Earl (09-30-2021)
Goodbye, and good riddance By Leonard Pitts Jr. Syndicated columnist
"“If you want to leave, take good care, hope you make a lot of nice friends out there.”
— From the song “Wild World” by Cat Stevens
This is for those of you who’ve chosen to quit your jobs rather than submit to a vaccine mandate.
No telling how many of you there actually are, but lately, you’re all over the news. Just last week, a nearly-30-year veteran of the San Jose Police Department surrendered his badge rather than comply with the city’s requirement that all employees be inoculated against COVID-19. He joins an Army lieutenant colonel, some airline employees, a Major League Baseball executive, the choral director of the San Francisco Symphony, workers at the tax collector’s office in Orange County, Florida, and, incredibly, dozens of health care professionals.
Well, on behalf of the rest of us, the ones who miss concerts, restaurants and other people’s faces, the ones who are sick and tired of living in pandemic times, here’s a word of response to you quitters: Goodbye.
And here’s two more: Good riddance.
...
So if you’re angry, guess what? You’re not the only ones.
The difference is, your anger is dumb, and ours is not. Yours is about being coerced to do something you don’t want to do. Like that’s new. Like you’re not already required to get vaccinated to start school or travel to other countries. For that matter, you’re also required to mow your lawn, cover your hindparts and, yes, wear a seat belt. So you’re mad at government and your job for doing what they’ve always done.
But the rest of us, we’re mad at you. Because this thing could have been over by now, and you’re the reason it isn’t.
That’s why we were glad President Joe Biden stopped asking nicely, started requiring vaccinations everywhere he had power to do so. We were also glad when employers followed suit. And if that’s a problem for you, then, yes, goodbye, sayonara, auf Wiedersehen, adios and adieu. We’ll miss you, to be sure. But you’re asking us to choose between your petulance and our lives.
And that’s really no choice at all."
And we also bid goodbye forever to those who have made the wrong choice and paid for it with their lives.
May they vote no more.
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Earl (09-30-2021)
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Don't fret...there's great news from the Pres....https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-we...een-vaccinated
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signalmankenneth (09-30-2021)
Truth Detector (09-30-2021)
We are better off without these people risking the lives of others.
Let them all go work in Republican States.
They don't care there.
And they need lots of workers to replace the ones who have died already.
Personal Ignore Policy PIP: I like civil discourse. I will give you all the respect in the world if you respect me. Mouth off to me, or express overt racism, you will be PERMANENTLY Ignore Listed. Zero tolerance. No exceptions. I'll never read a word you write, even if quoted by another, nor respond to you, nor participate in your threads. ... Ignore the shallow. Cherish the thoughtful. Long Live Civil Discourse, Mutual Respect, and Good Debate! ps: Feel free to adopt my PIP. It works well.
evince (09-30-2021), PostmodernProphet (09-30-2021)
Truth Detector (09-30-2021)
20,000 more replacement workers are on the way...12,000 just released into the US in the last week...
Matt Dillon (09-30-2021), Truth Detector (09-30-2021)
The double plus is that this is culling the racists from government jobs
The racists are this deep Republican base who live by these lies
Climb into the hidey holes racists
And shut your filthy mouths around decent people
Or else
Guno צְבִי (09-30-2021), PoliTalker (09-30-2021)
christiefan915 (10-01-2021), Guno צְבִי (09-30-2021), ThatOwlWoman (09-30-2021)
Triple plus
Racists with no jobs can’t buy as many guns for their little race war
Guno צְבִי (09-30-2021), PoliTalker (09-30-2021), ThatOwlWoman (09-30-2021)
evince (10-01-2021), Guno צְבִי (09-30-2021), ThatOwlWoman (09-30-2021)
Damn. Based on the thread title I thought Politifagger was quitting.
christiefan915 (10-01-2021)
cancel2 2022 (09-30-2021), Matt Dillon (09-30-2021), Stringfellow Hawk (09-30-2021), Truth Detector (09-30-2021)
99% of COVID deaths are now of unvaccinated people, experts say
'Oh, I'll be fine. That only happens to other people.'
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