I'm at four shots total. Now they are advising me to get another.
People be very careful this virus is not done yet
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Trump’s CDC director says Fauci shut down debate on Covid’s origin
In an interview with POLITICO, Fauci dismissed the charge.
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Ingo Rademacher Claims ABC Canned Him From ‘General Hospital’ Over Trump Support & Politics, Not Vaccine Refusal & Religion; Actor’s Suit Faces Dismissal Hearing Later This Month
EXCLUSIVE: Similar to so many family ruptures in America in recent years, Ingo Rademacher’s legal dispute with ABC over his 2021 firing from General Hospital comes down to Donald Trump and the politics of vaccines, according to the former soap opera actor. Heading towards a pivotal March 30...
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Ingo Rademacher Claims ABC Canned Him From ‘General Hospital’ Over Trump Support & Politics, Not Vaccine Refusal & Religion; Actor’s Suit Faces Dismissal Hearing Later This Month
By Dominic Patten
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Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic
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March 17, 2023 8:02pm
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EXCLUSIVE: Similar to so many family ruptures in America in recent years, Ingo Rademacher’s legal dispute with ABC over his 2021 firing from General Hospital comes down to Donald Trump and the politics of vaccines, according to the former soap opera actor.
Heading towards a pivotal March 30 summary judgement hearing on the more than a year old lawsuit, plaintiff Rademacher’s attorneys filed paperwork yesterday opposing the Disney-owned network’s motion to toss the case out. “ABC had a duty to accommodate Ingo,” insists the filing by lawyers Scott J. Street and John W. Howard over their client’s religious exemption request over corporate Covid vaccine requirements (read it here). “Instead, it put him through a sham process that was designed to fail, and which was meant to cover up the real reason for Ingo’s termination: his political views.”
https://deadline.com/2023/03/covid-...deal-over-unpaid-testing-stipends-1235303726/
Or to be more specific, Rademacher alleges he was really axed because GH EP Frank Valentini and others on the show objected to him voting for Trump in 2020 and decrying the “false hope” of getting the jab:
…the show’s producers and writers did not like his comments about Donald Trump and restrictive Covid policies, so they wrote him off the show and decided to “recast” the role. That meant hiring somebody else to play Ingo’s character. There was a problem, though: Ingo was one of the most popular actors on General Hospital. He was under contract until June 2022 and the producers had previously discussed extending his deal. Criticism of Ingo’s political commentary also led to the creation of the #FireIngo, which was trending around the time ABC decided to axe him. So, instead of being honest with Ingo, ABC used the Covid vaccine policy as an excuse to get rid of him.
A two-decade and counting veteran of the six-decade running daytimer, Rademacher was canned from his GH “Jasper Jacks” role in late 2021 for refusing to comply with the House of Mouse’s Covid vaccine mandate, according to ABC. He wasn’t the only one. Fellow actor Steve Burton was pink slipped in November 2021 over not taking the vaccine, as were some crew members. Unlike Burton, on December 13, 2021, the openly vax-sceptic German-Australian Rademacher went after ABC for his firing with a wide-ranging civil rights lawsuit. Long lawsuit short: Rademacher claimed the network’s denial of a religious exemption from the vaccine mandate for him was a strident example of discrimination.
After various briefs and other documents in the LA Superior Court’s docket, ABC moved earlier this year to have the whole thing dismissed. Citing its responsibility to provide a “safe work environment” in a pandemic and otherwise, the network also rejected Rademacher’s own motion to have the court decided on a summary adjudication of his religious discrimination claim under the Fair Employment and Housing Act.
Like the deep divides in America 2023, Rademacher and ABC seem to living in two very different worlds when it comes to this lawsuit and the events that led to it.
“When the content of Rademacher’s religious exemption request, and his conduct in support of his request, is considered, it is undisputed that none of the beliefs stated in his request, or explained to ABC, were either ‘religious’ within the meaning of the law or sincerely held, as required under the FEHA,” states ABC’s Paul Hastings LLP lawyers in their own opposition filing of March 16 (read it here). “In truth, Rademacher lacks an answer to the ultimate question because …his religion has absolutely nothing to draw from beyond his own imagination – no writings, no leaders, no creed, no history, no clergy, nothing,” the network stingingly adds. “There is no religion to join,” Rademacher is said to have told Erin Nguyen, Director- Employee Relations at Walt Disney Television, when questioned in his petition for an exemption.
ABC points out to the court that the company did give a number of employees a religious exemption over the vaccine. However, none of those exemptions were on General Hospital, it seems
Mocking the actor’s December 15, 2021 appearance with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and apparent “revisionist” finessing of his beliefs in the months since first filing his lawsuit, ABC, with a typo of 2022 where they mean 2021, conclude: “Nothing can turn back time and enable Rademacher to address the deficiencies in his religious exemption request back in October 2022.”
