Good for Rogan. Gupta is a smarmy POS.

Chicago mayor backs down on COVID threat, won’t fire unvaccinated teachers

https://www.lifesitenews.com/n...red&utm_campaign=usa

After threatening to fire public school teachers who are not vaccinated by this Friday, Chicago’s Democratic-run city government has backed down and will allow those who have rejected the problematic abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccine to continue employment if they agree to weekly testing.

In August, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that all Chicago Public School (CPS) employees would be required to provide proof that they are fully vaccinated by October 15 or face losing their jobs.

While the city promised that those able to obtain medical or religious exemptions would be permitted to continue employment, the city’s Catholic archbishop, Cardinal Blase Cupich, banned pastors from providing religious exemption letters for parishioners, claiming that exemptions are not supported by Church teaching or law.

“Employees will not be barred from coming to work,” said CPS head Pedro Martinez. “We’re going to just work with them to see where they’re at in the vaccination process, what hesitation they might have, what information we can give them … I feel fairly confident that we’re going to be ok.”

Easing of the strict policy came after the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), joined by the two Service Employees International Union (SEIU) groups representing support staff in the school district, wrote a letter on Wednesday to Lightfoot asserting that it is unfair for her to have relaxed vaccine requirements for other city workers while not doing the same for CPS employees who are “disproportionately Black and Latinx women.”

“This disparate enforcement of the vaccine policy will leave schools dangerously understaffed, and disproportionately impact employees of color within CPS,” wrote the Unions. “Surely, you are also aware of the reluctance to vaccination that exists in Black and Brown communities, which is justified in the context of our nation’s history.”

“Punitive enforcement of the vaccination policy in its current form will be ineffectual and will further destabilize already understaffed schools,” they warned. “Understaffed schools are unsafe schools. We urge you to avert this dangerous situation by refraining from punitive enforcement of your vaccine policy for CPS staff.”

In their letter, the school employee unions — historically aligned with the most progressive elements in the Democratic Party — went out of their way to stir racial discord in their criticism of the city’s police union whose leader has urged members to resist the mayor’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate:

It seems inconceivable that you would move to accommodate some workers, including the predominantly white male workforce at the Chicago Police Department whose union has actively opposed the vaccine policy, while your team at CPS seems intent on simply barring from work Black and Brown workers who confront very different challenges in meeting vaccine mandates. These challenges include concerns about the historic harm that medical mistreatment has caused communities of color, to lack of access to shots and reliable information about the vaccine and how to get it.

Chicago police risk layoffs while standing firm against city vaccine-associated mandates
On Tuesday, the president of the Chicago police officer’s union posted a video advising members not to comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine reporting mandate.

Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) head John Catanzara noted in the video that police and other city workers would be forced “into a no-pay status” and be sent home on Friday for not entering required information on the mandated vaccine portal.

“Do not fill out the portal information,” Catanzara told union members,” or “subject to testing thereafter.”

“Once you do that, we can never get that information back,” said Catanzara. “We have no assurances from the city that that is secure,” or “who it can be shared with.”

“I’ve made my status very clear as far as the vaccine, but I do not believe the city has the authority to mandate that to anybody let alone that information about your medical history,” he said.

“Hold the line,” urged Catanzara. “The simple fact that they keep putting out public statements, emails, and having bosses call you means one thing: Our members are holding the line.”

“If we get a large number of our members to stand firm on our belief that this is an overreach, and they’re not going to supply the information in the portal or submit to testing, then it’s safe to say that the city will have police force at fifty percent or less for this weekend coming up.”

“I can guarantee you that no-pay status will not last more than 30 days,” said Catanzara in the video. “There’s no way they’re going to be able to sustain a police department workforce at 50% capacity or less for more than seven days without something budging.”

Yet another ‘after vaccine event’, this time to an Austrian member of their parliament.
Announces on Instagram she has been vaccinated and then immediately faints at a session.

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021...e-vaccines-are-ssss/

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Cardinal Blase Cupich, banned pastors from providing religious exemption letters for parishioners, claiming that exemptions are not supported by Church teaching or law.

Remember that the next time the church asserts you should be handling over money to them on an ongoing basis.

That just applies to Omaha I would presume. It is possible that a local priest was handing out thousands of letters. I have no way of knowing.

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Remember that the next time the church asserts you should be handling over money to them on an ongoing basis.

Exactly this. They receive enough pushback, they’ll change their tune VERY quickly.

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Yet another ‘after vaccine event’, this time to an Austrian member of their parliament.
Announces on Instagram she has been vaccinated and then immediately faints at a session.

