The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed inclined to allow Kentucky’s Republican attorney general to continue defending a restriction on abortion rights that had been struck down by lower courts.
The underlying issue in the case that was argued at the high court Tuesday is a blocked Kentucky law that abortion rights supporters say would have effectively banned a standard abortion method in the second trimester of pregnancy.
But what is before the justices is a highly technical examination of whether Attorney General Daniel Cameron can intervene in the case, after rulings from a trial court and appellate panel, as well as Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s decision to drop the case.
“Why can’t he just come in and defend the law?” Justice Stephen Breyer asked, seemingly reflecting the consensus view on the bench. The word “abortion” was only mentioned infrequently in the course of 70 minutes of arguments.
Chief Justice John Roberts said that once Beshear’s administration determined it would not file any additional appeals, “maybe Kentucky ought to be there in some form.”
The law was adopted in 2018, when Republican Matt Bevin was governor. Following a lawsuit by abortion providers, a trial court permanently blocked the law, finding it would have made it impossible to perform the abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation. A panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling in June 2020.
Five days later, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to strike down an unrelated Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics. But Cameron, who became attorney general in 2019, said the reasoning used by the high court called into question the ruling against the Kentucky law.
The appeals court, however, rejected his efforts to intervene, prompting his appeal to the Supreme Court.
If Cameron is allowed to take part, he could ask the full appeals court to reconsider the panel decision and allow the law to take effect. If he loses there, Cameron could appeal to the Supreme Court.
The case is separate from the court’s consideration of Mississippi’s call to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the two cases guaranteeing woman’s right to an abortion nationwide, and allow states to set their own rules. Kentucky is among a dozen states with a law that would effectively ban abortions in the event Roe and Casey are jettisoned.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh was in the courtroom Tuesday for the first time in the new term. Kavanaugh took part in arguments remotely last week after a positive test for COVID-19. The court said he had shown no symptoms. All the justices are fully vaccinated against the virus.
Money given to city and county officials ‘significantly increased Joe Biden’s vote’
Research reveals that Mark Zuckerberg handed over a total of $419.5 million to the Center for Technology and Civil Life and the Center for Election Innovation and Research leading up to the 2020 presidential election, and the two groups used it to buy Democrat votes.
Essentially.
With that money, a person could purchase 137,540,983 Chick-fil-A sandwiches. Or 276,550 new Ferrari F8 Tributos, or 278 homes in San Francisco.
Or one presidential election.
The warning comes from William Doyle, a principal researcher at Caesar Rodney Election Research Institute in Irving, Texas, who explained his findings in a report at The Federalist.
He said Zuckerberg’s money was used “to turn out likely Democratic voters.”
Not through traditional political spending, but through a “targeted, private takeover of government election operations by nominally non-partisan – but demonstrably ideological – non-profit organizations.”
There already had been concerns expressed about Zuckerberg’s millions of dollars that were given to various mostly leftist elections officials across the country during the 2020 presidential race.
At least one state already is formally reviewing what happened, and how it impacted the election.
Doyle explained analysis work done by his team shows Zuckerbucks, as they have been derogatorily labeled by some, “significantly increased Joe Biden’s vote margin in key swing states.”
“This unprecedented merger of public election offices with private resources and personnel is an acute threat to our republic, and should be the focus of electoral reform efforts moving forward,” he warned.
“The 2020 election wasn’t stolen — it was likely bought by one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men pouring his money through legal loopholes.”
He explained the $419.5 million “came with strings attached. Every CTCL and CEIR grant spelled out in great detail the conditions under which the grant money was to be used.”
This resulted in the “infiltration of election offices at the city and county level by left-wing activists, and using those offices as a platform to implement preferred administrative practices, voting methods, and data-sharing agreements, and as well as to launch intensive outreach campaigns in areas heavy with Democratic voters.”
Doyle reported in Wisconsin, for example, “vote navigators” helped voters “to answer questions, assist in ballot curing … and witness absentee ballot signatures.”
“CTCL demanded the promotion of universal mail-in voting through suspending election laws, extending deadlines that favored mail-in over in-person voting, greatly expanding opportunities for ‘ballot curing,’ expensive bulk mailings, and other lavish ‘community outreach’ programs that were directed by private activists,” the report said.
