You know what? I think it’s a good thing if the medical profession is rid of people who are clearly suffering from mental illness. They are a danger to themselves and others and should not be anywhere near patients.
No, Facebook has a financial incentive to allow outrageous content on their platform. But New Hampshire State vaccine officials aren’t going to have the power to change that in any way. You have correctly identified a problem, but these contracts were not going to be a solution for that problem.
There are already plenty of government resources to provide correct information, including the CDC. The state of NH already has a COVID-19 website with plenty of information (all good, so far as I know): https://www.covid19.nh.gov
Maybe I lack imagination, but I just don’t see what other effective steps could be taken by additional bureaucrats that have not been or could not be taken by the existing ones. There are already state health officials, let them do their jobs.
I’ve noticed a dearth of headlines lately about non-vaccinated politicians, bloggers, preachers, and other media attention seekers who’ve railed against “the jab” then succumbed to Covid. Have they smartened up or is the virus running out of targets?
Flat Earth Preacher Rob Skiba Dies of COVID-19 from just a few days ago.
Just wanted to note that male life expectancy dropped 2.2 years in the US from 2019-2020 because of Covid deaths.
I know it’s an old story, but this makes me so angry. I’ll fully admit I’d probably get arrested if I were one of those parents.
Here’s another one. (Actually, it’s a two-fer.)
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“I knew how deadly COVID could be so I went to my brother and asked him to please get vaccinated,” he said. “His response to me was to show different memes and stuff that he found on Facebook. He believed all that to be gospel truth and I could not change his mind.”
“The heartbreaking part was while [Kevin] was in the hospital, he asked the medical staff to give him the shot. They had to tell him it was too late.”
How many times have we heard that now? 
I don’t know why I’m on Senator Doug Ericksen’s mailing list, but I got this email today.
Latest news from Sen. Doug Ericksen:
As thousands fired under Inslee decree, Senate Freedom Caucus calls on governor to resign
Mass-termination event is last straw – senators cite failure of leadership
- Thousands of state employees get ax under Inslee vaccination mandate
- Follows nearly 600 days of autocratic decisions in ‘emergency’ that never ends
- Ferries on reduced schedule due to severe staffing shortage, other impacts expected
- Governor has ignored Legislature, shut the people out of decision-making
OLYMPIA – As thousands of state employees get pink slips under Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s “get vaccinated or get fired” mandate, members of the Senate’s Freedom Caucus are calling on the governor to resign.
The mass firings Monday of state employees and others who balked at the governor’s COVID-19 vaccination order already are creating a crisis in state government, as state agencies struggle to provide services under an Inslee-created staff shortage. The number of terminations was not available Tuesday morning, but press accounts indicate thousands got the ax at the end of their shifts Monday.
“This mass-termination event is the straw that breaks the camel’s back,” said Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale. “Never have we witnessed a failure of leadership in this state as we have seen under Gov. Jay Inslee. For nearly 600 days, he has used COVID emergency powers to establish autocratic rule, refusing to call the Legislature into special session, and shutting the people out.
“Inslee has done significant damage to the credibility of state government and has eroded the public’s trust. Now he is firing thousands of public employees, without regard to the harm it will cause. This effort to punish can only be seen as the willful act of a failed governor. Inslee has failed miserably. We don’t take this lightly. But the only thing that can allow our state to heal and move forward is for Jay Inslee to resign.”
Inslee has been operating under COVID emergency authority since Feb. 29, 2020, allowing him to suspend state laws and issue sweeping executive orders. His authority was extended indefinitely by the Legislature in January under a controversial measure supported by most Democrats and opposed by all Republicans. Thursday will mark the 600th day of the longest-running emergency in state history.
The result, Freedom Caucus members say, is a nightmare for the state and a challenge to the democratic principles outlined by the state constitution. They observe:
- Ferries are operating on a reduced schedule due to staffing shortages, bus routes are being canceled, and other immediate impacts to state services are expected.
- Public safety is threatened by the termination of law enforcement officials and workers at the state Department of Corrections.
- The firings follow months of arbitrary decrees based on questionable or non-existent science that have forced thousands of businesses across the state to shutter for good.
- Inslee has repeatedly refused to call the Legislature into a special session – and give the people a voice. When the Legislature met earlier this year, Inslee ordered construction of a cyclone fence around the Capitol, and stationed 600 National Guard troops to keep the public out.
- Inslee is using his COVID powers to advance his controversial political agenda, and is purging law enforcement officials most likely to object to defunding police agencies and establishing central state government control.
- No other state has gone to this extreme, as anyone who has ventured beyond the state’s borders can see.
- Inslee has yet to identify the criteria under which he will declare an “all-clear” and relinquish his emergency authority – meaning no end is in sight.
“We objected on principle in January when our colleagues voted to give Inslee emergency powers for as long as he wants them,” said Sen. Jeff Wilson, R-Longview. “But I don’t think any of us realized it would come to this, and I think many in the state Legislature are having second thoughts today. Other states are requiring vaccinations, but none of them have taken it to the level of mass terminations. When one person makes all the decisions, there can be no question who is at fault.”
Other comments:
“The governor and Democratic legislators have increased health risks and jeopardized public safety, while Inslee pats himself on the back as being the only person who can save us from COVID,” said Sen. Phil Fortunato, R-Auburn. “He has been a boon to other states seeking to reduce their staffing shortages. Nebraska is actively recruiting our nurses, reducing our available staffed hospital beds. Orange County in Florida is targeting King County and Seattle police who are ‘looking to relocate due to the vaccine mandate’. While other states have issued guidance and are dealing with the problems COVID has created, it seems COVID is a crisis only in Washington, much of it created by Inslee’s heavy-handed actions.”
