The Highwire with Del Bigtree - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES PUSH BACK

Episode Date: October 29, 2021

Police, Firefighters, Healthcare Workers and more are pushing back against Covid19 vaccine mandates, en masse.#GregAbbott #ExecutiveOrder #Police #FireFighters #AlexVillanueva #NoVaccineMandates #FirstResponders #TheHighwire #DelBigtree #HW237Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

This movement, this fight, this narrative, you know, however you want to frame this. It's not just in the airline industry. It's spilling over into a lot of other professions and governors are actually getting involved. Texas Governor Abbott down where you guys are, he signed an executive order banning the vaccine mandates. So he's taking a very hard stance. Texas Governor Abbott bans any COVID-19 vaccine mandates, including for private employers. This was his executive order signed on October 11th. It reads, no entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual,

including an employee or a consumer who objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience based on a religious belief or for medical reasons, including prior recovery from COVID-19. There's that natural immunity piece that's added in there. I hereby suspend all relevant statutes to the extent necessary to enforce this prohibition. Now, he's asking the legislature to codify this order into actual law. So that's going to be a very, very strong stance out of Texas. And it could be repeated. Watch for it to be repeated in other states. But going over now to Los Angeles, we have a sheriff, a sheriff Alex Villanueva. He oversees the largest sheriff's department in the country with

roughly 18,000 employees. He was doing a Facebook live fielding some questions. And this one came up. Take a look. Are you forcing your officer to set the vaccine to get the the vaccine. As I said, no, I'm not forcing anyone. The issues become so politicized, their entire groups of employees are willing to be fired and laid off rather than get vaccinated. So I don't want to be in a position to lose 5, 10% of my workforce overnight on a MAC vaccine mandate, while at the same time, bare bones with the funding effort. So this is like the worst of two worlds right here. That's amazing. Right. I think he's referring to this entire. movement of defund the police, huge funding cuts, you know, already hitting that sheriff

and now he's supposed to lose even more people. And I think what that really shows you is the power we have in numbers. Everyone that keeps saying, what do I do? What do I do? I keep saying, start talking. There's no way you're the only one inside of your business. There's no way you're the only nurse, the only doctor, the only police officer, the only firefighter. As it turns out, I mean, at the minimum, we're seeing hospitals like 18%. We see 40% of TSA workers. We even saw the head of the FDA admit that the vaccination rate, you know, a month or two ago is like around 50%. That has to be true across this nation. And so if we come together and we stand together and say to the employer or say to the union, we're not, we're not having it. And as a group, we're going

to walk out that door. Clearly there is power of that. And so many times, I'm hearing so many stories of people that that's all they did. And the employer backed up and said, you know what, screw it, I'm not doing this. Right. And as we're doing research, we look for dots to connect and the media reflexively reports these stories as just a couple people, just a couple people. Everyone is 99% vaccinated, just a couple people. Well, we hear that from that sheriff's, that sheriff's head. Now, we go over to Seattle. Same exact story. I mean, literally, it could have been scripted from that Facebook live. Seattle could fire 40% of police force over COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Same story playing out in Seattle. Seattle's already depleted police department is

bracing for another step back, just like he said. The city is poised to fire as many as 403 officers, about 40% of the 1,000 person force for failing to take the COVID-19 jab by an October 18th deadline, according to local reports. That's coming right up really fast. And then we have Chicago, Chicago Police Union Head. He's telling his members to hold the line against the vaccine mandate, which comes down tomorrow. They're going to have to report their vaccine status by Friday. This is also happening, you know, across the country. And they are allowed to test twice a week while the city kind of figures out what to do with the unvaccinated employees. But, you know, that gums up the works because they don't have answers because this is coming down so fast.

And then we go to the courts. So we have firefighters now. They're taking to the courts. We saw them really vocal over the last couple months. Hundreds of LA City firefighters filed notice of intent to sue over COVID vaccine mandate. Wow. Now listen to this. Los Angeles faces a broadening lawsuit as 871 city firefighters have filed a notice of intent to sue over the public employee vaccine mandate, passed by city council, seeking $2 million per plaintiff.

Wow. So let's grab that calculator, 871 times $2 million per plaintiff. I think that has a big B billion behind it. They were moving to the billions there. Yeah, wow, fantastic. So that's a big problem. I went to the LA Fire Department's website just to check out the numbers here. And it says the LAFD's 3,435 uniformed fire personnel protect life property and environment. Now it says a total of 1,018 uniform firefighters are always on duty at fire department facilities citywide.

So if we're looking at those numbers, 1,018, if you minus 871 from them, if they have to leave their job, that's a big problem for L.A. not a small city from what I understand. Right. That's amazing. And then we have people, of course, all shades here. We have people voting with their feet. So we have Massachusetts state troopers. They're quitting. We reported on this a while back.

Dozens of Massachusetts state troopers have quit over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. This is from the Union. Michigan health care workers are quitting. Hundreds of Michigan health care workers quit after refusing COVID-19 vaccine. That's at Henry Ford Health System. That's one of the largest health systems in Michigan. And the courts are still battling on this front as well with the health care workers out of New York. We have an update on that court case here.

New York must allow religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandate judge rules. The plaintiffs said their rights would be violated by the vaccine mandate that disallowed religious exemptions. So that's what's basically happening. So this is a temporary order while the arguments are being heard, but it still strings out this mandate. these people are protected while this court case is going on. And just like the United Court case, there are a lot of eyes. I can only guess how many eyes from administrators to actual nurses and

doctors are on these court cases looking at the decision how it's going to play out. Wow, it's amazing. When I think about where we started, you know, five years ago, of course, the Sherry 10 pennies in Andy Wakefields and Bobby Kennedy go back before that. When I just think about where this country was at and how many people were trying to be understood that vaccines can injure, that they are not a one-size-fits-all, my body, my choice, these parents have injured children that have, you know, one of the hardest lives you can imagine I've spent so much time with them, what they must be thinking now, I mean, for everyone that's like,

oh, these are dark times, these are horrible times, for those people that have been living in that dark time being told they're crazy, to see that your firefighters, your governors, your attorney generals, you know, your doctors, your nurses, the police officers are all stepping up now and fighting the fight that these, these parents have been fighting by themselves. It truly is an incredible moment in time.

And obviously, to me, it's divine. Clearly, something much, much bigger is going on here. So I want people, I hope that today's show as we get through this, and I know there's more to come, that we recognize this is not a time to, you know, just get depressed and, oh, woe is me. And this is the time. We're alive now.

We're alive in the moment where we are going to shift one of the biggest, you know, lies ever told. which is that vaccines are safe and effective. It is being destroyed, and now we have so many brand new voices and people of different spaces and power stepping in next to us. It's truly exciting. If you like that clip, then be sure to check out our live broadcast of the High Wire every Thursday morning at 11 a.m. Pacific Time.

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