Also involved were unmonitored private dropboxes and novel forms of “mail-in ballot electioneering.”
The money spent through Zuckerberg’s strategy fell only a few million short of what states and the federal government spent for “COVID-19-related” election expenses.
And the two organizations, while chartered as non-partisan non-profits, were “highly partisan,” the report found.
The report noted of 26 grants of $1 million or more that CTCL gave to cities in Arizona and six other states, “25 went to areas Biden won in 2020.”
In Wisconsin, “The CTCL funds boosted Democratic-voting Green Bay resources to $47 per voter, while most rural areas still had the same $4 per voter. Similar funding disparities occurred near Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Flint, Dallas, Houston, and other cities that received tens of millions of dollars of CTCL money.”
Doyle noted that elections have been a government function, not for private concerns, because “private organizations are not subject to the rules for public employees and institutions — they are not required to hold public hearings, cannot be monitored via open-records requests and other mechanisms of administrative and financial transparency, are not subject to the normal checks and balances of the governmental process, and are not accountable to voters if the public disapproves of their actions.”
The result of Zuckerberg’s spending was “to create a ‘shadow’ election system with a built-in structural bias that systematically favored Democratic voters over Republican voters.”
Doyle reported, “We call this the injection of structural bias into the 2020 election, and our analysis shows it likely generated enough additional votes for Biden to secure an Electoral College victory in 2020.”
The report explains researchers used Bayesian Additive Regression Trees, an algorithm, to review how changes in key election variables impacted the change in Biden’s 2020 vote share.
They considered the two-party Hillary Clinton 2016 vote share, turnout in 2016, county share of the total state population, geographic location and per-capita spending.
Its results from just the state of Texas showed the activism “narrowed Trump’s Texas margin of victory by about 200,000 votes, which, while significant, was not enough to swing Texas into Biden’s electoral vote column. “
“To put this figure into perspective, however, Ted Cruz’s margin of victory over Beto O’Rourke in Texas’ 2018 Senate race was only 214,921 votes. It is not inconceivable that Democrats would consider a similar effort, were it to take place in 2024, a small price to pay to oust Cruz from his hotly contested Senate seat.”
Preliminary results of Georgia and Wisconsin suggest similar outcomes. “And spending in those states was likely large enough and targeted enough to have shifted them into Biden’s column,” the report said.
Doyle reported, “We have good reason to anticipate that the results of our work will show that CTCL and CEIR involvement in the 2020 election gave rise to an election that, while free, was not fair. The 2020 election wasn’t stolen — it was likely bought with money poured through legal loopholes.”
The strategy, while generally not garnering much attention, is not new. It was in Colorado that several leftist billionaires some 15 years ago decided to turn the state legislature from randomly Democrat- or Republican-majority depending on the election to all Democrat-majority.
They invested a few tens of thousands of dollars in key state legislative candidates and succeeded in turning the state’s law-making body to a Democrat majority, which it has been since then.
It’s also likely to continue that way as those picked to redistrict following the 2020 census have set up the majority of the districts in the state to be heavily influenced by Democrat politics.
Gabby Petito, 22, died of strangulation, Teton County Coroner Brent Blue said Tuesday at a news conference.
Blue also revealed that Petito’s “body had been outside for three to four weeks before discovery,” according to Oil City News.
The young woman’s body was found on September 19, in Grand Teto National Park, located in Wyoming.
She was last seen alive on August 25, according to Newsweek.
Oil City News noted that Blue was unable to provide further details related to toxicology results, per Wyoming statute. But the coroner did confirm that Petito was not pregnant, despite some online speculation.
Petito was on a cross-country road trip with boyfriend Brian Laundrie, 23, before she was reported missing by her family, and then eventually found dead. The pair often used social media to document their travels.
Before Petito’s body was discovered and the search for the 22-year-old intensified, Laundrie was reported missing by his family on September 17.
Laundrie has been named a “person of interest” in the case and his family home was raided by the FBI and reportedly declared a “crime scene.” An arrest warrant was issued for Laundrie on September 23, but he remains missing.
Nearly 30 years to the day that Clarence Thomas won a hard-fought Senate vote to become the Supreme Court’s 106th justice, his publisher is releasing audio and Kindle versions of his bestselling autobiography that describes his path from poor black child to the top of the legal world.