Clearly feeling they’re now holding some smokin’ guns, that’s not how Rademacher’s lawyers see it.
Orbiting around a July 2021 decision by then Disney CEO Bob Chapek to require all employees of the media giant to be vaccinated against Covid, and and an alleged lack of statute required attempt by Disney to accommodate those seeking religious exemptions, Radmacher’s March 16 filing takes a scalpel to ABC’s public pose of non-compliance on his part. “Things changed last summer when ABC produced documents showing that GH producers had decided to drop Ingo from the show even before ABC adopted the Covid vaccine policy, in response to Ingo’s commentary about politics and Covid policies,” this most recent filing says. “The case also took a turn last December when ABC turned over documents that showed it had initially decided not to mandate the Covid shots then changed the policy, virtually overnight, at the end of July 2021.”
In a deposition for the case, Rademacher has professed that being cut from GH left him “unable to find work on other television shows and, under financial distress, had to move my family from California to Florida.” Exiting his other gig as a part-time LA County lifeguard, the actor put his Hawaii home on the market for $6 million in mid-2022 too. Now the primary caregiver to his three children while his wife has returned to the Sunshine State workforce, the Trump supporting Rademacher declared “I don’t consider myself conservative or liberal …I care about issues, especially the environment, privacy rights and the freedom of speech.”
When contacted by Deadline, ABC had no comment on Rademacher’s latest filing.
On the other hand, up against the biggest media corporation in town, Rademacher’s main attorney did have something to say. “Our discovery has revealed that ABC got rid of Ingo because of his political views, views that the company disagreed with,” says Scott J. Street. “We’re confident in the case that we build in the discover progress and we’re confident that the judge will give us a chance to present this case to a jury.”
We will see in just under two weeks if that confidence is warranted.
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Health: New Evidence Supports Animal Origin of COVID Virus through Raccoon Dogs
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-evidence-supports-animal-origin-of-covid-virus-through-raccoon-dogs/
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I believe this this is why we need to keep an eye on the bird flu.
Mad cow disease
New York's Mayor Wants to Make People Take Their Masks Off
Mayor Eric Adams says that masks have become a way for criminals to hide their faces, and is asking businesses to make people take them off.
New York's Mayor Wants to Make People Take Their Face Masks Off Following a String of Robberies
People wearing a masks walk through Times Square on March 6, 2023 in New York City. New York City police are urging businesses to require customers to remove face masks as a condition of entry due to a surge in robberies across the city.
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BY SIMMONE SHAH
MARCH 8, 2023 6:31 PM EST
New York City, hit hard in the early days of the pandemic, once required all New Yorkers to wear a mask when entering stores until February 2022. A year later, New York Mayor Eric Adams says that masks have become a way for criminals to hide their faces, and they’re asking businesses to enforce indoor mask bans in the city.
In an interview with PIX 11 on Monday, Adams said that the change would help police properly use security cameras to identify those who shoplift and commit serious crimes. “Let’s be clear, some of these characters going into stores that are wearing their mask, they’re not doing it because they’re afraid of the pandemic, they’re doing it because they’re afraid of the police,” the mayor said. “We need to stop allowing them to exploit the safety of the pandemic by wearing masks, committing crimes.”
New York remains one of the few American cities where masks are still a common sight in public—especially on the subway. Backlash to the proposal was swift online. “Someone who wears a mask is the least likely to a commit crime. In case you still don’t know, wearing a mask means we actually care what happens to people, even ones we don’t know,” said one Twitter user.
Adams noted that customers could put their masks back on after revealing their faces. “We are putting out a clear call to all of our shops: Do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask,” he said in a radio interview with New York station 1010 WINS. “And then once they’re inside, they can continue to wear it if they so desire to do so.”
“As a sign of a peace offering, a sign of safety to those store workers, when we walk in, we should take down our mask,” NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said at a press conference on Monday.
Matthew Cortland, a senior fellow at the progressive think tank Data for Progress and lawyer who specializes in areas of disability and healthcare says that the measure isn’t a law yet, but it could still be challenged legally.
“It’s a distinction that matters because if it was a formal action that he had taken, my guess is that he would have been sued by now,” says Cortland. “Mayor Adams is asking stores to do this. However, if any stores take him up on it, that store can then be the subject of a complaint to city regulators, state regulators, or a lawsuit.”
