A federal jury has determined a woman who was fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine mandated by her employer, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, is due a settlement worth almost $700,000.
"This thread had nothing to do with racism"
It does, you're just too racist to understand it.
"The COVID-19 pandemic's disproportionate impact on people from some racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. persisted throughout 2021. Black, Latinx, and American Indian persons have been hospitalized and died at a higher rate than White persons consistently from the start of the pandemic." www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The thing she objected to, wasn't even in the vaccine!
But, we live in a Clown World now, where sincere beliefs -- even when they aren't true, and even when they are manufactured by right-wing propaganda -- those count as much as facts.
UPDATE (July 2nd):
We spoke with Tanja Benton's attorney Doug Hamill Tuesday, who tells us Benton's religion is "Christian non-denominational."
According to the Associated Press, an internet-wide video by the group Project Veritas led to false claims online that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine contains fetal cells.
The AP says this caused social media users to spread this information online, referencing religious exemptions from the vaccine.
A study by National Geographic shows fetal cells as a part of the testing or development process of the COVID-19 vaccine, but not a direct ingredient.
But, Hamill says Benton believed that the vaccine would be injecting fetal cells into her body.
...
"Some of the people resist because at one point, stem cell lines from an aborted fetus were used in development. Some of those are sincere. They're often confused about the facts."
"Its absurd that people who call it a JaB think they should be taken seriously."
No more absurd than people who engage in linguistic discrimination think they should be taken seriously.
Seriously, what's wrong with using the jab?
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