Well, the shit has certainly hit the fan compared to three months ago. Back then, I make a post about how we were getting conflicting signals at work about the LA County mask mandate. How quickly things change. Since my company is considered a federal contractor, we are subject to Biden’s executive order 14042. That means everyone at work needs to be fully vaccinated, or get a medical or religious exemption.
Last week, our work put out a long email detailing the vaccination requirements, and instructions on how to get an exemption if qualified. If an employee does not follow the rules, they can be subject to termination. I hope the requirements for getting an exemption is fairly stringent, else every anti-vax idiot will just lie and get an exemption. I would be very disappointed if any of my department co-workers are in the anti-vax group without a valid medical/religious reason. Hopefully, with there will be very few exemptions and once everyone else is vaccinated, I can go back to the office a few days each week to work.
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Speaking of the federal vaccination mandate, we have a new member in my church cell group. I think he has been at the church for many years but just switching cell groups. Anyway, he is currently a federal employee and is adamantly opposed to getting the COVID vaccine. I assume he is vaccinated for everything else like MMR, diphtheria, tetanus, etc. He was seriously contemplating getting fired and losing pension, to moving to a more vaccination-lax state, to lying about needing a religious exemption. He also seems to be a MAGA kind of guy. I really do not understand the mentality. It does appear that people are incapable of admitting error anymore. Maybe there was some uncertainty when the vaccines were just released, but now billions of people have received the various COVID vaccines, and it has probably saved millions of lives.
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