it's absolutely packed with information.

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Fauci looks real nervous these days when interviewed on the TV.

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Yeah, I hear he’s been watching old black and white newsreels of the Nuremberg trials and looking for cheap real estate in Argentina.

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Especially when he's yelling "I am the science!!!" He's like the insane homeless guy on the corner they told me he was Fred Rogers.

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Won’t you please, won’t you please, Please won’t you be, my jailer?

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He’s sweating because he knows that the national security state knows the he knows where the bodies are buried. They’ll have to take him out before he sings (like Jeffrey Epstein)

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Unfortunately, there is no mandatory retirement age for federal employees (I'm one myself). But I know of very few feds still working in their late 70s, much less 80s. You'd think he'd leave now before it all falls apart.

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Such a good point Darby. Think maybe there is a $$$ component as well, but to cover there asses perfectly would to have no one left UN-injected on the planet.

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their asses :)

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Same girl from The Pelican Brief?

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Thanks. Subscribed

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Fauci will have to do his own dirty work. Whatever you do, don't answer the door if you aren't expecting anyone.

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Once most employers recognize they are being used as technocrat sonderkommandos they will not feel they "have to" do what is so obviously immoral. Irish democracy will help them make this choice.

"Quiet, anonymous, and often complicitous, lawbreaking and disobedience may well be the historically preferred mode of political action for peasant and subaltern classes, for whom open defiance is too dangerous….One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called “Irish Democracy”—the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people—than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs."--James Scott, Two Cheers for Anarchism

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"technocrat sonderkommandos"

That is a great description. I may have to steal that one.

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Become ungovernable.

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Great comments -- I love the term "technocrat sonderkommandos" 🥰

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Another brick in the wall of tyranny crumbles !

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If her company has a lawyer present she should have one present as well. No joke.

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Lawyer up, file suit for discrimination. This religious anal exam is totally unconstitutional, being required to beg for accommodation merely serves to tell the company who to harass. She and the others should file collectively. The company knows it would lose. It's a battle of wills.

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make sure that the attorney responds that since they are requiring and unwanted, experimental vaccine with low efficacy and high rates of adverse events that you are assuming they are covering all liability should there be any adverse events since they are forcing it. Trust me, that will change their view. These suits will bankrupt these companies.

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She could present a notice of liability to their lawyer stating that they are liable if anything happens to her. We have seen some success with that in canada

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A friend submitted a religious exemption request for a board he sits on and wrote that the possibility that they would require more information from a religious leader to validate the sincerity of his beliefs was outrageous and demanded that he have the theological credentials of those evaluating him! We'll see what he gets back from that!

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Where are you? A federal judge has blocked the CMS mandates in Missouri and nine other states:

https://news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-blocks-biden-vaccine-180823719.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

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What happened to those nationwide injunctions the Dems are so fond of?

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That is a really good question! When Trump was in office, it seemed like all cases were filed in the 9th Circuit with a nationwide injunction following shortly thereafter ~ 🤔

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File an EEOC complaint. Check Jeff Childers' Substack for more specific advice. Best of luck.

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That sounds like a big lawsuit…Good luck!

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I understand S.Africa advised Pfizer to stop sending vaccines on 11/24 due to their very low 'covid' rate; and on 11/26 the biden admin (e.g. Pfizer) ordered to close borders to south africans? This is how Pfizer threatens and coerces governments around the world to buy their vaccines of which their is zero accountability and they have 55 years to disclose the ingredients?

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"Nice country you have there. Would be a shame if something happened to it ..."

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There will ALWAYS be a variant as long as these sociopathic scum run our lives, and you delusional manipulated fools really think there will be an election next fall???

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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The midterm variant is being prepared for release in early September 2022.

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There WILL be election next fall, AND EVERY OTHER YEAR after that (one way or another)

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We had one in 2020, but it was brazenly stolen on live tv for all to see.

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Well, now that we're all aware of it, we all just have to make sure it doesn't happen again

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I originally thought the border closure was realated to the articles about Africa having no trouble with covid despite such a low vax rate.

But canceling vax orders would make a lot more sense. Essentially an act of war in the current climate, that they consider deserving of sanctions.

Botswana clarified the infected were vaxxed travelers - it came from abroad. Border closures specific to Africa have absolutely nothing to do with science, and they won't fix the policy even when called out on the truth.

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The vax mandate for federal contractors here in northern Alabama is essentially a joke. Any and all accommodations are rubber stamped. Its almost like they realized that it's hard to do business if all your engineers quit. Or maybe they actually care about our rights. Either way, I'm just sad I spent so much time worrying about it in September and October.

