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United Airlines will allow 2,200 workers who refused the Covid vaccine for medical or religious reasons to return to their jobs - even after 200 were fired for not getting the shot.

Great news!
Now... if we can get the military to drop it too...

One Navy Commander is giving it a go...

https://www.military.com/daily...-ship-commander.html

Biden Admin Bans Unvaccinated Tennis Ace Djokovic From Competing

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

Tennis star Novak Djokovic has been denied entry into the U.S. by the Biden administration because he remains unvaccinated against COVID.

Djokovic announced Wednesday that as he expected, he will not be able to compete in upcoming tournaments in California and Florida because CDC regulations mean as a foreign national he will not be granted a visa.

Djokovic tweeted “While I was automatically listed in the @BNPPARIBASOPEN and @MiamiOpen draw I knew it would be unlikely I’d be able to travel.”

The multi time grand slam champion added that “The CDC has confirmed that regulations won’t be changing so I won’t be able to play in the US. Good luck to those playing in these great tournaments.”

So there’s no entry for Djokovic into the U.S. without a vaccination, but for more than two million illegal immigrants the Biden administration is willing to look the other way.

Following his incarceration and eventual deportation from Australia at the beginning of the year, Djokovic asserted that “my body is more important than any title or anything else.”

The legend has vowed to boycott all tournaments, including Wimbledon in London and the French Open in Paris if organizers say he must be vaxxed in order to take part.

In an interview with the BBC, the multi-time grand slam champion said “That is the price I am willing to pay,” when asked if he would miss further events should they mandate vaccinations for participants.

“I’m trying to be in tune with my body as much as I possibly can,” Djokovic continued, adding “for me, as an elite professional athlete I have always carefully reviewed and assessed everything that comes in, from the supplements, the food, the water that I drink or sports drinks, anything really that comes into my body as a fuel.”

“Based on all the information that I got, I decided not to take the vaccine,” he further declared.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covi...e-djokovic-competing

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Tennis star Novak Djokovic has been denied entry into the U.S. by the Biden administration because he remains unvaccinated against COVID.

So let me get this straight. We know conclusively at this point that the BS vaccines do nothing to inhibit acquisition and spread of Covid. That topic is no longer open for debate or rebuttal. But, the retard administration is going to ban admittance into the US of one of the healthiest individuals in the world. This is purely spiteful by a group of tyrant wannabees because this individual won't bend a knee to the Covidians.

Again, I contend you could grab up two dozen drug and alcohol addicted transients from under any bridge in the country and put them in charge, and they couldn't screw things up as badly as the current crop of America hating retards in Washington.

And by the way, I don't give a damn about tennis. Don't play it and have only glanced at it on occasion. Just calling a retard a retard here.

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Again, I contend you could grab up two dozen drug and alcohol addicted transients from under any bridge in the country and put them in charge, and they couldn't screw things up as badly as the current crop of America hating retards in Washington.

I think you give too much credit our congressmen and political elites. I would put cold hard cash on a huge improvement from a couple dozen crackheads over the current swamp things in charge.

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Again, I contend you could grab up two dozen drug and alcohol addicted transients from under any bridge in the country and put them in charge, and they couldn't screw things up as badly as the current crop of America hating retards in Washington.

I think you give too much credit our congressmen and political elites. I would put cold hard cash on a huge improvement from a couple dozen crackheads over the current swamp things in charge.

Guarantee you they know how to manipulate the supply chain!

I didn't realize non-citizens or non-permanent residents couldn't enter the US without a Vaccine. That's freaking retarded. Damn this administration. And yet millions a year under this shameful White House cross over the border without so much as a howdy do.

Maybe someone should suggest that he cross the border illegally from Mexico…seems like a sure fire way to reach his goal.

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That said, I'm not so sure I'd want to go back to work for an employer like that. Once they demonstrate their stupidity, it's probably best to move on to avoid future encounters.

With you 100%, however the airlines are a very interesting world where seniority is (almost) everything. You might be the ace of the base senor captain flying 747s at one airline and if you leave and go to another you start over at the bottom of the seniority list. It doesn’t make it easy for a pilot to say, “Screw this place, I’m going somewhere else!”

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That said, I'm not so sure I'd want to go back to work for an employer like that. Once they demonstrate their stupidity, it's probably best to move on to avoid future encounters.