“Inslee isn’t responding to a crisis,” said Sen. Jim McCune, R-Graham. “He’s creating one. He sees this as a golden opportunity to sweep out public employees and others who object to his high-handed rule. And he doesn’t care what a mess he makes in the process. There are many who have serious and well-founded objections to vaccination, and they could have been accommodated as they have been in other states. This is a disgrace. State employees don’t deserve pink slips. The governor does.”
“It’s heartbreaking,” said Sen. Mike Padden, R-Spokane Valley. “These callous decisions by the governor are having a devastating impact on working families. There are dedicated public servants who have worked for state government who will lose their ability to pay their mortgage or provide food for their family. Others are just a few years or months away from vesting in their retirement plans. Some have received medical advice from their personal doctors that they must now ignore in order to keep a job they love. This is wrong.”
I responded to it, but I got another email saying that the email address isn’t set up to receive messages and to use another email address.
I’ll have to compose a better email and try again. Ideas welcome.
Oh, that guy. Isn’t he the one who got paid big bucks for consulting with the Cambodian PM and who said the Cambodian election was free and fair when everyone else said it was corrupt and fraudulent?
You might mention that only a tiny percentage opted to give up their jobs rather than act responsibly and get vaccinated, and that most workers are relieved their health isn’t being endangered by irresponsible coworkers.
You might also mention that the nationwide worker shortage has nothing to do with the vaccine mandate, as is evidenced by the severe worker shortages in states that don’t have a vaccine mandate, like Florida, which has 500,000 open jobs it’s having trouble filling.
Ericksen is an idiot. I’m glad he’s not my state senator. Sorry you got stuck with him.
For starters, congratulate the Republican Party on its newfound support for supporting and expanding the civil service.
The Washington State University head football coach and four of his assistants were released because they refused the vaccination mandate of the university. The head coach had a contract that runs through 2025, and he is losing something like $3 million. Now, to me, THAT is a “Covidiot”!
An engineer who’s reportedly worked for NASA for 37 years says she’ll retire rather than get a Covid-19 vaccine because they all had a connection with “stem cells” and she wants a religious exemption because her body is “God’s temple”. Good luck with that argument.
Neither of the mRNA vaccines in use employs fetal cells in manufacture but they’re tainted anyway if you’re a loon.
Speaking of which, a self-described “objective, pro-vaccine rational scientist”*, James Lyons-Weiler is urging people to sue their doctors if they won’t prescribe unproven Covid remedies that health agencies warn against. From Twitter:
“If you are denied life-saving medical care (scripts for life-saving medicine), report that physician to the medical board and sue for psychological distress and coercion into the current experiment.”
*Lyons-Weiler has also described vaccines as “filthy, nasty vials of toxic sludge”, which is hard to reconcile with his supposedly being “pro-vaccine”.
An anti-vax colleague, distrustful of COVID vaccines and opposed to vaccine mandates, asserted that some folks just don’t want to be part of an experiment.
A more rational colleague said “you’re still part of the experiment; you’re just in the control group.”
Where’s that damned “like” button?
Well, of course vaccines are filthy, nasty vials of toxic sludge . . .
From the point-of-view of a virus or bacterium, I would imagine.
That’s a feature, not a (ahem…) “bug”.
Oh boy. A critical mass of lunatics.
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“If we’re superspreaders, we’re superspreaders of the truth,” Charlene Bollinger says. “We have countless testimonies of people that are alive today because of our work, and this is straight from heaven. God has put us on this Earth for such a time as this.”The Bollingers got their start by promoting unproven alternatives to chemotherapy. Then they cashed in on their DVDs that push falsehoods about vaccines.
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But wait! There’s more!
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While the event is called The Truth About Cancer, it will cover much more than that — from vaccine conspiracy theories to falsehoods about the 2020 election.The Bollingers are political — they even hosted a rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 to support efforts to overturn the election.
The event’s lineup will reflect those political views and feature Donald Trump’s son Eric and longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.
“In a lot of ways they’re forming this community of belief,” says Lisa Fazio, a misinformation researcher with Vanderbilt University. “‘People like us, believe these things.’”
Fazio says some people may show up to this conference for one conspiracy theory and learn about another, giving misinformation the opportunity to cross-pollinate.
“You can’t believe some of it and not others,” Fazio says. “If you’re part of this community, you believe the entire pot.”
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Regarding the part I bolded: at first I thought that Fazio was referring to herself (!), but then I saw it was a quote within a quote. She is saying that when these nutcases people get together, they reinforce each other’s misguided beliefs, in effect saying to each other, People like us believe these things.
This really emphaizes that these anti-vax covidiots do not have the faintest idea how vaccines work. They think that it is a mysterious magical “medicine”.
While the attendees are uninformed idiots, the people putting on the event are pure evil and could give a flying fuck about how many people die following their advice. It’s all about the 
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For $500, you can get all 10 episodes of their anti-vaccine grift, where they interview such luminaries as “Dr.” Sherri Tenpenny and RFK, Jr. Sorry, but if you want their cancer grift you’ll need to pony up additional funds as there are a ton of options available and you could easily (and stupidly) spend thousands of dollars on their 
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A friend who used to live nearby a dozen or so years ago, is now living in Spokane (Idaho West? 
) and she reports she has COVID. She says it feels like a bad cold, plus she’s lost her senses of taste and smell. She is not vaccinated, and says she never will be. I assume her husband and their (his son) are also not vaccinated. Their toddler obviously isn’t.
$2 million hit for not getting vaxxed and lying about it.
Personally, if I were the local DA, I would open a fraud investigation. Kane submitted a false document in order to continue playing and get paid millions.