An ongoing legal battle over whether the military can force troops to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has left the Navy with a warship they say they can’t deploy because it is commanded by an officer they cannot fire. There was a lawsuit filed in Florida regarding religious objections to The Shot among service members, and the judge issued an order banning the Navy and the Marine Corp from taking disciplinary action against the 2 plaintiffs (one of which being the "unnamed ship's" C.O.) The Navy is screaming "National security is at risk," while another component to this is that the C.O. has already had COVID...so there's a triple assault on common sense. (1) The Shot does not prevent one from getting and transmitting COVID, (2) the guy now has natural immunity, and (3) everyone else on board is "vaccinated," so where's the risk? While the article does not discuss those 3 points, it does state that the ship was underway for more than 300 days during the 400 pandemic days when no vaccine was available, the plaintiffs contend, “with no operational impediment.” Link As an aside, the guy's commanding officer is Captain Brandon, the commodore of the Norfolk-based Destroyer Squadron 26. I'll let you make your own jokes.
Rhode Island Democrats have introduced a bill that doubles the income tax of every household that has an unvaxxed child AND levey a monthly fine of $50. State Senator Samuel Bell is the lead legislator backing the bill, which mandates all Rhode Island residents, workers, and taxpayers receive a COVID-19 vaccine as well as any subsequent boosters that the state’s director of the department of health shall require. Link
I wonder if it will survive the legislative process or if it is just virtue signaling not intended to actually become law?
Vegas is probably calling it as you said...virtue signaling. But it's a perverted form of "virtue." Goodness help us if this actually gains him votes in his district. Regardless of the demographics there, where are people's sense of universality and right & wrong?
I just know that Dems do a lot of things to please their base even though they know thy won't pass muster (and often don't want them to do so). Republicans do the same but less often as they are not as agenda-driven.