With you 100%, however the airlines are a very interesting world where seniority is (almost) everything. You might be the ace of the base senor captain flying 747s at one airline and if you leave and go to another you start over at the bottom of the seniority list. It doesn’t make it easy for a pilot to say, “Screw this place, I’m going somewhere else!”

You're right. It's not easy.
Same for a police office to give up receiving a pension because they refuse to enforce unconstitutional mandates or a store owner refusing to close his doors.

I wonder if that's a Union dictated 'protecting the rights of the worker' thing?

We've been forced to take our dammed shoes off for 21 years now, how much you want to bet these assholes plan on us all having to still wear a mask at the airport and on an airplane 21 years from now?

Power is never relinquished voluntarily by these people.

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Virus
Health
Survival
Control

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I wonder if that's a Union dictated 'protecting the rights of the worker' thing?

All I'll say is our "union" didn't protect us from a got damp thing...

Couldn't happen to a more deserving tyrant.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.c...ded-political-crony/

Texas Authorities Raid Far-Left Harris County Judge’s Office, Seize Computers in Probe Related to $11 Million ‘Vaccine Contract’ Awarded to Political Crony

By Cristina Laila
Published March 11, 2022 at 4:56pm


Another day, another corrupt Democrat.

Texas Rangers on Friday morning raided the office of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and executed a search warrant related to an $11 million ‘vaccine outreach contract’ awarded to one of the judge’s political cronies, KHOU 11 News reported.

Recall, radical far-left judge Lina Hidalgo was one of the most aggressive Covid tyrants in Texas during the pandemic.

In May 2020 Lina Hidalgo called on Texans to snitch on restaurants if they had big crowds.

Hidalgo also previously threatened 180 days in jail for those who opposed her stay at home orders.

Now she’s being investigated for canceling an $11 million vaccine contract after questions were raised that it was with a one-person firm with no experience.

KHOU 11 News reported:

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State authorities executed search warrants Friday morning at the offices of at least two members of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo’s staff, KHOU 11 News has learned.

Texas Rangers were at the offices inside the Harris County Administration Building, sources told KHOU 11 News.

The sources also said the investigation is related to an $11 million vaccine outreach contract that was canceled by Hidalgo late last year. They were searching for county-issued computers and devices related to the issue.

“A judge signed search warrants, which are legal authorization to search for and seize potential evidence of a crime,” Dane Schiller with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said. “Out of fairness for all parties involved, we have no additional comment at this time.”

Within hours of the raid, candidates for Harris County Judge in the upcoming elections reached out to KHOU with statements.

“This controversial deal that has never passed the “smell test” happened over 6 months ago and Harris County taxpayers still don’t know the truth,” a spokesperson for Republican candidate Alexandra Del Moral Mealer said in a statement. “Time and time again, we see that Lina Hidalgo prioritizes political patronage over the interests of Harris County. This is shameful behavior by our County Judge. It shouldn’t take subpoenas to force Lina Hidalgo to tell the truth about an $11 million contract given to a political crony. Leadership starts with accountability – it can’t always be someone else’s fault. At least voters will have the chance to replace Lina.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...AUXsGH?ocid=BingNews

Mayor Lori Lightfoot warns police and other city employees will lose pay if they don’t get 1st COVID-19 vaccine by Sunday

Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune - 50m ago

Mayor Lori Lightfoot will put Chicago police officers and other city workers who don’t get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by Sunday on nondisciplinary no-pay status, her administration said late Friday.

The city will also consider disciplining workers, though it will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis as the Lightfoot administration balances its public health policies with staffing problems in the Police Department.

“All city employees, including Chicago police officers, who fail to comply may also face disciplinary action, up to and including termination. These decisions will be addressed at an individual and department level, and are being undertaken in a manner that will not impact public safety or the continuity of everyday government operations,” her office said in a statement.

Lightfoot’s latest pronouncement comes after the city won another round in court this week in its legal battle with the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police over the vaccine mandate. But she faces pressure not just from the police union — which has appealed the latest legal ruling and claims the mandate will results in an exodus of officers — but also from a group of aldermen still seeking to undo the rule.

The lawsuit filed last year by Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 and other police unions against the city resulted in a February arbitrator ruling that upheld the requirement for city employees to be vaccinated, and set this Sunday as the deadline to get the first shot.

