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  • World-renowned epidemiologist fired from Harvard after refusing COVID vaccine

    03/17/2024 4:44:20 AM PDT · by CFW · 29 replies
    The College Fix ^ | 3/15/24 | JENNIFER KABBANY
    World-renowned infectious-disease epidemiologist and biostatistician Martin Kulldorff is no longer a professor at Harvard Medical School after refusing the COVID vaccine because he had infection-acquired immunity. Refusing the vaccine is a decision that lost him his appointment at a Harvard-affiliated hospital at the time several years ago — and this month led to his termination from the Ivy League school. “Harvard Medical School has affiliation agreements with several Boston hospitals which it neither owns nor operationally controls. Hospital-based faculty, such as Dr. Kulldorff, are employed by one of the affiliates, not by HMS, and require an active hospital appointment to...
  • Hospital pays job applicant who refused mandated flu shot

    03/12/2024 8:46:07 AM PDT · by george76 · 10 replies
    WND News Center ^ | March 8, 2024 | Bob Unruh
    Corporation cited for illegal religious discrimination.. A hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich., has agreed to pay a settlement to a job applicant who had been offered a position, but then was arbitrarily rejected because he declined to take a flu shot hospital officials demanded. ... The fight involved Trinity Health Grand Rapids, which previously was known as Mercy Health St. Mary's. The resolution includes a consent decree that allows paying of some $50,000 to the worker who was rejected. The case originally was filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and charged the hospital improperly denied a job applicant’s...
  • The Ministry of Health Granted Vaccine Exemptions to Hundreds Among Its Key Staff. ( New Zealand )

    02/27/2024 9:38:32 AM PST · by george76 · 7 replies
    Hatchard Report ^ | October 4, 2023 | Guy Hatchard
    Whilst Hypocritically Insisting That the Public Be Vaccinated.. ... “From 13 November 2021 to 26 September 2022, a total of 478 applications for Significant Service Disruption exemption (SSD) were received. 103 applications were granted, covering approximately 11,005 workers ... 95 consultants in the Dunedin region alone benefitted from vaccine exemptions. Another source has pointed to a group of doctors working in Northland who arranged among themselves to remain unvaccinated. The total appears to run to hundreds and possibly more. It seems that those granted exemptions were restrained by gag orders. In other words, they could not tell anyone that they...
  • Children’s hospital to pay parking lot worker $45,000 for refusing to grant him a religious exemption to flu vaccine mandate

    12/29/2023 7:25:19 AM PST · by george76 · 20 replies
    Law&Crime ^ | Dec 27th, 2023 | ELURA NANOSDec 27th, 2023
    One of the nation’ top children’s hospitals must pay $45,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by a maintenance worker who refused to get a flu shot for religious reasons. DeMaurius Jackson worked at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) in Georgia as a maintenance assistant. According to court documents, Jackson’s duties primarily consisted of groundskeeping in outdoor parking lots, which required minimal interaction with the public. Jackson said his work involved no close proximity to patients, visitors, or staff. According to Jackson’s complaint, he converted to Judaism in November of 2016. In 2017 and 2018, Jackson requested and received...
  • Employee lawsuits over Covid vaccines still circulating in North Carolina

    11/26/2023 6:22:14 AM PST · by george76 · 15 replies
    Triangle Business Journal ^ | Nov 22, 2023 | Lauren Ohnesorge
    While Covid-19 has all but disappeared from the national discourse, lawsuits tied to vaccination mandates are hitting courts in North Carolina. Jenna Johlin-Thompson, a former account executive at television station WSFX in Wilmington, is suing the company over her refusal to get vaccinated. Johlin-Thompson, who filed her lawsuit in federal court Nov. 17, relocated to North Carolina from Ohio in 2021 to work at WSFX, which is owned by Charlotte-based American Spirit Media. Within months of her hire, she received an email regarding mandated Covid-19 vaccinations. While she was told to “trust the science,” Johlin-Thompson believed her “body is a...
  • Charges dropped against restaurant that refused to shut down or use vaccine passports during COVID lockdowns

    11/18/2023 12:46:44 PM PST · by Twotone · 27 replies
    The Blaze ^ | November 16, 2023 | Andrew Chapados
    A restaurant that refused to shut down during COVID-19 restrictions and didn't require documentation of vaccination had its charges dropped after finally getting its day in court. The crown dropped charges against Jesse Johnson, owner of Without Papers Pizza, after just 10 minutes of action in the courtroom, Media Bezirgan reported. The Calgary, Canada, business faced shutdowns and charges from the Alberta provincial government after it refused to close while also declining to participate in Canada's vaccine passport program, which required two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to eat indoors at restaurants. "These bastards, they literally tried to break me...
  • The CDC has stopped printing COVID vaccine cards. Here's what to do with your old one.

