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In reply to the discussion: A Federal Judge Blocks A Vaccine Mandate For NYC Teachers [View all]NickB79
(19,483 posts)31. My wife is literally throwing away vaccine doses daily
The FDA approved Pfizer over a month ago.
It's available and free EVERYWHERE.
Anyone who really wanted the shot could have had one by now. This isn't about getting "more time". It's about antivaxxers trying their damnedest to not get the shot AT ALL.
But fine. Let's extend it a week or two. Then what? Another extension? Another? Any hard line will eventually cause chaos, because a solid 20% of the US population is so brainwashed that they're willing to lose their job rather than get the vaccine.
The longer we kick the can down the road, the more people get infected.
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Now even the Federal Judges go all DeathSantis on us ... stupid mutherf**kers, is a Republican
NotHardly
Sep 2021
#3
Ignorant statement. Since Pfizer was FDA approved, the NYC teacher's union has fought
Scrivener7
Sep 2021
#7
Vaccines were not FDA approved and therefore could not be a work requirement.
Scrivener7
Sep 2021
#18
The Union negotiated a contract with NYC and any change on the conditions of employment
PoliticAverse
Sep 2021
#8
And if they didn't get the extension and the chaos ensued due to staffing shortages,
Scrivener7
Sep 2021
#10
This issue needed to be dealt with before schools opened but, in typical NYC fashion, it wasn't. n/t
PoliticAverse
Sep 2021
#11
Uh huh. Pfizer was FDA approved in the end of August. The NYC Dept of Ed is an
Scrivener7
Sep 2021
#13
Yes. . .nothing helps out huge nationwide teacher shortage than attacking teachers
AZLD4Candidate
Sep 2021
#17
A low bar indeed. Unvaccinated idiots should be segregated from polite society.
Lucky Luciano
Sep 2021
#21
The union has no problem with vaccine mandates. They were the ones who pushed for it
Scrivener7
Sep 2021
#29
I don't know why the people who brought the complaint brought it. They are not the union.
Scrivener7
Sep 2021
#33
There is a lot of Bush-style "you're either for us or against us" thinking in the world,
Steelrolled
Sep 2021
#23
That is absolute nonsense. And bashing the teachers' union over this decision is an irrational,
Scrivener7
Sep 2021
#32
I am a member of the union. I am very well versed in how it works. I am also very
Scrivener7
Sep 2021
#35
And exactly who are these people you are referring to who "should be fired?"
Scrivener7
Sep 2021
#41
PS: and really? You're going with the argument that you saw it in the news and therefore it must
Scrivener7
Sep 2021
#42
Bush appointed him to the district court and Trump elevated him to the appeals court
onenote
Sep 2021
#36
The teacher's union wasn't involved in this lawsuit, it was brought on behalf of an individual
PoliticAverse
Sep 2021
#25
what legal grounds were there for this? This is a long court approved action. Long precendent.
ZonkerHarris
Sep 2021
#37