NYC municipal workers have started their revolt against Mayor De Blasio’s COVID-19 jab mandate. 50,000+ city workers and their supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall to make their voices heard. But marching isn’t the only way New Yorkers have pushed back against the mayor’s tyrannical dictate. The FDNY President outright stated he’s not enforcing the COVID-19 jab mandate. He expects all firefighters to report for work, vaccinated and unvaccinated.
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Man dies outside Emergency Room due to staff refusing entry over Covid fears The Mexican Social Security Institute is investigating after a man died at the door of a Mexico City hospital to which he was denied entry. A 48 year-old man with kidney problems arrived at an IMSS hospital but was denied treatment and not even allowed to enter the emergency department out of fear he had Covid.
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The Missouri School Boards Association withdrew its membership from the National School Boards Association this week after the group “demonstrated it does not currently align” with the state’s “guiding principles of local governance.” “We also believe that no school board or member or educator should ever have to endure threats of violence or acts of intimidation against themselves or their families for making these difficult decisions,” Missouri School Boards Association Executive Director Melissa Randol said in a statement, per The Federalist. “However, attempting to address that issue with federal intervention should not be the first step in most cases, and is antithetical to our longstanding tradition of local control. Further, the use of inflammatory terms in the NSBA letter is not a model for promoting greater civility and respect for the democratic process.”
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Republican lawmakers are pressuring President Joe Biden to drop or pause his vaccine requirements for federal defense contractors over fears they will compromise national security supply chains. The Washington Examiner reviewed a letter Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville sent to the White House Tuesday afternoon claiming that Biden’s “federal contractor vaccine mandate will have negative effects on our national security” and called on the president “to remove — or, at a minimum, delay and clarify — vaccination requirements on private companies and academic research institutions that are actively supporting the Department of Defense.” PENTAGON DEFENDS USE OF COVID-19 FUNDS TO AID AILING DEFENSE CONTRACTORS “I share your desire to see our country through the COVID-19 pandemic as quickly as possible, and, I — like you — have elected to take the vaccine. But your administration’s mandate is short-sighted, ill-conceived, and threatens our national security,” Tuberville wrote in a letter