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I’ve also heard of pushback on the contract changes mostly due to the gov trying to get off the hook for any delay or cost incurred as part of the contractor meeting the mandates.

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Our contract general manager made it very clear to the government that the contract was to incur zero cost for any required testing of exempted personnel.

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Makes sense-- lesson to us all -- money rules-- profit rules

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Thank God for that idiot Ron Klain tweeting out that they were making an "end run" around the Constitution. He may as well have dropped his pants and mooned the judge who takes up this case. Judges don't care to be made fools of as a rule.

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Oh now I have that visual 🤢😂🤣😜

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Only 10% of people have gotten boosters. But they make up 100% of social media and mass media posts, so there’s that.

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Imagine for the people who got the booster after Fauci and Walensky used the marketing pitch that a third shot would make the immunity 'complete and longer-lasting', and within a few days they announce a new variant and new booster formulation coming out.

They're now selling shot #1, #3, and #4 all at the same time to different markets.

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Joke's on them. Each successive booster wears off in have the time of the previous shot, faster in men, older men and sicker men. This booster calendar collapses to infinite, constant boosters very quickly. 16 months or less.

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Has Israel started giving the fourth shot to the public yet?

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Biden can’t even pronounce Omicron. Although “Omnicron” sounds suitably totalitarian.

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Neither could Fauci!!

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He can just call it Xi (the name that was SUPPOSED to be used). Hopefully the Wuhan virus ends with Xi variant!!!

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I had dinner with a friend on Saturday night. His name is Omri. He would really, really have preferred they went with Xi, too.

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Biden says "omnicron." Jimmy Carter said "nuke-u-lar."

And we get inflation and a recession from both.

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"Be afwaid! Be vewwy afwaid! A vewwy scawwy vawirant: Omicwan!!" - Elmer Fudd

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The great reset is coming apart at the seams! These morons actually thought they could pull the "never ending string of variants" on us, and a decent amount of people stood their ground at the first round. I'm sure they're all fighting with each other behind the scenes for choosing this obviously stupid plan.

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Did college football save America? Maybe.

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College kids blew it for America. What the hell were they doing lining up and rolling up their sleeves? Shame on them. They were never at risk, if anything, their games falsely suggest the shots saved those kids. 🤢🤮

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Interesting point 😊

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Scramble OMICRON = MORONIC

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Yep, Omicron is the excuse governments have been praying for in order to explain vaccine failure.

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It's a coincidence of course that the symptoms of omicron are the same symptoms as "vaccine" injury symptoms. What a happy coincidence for pharma, eh? Anyway, since covid is imaginary, then all the variants of covid are imaginary as well.

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“Lockdowns are off the table “…

Seriously, Alex, you genuinely believe that?…

Folks really underestimate sociopathy, these people try to game the system so they can hide behind the fake rules and boundaries, and once people rise up and reject the abuse by sociopaths, the sociopaths just finally say in so many words, “we’re just gonna crush you or kill you, so, bring it on you f**king losers!”…

And you really think you won’t hear those words from these leftist scumbags…

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And I think the “moron in chief” said lockdowns were off the table for now, the operative words being “for now”. In other words lockdowns will most likely be back before you know it.

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He also said there wouldn’t be vaccine mandates

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The problem is that this time the lockdowns can't be blamed on Trump. The Ds own them 100%.

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The problem is, we will not comply with any lockdown. Resist.

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You nailed it. I've been done with covid rules since April 2020, with the only exception being airplanes. Can't figure a way around that yet :(

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Ditto. I started a month or two behind you but have tried to shake as many hands and talk face to face mask free as much as possible. The only small victory on airlines has been a mesh “unmask” that allows easier breathing. And taking way too long to finish my drink…

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You'd be shocked how long it takes me to eat a bag of trail mix I bought at the airport......

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I get on plane with mask but immediately pull it down to my chin. So far no one has said anything.

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You might not, I would try, but those other near 325 million Americans around us, what are you gonna do when they are kneeling and cowering behind you and I, and pulling out their knives to stab us in the back…

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Why do you think like that? Think love not hate-- you don't know this-- do you believe everything you read on social media-- most is bots

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Yes, every time they say something is off the table, it suddenly becomes an executive order or an OSHA mandate. I'm waiting for the ban on domestic airline travel for the unvaxxed, since of course someone in the administration said that wouldn't be necessary.

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I correct myself, there won’t be lockdowns, there will be societal shut downs, the Australian rules will be implemented here, and frankly, I have no doubt Joe Biden will tell the military to fire on citizens who dare to dissent.