The move comes after a string of robberies, including one that resulted in a clerk’s death. Assistant Chief Joseph Kenny of the NYPD’s detective bureau said that in each robbery, the perpetrator arrived on the scene wearing a white full-body Tyvek hazmat-style suit and a dark-colored face mask.
According to police department data, New York City has seen a decline in crime across most categories for the first two months of 2023 compared with the same period last year. New York City saw 17,411 robberies in 2022, up from 13,371 in 2019 and 13,831 in 2021, according to NYPD data.
Fabien Levy, a spokesman for Adams told the New York Daily News that the mask decision was in line with federal guidelines. “Safety is always top of mind, which is why we’re talking about a mask being down upon entrance to a store for seconds, not minutes or hours, and then it could be put back on if an individual chooses to do so,” he said. “This is the very same approach TSA uses when anyone travels on a plane.”
CDC guidelines say that longer exposure times, like contact longer than 15 minutes, is more likely to result in transmission than two minutes of contact. But, Cortland says that doesn’t mean the risk is gone–especially for those who are immunocompromised. “If there is SARS-CoV-2 floating in the air of the corner bodega where you get your egg and cheese every morning and you are immunocompromised, taking off your highly protective mask in that enclosed space is a direct threat to your health. It will not require 15 minutes to become infected,” Cortland says.
With pandemic restrictions lifting and the Biden Administration ending pandemic emergency declarations in May 2023, Cortland says the decision reflects a large trend of immunocompromised Americans being left on their own when it comes to protecting themselves against the threat of the virus.
“Immunocompromised Americans are being put in this impossible situation where the rest of society has decided to pretend that COVID is no longer a threat. We don’t have a choice but to acknowledge the reality that COVID-19 is still circulating. So you either get your groceries delivered or, if you can’t afford that, you risk exposure.” Cortland said.“What traditionally has happened throughout the pandemic is immunocompromised people are shoved out in public life.”
New York's Mayor Wants to Make People Take Their Masks Off
Mayor Eric Adams says that masks have become a way for criminals to hide their faces, and is asking businesses to make people take them off.time.com
New York's Mayor Wants to Make People Take Their Face Masks Off Following a String of Robberies
People wearing a masks walk through Times Square on March 6, 2023 in New York City. New York City police are urging businesses to require customers to remove face masks as a condition of entry due to a surge in robberies across the city.
Leonardo Munoz–VIEWpress/Getty Images
BY SIMMONE SHAH
MARCH 8, 2023 6:31 PM EST
New York City, hit hard in the early days of the pandemic, once required all New Yorkers to wear a mask when entering stores until February 2022. A year later, New York Mayor Eric Adams says that masks have become a way for criminals to hide their faces, and they’re asking businesses to enforce indoor mask bans in the city.
In an interview with PIX 11 on Monday, Adams said that the change would help police properly use security cameras to identify those who shoplift and commit serious crimes. “Let’s be clear, some of these characters going into stores that are wearing their mask, they’re not doing it because they’re afraid of the pandemic, they’re doing it because they’re afraid of the police,” the mayor said. “We need to stop allowing them to exploit the safety of the pandemic by wearing masks, committing crimes.”
New York remains one of the few American cities where masks are still a common sight in public—especially on the subway. Backlash to the proposal was swift online. “Someone who wears a mask is the least likely to a commit crime. In case you still don’t know, wearing a mask means we actually care what happens to people, even ones we don’t know,” said one Twitter user.
Adams noted that customers could put their masks back on after revealing their faces. “We are putting out a clear call to all of our shops: Do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask,” he said in a radio interview with New York station 1010 WINS. “And then once they’re inside, they can continue to wear it if they so desire to do so.”
“As a sign of a peace offering, a sign of safety to those store workers, when we walk in, we should take down our mask,” NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said at a press conference on Monday.
Matthew Cortland, a senior fellow at the progressive think tank Data for Progress and lawyer who specializes in areas of disability and healthcare says that the measure isn’t a law yet, but it could still be challenged legally.
“It’s a distinction that matters because if it was a formal action that he had taken, my guess is that he would have been sued by now,” says Cortland. “Mayor Adams is asking stores to do this. However, if any stores take him up on it, that store can then be the subject of a complaint to city regulators, state regulators, or a lawsuit.”
The move comes after a string of robberies, including one that resulted in a clerk’s death. Assistant Chief Joseph Kenny of the NYPD’s detective bureau said that in each robbery, the perpetrator arrived on the scene wearing a white full-body Tyvek hazmat-style suit and a dark-colored face mask.
According to police department data, New York City has seen a decline in crime across most categories for the first two months of 2023 compared with the same period last year. New York City saw 17,411 robberies in 2022, up from 13,371 in 2019 and 13,831 in 2021, according to NYPD data.