Harper is reviving My Grandfather’s Son: A Memoir for his anniversary as Thomas has become what many court-watchers call “the most important justice,” in part because he is currently the longest-serving judge and because he is the voice of originalism.
Oct. 15 marks the anniversary of the 52-48 vote in 1991 to confirm Thomas. He was sworn in days later.
And despite regular rumors that he is eyeing retirement, friends said he is eager to begin the next term and plans to beat the record for longest-serving justice at 36 years.
“We look forward to him passing that mark down the road,” longtime friend Mark Paoletta, an influential Washington lawyer and former administration aide, told Secrets.
Paoletta, who worked on Thomas’s nomination for former President George H.W. Bush, said Thomas has emerged as the key judge in the conservative majority — a role he relishes.
He said the audio version of the 13-year-old autobiography was actually recorded when the book was published but that, at the time, audio and digital versions of books weren’t popular.
So, he said, the audio was remastered into the new release.
It is considered a companion to the 2020 movie on Thomas, titled Created Equal,from writer and director Michael Pack.
The new releases gave some of Thomas’s 140 former clerks a chance to brag on their boss.
Carrie Severino, the chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, told Secrets the book came out the year she clerked for Thomas. “This is a must-read American dream story about how a young boy, abandoned by his father and raised in poverty, reached the highest levels of his profession and became the intellectual leader of the Supreme Court,” she said.
Jennifer Mascott, co-executive director of the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University, said, “Justice Thomas has been an intellectual leader and tour de force in returning the focus of our constitutional system to first principles. He repeatedly writes more pages of opinions each term than any of his colleagues on the court, setting forth interpretive principles of originalism and expounding a constitutionally restrained portrait of the law that forms the foundation of American liberty and freedom.”
And the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law’s John Yoo added, “Justice Clarence Thomas tells us in his own voice the challenges of growing up in the 1950s in Pin Point, Georgia, going off to college as a confused young man during the turbulent 1960s, and his rapid rise in Missouri, Washington, D.C., and eventually the Supreme Court. A quintessential American story told by a great American himself.”
The Thomas clerks are considered one big extended family. Every three years, Thomas holds a reunion, and the last one included 100 of his 140 clerks.
The Biden administration’s vaccine mandates have awakened the sleeping giant that is America’s airline pilots.
The men and women who keep the airline industry afloat by transporting travelers from one place to another have launched a rebellion against forcible injections the media doesn’t want you to know about.
Appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight, the co-founder of US Freedom Flyers Josh Yoder explained pilots are empowered to refuse the jab, and warned layoffs by Southwest Airlines or other airline companies could destroy the US economy.
A commercial airline pilot talks to Tucker Carlson about about why he is against vaccine mandates pic.twitter.com/UbMnVgboQh
“First of all, we have all the control, and the control comes from a simple word, and that is ‘no’,” Yoder said. “We just don’t need to comply.”
Southwest has claimed thousands of flight cancellations were the result of inclement weather, air traffic control issues and absenteeism, however the reality on the ground (or in the air) is much more simplistic.
The real reason for the cancellations is free-thinking pilots and airline staff have formed a collective resistance drawing a line in the sand and rejecting coercive vaccine orders.
This photo was just sent to me of a grounded Southwest plane flying a Gadsden flag out of the cockpit. The Hero Pilots at Southwest and other Airlines deserve our support. True patriots worthy of the American Freedom Fighter tradition. Don’t Tread On Me. God Bless Them 🇺🇸✈️🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/tAo9pT4Q60
Two Fulton County, Georgia election workers were fired after allegations that they shredded hundreds of voter registration applications over the last couple of weeks.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has called for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate.
“After 20 years of documented failure in Fulton County elections, Georgians are tired of waiting to see what the next embarrassing revelation will be,” Raffensperger said in a press release Monday. “The Department of Justice needs to take a long look at what Fulton County is doing and how their leadership disenfranchises Fulton voters through incompetence and malfeasance. The voters of Georgia are sick of Fulton County’s failures.”
Raffensperger’s office has also launched their own investigation.
The allegations against the unnamed employees comes just three weeks before Fulton County’s municipal elections.
“Elections are the most important function of our government,” Fulton County Commission Chairman Robb Pitts said in the release. “We have committed to transparency and integrity.”
