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 The Dark Elf wrote:

 CosmicVibration wrote:

Frontline
workers were considered heroes at the beginning of this pandemic.  Now their careers will be ruined and they
will be discarded like garbage. 

FJB

New York State health care workers will no longer have a
religious exemption to the state's Covid-19 vaccine mandate after a federal
appeals court vacated a temporary injunction Friday.

Nearly 16,000 health care employees
in New York State have been granted religious exemptions by their employers
prior to Friday's court ruling, the state's health department confirmed to CNN
Friday night.

That's 15,844 employees of
hospitals, nursing homes, adult homes, Certified Home Health Agencies (CHHA),
Licensed Home Care Service Agencies (LHCSA) and hospice facilities, said
Jeffrey Hammond, deputy director of communications for the New York State
Department of Health.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/us/ny-state-health-care-workers-religious-exemption-ruling/index.html

The irony here is these addled folks are claiming some type of "religious exemption" for a medical procedure....and yet they are working in a medical field where vaccinations are a prime deterrent for contagious diseases. Buh-bye. Get new jobs as snake charmers or televangelists hocking healing bleach. Perhaps join the Amish and make furniture. 

Part 2 of the irony, they seem to ignore the prime directive of their religion - at least alleged Christians - wherein "what you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me", or "love thy neighbor as thyself." There's is a selfish take that actually goes against their supposed religious principles. Of course, there is a long history regarding the flexibility of religious principles and the bending and warping of said principles to allow for slavery, persecution and intolerance. Genocide, racism, caste -- one can make religion do just about anything, which makes sense, as religion is a man-made concept.

STFU, get vaccinated, or find a job that suits the 2000 year-old precepts of your mythological floating sky deity. A shepherd. Or a stone mason. Maybe a temple guard or subsistence farmer. Or just go full-blown stone age and be a hunter/gatherer.