We live in a strange world
right now.
In fact, I do believe we live in a “bizarro” world, an alternate universe from the world that we really live in.
However, the bizarro world has taken over, and I mean fully taken over, and it is going to take a lot of work to get back to the real world, the world that we know and love.
If you need any evidence of us living in a “bizarro” world right now, just look at what this supposed pandemic has done to each and every one of us.
It has divided us, given reason for us to worry about one thing or another, given us reason to be ultra-sensitive about everything, and quite frankly, has made us all crazy no matter where we stand on the subject.
Take yesterday, for example.
New York State Governor Kathy “The Yokel” Hochul, who went into the job she is in because her boss was so corrupt, and who has, since Day One of her term, been doing nothing but running for another term without doing much of anything else, put a mandate on health workers in the state, saying that if they were not at least into their first coronavirus “vaccine” shot by Monday, September 27, these workers would lose their jobs.
OK, “Hochul the Yokel” has deemed that the law of New York State, and whether you like it or not, agree with it or not, THAT IS THE LAW.
I put the last four words in caps purposely, because I do not think that many of these workers without their shots understood what this meant, and many still do not understand it.
Yes, there is great opposition to the shots, to the supposed unknowns that getting the shots put the shot getter in.
And other courts have blocked such mandates, including the one blocking New York City’s mandate to have all school workers inoculated.
But for those health care workers who refuse to get the shots … I happen to agree with them, they should not be forced to get the shots, but have they looked at the alternative?
Thousands of such workers were fired yesterday for non-compliance with the law. Many of those fired have put in 10, 20, 30 or more years on the job serving in our hospitals, yet they basically threw it all away with their stubborn attitude.
What id they throw away?
Well, quite simply, their livelihoods, their source of income, and the well-being of themselves and their families.
I know someone who is in the health care field, and while he does not agree with the mandate, he got his shots anyway, so that his life and the life of his family would not be upended.
(He also had no ill effects from getting his shots.)
He told me that weeks ago, he warned the many colleagues that he had that they would be fired from their jobs if they did not get the shots, and he also warned them that when you get fired, you do not get unemployment—and that goes for any job that you get fired from.
So those that went through with this? They have nothing to show for all the years of work that they put in.
Again, I do not believe that people should be forced to get these shots, but is what happened to them yesterday really worth the pain that they are now going to have to go through?
On the TV news shows yesterday, they interviewed several people who went through this. One said she was a single mother with three kids, and she did not know what she was going to do to feed her children.
Another said he would find a job in another field that did not require shots.
Well, bully for both of you.
To the first lady: get the first shot and see how it goes. Then you can feed your kids.
To the second gentleman: yes, I can only imagine the scenario of what will happen when you try to get a job in another field:
“Sir, I see that you were in the health care field for over 20 years … why did you leave that field.”
“I was fired from my job because I refused to get the coronavirus inoculations.”
“Well … you know, you can’t work here either, because we have more than 100 workers here, and we have instituted our own coronavirus shot mandate in our workplace, so, you can’t work here without the shots. We will keep your resume on file, and if things change, we might be in touch.”
Sometimes, one has to do things in life that they do not believe in, that they do not want to do, things that go against the very grain of their being.
The TV newscast I watched also interviewed another health care worker, who did not want her face shown on television. She said she is completely against the "vaccine" and being forced to take it.
However, she complied, and recently got her first shot.
She said that she would see how it went in the period between the first and second shots, and said she did it because, and only because, she did not want to lose her livelihood.
And again, she did not want her face shown on the air, I guess because she feared retaliation from her colleagues who refuse to get the shots.
And those going tor religious exemptions? Please, don’t make me laugh. Heck, whatever you say about the Pope, he has stated that it is OK to get the Pfizer or Moderna shots, and religious leaders pretty much in unison have agreed with him.
And then we have the strange case of Kyrie Irving, the Brooklyn Nets’ talented but ultra-temperamental player, who is waffling about whether, as mandated by New York State, he got the shots or not.
In New York State and in the city of San Francisco, athletes who play indoors and do not get their shots are barred from playing in the indoor arenas in both New York State and the State of California, respectively.