The workers were fired on Friday after being reported by other employees earlier in the day.
“Those who believe their registration may have been impacted by the incident and are not registered on election day will be allowed to cast a provisional ballot while the investigation attempts to determined which voters were affected,” Fox News reports.
“Columbus Day commemorates the life and legacy of the Italian explorer who made Europeans conscious of the existence of the New World,” he observed, “and whose travels opened the door for the development of European settlements in the Western Hemisphere, which would ultimately lead to the establishment of the United States of America.”
Some of you may recall a poem about the navigator on an ocean of blue, and Gov. Ron tipped his hat to that very work:
[W]hen Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 as a Genoan traveling with the sponsorship of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, he and his crew…set the precedent for the contribution of European immigrants to the development of the culture and economy of the countries of the Western Hemisphere.
Columbus Day was first proclaimed, the order noted, in 1892 — the “400th anniversary of [his] discovery of America.”
And to hear Ron tell it, Christopher “stands a singular figure in Western Civilization who exemplified courage, risk-taking, and heroism in the face of enormous odds.”
Christopher Columbus displayed courage, determination, and perseverance when he sailed the ocean blue more than 500 years ago.
These days, risk-taking seems the opposite of what’s revered.
Would-be discoverers of new things now cling to “safe spaces.”
People can’t hardly ride their bikes without masking up:
I really like this message @JoeBiden’s team is projecting here. Not only is he fit, he is also wearing a mask while riding a bike. Super smart, now let’s see what Trump does. pic.twitter.com/yLUF2WEMdE
Since time immemorial, American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians have built vibrant and diverse cultures — safeguarding land, language, spirit, knowledge, and tradition across the generations. … Our country was conceived on a promise of equality and opportunity for all people — a promise that, despite the extraordinary progress we have made through the years, we have never fully lived up to. That is especially true when it comes to upholding the rights and dignity of the Indigenous people who were here long before colonization of the Americas began. … NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 11, 2021, as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Curiously, as I’ve indicated before, the lineage so celebrated is not indigenous.
But we live in times, perhaps, more political than precise.
And it seems to me Columbus Day sits at the core of a Great Divide.
The Right and Left have never been more at odds, and the issue of whether to praise the man who began what we are or strike him down defines our difference.
The question, at its core: Does America deserve to exist?
Fast forward to New York’s leader confirming their failure:
Back to Columbus, I recently covered Google’s staff training, which employs a Pyramid of “genocide.”
Among the foundations of mass murder: “Celebration of Columbus Day.”
Another graphic, titled "The White Supremacy Pyramid," advances the idea that conservative commentator Ben Shapiro is a foundation of "white supremacy" and that Donald Trump is moving society on a path toward "mass murder" and "genocide." pic.twitter.com/9s81yC1Cxd
As for “invective,” here’s a case in point (Language Warning):
And that — on this Columbus Day — is where we are.
Nonetheless, Ron DeSantis is here:
On this Columbus Day, as American entrepreneurs embark upon a new age of exploration, we acknowledge that without the heroism of explorers who ventured into the unknown some five centuries ago, we would not be here today in this hemisphere, on this continent, in this country, with the ones we love, as Americans propel humanity forward as the engine of innovation and the guarantor of global security and stability.
The potential problem underscores how little thought went into the offensive memo issued in the AG’s name.
As our Brittany Bernstein reported last week, parent groups are alleging that Attorney General Merrick Garland is laboring under a family financial conflict of interest as he directs the FBI to investigate people — mainly parents — who are protesting against the use of public schools to indoctrinate children in critical race theory and other far-left dogma. A week ago, I wrote about Garland’s memo laying out this initiative.
The potential conflict stems from the fact that Garland’s son-in-law, Alexander “Xan” Tanner, the co-founder and president of an outfit called Panorama Education, has a very lucrative gig pushing some of the indoctrination materials.
Brittany cites to some extensive reporting by the Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy, which describes how “Panorama pushes race-focused surveys and conducts trainings on systemic oppression, white supremacy, unconscious bias, and intersectionality — all under the rubric of ‘Social-Emotional Learning [(SEL)].” The reporting includes an eye-opening look at some of the relevant materials — such as “SEL as Social Justice — Dismantling White Supremacism Within Systems and Self.”
