How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? At United Airlines, 50% of unvaccinated employees have already complied in the first 3 weeks of the 5 week grace period, according to CEO Jack Kirby. npr.org/2021/09/10/103…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? At Delta Airlines, the vaccination rate has risen to 78% in just two weeks since a mandate was imposed, with no resignations, says the company's chief health officer. seattletimes.com/business/delta…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Tyson's Food imposed a mandate in August, employee vaccination rate has risen from 45% to 72% - cutting number of unvaccinated workers in half in less than a month whitehouse.gov/covidplan/
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Yesterday 3M and Qiagen joined ranks of employers that will weekly testing of employees who refuse vaccination. reuters.com/business/healt…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? USA Today reports that a dozen labor law experts agree that employees who lose jobs for refusing vaccination will be ineligible for state unemployment insurance benefits. usatoday.com/story/news/fac…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? AP poll finds that only 21% of Americans oppose vaccine mandates for federal employees. apnews.com/article/joe-bi…
How's that mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Only 2% of human-resource professionals surveyed say they have noticed any instances at all of employees quitting rather than be vaccinated. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
How's that mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? You know those surveys about police officers threatening mass resignation? This one was based on a response rate under 40% - in other words, a huge over-sampling of the cranks latimes.com/california/sto…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? One of the first in the country was imposed by tax office in Florida's Orange County. Vax rate doubled from 45% to 90%. Only 12 employees quit. And that's FLORIDA. wftv.com/news/local/12-…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Here's what it looked like when anti-vax protesters unsuccessfully tried to force the closure of a school in Washington State. A handful of this
(Note that the pro-vaxxer correctly spelled the always tricky word "harassing")
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? 73 Chicago school bus drivers quit over mandate. They caused a couple of days of chaos, especially for special education kids, but Uber and Lyft have stepped up to close the gap businessinsider.com/chicago-parent…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Local CBS affiliate built an entire story over one - ONE - unnamed employee who quit her job one - ONE - unnamed hospital in Maryland. baltimore.cbslocal.com/2021/08/31/hos…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Frustrated by Gov Abbott order forbidding businesses to require proof of vaccination, 9 Houston gay bars now working with Texas National Guard to offer free vaccination on site outsmartmagazine.com/2021/09/lgbtq-…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Final word to this Wilmington NC doctor, interviewed by a local TV station after working 7 straights days in an ICU wect.com/2021/09/09/wil…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? 34,000-employee Indiana U. Health System ordered all staff vaccinated by 9/1. 300 were suspended w/out pay for missing deadline. By 9/14 only 125 part-timers had to be terminated. cnn.com/2021/09/18/us/…
Anti-vaxxers are hailing the departure of 61 full-time equivalents from a 34,000-person organization as a huge symbolic win for their cause - which makes one wonder what they would consider an embarrassing defeat. Mandates work. cnn.com/2021/09/18/us/…
How's that mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Operator of Milwaukee convention center, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee arena, and other venues will deem any unvaccinated employee to have voluntarily resigned. jsonline.com/story/money/20…
How's that mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Three Vermont state troopers who faked vaccination cards lost their jobs after their colleagues turned them in. washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09…
How's that mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? San Jose, Calif., police department employs almost 1000 officers. *One* - and a reservist too! - resigned rather than be vaccinated. nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavir…
The story from San Jose by the way casts some unflattering light on the role of local media. Can you imagine a local TV news item on the resignation of a single part-time employee from a 1,000 person department over any other issue than this one?
Here's how Fox News online is covering the resignation of one part-time post-retirement police officer from a nearly 1,000-person department
"More could resign" is a nice extra touch when you're covering an event involving a single part-time retiree.
How's that mass civil disobedience to vaccine mandates going? Here's a news story by an Oklahoma City TV station about how 1 (one) unnamed nursing home employee MIGHT quit (but hasn't yet). news9.com/story/6148d28d…
Seriously, Oklahoma City Channel 9, you might serve your viewers better if your reporter told the nurse: "Call me back if you actually go through with it."
How's that mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going?
I think we may have reached the point where there are more TV/newspaper stories about people who *might* quit to protest vaccine mandates - than there are actual human beings who *have* quit to protest vaccine mandates.
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience to vaccine mandates going? North Carolina's Novant Health has suspended 375 of 35,000 employees for missing the vaccination deadline. The company's overall vaccination rate: 98.6%. wcnc.com/article/news/h…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience to vaccine mandates going? Highly conservative Gray.TV (chief political correspondent Greta van Susteren) fires its northern Michigan local weatherman for refusing vaccination. fox11online.com/news/coronavir…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience to vaccine mandates going? Delaware's largest health care provider announces vaccination requirement for its 14,000 employees effective 9/28. A protest against the mandate attracted only about 50 people whyy.org/articles/prote…
One of the Delaware protesters, an employee of the healthcare provider, declined to give her last name to a reporter ... because she didn't want to lose her job.
