Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you
Take me for a trip upon
your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it
Do miss it. His presence, I mean.
me too.
He didn’t just march to a different drummer. He had John Philip Sousa conducting that band.
Hopefully that’s present tense, and not past…….
that f–ckin jab has done a lot of good people in. If you are not familiar with turbo cancer then you should read up on it.
Local hospital still bugs me that I’m overdue for my “COVID vaccination”. Makes me question their other “recommendations”.
In a groundbreaking decision, a federal judge has mandated the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to release an additional one million pages of documents related to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trials. The data, initially set to remain sealed for 75 years, has become a focal point in debates surrounding transparency and public trust in vaccine safety and efficacy.
Honestly, I can’t say that back in 2020-2021, that I 100% knew whether taking the Covid vaccine was a good idea or a bad one.
That said, today, I 100% do not regret not taking it.
azlibertarian, though you might have been unable to honestly say whether taking the COVID vax was a good or bad idea back in 2020-2021, the FDA and CDC knew, unequivocally, that it was a bad idea, but pushed the vax anyway. Additionally, the company initially pursuing mRNA vax research got out of the business way back in 2016 due to abnormalities encountered in mRNA and side effects resulting. I did not take it.
US officials knew covid vaccine safety system was flawed—but turned aside the FDA doctor who alerted them | The BMJ
In the Bible, pharmakeia (Greek φαρμακεία) means sorcery or witchcraft, specifically the use of drugs, potions, or magical practices to deceive or manipulate, appearing in Galatians 5:20, Revelation 9:21, and Revelation 18:23.
Lemme give you a bit of a deep dive on vaccines and pilots and how my former company handled the C-19 vax.
The Federal Aviation Regulations prevent a pilot from flying during the first 48 hours after receiving a vaccine. This is for good reason, as people do have unexpected reactions to vaccines and nobody benefits by having a pilot in the air when problems arise. BTW, this applies to every level of pilot licenses and for any vaccine.
Airline pilots are not salaried….they’re wage workers. Work a short month and your paycheck suffers. That reverse incentive created a reluctance for being vaccinated. The airline industry was under intense pressure to get everyone vaccinated….we were viewed with suspicion as a vector for the transmission of the disease. So my former company’s solution was, if a pilot took the vax within that 48 hour window, the company removed the pilot from the trip with pay. I knew a good number of guys who took their jabs (and all the following boosters that were expected) right before the highest paying trip of their month. Take the jab; stay home; but get paid as if you went to work.
But that was only the beginning of the racket.
Let’s say that I took the jab today, on the 19th, and had a trip on the 21st. The jab allowed me to be paid for that trip, but someone has to fly it regardless of my reasons for not being able to. But I’m free to pick up any trip that would be available on the 22nd and thereafter. This mass vaccination program created an artificial shortage of pilots. And the pilot contract had an incentive….double pay….to get guys to fly on days that they might have been planning to be off. So if I had dropped a 4-day trip on the 21st (with pay), I might be able to pick up the same 4-day trip on the 22nd (because someone else took their vax a day after I did) for double pay. In essence, it was very, very possible to get triple pay, all because you took the vaccine.
It was very, very lucrative, and as I said, I knew a good number of guys who made major bank because of it.
….more in a bit…..
…more…..
In addition to the financial incentives that were offered to those taking the jab, my former company was exceptionally generous in offering exemptions from the vaccine mandate. The company just wanted one thing: They wanted to be able to say to the government and the public that 92-, 94-, 97% of their employees were complying with the C-19 vaccine mandate (which included the exemptions, but they weren’t going to bring that up). If you filled out their form with any possible reason for not taking the jab, they’d rubber-stamp their approval.
So why didn’t I do it? Why bypass the money grab? Why not get them off your back when they were so free with their rubber stamp?
My answer has multiple parts, but the biggest 2 are….
The absolute drop-dead deadline to either take the vax or seek an exemption came and went. They probably could have pulled me off the schedule in preparation for firing me for insubordination (or something), but I had 2 things going for me.
And the company had some math to do. What was the likelihood that, on threat of termination, I’d lawyer up (with a real lawyer, and not one of those useless and conflicted union lawyers), and make some noise? I’d probably have lost, but I wasn’t going to go easy.
So when my Chief Pilot finally called me questioning why I hadn’t done anything yet, I diplomatically told him how I saw things. I told him that my religious, moral and ethical views on any topic …not just on taking a vaccine…were not subject to my employer’s approval.
So. No Covid vaccine, and not one regret.
I do too.