Category: vaccine mandates

Aussie State to Re-Impose Restrictions and Vaccine Mandates As Omicron Numbers Rise

The New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has introduced new COVID-19 restrictions, and vaccine mandates as the state’s Omicron COVID-19 case numbers continue to rise. “We’re dealing with a highly transmissible variant, but fortunately, it appears to be a much less severe form of COVID-19, and our high vaccination rates are clearly helping to keep…


Fired Health Care Workers Adjust to New Ways of Living During the Holiday Season

Many health care workers, once hailed as heroes for working throughout the pandemic, now settle into the holiday season without jobs because of their personal medical decisions. In North Carolina, Carlton DeHart was working as an advanced heart failure coordinator nurse for the Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte when she was fired in…


Netherlands Imposes Christmas-Time Lockdown, Taking the Dutch by Surprise

The Netherlands entered into a strict Christmas lockdown driving desperate Dutch shopkeepers to demand government reimbursements for sales lost, as Omicron keeps spreading in European nations. Prime Minister Mark Rutte declared the shutdown in an announcement Saturday, ordering the closure of all services, including gyms, hairdressers, restaurants, and other public places. Only essential services are…


United Airline’s Irreparable Injury to Religious Conscience

Commentary Thus far, President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates have fared poorly in court. Whether government-enforced mandates will ultimately be found legal or constitutional is a matter of ongoing legal debate. Some private businesses, though, have already chosen sides in a way that may violate employment law. Unlike other prominent private carriers, United Airlines announced a…


COVID Is the Virus. Wokeness Is the Disease

Commentary “Willfully blind and recklessly misleading.” Those are just two of the aspersions that law professors have levelled at the Free North Declaration, a call to arms to protect civil liberties in Canada from COVID-19 irrationality and overreach. Launched on Nov. 12 and profiled recently in the Epoch Times by Lisa Bildy (one of its…


Cruz Calls United Airlines Handling of Vaccine Mandate ‘Deeply Disturbing’

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) grilled the boss of United Airlines about his decision to enforce COVID-19 vaccine mandates on all United employees during a meeting of the United States Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Dec. 15. Cruz praised two Texas-based carriers, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, calling them “exemplary” over vaccine mandates and…


Kash’s Corner: Ivermectin Court Battles, Vaccine Mandates, and Omicron

“There’s going to be extensive COVID litigation for years to come.” In this episode of Kash’s Corner, we discuss growing lawsuits and court battles over vaccine mandates and the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Earlier this month, a Pennsylvania COVID-19 patient, Keith Smith, who fought for ivermectin treatment in court, died at the age…


University of Florida Health Backs Off Plan to Fire Unvaccinated Employees

Employees of UF Health, part of the University of Florida, received word on Dec. 13 that the requirement for all faculty and staff to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by Jan. 4 has been suspended. Any of the 30,000 employees who haven’t yet submitted proof of vaccination, or received approval for a medical or religious…


Reverse Vaccine Mandate for Truckers Crossing US-Canada Border: Senate GOP to Biden

Senate Republicans are calling on President Joe Biden to reverse a requirement mandating that truckers crossing from the United States into Canada be vaccinated, warning that the rule could hurt commerce with the northern nation. Near the end of November, Biden announced that all essential foreign travelers be vaccinated by Jan. 22, adding another vaccine…


Bank of America Employee Describes ‘Increasingly Stressful’ Working Conditions and Mandatory Waiving of HIPPA Rights

Amid a work culture described as “increasingly stressful” due COVID-19 policies, one Bank of America employee has also reported that when using the corporation’s vaccination status tool, one must waive one’s Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) rights to proceed. “If you are like most people and you don’t read the fine print, you…