He is only 31, with two kids and a 3rd on the way. He refuses because "it's his body, his choice" and he "doesn't believe in [the vaccine]."
What an incalculably selfish man.
But as medical ethicists explain, transplants shut down the immune system, so vaccines are required. "We can't waste a precious organ on someone who won't follow the criteria." cbsnews.com/news/brigham-a…
"Like many other transplant programs in the US, the COVID-19 vaccine is one of several vaccines and lifestyle behaviors required for transplant candidates in the in order to create the best chance for a successful operation and also the patient's survival after transplantation."
This truly is a death cult. Three kids will be left fatherless--for what? For a lunatic ideology that is so deeply embedded in the GOP that thousands of people are dying for no reason whatsoever. I mean WTAF? You're getting the gift of a heart--respect that someone died for you.
And this guy's dad says how brave and courageous his son is to "fight for his principles." FIGHT FOR YOUR KIDS! How dare this guy leave his pregnant wife and kids over his effed up anti-vax "beliefs"? Imagine how much those kids will hate him when they find out he abandoned them?
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Devastating personal news: The Wife was informed late today, 3wks into the semester that she MUST begin in-person teaching next week or resign her classes. HR said her request to continue the remote teaching the entire uni has been doing since classes began Jan3 was "not valid."
The Wife has been teaching at this uni for 15yrs and teaching college for 35. The ADA apparently has no application for COVID concerns. So at the end of her class tonight she had to inform her students of the ruling. They were stunned & upset "But you're our favorite professor!"
Now these kids have to get used to a different professor who is jumping in next week--week four in a design class, yikes. The Wife has to meet with him tomorrow to bring him up to speed. AND she still has to attend three faculty meetings (remote, natch, cuz COVID). I AM SO ANGRY.
#BREAKING:
Happy to scoop this: @malcolmkenyatta announced his campaign has been endorsed by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), AFT PA, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT), Teamsters Local 623, Teamsters BMWED, One Pennsylvania, AFSCME DC33, AFSCME 1199C and....>
LGBTQ Victory Fund,Democracy for America, (DFA), Working Families Party (WFP),Brand New Congress, and local officials throughout Pennsylvania. If elected, Kenyatta would be the Senate's youngest member, and the first openly LGBTQ+ person of color to ever serve in the U.S. Senate.
There are numerous other people running for the open PA Senate seat, including Dr. Oz, but no one with the track record of Democratic progressivism that Kenyatta has shown throughout his years in the state legislature. He was among the keynote speakers at the 2020 DNC.
There's a lot hanging on that word "eventually." The road to recovery is long, very hard and brutally expensive as anyone who has begun recovery or been involved with addicted people knows. Sobriety is not an easy path--don't minimize the journey with glib statements.
The story itself cited 95k deaths per year from alcohol, 100k from drug overdoses,but says it's a fraction of the number of alcoholics and drug addicts. Yet that's like saying the folks dead from COVID are a fraction of the cases. It's true, but doesn't address the complexities.
The cost of becoming sober is monumental, which is why so many people in prison are in there for drug-related offenses. This is particularly true for women, as my recent 3-part series on women in prison explicated. The system for recovery is more available to people with money.
13 dead, including 7 kids. What a gut-punch.
This massive death toll raises big questions about why there were so many people in this PHA housing. #PhiladelphiaFire
City leaders pledge to support families affected by "heartbreaking" Philadelphia fire cnn.com/us/live-news/p…
“This is without a doubt one of the most tragic days in our city’s history, the loss of so many people in such a tragic way,” Mayor Jim Kenney said at a news conference. “Losing so many kids is just devastating.” nytimes.com/live/2022/01/0…
Craig Murphy, 1st deputy commissioner of the Philadelphia Fire Dept. said, “I’ve been around for 35 years now, and this is probably one of the worst fires I’ve ever been to. We plan on making sure that this tremendous loss of life did not happen in vain.” nytimes.com/live/2022/01/0…
This is the final installment of my three-part series on women in prison. LBT women comprise a disproportionate percentage of women prisoners--over 40%--and are frequent targets of violence--it has killed some women. Please read/RT.
In part one of this series women talk about what led to their imprisonment and more. Please read/RT.
Why are so many lesbian, bi and trans women in prison? epgn.com/2021/12/15/why…
In part two of the series, inmates and advocates discuss what happens during incareration for women and how every American should be concerned. Please read/RT.
There have been vaccine mandates for international travel for a year.
A month ago they were demonizing Dr. Fauci for saying he represented science, even though he is, well, a scientist.
I dare anyone to actually read Dr. Fauci's whole bio. Clearly no one at Fox ever has. This is someone who has saved countless lives and the GOP/Fox News demonization of him has earned him and his family
death threats. niaid.nih.gov/about/anthony-…
Fauci is longtime chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation. He helped pioneer the field of human immunoregulation by making important basic scientific observations that underpin the current understanding of the regulation of the human immune response. niaid.nih.gov/about/anthony-…