Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I’m sure all the hardcore conservatives will be grateful they aren’t being reduced to freeloading moochers, right?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/07/fir...ou-likely-cant-get-unemployment-benefits.html

 

Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug

 

This is where I balk. The children of idiots don’t deserve to go without groceries just because their parents are idiots. I understand that there are lots of jobs available right now, but that’s the sort of thing a Republican would say.

 

You are not eligible for unemployment when you simply quit a job for other reasons. Why should you be eligible when you quit for that reason?

 

Understood. This isn’t quitting and it is not a traditional firing, however. I’d create an exception. A worker could be a stellar worker and not miss a day of work for 30 years in this situation and — yes, because of their stubbornness — get axed. I understand that employers and many others may disagree , but this is such a tiny sliver of the workforce and so unprecedented that I’d show grace.

 

But it is. If a polio vaccine was required for working, and a worker didn't get it, he would be fired. An unvaccinated worker is a medical hazard to everyone in his/her workplace. Period.

Score this under one of the GOP's unintended consequences for passing "right-to-work" laws.

 

Agreed on the second point. This would be handled better for all with union representation.

 

The guy who shows up for work every day for 30 years has been in countless situations where he’s had to be a realist and compromise, so he’s not stupid enough to toss away a career and a pension.

 

Ye gods ... address @Hermes' initial point. It's entirely OK to say, yeah, I see why thus-and-such, and why my guys are thusly attuned, but still ...

 

With the various school board debacles around the country over masks, I enjoyed my old hometown welcoming its biggest crowd in decades to a school board meeting where everyone fought over...whether 7th and 8th graders should be allowed to play varsity sports. There were tearful pleas and angry testimonials, screaming, and finger-pointing. Not a word about masks though. At least according to a rock-solid source, my dad, who heard it at the barber shop from someone who heard it from someone who was maybe there but might have just heard it from someone else.

And two weeks later the board reversed the ban it put in that first meeting and now 7th and 8th graders can, indeed, play varsity sports.

 

If those parents keep it up, Critical Race Theory is going to be deprived of scholarships.

 

Sorry. Fuck that.

We cannot pay teachers, who are trying to help children, too, but let’s give money to idiots. Fuck that.