    10/06/2023 11:16:29 AM PDT · by george76 · 63 replies
    Yahoo ^ | October 5, 2023 | Rebecca Corey
    Because COVID-19 vaccines are no longer being distributed by the federal government, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped printing those little white vaccine cards that were once so ubiquitous during the COVID pandemic. The cards' discontinuation isn't expected to be a big change, as experts say it’s unlikely we’ll return to the era when COVID vaccine cards functioned like IDs to enter restaurants, see a show or board an international flight. So can we now finally clean out our wallets and say sayonara to those little white cards? Here's what experts told Yahoo Life earlier this summer....
  • Face masks become mandatory in certain UK hospitals amid rise in Covid cases

    10/03/2023 7:19:35 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    Euroweekly News ^ | 03 Oct 2023 | Aaron Hindhaugh
    Face masks become mandatory in certain UK hospitals. Face masks now required to be worn in area of some UK hospitals. Amid a drastic rise in Covid cases, people in certain areas of Leicester’s hospitals will be required to wear a face covering once again. It now seems like a long and distant memory or even a nightmare for a lot of people, the whole of the UK and large parts of the world were being told they had to wear a face mask when entering public places to help stop the spread of Covid 19. This saw people in...
  • Rutgers Set to Disenroll Students on August 15th if Not Compliant with COVID Vaccine Mandates

    08/21/2023 1:50:36 PM PDT · by george76 · 55 replies
    Brownstone ^ | AUGUST 14, 2023 | Lucia Sinatra
    March 25, 2021, Rutgers University became the first university in the nation to announce it would require students to take COVID vaccines for fall 2021 enrollment, retracting its January 8, 2021 announcement that “…with our stance of human liberties and our history of protecting that, the vaccine is not mandatory.” What happened within a few short months that made Rutgers ultimately decide to hell with student civil liberties? Rutgers claimed and still does to this day that it has a “commitment to health and safety for all members of its community” even though on July 30, 2021, Rochelle Walensky issued...
  • Canadian cop who gave $50 to Freedom Convoy ordered to work 80 unpaid hours as punishment

    05/25/2023 3:27:08 AM PDT · by george76 · 32 replies
    Life Site News ^ | May 23, 2023 | Anthony Murdoch
    Constable Michael Brisco will be forced to serve the extra hours on rest days and vacations. ... WINDSOR, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A Canadian police officer who donated $50 dollars to the Freedom Convoy last year was told by an adjudicator he must work 80 unpaid hours as punishment. Last Thursday, Constable Michael Brisco of the Windsor Police Service in a penalty hearing was given his sentence by retired Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superintendent Morris Elbers. Elbers said the $50 donation was a “serious” violation and that the hours will be worked on vacation or rest days. “As a police officer,...
  • Parents livid over California school's 'mandatory' drag show

    03/12/2023 9:57:56 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 83 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | March 11, 2023 | Eric Ting
    Parents in Elk Grove, California, are livid after a high school assembly featured a drag show that the parents say was inappropriate — and mandatory for students to attend.
  • US proposes once-a-year COVID shots for most Americans

    01/23/2023 10:59:06 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 59 replies
    Associated Press ^ | January 24, 2023 | Matthew Perrone
    U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a simplified approach for future vaccination efforts, allowing most adults and children to get a once-a-year shot to protect against the mutating virus. This means Americans would no longer have to keep track of how many shots they’ve received or how many months it’s been since their last booster. The proposal comes as boosters have become a hard sell. While more than 80% of the U.S. population has had at least one vaccine dose, only 16% of those...
  • “Died Suddenly” Is Anti-Vaxxers’ New Favorite Phrase

    01/23/2023 2:29:06 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 87 replies
    Slate ^ | JAN 23, 2023 | Lizzie O'Leary
    Mis- and disinformation have been prevalent throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but in recent months anti-vax activists and conspiracy theorists have latched on to a new phrase to help their cause: “died suddenly.” Anti-vaxxers hoping to convince people that COVID vaccines are linked to sudden deaths among younger people have invoked the term while trying to exploit tragic events like the death of soccer journalist Grant Wahl, or Damar Hamlin suffering a cardiac arrest during an NFL game. Though that theory has no scientific evidence to support it, the “died suddenly” rhetoric has gained a lot of traction on social media....
  • Masks saw more than 90% of deaf people struggle to communicate during pandemic