While it was “Meet the Team” day for all the NBA teams, and all the players were interviewed right there in person, Irving chose to do his interviews via Zoom, and when asked about his status, he clearly stated that he lives in a bizarro world of his own creation:
“I appreciate your questions, bro. Honestly, I like to keep that stuff private. I’m a human being first. And obviously, living in this public sphere, there’s just a lot of questions about what’s going on in the world of Kyrie. And I think I just would love to just keep that private and handle it the right way with my team and go forward together with a plan.
“So, obviously, I’m not able to be present there today. But that doesn’t mean that I’m putting any limits on the future of me being able to join the team. And I just want to keep it that way. So, if we can keep that private. If anybody has any further questions about that, please, it will be the same response. I would like to keep that private. And just please respect that, my privacy.”
He has every right to keep his status private, but as a public person, being paid millions upon millions of dollars to be a full-time part of this team, what is the “plan” in “the world of Kyrie?” To be a part time player, only allowed to play less than half his games with the team because of these mandates?
Seems to me that that is not a team player at all, but a crybaby who can afford to step away from his team when he wants to step away.
(And as you might know, he has taken leaves of absences before, and has broken COVID-19 protocol at least once with the team when last year, he went to a birthday party with people who were infected with the virus.)
Now, Irving can fully afford to do what he is doing, and the Nets aren’t going to day anything to upset their star player.
But it will certainly impact the fortunes of their team, which is built to win the championship this season—and with other superstars James Harden and Kevin Durant fully inoculated, whether they agree with that plan of action or not.
The healthcare workers who choose to throw everything they have worked for into the garbage pail?
I don’t think most can afford to do this on many levels.
Again, whether you agree with the mandate or not, there is too much at stake for most of these workers to turn it down.
I am sure they are banking on the mandate to be thrown out by some court, but heck, if I were in their shoes, I wouldn’t take such a chance at that happening.
Yes, we live in a “bizarro” world right now, and I simply do not know when we are ever going to get back any normalcy in our lives.
But I personally would want to weather all of this with a job in my hands, not with absolutely nothing to show for my years of service.
We supposedly have brains in our heads: let’s use them to get out of this mess the right way.
In fact, I do believe we live in a “bizarro” world, an alternate universe from the world that we really live in.
However, the bizarro world has taken over, and I mean fully taken over, and it is going to take a lot of work to get back to the real world, the world that we know and love.
If you need any evidence of us living in a “bizarro” world right now, just look at what this supposed pandemic has done to each and every one of us.
It has divided us, given reason for us to worry about one thing or another, given us reason to be ultra-sensitive about everything, and quite frankly, has made us all crazy no matter where we stand on the subject.
Take yesterday, for example.
New York State Governor Kathy “The Yokel” Hochul, who went into the job she is in because her boss was so corrupt, and who has, since Day One of her term, been doing nothing but running for another term without doing much of anything else, put a mandate on health workers in the state, saying that if they were not at least into their first coronavirus “vaccine” shot by Monday, September 27, these workers would lose their jobs.
OK, “Hochul the Yokel” has deemed that the law of New York State, and whether you like it or not, agree with it or not, THAT IS THE LAW.
I put the last four words in caps purposely, because I do not think that many of these workers without their shots understood what this meant, and many still do not understand it.
Yes, there is great opposition to the shots, to the supposed unknowns that getting the shots put the shot getter in.
And other courts have blocked such mandates, including the one blocking New York City’s mandate to have all school workers inoculated.
But for those health care workers who refuse to get the shots … I happen to agree with them, they should not be forced to get the shots, but have they looked at the alternative?
Thousands of such workers were fired yesterday for non-compliance with the law. Many of those fired have put in 10, 20, 30 or more years on the job serving in our hospitals, yet they basically threw it all away with their stubborn attitude.
What id they throw away?
Well, quite simply, their livelihoods, their source of income, and the well-being of themselves and their families.
I know someone who is in the health care field, and while he does not agree with the mandate, he got his shots anyway, so that his life and the life of his family would not be upended.
(He also had no ill effects from getting his shots.)
He told me that weeks ago, he warned the many colleagues that he had that they would be fired from their jobs if they did not get the shots, and he also warned them that when you get fired, you do not get unemployment—and that goes for any job that you get fired from.
