Some Covid-19 thoughts
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UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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And now for the political considerations,
That's murkier because there are more actors with a lot more considerations.
It's like the Iraq War II:
Some were Armageddonists and believed it would lead us one step closer to the Rapture.
Some were following the PNAC/Netenyahu dream of destroying five of Israel's enemies in the ME.
Some were dreaming of all that OIL that had been sequestered in the ground for over a decade bc of sanctions on Iraq
Some wanted to add one more piece to the "surround Russia" puzzle.
At least one person wanted to burnish his wartime record and do what his daddy didn't, which was take Baghdad.
And some were propping up the petrodollar, because Russia and France had written up NON-DOLLAR oil deals with Iraq, and it only took Hans Blix's UNMOVIC finding that Iraq was in substantial compliance with UN mandates to unblock Iraq and ink the contracts.
I would bet that you would be hard-pressed to find ANYONE in the security state or WH who believed that Saddam had a WMD program or had anything to do wth 911.
I personally think that the petrodollar was the prime consideration, since the closer Blix got to wrapping up his investigation the more frantic the GWB administration got. In fact, it was OUR BOMBING that cahsed Hans Blix out of Iraq. So, yeah: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED indeed!
I give this as an example of the complicated factionalism that drives DC.
I have to go and walk the dog, but I'll try to unpack the politics around covid-19 when I get back.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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Don’t expect unemployment benefits if you don’t comply with your employer’s vaccine requirement
An employee who is terminated for failing to comply with company policies is not eligible for unemployment benefits, which would include refusing to comply with a company’s COVID-19 prevention policies, masking requirements or vaccine requirements.
Refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine, if your employer requires one, “is akin to an employee’s refusal to submit to permissible drug tests or participate in safety trainings,” said Ronald Zambrano, employment law chair at West Coast Trial Lawyers, a Los Angeles–based law firm. That is, such an employee, when terminated, would not qualify for unemployment benefits, Zambrano said.
What if employees quit because they don’t want to get vaccinated?
Quitting over refusal to get vaccinated when an employer requires it appears unlikely to improve one’s chances of securing unemployment payments.
“If you quit because of the mandate then you’d have to have good cause attributable to the employer in order to collect unemployment benefits,” Dixon said. “Good cause is usually viewed from that of a reasonable person. Given the overwhelming evidence of the safety of the vaccine, it’s likely that good cause would not be found” in the case of a person who quits a job because of a vaccine mandate.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210806221828/https://www.marketwatch.com
/story/dont-expect-unemployment-benefits-if-you-dont-comply-with-your-employers-vaccine-requirement-11628287814
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:fify
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I don't post quotes or links because I like to lie and troll ... because I'm scaaaaawed.
Yep, that's you.
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OH, btw 'Jack', AS I POSTED, it's perfectly legal for employers to require vaccinations JUST LIKE THEY REQUIRE DRUG TESTING.
Now tell me that the drug testing precedent of 30 years ago is irrelevant.
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Quote:I'll be reading your post with interest, as I've been reading the previous ones.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And now for the political considerations,
That's murkier because there are more actors with a lot more considerations.
It's like the Iraq War II:
Some were Armageddonists and believed it would lead us one step closer to the Rapture.
Some were following the PNAC/Netenyahu dream of destroying five of Israel's enemies in the ME.
Some were dreaming of all that OIL that had been sequestered in the ground for over a decade bc of sanctions on Iraq
Some wanted to add one more piece to the "surround Russia" puzzle.
At least one person wanted to burnish his wartime record and do what his daddy didn't, which was take Baghdad.
And some were propping up the petrodollar, because Russia and France had written up NON-DOLLAR oil deals with Iraq, and it only took Hans Blix's UNMOVIC finding that Iraq was in substantial compliance with UN mandates to unblock Iraq and ink the contracts.
I would bet that you would be hard-pressed to find ANYONE in the security state or WH who believed that Saddam had a WMD program or had anything to do wth 911.
I personally think that the petrodollar was the prime consideration, since the closer Blix got to wrapping up his investigation the more frantic the GWB administration got. In fact, it was OUR BOMBING that cahsed Hans Blix out of Iraq. So, yeah: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED indeed!
I give this as an example of the complicated factionalism that drives DC.
I have to go and walk the dog, but I'll try to unpack the politics around covid-19 when I get back.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
To me however, it looks like a far more complicated picture than WMD because there actually ** WAS ** a novel viral threat, and it's still on the loose. That imo makes it harder to cleanly separate situational ignorance in an unknown situation from intentional exploitation.
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Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
OH, btw 'Jack', AS I POSTED, it's perfectly legal for employers to require vaccinations JUST LIKE THEY REQUIRE DRUG TESTING.
Now tell me that the drug testing precedent of 30 years ago is irrelevant.
It's not irrelevant. I already addressed this and said that I have a long post history here against the practice.
You're a fucking idiot like Ted.
And quit pretending the fact you have a pussy has anything to do with the way that I talk to you, dipshit.
If you're going to act like Second and Ted, I'm going to talk to you just like I talk to them.
They're both pussies for sure, but I'm pretty sure they're both packing a couple of baby dicks.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
An employee who is terminated for failing to comply with company policies is not eligible for unemployment benefits, which would include refusing to comply with a company’s COVID-19 prevention policies, masking requirements or vaccine requirements.
Fake News.
This is a change in terms.
If you can get unemployment after your employer discontinued night shift even though they still offered you a day shift job, getting unemployment for refusing a vaccination that wasn't part of the job when you started will be easy.
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“If you quit because of the mandate then you’d have to have good cause attributable to the employer in order to collect unemployment benefits,” Dixon said. “Good cause is usually viewed from that of a reasonable person. Given the overwhelming evidence of the safety of the vaccine, it’s likely that good cause would not be found” in the case of a person who quits a job because of a vaccine mandate.
That's the key right there. DON'T QUIT.
Make them fire you. If you quit, you won't get unemployment.
And don't sign anything that you can't take home first and read yourself or have a lawyer in the family or a friend who's smarter than you look at the fine print first.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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The fact that you have a dick and I don't is completely relevant to the way you behave towards FACTS that I post.
And also, that you flamed out of college multiple times and so now you have to call college degrees worthless to salve your pride; and I made it through college despite many obstacles and now know a hell of a lot more than you on the topic.
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Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
The fact that you have a dick and I don't is completely relevant to the way you behave towards FACTS that I post.
I'm talking about this, you stupid bitch.
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
You're a piece of loser shit.
Who can't take being openly challenged by a female because you've got mommy issues so big they scream at everyone from across the country.
Don't hide behind your pussy card, coward.
You want equality? You get shit on by your betters just like Second and Ted do.
There's your equality.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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