    10/04/2022 11:43:08 AM PDT · by george76 · 35 replies
    Medical Xpress ^ | OCTOBER 3, 2022 | University of Essex
    Mandatory mask wearing saw more than 90% of deaf people struggle to communicate during the pandemic, University of Essex research has revealed. It also discovered that 76% missed vital information and 59% felt disconnected from society due to the face coverings. This is because masks restrict the ability to read lips and judge expressions. It also emerged that over-55s who became deaf later in life found communication using masks more challenging. And profoundly deaf people and signers experienced more disconnection from society and negative effects on their well-being. Dr. Eva Gutierrez-Sigut, from the Department of Psychology, led a team of...
  • Auckland Museum temporarily closes as group refuse to wear masks (New Zealand)

    04/05/2022 5:55:26 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 6 replies
    1 News New Zealand ^ | 4/5/2022 | Jane Nixon
    A group of anti-mask protesters who gathered outside the Auckland War Memorial Museum on Tuesday forced the facility to close temporarily. The group, led by parents of home schooled children, refused to wear masks, a current requirement of the museum at the Red setting of the traffic light system... Co-Founder of Voices For Freedom, Claire Deeks, who was in attendance, posted the incident to Facebook on Tuesday replying to a comment which explained mask-wearing rules, that masks are mandatory if a person is exempt. Deeks said she was there with her 10-year old son and it wasn't a Voices For...
  • Unvaxxed nurse facing termination reaches out in viral social media post for help finding a job. ( Boise, Idaho )

    03/17/2022 10:25:53 AM PDT · by george76 · 18 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | Mar 16, 2022 | Ashley Sadler
    Rineke Lewis, a registered nurse in Boise, Idaho, said she expects to be fired after her exemption to the mandatory vaccination rule had been revoked and her religious exemption request denied. Though Democrat politicians are rapidly throwing out increasingly unpopular COVID jab mandates ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, many ordinary Americans, including frontline healthcare workers, still face termination for refusing to get the experimental drugs. Last week, one Idaho nurse’s heartfelt Instagram message went viral when she explained that she faced imminent termination for refusing the shot, and asked followers whether they had any “leads” on other nursing positions...
  • Catholic, Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers Drop Lawsuit After Vaccine Restrictions Lifted

    03/15/2022 4:47:01 AM PDT · by george76 · 3 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | Mar 11, 2022 | Mairead Elordi
    The group called it an “unprecedented abuse of power” by city leadership.. A group of Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers and a Catholic businessman have dropped their lawsuit against the city’s vaccine passport program after the restrictions were lifted last week. The group of five Orthodox Jews, which include a rabbi, along with one Catholic, filed a federal lawsuit against New York Democratic Mayor Eric Adams and his health commissioner last month over the city’s COVID-19 “vaccine passport” program, dubbed “Key to NYC.” The group called the vaccine passports “discriminatory and unconstitutional” and said it was an “unprecedented abuse of power”...
  • U-turn On Mandatory Covid Vaccinations For NHS And Social Care Workers

    01/30/2022 4:13:43 PM PST · by Enlightened1 · 31 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 01/30/22 | Gabriella Swerling
    Mandatory Covid jabs for NHS and social care workers are set to be scrapped, The Telegraph can reveal, after warnings of crippling staff shortages if the plan went ahead.Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, will on Monday meet fellow ministers on the Covid-Operations Cabinet committee to rubber stamp the decision on the about-turn.Multiple government sources said ministers are expected to end the requirement because the omicron Covid variant, now dominant in the UK, is milder than previous strains.The move comes after warnings that almost 80,000 healthcare workers would be forced out of their jobs because they had declined to take two...
  • Big Justin Is Watching You, Truckers. ( Canada )

    01/29/2022 7:07:40 AM PST · by george76 · 15 replies
    PJ Media ^ | JAN 28, 2022 | Lincoln Brown
    Washington Post did its usual bang-up job of caterwauling and keening loudly and sanctimoniously into its echo chamber by calling the truckers fascists and invoking the racial element, mainly because the legacy media could not report on a disc golf tournament without racializing it. Race is hot sauce to the MSM — everything tastes better with a little racism sprinkled on it. ... The convoy, which is reported to be some 70 km long (that’s around 43 miles for you and me) is one result of Canadians’ exasperation with the interminable government restrictions imposed on them to prevent the spread...
  • Tiger catches COVID-19, falls ill at Grand Rapids zoo

    12/14/2021 7:37:45 PM PST · by quantim · 45 replies
    mlive.com ^ | Dec. 13, 2021, 11:53 a.m | Michael Kransz
    GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A 16-year-old Amur tiger at John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids has tested positive for COVID-19. Zoo officials say the female tiger named Nika is doing well and its health is continuing to improve after recently becoming ill. A test confirmed COVID-19 positivity. The tiger was due to receive its second COVID-19 vaccination shot on the day it became ill, officials said. The zoo is located at 1300 W. Fulton St.