A judge’s decision this week to deny the union’s request to reconsider, and to lift a previous order pausing the vaccine policy, were additional setbacks for the local FOP, whose president, John Catanzara, has for months insisted the mandate violated union collective bargaining agreements.

The FOP has appealed that ruling, but Catanzara acknowledged to his membership in an online video Friday that unvaccinated officers could be placed on no-pay status Monday. However, he said the arbitrator indicated Friday that officers who have pending vaccine exemption requests will be excused from the rule until they receive a determination, and that those denied exemptions will get a six-week reprieve. Catanzara said hundreds of officers could fall into that category.

Those statements could not immediately be confirmed by a City Hall representative.

On Wednesday, when announcing the appeal, Catanzara said: “I don’t know what happens over the next 72 hours. All I can tell you is we are not going to stop punching. This easily can be all averted before this cliff becomes a reality.”

The “cliff” was a reference to the just-under 2,800 Chicago police officers who remain unvaccinated — and, according to Catanzara, may walk off the force soon unless they get religious or medical exemptions to the vaccination policy.

Catanzara in recent weeks has sounded the alarm over what he said will be a “bloodbath” in Chicago if his predictions of a mass resignation come true. He did not immediately respond to questions Friday on why he thinks a substantial share of those 2,800 officers will quit.

As of March 3, 30 members of the Police Department and 21 Fire Department employees were on no-pay status, according to a city spokesperson. Some city employees have lost pay over failing to comply with an earlier deadline to report their vaccine status or to submit to weekly COVID-19 testing.

The arbitrator’s ruling noted that 6,621 Chicago police officers applied for religious exemptions as of December, about 58% of whom were still waiting for approval or denial. Only 1.5% of requests had been granted.

Citywide, 11% of all accommodations have been granted, while 52% are pending, according to the ruling.

Catanzara in February urged union members who have been denied exemptions to keep submitting requests and to even file a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging “health care discrimination.” This is all to pave a way for a future legal fight over the exemption process itself, he said.

Also Friday, 12 aldermen sent a letter to Lightfoot announcing they would call a special City Council meeting if she did not respond to their concerns over the vaccination mandate. The council members flagged a “clear and present danger” to public safety should first responders be disciplined. The aldermen also pointed to “natural immunity” of workers who have been infected with COVID-19 — which public health experts do not recommend as a substitute for vaccination — and condemned what they said were “lopsided” numbers for exemptions across city departments.

“We cannot afford to lose one more police officer, firefighter, paramedic and city worker at this critical time,” the aldermen wrote.

Under Lightfoot’s directive, all city employees had until Oct. 15 to report their vaccination status but could choose to undergo regular COVID-19 testing, rather than get shots, through the end of the year. After police unions challenged the vaccine mandate in court, though, a judge suspended the Dec. 31 date for members to be fully inoculated, saying that needed to go through arbitration.

Other unions representing city workers, including firefighters, sought to do the same but failed when an arbitrator sided with the city in December. In February, the same arbitrator also handed a defeat to the police unions.

As the city’s newest deadline for the first shot nears, Lightfoot faces tough choices about enforcing the mandate. Police Department staffing is significantly down since 2019 and the city has struggled to recruit replacements for cops who have left the job. Chicago is also in the midst of a major crime spike that began in early 2020.

Cook County Judge Raymond Mitchell, in denying the FOP’s bid to toss the arbitration result Wednesday, made a plea for the two sides to come together despite the contentious road they have gone down. While nodding to his belief that “Chicago needs its police” and that “extraordinary and unrelenting challenges” plagued both city leadership and police, the judge said it wasn’t too late to sit down one more time.

“These have been tough times. Relationships may have frayed,” Mitchell wrote. “But even now, the parties to this case still have it within their power to … negotiate a compromise.”

That same day, Catanzara in a YouTube video castigated Lightfoot and police Superintendent David Brown as having “absolutely stupid leadership.”


Chicago Tribune’s John Byrne contributed.

Stupid - - bitch. I hope they leave en masse and are supported by every single cop and firefighter coming down with a case of blue flu. Let the city rot.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot warns police and other city employees will lose pay if they don’t get 1st COVID-19 vaccine by Sunday

Apparently Mayor Retard didn't get the memo from Washington that Covid is over due to horrifically bad polling numbers for the Dem's.

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Stupid goggle eyed bitch.

Class?

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Stupid goggle eyed bitch.

Class?

Apologies. This bitch.