Jerry followed up with another Examiner dispatch on Monday, which notes that the enterprise run by the attorney general’s son-in-law recommends a book of progressive essays for teachers. That book starts out with a ditty by Bill Ayers, the former terrorist and self-proclaimed “small-c communist.” Ayers writes, for example:
You should know that the system you’ll be joining hates Black and Brown and poor kids. . . . I have facial evidence that the system is organized to miseducate these children, and it includes the shameful lack of resources, enforced racial segregation, the dumbed-down and Eurocentric curriculum accompanied by a stifling top-down pedagogy, and arcane rules and routines that result predictably in social shaming and widespread exclusions.
These materials elucidate that the issue of Garland’s conflict, while relevant, is tangential. The attorney general may well have an ethical conflict in that his official actions potentially inure to the financial benefit of close family members and, therefore, create an appearance of impropriety. But I’d be surprised if Garland gave this appearance even the slightest thought before issuing his memorandum.
The Biden Justice Department’s embrace of progressive indoctrination, under the guise of safeguarding public-school administrators from “threats, intimidation, and harassment” is driven by ideology, not financial enrichment. If Garland had been alert and savvy enough to recuse himself, there is every reason to believe the exact same memorandum would have been issued by deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco, or whoever is the next official down the pecking order who has no conflict. (I am not implying that DAG Monaco has one; I have no idea if she does.) DOJ’s wayward position results from its progressive orientation, not self-dealing.
On that score, as I noted when Barack Obama was running for president in 2008, his personal ties to Ayers were substantial when the former was an up-and-coming community-organizer-turned-Chicago-pol and the latter a terrorist-turned-educator. Obama blurbed Ayers’s book, A Kind and Just Parent?, which compared the U.S. criminal-justice system to apartheid South Africa. (Obama described the book as “a searing and timely account.”) Much of this information was brought to light by frequent NR contributor Stanley Kurtz, who has written widely on the Obama/Ayers alliance, including their joint effort to push left-wing radicalism on our schools.
The Biden administration regards the Obama/Biden administration as its model, and, as I argued in the aforementioned column from last week, Biden and Garland are running the Justice Department accordingly.
The Garland memo is a slipshod job by DOJ standards — a one-page screed that essentially rubber-stamps the claims of Democratic activists rather than offering a developed legal position. This is only natural, because developing such a position would have required addressing such inconveniences as the Justice Department’s lack of jurisdiction to intrude on interactions between parents and local schools in the absence of any federal crime, and its failure to grapple in a meaningful way with the First Amendment protection of dissent — even dissent that rises to the level of intimidation or harassment if the use of force is not involved.
The relevance of Garland’s potential conflict is that it underscores how little thought went into the offensive memo issued in Garland’s name, which is a patent effort to frighten and coerce parents into standing down by abusing the Justice Department and FBI’s raw power to conduct investigations.
As our Caroline Downey has reported, the vast majority of the incidents cited by the National School Boards Association (on which Garland relied in issuing his memo) did not involve threats of violence — which, to repeat, is a separate issue from the fact that the rare incidents that did involve violent threats appear to have been issues for state and local law-enforcement agencies, not the federal government.
The attorney general and his Justice Department did not think this through because the memorandum was not a good-faith effort to inform. It was an abusive effort to intimidate.
The potential ripple effect triggered by a vaccine mandate from President Joe Biden could severely disrupt America’s transportation infrastructure and further hamper the supply chain, a pilot explained Monday on Fox News.
What is the background?
Biden issued a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Sept. 9 for all federal contractors. The mandate impacts several major airlines, like American and Southwest, because they contract business with the federal government. Contractors have until Dec. 8 to comply.
However, not every airline conducts business with the government. Such airlines, like Spirit, instead will be subject to a forthcoming vaccine mandate from the White House that forces every company that employs more than 100 people to require vaccination.
What are the details?
Speaking with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, American Airlines pilot Joshua Yoder explained a disruption in transportation infrastructure — which could happen if a significant number of pilots are dismissed for not complying with the vaccine mandate — will have a “catastrophic effect” on America.
“It’s going to affect commerce, it’s going to affect trade, and ultimately it’s going to affect the economy,” Yoder predicted.