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience to vaccine mandates going? Kentucky hospitals that have imposed vaccination requirements report that fewer than 1% of employees have been terminated for refusal. wbko.com/2021/09/19/doz…
How's the mass civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Of 30,000 employees in the University of North Carolina health system, 60 have quit rather than be vaccinated. Of 23,000 in the Duke U health system, 97% have gotten vaxxed. wral.com/coronavirus/do…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? As of mid-July, only 1/3 of students at New Jersey's Stockton U had been vaccinated. Post-mandate, only 156 of 9,378 students had to be disenrolled for noncompliance. insidehighered.com/news/2021/09/2…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Of almost 41,000 students at University of Maryland, 79 have been disenrolled for refusing vaccination dbknews.com/2021/09/02/umd…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Of 34,000 students at Virginia Tech, 134 have been disenrolled for refusing vaccine wric.com/news/134-stude…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? With a week to go before the deadline, University of New Mexico covid trackers shows nearly 100% compliance among faculty and staff, student compliance at nearly 80% covid.unm.edu
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Of nearly 100,000 students at Penn State, 117 have been suspended for failing to meet vaccination/testing requirements philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/09/22/pen…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? With a week to go before University of Oregon's deadline, 81% of students report themselves already fully vaccinated. Faculty + staff over 95%. registerguard.com/story/news/edu…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? University of Washington at St. Louis (Missouri) reports 98% compliance among faculty, staff, and students covid19.wustl.edu/danforth-campu…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? An Illinois woman who tried to gain entry to Hawaii with a faked vaccination record was arrested because she had misspelled "Moderna" on the forgery kiro7.com/news/trending/…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Three academic researchers find theconversation.com/half-of-unvacc…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? The three researchers found some cases I had missed: theconversation.com/half-of-unvacc…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccination mandates going? Out of 76,000 employees, New York's Northwell healthcare group this week fired an estimated two dozen managers for vaccine refusal. Company vax rate is now 100%. nypost.com/2021/09/27/ny-…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience to vaccine mandates going? As rate of vaccination among French nursing-home workers reaches 85%, @Reuters profiles one who quit his job rather than be vaxxed. reuters.com/business/healt…
@Reuters How's the campaign of mass civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Duke University health system announced Sept 29 that only 20 of its 23,000 employees had to be terminated for vaccine refusal. newsobserver.com/news/local/art…
How's the campaign of mass civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Of 33,000 employees at Michigan's Henry Ford health system, only 400 have had to be terminated. COO expresses regret - but notes that the 400 are being rapidly replaced. eu.freep.com/story/news/hea…
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I was glad to be invited onto @Morning_Joe this morning to talk about Syria. The show is one of the most important platforms in US politics. With Trump threatening to jail his critics, small d-democrats must stand together. I always speak freely without fear anywhere I appear.
I’ll recapitulate here what I said this morning. I reminded viewers of President-elect Trump’s statement that Syria is none of US business - and his VP-elect’s bad habit of repeating Russian propaganda that the Assad regime protected minorities.
The Syrian civil war - and Russian atrocities to support Assad- drove half the Syrian population into exile. Most went to Turkey; many to Europe. That migration powered the rise of the far right in Europe - contributed to Brexit - and helped elect Trump in 2016.
Don't be misdirected. The nomination of Kash Patel slathers frosting and sprinkles on the outrage ... but the outrage is the announced firing of Director Wray. Latest in @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Even if Patel nomination, like Matt Gaetz's for AG, eventually collapses and he is replaced by a less ridiculous nominee - the harm is that Trump is treating the FBI as an extension of presidential power. Read here theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
In Watergate, President Nixon covertly tried (and failed) to corrupt the FBI and other security agencies.
Trump is opening his second administration with a flagrantly public attempt to corrupt the FBI and other security agencies. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Canadian governments - federal, provincial, municipal - better have plans ready for when displaced asylum-seekers (thousands? tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands?) attempt to cross the border from the United States into Canada.
Under present law and policy, border-crossers from the US can be refused entry into Canada. But that policy will become hard to enforce if the number of border-crosses gets very big.canada.ca/en/immigration…
The pressure of migrant numbrers collapsed the German borders in 2015. Once Germany opened, hundreds of thousands of people arrived in a very few weeks from all over the world. Brexit, Trump, all the present era of reactionary authoritarian nationalism trace back to that moment.
One of my best friends in elementary school was a boy named Brian. He vanished from class during our 6th grade year: sick. No, we could not visit, the teacher said. We were encouraged to draw and write cards instead. 1/x
The card-writing became a regular ritual for our class and for Brian's friends. Then came the day when the teacher solemnly informed the class that Brian had died. He had succumbed to childhood leukemia, a hopeless killer in the early 1970s. 2/x
Pro-Trump political violence in 2021 was not spontaneous. It was incited by a serving president. The president also refused to protect the intended targets of violence. The violence of 2021 did not erupt bottom-up. It was organized top-down. 1/x
Those conditions do not prevail this time. Trump is out of office, any incitement will be - and will obviously appear as - blatantly an act of rebellion. The serving president will enforce the law with necessary force. 2/x
Individuals can run their mouths and lose their tempers. The United States is a big country with a lot of guns. But what made 2021 so dangerous was the complicity of the head of government. Minus that ... 3/x