So those that went through with this? They have nothing to show for all the years of work that they put in.
Again, I do not believe that people should be forced to get these shots, but is what happened to them yesterday really worth the pain that they are now going to have to go through?
On the TV news shows yesterday, they interviewed several people who went through this. One said she was a single mother with three kids, and she did not know what she was going to do to feed her children.
Another said he would find a job in another field that did not require shots.
Well, bully for both of you.
To the first lady: get the first shot and see how it goes. Then you can feed your kids.
To the second gentleman: yes, I can only imagine the scenario of what will happen when you try to get a job in another field:
“Sir, I see that you were in the health care field for over 20 years … why did you leave that field.”
“I was fired from my job because I refused to get the coronavirus inoculations.”
“Well … you know, you can’t work here either, because we have more than 100 workers here, and we have instituted our own coronavirus shot mandate in our workplace, so, you can’t work here without the shots. We will keep your resume on file, and if things change, we might be in touch.”
Sometimes, one has to do things in life that they do not believe in, that they do not want to do, things that go against the very grain of their being.
The TV newscast I watched also interviewed another health care worker, who did not want her face shown on television. She said she is completely against the "vaccine" and being forced to take it.
However, she complied, and recently got her first shot.
She said that she would see how it went in the period between the first and second shots, and said she did it because, and only because, she did not want to lose her livelihood.
And again, she did not want her face shown on the air, I guess because she feared retaliation from her colleagues who refuse to get the shots.
And those going tor religious exemptions? Please, don’t make me laugh. Heck, whatever you say about the Pope, he has stated that it is OK to get the Pfizer or Moderna shots, and religious leaders pretty much in unison have agreed with him.
And then we have the strange case of Kyrie Irving, the Brooklyn Nets’ talented but ultra-temperamental player, who is waffling about whether, as mandated by New York State, he got the shots or not.
In New York State and in the city of San Francisco, athletes who play indoors and do not get their shots are barred from playing in the indoor arenas in both New York State and the State of California, respectively.
While it was “Meet the Team” day for all the NBA teams, and all the players were interviewed right there in person, Irving chose to do his interviews via Zoom, and when asked about his status, he clearly stated that he lives in a bizarro world of his own creation:
“I appreciate your questions, bro. Honestly, I like to keep that stuff private. I’m a human being first. And obviously, living in this public sphere, there’s just a lot of questions about what’s going on in the world of Kyrie. And I think I just would love to just keep that private and handle it the right way with my team and go forward together with a plan.
“So, obviously, I’m not able to be present there today. But that doesn’t mean that I’m putting any limits on the future of me being able to join the team. And I just want to keep it that way. So, if we can keep that private. If anybody has any further questions about that, please, it will be the same response. I would like to keep that private. And just please respect that, my privacy.”
He has every right to keep his status private, but as a public person, being paid millions upon millions of dollars to be a full-time part of this team, what is the “plan” in “the world of Kyrie?” To be a part time player, only allowed to play less than half his games with the team because of these mandates?
Seems to me that that is not a team player at all, but a crybaby who can afford to step away from his team when he wants to step away.
(And as you might know, he has taken leaves of absences before, and has broken COVID-19 protocol at least once with the team when last year, he went to a birthday party with people who were infected with the virus.)
Now, Irving can fully afford to do what he is doing, and the Nets aren’t going to day anything to upset their star player.
But it will certainly impact the fortunes of their team, which is built to win the championship this season—and with other superstars James Harden and Kevin Durant fully inoculated, whether they agree with that plan of action or not.
The healthcare workers who choose to throw everything they have worked for into the garbage pail?
I don’t think most can afford to do this on many levels.
Again, whether you agree with the mandate or not, there is too much at stake for most of these workers to turn it down.
I am sure they are banking on the mandate to be thrown out by some court, but heck, if I were in their shoes, I wouldn’t take such a chance at that happening.
Yes, we live in a “bizarro” world right now, and I simply do not know when we are ever going to get back any normalcy in our lives.
But I personally would want to weather all of this with a job in my hands, not with absolutely nothing to show for my years of service.
We supposedly have brains in our heads: let’s use them to get out of this mess the right way.
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