“If you have flights reduced by 30% because 30% of pilots are fired because they won’t take the vaccine, this is going to affect how your goods get here from overseas, how they are distributed to the store,” he explained.
“The same thing is happening with the truckers, it’s happening in the shipping industry. Those Amazon boxes that typically show up in two days— you might be looking at three weeks,” Yoder warned.
According to Yoder, pilots and truckers — the people responsible for the success of the supply chain — “have all the control.”
First of all, we have all the control, and the control comes from a simple word, and that is “no.” We just don’t need to comply. As far as I’m concerned I will never promote a sickout or a work action that is illegal. With U.S. Freedom Flyers, the organization I’m with, we will never promote such a thing. With that being said, we also cannot control the actions of individuals. And I think that you will see massive disruptions in supply chain and in your travel if we just stand up and say “no.”
“If these companies fire us, and they fire 30% of the workforce, aircraft are going to stop moving and it’s going to affect you. It’s going to affect your air travel and it’s going to affect the economy,” Yoder warned.
Anything else?
Yoder’s warning came after Southwest Airlines canceled thousands of flights over the weekend. The airliner blamed bad weather and air traffic control, but the Federal Aviation Administration said neither inclement weather nor ATC were to blame.
A former nurse who was reportedly fired after his religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine requirement was rejected has shed some rather harsh light on hysterical claims that ICU beds are at capacity because of all the sick unvaccinated people.
Speaking with LifeSiteNews, Brad McDowell, who was employed as an emergency room nurse at Valley Health Systems in Winchester, Virginia, explained that the “at capacity” status has less to do with unvaccinated patients and more to do with unvaccinated staffers that are being let go for their resistance to hospital, state and federal mandates.
“They can’t open a bed that they don’t have a nurse and a tech to staff,” he explained in a video interview that was published over the weekend, after being asked by interviewer Jim Hale if the health care worker shortage supposedly caused by the pandemic is, in reality, a result of strict vaccine mandates that many health care professionals have refused to adhere to.
“I can tell you that all those beds [at Valley Health] are not open, and I know that for a fact,” McDowell charged, referring to his former place of employment.
“There are beds closed, and they’re saying they’re … at capacity, but it’s not because there’s not enough beds,” he explained.
“It’s not because of the patient load. It’s because of the workforce load,” he said.
In other words, the unvaccinated patients aren’t overwhelming the hospital; the hospital has let go so many workers who refused to comply with the vaccine mandate that it’s now short-staffed as a result.
This is all rather remarkable when you consider that it’s health care workers who not only have been the most intimately familiar with COVID-19 throughout the whole of the pandemic, but they’re the ones you’d think would be most likely to be clamoring for a vaccine.
First of all, as is the case with frontline workers like firefighters, EMTs, and police officers, most nurses and doctors have been exposed to the coronavirus. Many have contracted and survived it themselves.
Although it’s highly inconvenient to those manufacturing and mandating the vaccine, the fact remains that there is ample evidence to suggest that natural immunity can protect against the virus at least as well as the vaccine itself.
“If you think about it, you have the political elite, the media elite, the people at the highest levels of the CDC, the pharmaceutical industry, they are running, they run the whole narrative,” McDowell explained.
“They’re the ones pushing it, they’re the ones who benefit the most from everyone taking a vaccine,” he stated.
A year ago, nurses and doctors were the celebrated heroes of the pandemic — now they’re being left in the dust for refusing to get a vaccine that they, with all their professional knowledge and experience with the virus, do not feel they should be required to get.
At the start of the pandemic, they were seen as the anointed saviors of all mankind. Their plight was often touted to convince the rest of us to shut up, get in line, and disregard any and all concern for our civil liberties and unprecedented violations thereof.
And suddenly, now that so many of them have their doubts about this vaccine and are willing and ready to work with COVID-19 patients without getting the vaccine themselves, they suddenly have no more clout?
Broad-reaching mandates by health care systems, states and the Biden administration are creating a health care worker shortage right in the midst of what they continue to tell us is a horrifically deadly pandemic that is being perpetrated by those who refuse to get vaccinated. Yet clearly, according to McDowell, this is far from the case.
How much longer are we going to tolerate this manufactured pandemic — and how much damage will be done to our nation’s vital health care infrastructure in the process?