And 95% of this country will just kneel and cower in abject terror, knowing that their lives are over…

Oh, again, I’m sorry, that happened last March of 2020…

These leftist sociopaths all across America especially in blue states, they know they have you by the gonads, and now, they’re gonna grab you by the throat!

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You’re probably right

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No action if no body comes-- I love the earlier comment about Irish Democracy-- stay patient strong and just goo about your business-- IGNORE THE TROLLS

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I'm supposed to go to Europe in May. I told my traveling companion, "I'll believe when we get on the plane."

BTW, this trip has been postponed TWICE.

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We've canceled/postponed 3 trips to Europe, and yet I'm eager to get back to travel. We are not vaccinated. Is there anywhere in Europe that we can go freely? Wearing a mask on the flight and while on the ground and being asked for my "papers" is not a vacation to me, even if I were vaccinated. When will this all be exposed for what it is and end?

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I ask myself that question every day. At what point will the most frightened, most neurotic, finally begin to question all the nonsense that's been foisted on us for almost two years?

At some point more people really must begin to say, "Hey, wait a minute..."

Yet it doesn't seem to happen.

I agree: it's no vacation to wear a mask when sightseeing. And never mind showing my "papers."

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I am a New Englander and just flew to the UK and The Netherlands. Didn't wear a mask the entire flight. Walked around London all day yesterday, took the bus, shopped on Regent Street, went to a pharmacy, restaurant, bars until midnight...all with no mask, (many others as well). There certainly was no request for paperwork, as I had been led to expect.

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So, for clarification and because I'm so curious, did you have to show a vax card to get on the international flight? If you are not vaccinated, were you worried about going? I'm so happy to hear that many were unmasked and that perhaps most restaurants and bars are not complying with the state demands for a vaccine to enter their establishments, but having not had the vaccine, I would worry about committing to a trip like that. But I sooo miss traveling to Europe...

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I did show a card because I got, regrettably, the vaccine ( J&J--I insisted on the non mRNA one). Without it, I would have had to get a test prior, as I just did to fly home. I am 49 and feel that my best defense is that I enjoy a lot of time out in the sun. The more I read about natural vitamin D and covid, the more I think that the populations most affected by the 'vid -- the obese, elderly, ailing and sickly) suffer because they are generally less active and don't get out much. That is to say, I would be no more worried about travelling around without the jab. I also realize that masks are theatre and don't protect anyone. I was ready to throw one on if asked, but no one did.

Don't let them take away what you love. Heading to Italy in April, Bermuda in May!

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Very sad. I miss my old life.

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oooohhhh scary Fauci-- an 80 yr old tiny man who people could blow over. The only people that truly fear him are those research scientists doing gain-of-function and this totally dependent on his largesse.

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Yes they know he will pull their grant money, not publish scientific papers etc if they dare speak the truth. As Luc montagnier, 2008 nobel prize in virology winner, said when questioned if he was fearful the reaction to his comments about the origins and dangers of the vaccine: ‘no, because i have already won my nobel prize’. So now, all they can and are doing to him is laughingly putting fact checks on his comments!! What a joke really.

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And Florida has the lowest per-capita COVID case rate in the nation?

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Almost like the Florida wave was seasonal and not some stupid "red state Covid"

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That and maybe keeping business and schools open and allowing natural infection of the healthy is a better strategy.

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Absolutely, and now some are speculating this has happened in Mississippi as well.

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Yep, and also the Florida wave seems to have ebbed once the lying state employed statisticians got the boot.

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Alex, you can add my testimony to your list. My employer has been playing poker from the beginning with every edict amounting to a bluff that ends with a humiliating fold once the stakes get too high. If they go through with their threats they’re facing self-inflicted catastrophe and they know it. Also, no one wants to take on the liability, especially as the tide of public opinion begins to change. There’s no profit in being some politician’s or pharma executive’s patsy.

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Happily, The Home Depot sat back and took a "Wait and see" approach from the start, which has paid off. They know most everyone in the stores would walk, and same rules would have to apply throughout the company. Lowe's folded like a cheap suit 24hrs after their big mandate. 😂🤣

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Sign on the door at our local Lowe's announcing everyone has to wear masks about a month ago. Spouse walked in without one. Some other customers did not wear any either. Not one person said a word about the absence of the face diaper. Hmmm...

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I’m seeing that too- I posted earlier that I am on a cross country trip. For the first time since the scamdemic began I am seeing people ignore the mask signs - in many different areas of different states.

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In this case we can say, “Less ENsLaving, less doing, that’s the power of the Home Depot.”

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Exactly-- bullies bluff

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