I just got notified that my employer is not rescinding its mandate because it is a “federal contractor” and will abide by the federal mandate. I will be fired on January 4th, unless something changes between now and then. I should point out that I was not even aware that my employer had a significant federal contract or contracts, as it is not involved in manufacturing of military equipment/weapons (to my knowledge). I think this is an excuse for them to keep the mandate in place, since they announced it when the OSHA requirement was implemented (and referenced the OSHA requirement at that time with no mention of a federal mandate pre-empting the OSHA mandate). Further, the liability they would presumably assume if they did rescind the mandate now could potentially be measured in tens of millions of dollars if some employees got the injections in the interim (during the time that the mandate was in place) that resulted in (or may result in) disability or death.
Although religious and medical exemptions are being honored, I will not seek an exemption because I can’t imagine continuing to work at a place that fired its employees for something so immoral and unjust. I would go to work every day feeling cowardice and shame! I think the people who remain at work will have a lot of unresolved guilt from which they will not be able to escape. I can’t believe they don’t already see that, but it will be a reality in January when the firings happen. They’ll tell themselves that they’re doing it (submitting to authority, taking the shot, relinquishing their rights) to support their families, but deep down they have to know that it is their families’ futures (especially their kids’ futures!) that they’re delivering into slavery and death. If they would just take a stand now - in the face of this evil - and refuse to comply as a matter of principle, unified across the board, vaccinated or not, this crap would end right here and right now. By complying with the mandates, they’re pushing the responsibility (that they also have as Americans!) to fight this rights-violating evil onto those who don’t.
Cowardice is a terrible thing to live with. And once you go down that road, I don't think you can come back. If people lose their jobs and potentially their homes and starve to death because they're locked out of the economy due to these mandates, how do you reconcile that with yourself for letting them take the fall so you can retain your way of life (temporarily)? The shame! The cowardice! -that lasts a lifetime!
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