Fabien Levy, a spokesman for Adams told the New York Daily News that the mask decision was in line with federal guidelines. “Safety is always top of mind, which is why we’re talking about a mask being down upon entrance to a store for seconds, not minutes or hours, and then it could be put back on if an individual chooses to do so,” he said. “This is the very same approach TSA uses when anyone travels on a plane.”
CDC guidelines say that longer exposure times, like contact longer than 15 minutes, is more likely to result in transmission than two minutes of contact. But, Cortland says that doesn’t mean the risk is gone–especially for those who are immunocompromised. “If there is SARS-CoV-2 floating in the air of the corner bodega where you get your egg and cheese every morning and you are immunocompromised, taking off your highly protective mask in that enclosed space is a direct threat to your health. It will not require 15 minutes to become infected,” Cortland says.
With pandemic restrictions lifting and the Biden Administration ending pandemic emergency declarations in May 2023, Cortland says the decision reflects a large trend of immunocompromised Americans being left on their own when it comes to protecting themselves against the threat of the virus.
“Immunocompromised Americans are being put in this impossible situation where the rest of society has decided to pretend that COVID is no longer a threat. We don’t have a choice but to acknowledge the reality that COVID-19 is still circulating. So you either get your groceries delivered or, if you can’t afford that, you risk exposure.” Cortland said.“What traditionally has happened throughout the pandemic is immunocompromised people are shoved out in public life.”
SMH. You aren't supposed to touch the mask until you are ready to take it off and dispose of it.
The Truth About Long COVID Is Finally Emerging. It’s Not What We Thought.
The flood of patients never materialized. Why?
Covid has not affected people’s happiness around world, study reveals | Happiness indices | The Guardian
World Happiness Report finds higher levels of benevolence in all global regions than before the pandemic
COVID-19: A look back on where the US succeeded and where we didn’t
Public health experts explain to ABC News where the U.S. succeeded and where it didn't as the third anniversary of the pandemic passes.
A letter to my loved ones about COVID-19: You've moved on, but I'm still here
Three years after COVID-19 hit I'm still afraid – and angry. People are still dying from the pandemic. Why is everybody moving on?
www.usatoday.com
Trump really dropped the ball when this shit first came out. They got a little serious about it when white people started dying all over the place.COVID-19: A look back on where the US succeeded and where we didn’t
Public health experts explain to ABC News where the U.S. succeeded and where it didn't as the third anniversary of the pandemic passes.abcnews.go.com
But those same white folk don't really seem to want to hold him accountable even now.
Anthony Fauci: Right-Wingers Who Want Him Killed Have ‘No Noble End Goal’
Ahead of the PBS documentary “American Masters: Dr. Tony Fauci,” the famed physician talks to The Daily Beast about Biden, Trump, and where we are now in the battle against COVID.
If You Rebuild It, Will They Return?
3 years after shutdown, despite some encouraging signs, most U.S. theatres are struggling to get audiences to commit.
www.americantheatre.org
Desantis and the whistle-blower who won't give up
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Everybody who studies Florida knows that they was hiding numbers there’s a lot of people died in Florida from Covid. Hell I think they hid the true death numbers from hurricane Ian.Desantis and the whistle-blower who won't give up
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If You Rebuild It, Will They Return?
3 years after shutdown, despite some encouraging signs, most U.S. theatres are struggling to get audiences to commit.
This is a very interesting development
time will tell the real story and that is Rebekah Jones was right,, oh well
been saying it for 2 years when it really settles n there's a rising number of diagnosis from long covid its gonna be another issue to come to terms withThe Truth About Long COVID Is Finally Emerging. It’s Not What We Thought.
The flood of patients never materialized. Why?slate.com
This is going to take a lot of people out of the workforce.
Got 4 people in my office sick with Covid…we been clear for months
They're at the beach spring breaking
nah it’s Florida it’s spring break all year plus they’re 40-50 year olds…shits making a comeback
FL Dept of Health Altered Data to Make Vaccines Look Dangerous.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023...-altered-data-to-make-vaccines-look-dangerous
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023...-altered-data-to-make-vaccines-look-dangerous
I believe this
Anatomy of a man-made disaster: 320 ways Donald Trump failed to protect us from the coronavirus
Anatomy of a man-made disaster: 320 ways Donald Trump failed to protect us from the coronavirus https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/anatomy-of-a-man-made-disaster-320-ways-donald-trump-failed-to-protect-us-from-the-coronavirus/ yeah its a colin post but if u like details of how things breakdown...
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It's funny how conspiracy theorists only believe the conspiracy goes ONE WAY.