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021...e-vaccines-are-ssss/

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Cardinal Blase Cupich, banned pastors from providing religious exemption letters for parishioners, claiming that exemptions are not supported by Church teaching or law.

First, the Catholic church has priests, not pastors. Second, the good Cardinal might want to read through his catechism again.

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Remember that the next time the church asserts you should be handling over money to them on an ongoing basis.

Except that tithing is supported by Church teaching or law.

^^^While Catholic Churches do have Priests, the 'Head Priest' at each Parish is the Pastor...

Apologies for this, have your bp meds handy.
Still, PJW does rip Olby several new ones --

Apparently Gustofer is not Catholic.

There's been plenty enough reason not to give the catholic church you're money long before this vaccination crap came around.

thank god I'm an atheist

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

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Remember that the next time the church asserts you should be handling over money to them on an ongoing basis.

Except that tithing is supported by Church teaching or law.

And virtually anything else is supported by the church so long as you have the money and/or power to purchase what position they will take.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
thank god I'm an atheist

This comment struck me as different. With no malice or assery on my part, and just out of curiosity.....when the term used as thank god, God, Allah, Sun God, Spirit in the Sky etc.

How does this jive. Wouldn't the proper term be "Thank Goodness"?

Again, no disrespect.

Thanks.

Video at link: https://nationalfile.com/video...he-ages-of-5-and-11/

Biden Brags About Buying Enough COVID Vaccines To Inject Every Child ‘Between The Ages Of 5 And 11

Democrat President Joe Biden boasted that the U.S. government has bought enough COVID-19 vaccines to inject “all children between the ages of 5 and 11 in the United States,” despite the fact that many parents do not believe it is necessary to vaccinate their children for COVID-19.
“Now I know uh, parents out there are anxiously waiting for a vaccine for children ages five to 11,” Biden stated without providing evidence for this claim. “The good news is the FDA and outside experts from the CDC are set to make its determination as to whether the vaccine will be authorized for that age range in the next few weeks.”

Biden continued, “If authorized, We are ready. We have purchased enough vaccines for all children, between the ages of 5 and 11, in the United States, and we’ll be, it’ll be convenient for parents to get their children vaccinated at trusted locations, and families will be able to sleep easier at night knowing their kids are protected.”

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Originally posted by highroundcount:
Wouldn't the proper term be "Thank Goodness"?

How would that be funny?

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Originally posted by Keystoner:
Apparently Gustofer is not Catholic.

I've been Catholic my entire life and I've never heard of priests referred to as pastor. Granted, I've always been in small parishes with one or maybe two priests...usually only one.

I stand corrected. Learn something new every day.

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Biden Brags About Buying Enough COVID Vaccines To Inject Every Child ‘Between The Ages Of 5 And 11

Democrat President Joe Biden boasted that the U.S. government has bought enough COVID-19 vaccines to inject “all children between the ages of 5 and 11 in the United States,” despite the fact that many parents do not believe it is necessary to vaccinate their children for COVID-19.
“Now I know uh, parents out there are anxiously waiting for a vaccine for children ages five to 11,” Biden stated without providing evidence for this claim. “The good news is the FDA and outside experts from the CDC are set to make its determination as to whether the vaccine will be authorized for that age range in the next few weeks.”

Child abuse.

President Two Scoops should take all of it himself.

Immunization expert: ‘Unvaccinated people are not dangerous; vaccinated people are dangerous for others’


"World Health Organization European Advisory Group of Experts in Immunization former Vice President Professor Christian Perronne yesterday said that all vaccinated people must quarantine over the winter months or risk serious illness.
Perronne specializes in tropical pathologies and emerging infectious diseases. He was Chairman of the Specialized Committee on Communicable Diseases of the High Council of Public Health.

Confirming the rapidly deteriorating situation in Israel and the UK, the infectious disease expert stated: “Vaccinated people should be put in quarantine, and should be isolated from the society.”

He went on to say: “Unvaccinated people are not dangerous; vaccinated people are dangerous for others. It’s proven in Israel now – I’m in contact with many physicians in Israel – they’re having big problems, severe cases in the hospitals are among vaccinated people, and in UK also, you have the larger vaccination program and also there are problems.”

The current working group on the COVID-19 pandemic in France was reported to be “utterly panicked” on receipt of the news, fearing pandemonium if it follows the guidance of the experts.

Israeli doctor Kobi Haviv told Channel 13 News: “95% of seriously ill patients are vaccinated. Fully vaccinated people account for 85-90% of hospitalizations. We are opening more and more COVID branches.
The effectiveness of vaccines is declining or disappearing.”

https://americasfrontlinedocto...angerous-for-others/