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Azastan wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 1:06 pm WaPo has an article up about an anti-vaxxer and his wife. This morning comments were being allowed. Now comments have not just been closed, the comments have been completely removed.

There was not much sympathy for them, and in particular, people were outraged at the undeniable fact that taxpayers are going to be paying for the millions of dollars this family incurred, simply because they didn't want to get vaccinated.

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miss meh wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:59 pm I'm really surprised we haven't heard about companies requiring some kind of health insurance surcharge for folks who refuse to be vaxxed. When I was a smoker I think they deducted $50 extra per month on top of my regular health ins premiums -- I had to affirm several times during yearly signup that I understood and accepted the additional charge was for being a smoker, and that I didn't want to do smoking cessation classes to avoid the fee.

miss meh wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:59 pm I'm really surprised we haven't heard about companies requiring some kind of health insurance surcharge for folks who refuse to be vaxxed. When I was a smoker I think they deducted $50 extra per month on top of my regular health ins premiums -- I had to affirm several times during yearly signup that I understood and accepted the additional charge was for being a smoker, and that I didn't want to do smoking cessation classes to avoid the fee.

johnpcapitalist wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 10:59 am The possibility of unlimited liability for poor health decisions is a lot more of a motivator than a mere $50 monthly fee. If I were a rabid anti-vaxxer, I'd happily pay a $50 surcharge if it enabled me to keep my belief system intact. But the chance I'd lose my house might get me to think differently about things.

WI State Sen. Felzkowski (R), presenting a natural immunity bill, says she has had both delta and omicron infections.

WI State Sen. Larson (D): "I would note that if natural immunity was something that would prevent you from getting COVID, you wouldn't have gotten COVID twice."

Ryan K Harrison, MD @rkh_md wrote: Folks. I’m tired of washing my hands before surgery so I’m not going to do it any longer. If you get an infection, it’s not my problem.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:51 pm I hates me some Elon Musk, but I didn't find that post in his Twitter feed.

bob wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:09 pm

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:51 pm I hates me some Elon Musk, but I didn't find that post in his Twitter feed.

Because Musk deleted it.

Teachers and staff members of her school district in Bethalto, Illinois, a small town outside of St. Louis, were suddenly worried that they would not be paid. They had seen videos posted online in which a parent who objected to the district’s Covid mask mandate said that she had filed a claim against the district’s insurance, causing the schools to lose all federal funding.

Griffin, the Bethalto schools superintendent, has spent weeks dealing with the fallout.

“You have district officials who are spending time on things like this, rather than on what we need to be spending time on — making sure that our classrooms are covered right now in the middle of a pandemic,” Griffin said.

The parent’s claims were baseless. She had no ability to use the mask mandate to file a claim against the district’s insurance policy, or affect its federal funding in any way.

But the scare tactic has become a familiar one. A growing number of school districts across the country are facing similar challenges from parent activists who have adopted strategies and language that are well known to law enforcement and extremism experts who deal with far-right “sovereign citizen” groups in the U.S. The Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League call it “paper terrorism.”

Romania's most famous football team, Steaua Bucharest, announce a ban on VACCINATED players, because their madcap owner says that athletes 'lose strength' - and claims those that are jabbed die in hospitals

• Mr Gigi Becali believes players vaccinated against coronavirus are 'powerless'
• He claims players at Steaua Bucharest and rival clubs are struggling after taking the vaccine
• The Romanian businessman singled out 36-year-old winger Ciprian Deac as an example of vaccine allegedly affecting older players
• Becali also recently said Steaua Bucharest striker Claudiu Keseru can no longer play at a high level
• His latest statement has drawn a furious reaction from the country's government
• Romania's vaccination rate of 86.52 doses per 100 population means they have the second lowest in Europe