Author: Tom Cox

Service Members Can Request Religious Exemptions for Mandated Vaccines. Here’s How.

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Service Members Can Request Religious Exemptions for Mandated Vaccines. Here’s How.
The military has a 4-step formal process for requesting a religious exemption. If the exemption is denied, there is also a process for overturning the decision. By  Pam Long   The Department of Defense (DOD) Instruction 1300.17, “Religious Liberties in the Military Services,” conveys support for religious beliefs in the following statement: “In accordance with Section 533(a)(1) of Public Law 112-239, as amended, the DOD components will accommodate individual expressions of sincerely held beliefs (conscience, moral principles or religious beliefs) which do not have an adverse impact on military readiness, unit cohesion, good order and discipline, or health and safety.… Read the rest

“Now Youse Can’t Leave”

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“Now Youse Can’t Leave”
BY TYLER DURDEN WEDNESDAY, AUG 11, 2021 – 09:20 PM A mere few months ago any mention in public discourse of Covid passports was written off by the mainstream media as but the ravings of “conspiracy theorists” consigned to remote corners of the internet making supposedly far-fetched slippery slope arguments. On Wednesday CNBC now writes, “As the rampant delta variant of Covid threatens the post-pandemic travel and tourism rebound, there’s growing acceptance of so-called vaccine passports among a one-hesitant U.S.… Read the rest

Did The Delta COVID Variant Just Peak?

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Did The Delta COVID Variant Just Peak?
BY TYLER DURDEN WEDNESDAY, AUG 11, 2021 – 04:40 PM Though the comment received little more than a headline from the newswires, the White House acknowledged earlier on Wednesday that it has started to see COVID cases leveling off in the hardest-hit states. WHITE HOUSE SAYS U.S. HAS STARTED TO SEE SOME LEVELING OFF OF COVID-19 INFECTIONS IN STATES SEEING SURGE To be sure, the drop in cases, which typically portends a decline in hospitalizations and deaths, has arrived just in the nick of time for some hospital systems in Florida and Texas, which have reported seeing a surge in beds occupied by COVID patients.… Read the rest

HHS Becomes Latest Federal Agency to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines for Workers

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HHS Becomes Latest Federal Agency to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines for Workers
Posted by Jack Phillips | Aug 12, 2021 | Epoch Times   The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday said that it will require all of its frontline health care workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, according to agency Secretary Xavier Becerra. HHS is now the third federal agency to require its employees to receive the vaccine, joining the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.… Read the rest

‘They Can’t Arrest All of Us’ – Rand Paul Calls For Resistance to Covid Tyranny

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‘They Can’t Arrest All of Us’ – Rand Paul Calls For Resistance to Covid Tyranny
August 10, 2021 Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project Waking Times In a rather daring move, Senator Rand Paul released a video this week calling on Americans to resist any further tyranny by the government in regard to COVID-19. In his nearly 4-minute rant, Paul noted that if enough Americans resist the largely ineffective but extraordinarily tyrannical lockdown measures being rolled out again that it would be too much for the “petty tyrants and bureaucrats” to handle — thereby forcing them to drop the measures.… Read the rest

Pushback challenges vaccination requirements at US colleges

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Pushback challenges vaccination requirements at US colleges
The quickly approaching fall semester has America’s colleges under pressure to decide how far they should go to guard their campuses against the coronavirus while navigating legal and political questions and rising infection rates By TOM DAVIES Associated Press August 3, 2021, 11:00 AM The Breakdown: US meets President Joe Biden’s vaccine goal INDIANAPOLIS — The quickly approaching fall semester has America’s colleges under pressure to decide how far they should go to guard their campuses against COVID-19 while navigating legal and political questions and rising infection rates.… Read the rest

WHO director predicts 100 million additional cases worldwide

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WHO director predicts 100 million additional cases worldwide
By  Brittany Shammas, Adam Taylor, Adela Suliman and Bryan Pietsch   August 11, 2021 at 6:07 p.m. EDT World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested Wednesday that unless things change, the world could see 100 million more cases of covid-19 by the early months of next year. “At the current trajectory, we could pass 300 million cases early next year,” he said during a media briefing.… Read the rest

Door-To-Door Vaccine Campaigns Underway

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Door-To-Door Vaccine Campaigns Underway
“We need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oftentimes, door to door — literally knocking on doors — to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus.” – Pres. Biden, July 6, 2021 Teams are now going door to door in New York, Los Angeles, and Puerto Rico to enforce Biden’s vaccine rule Puerto Rico: Nurse Practitioner Takes Covid Shots House to House KAISER HEALTH NEWS, MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO — Abigail Matos-Pagán entered a bright-blue house in Mayagüez earlier this summer and was met by Beatriz Gastón, who quietly led the way to her mother’s small room.… Read the rest

Texas judge grants temporary restraining order against Gov. Greg Abbott’s school masking ban

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Texas judge grants temporary restraining order against Gov. Greg Abbott’s school masking ban
August 11, 2021     According to a report from KSAT-TV, Bexar County Civil District Court Judge Toni Arteaga approved the order following a Tuesday hearing to allow San Antonio to require masks in schools. The report added that San Antonio’s seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases is over 1,200. What are the details? The order will allow both county and city schools to require masks in all public schools in San Antonio and Bexar County until a further decision regarding Abbott’s executive order is made.… Read the rest