Goodbye and Good Riddance

[kpete]

Leonard Pitts column nails it: Goodbye and Good Riddance:

This is for those of you who’ve chosen to quit your jobs rather than submit to a vaccine mandate.

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Well, on behalf of the rest of us, the ones who miss concerts, restaurants and other people’s faces, the ones who are sick and tired of living in pandemic times, here’s a word of response to you quitters: Goodbye.

And here’s two more: Good riddance.

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But the rest of us, we’re mad at you. Because this thing could have been over by now, and you’re the reason it isn’t.

That’s why we were glad President Joe Biden stopped asking nicely, started requiring vaccinations everywhere he had power to do so. We were also glad when employers followed suit. And if that’s a problem for you, then, yes, goodbye, sayonara, auf Wiedersehen, adios and adieu. We’ll miss you, to be sure. But you’re asking us to choose between your petulance and our lives.

And that’s really no choice at all.

MORE:
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/goodbye-and-good-riddance/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/27/2054633/-Leonard-Pitts-column-nails-it-Goodbye-and-Good-Riddance?utm_campaign=trending

[gab13by13]

1. Yeah, they quit their jobs to own the libs.

They are a cult, no critical thinking for admittance.

[NurseJackie]

2. Do you feel owned? I don't feel owned. 😂🤣😂🤣

Yeah, they quit their jobs to own the libs.

Do you feel owned? I don't feel owned.

They are a cult, no critical thinking for admittance.

Neither required, OR allowed.

[gab13by13]

5. No, I don't feel owned,

I do feel frustrated at the Trumpers I know because I have found out that I will never be able to reach them. I gave up long ago debating with them. They don't understand that if this country loses its democracy they are going to lose all of their freedumbs, dictators don't give a hoot for the unwashed. They will get to keep their religion because fascism comes to town waving the flag and carrying a bible.

[NurseJackie]

8. It's a waste of breath. I stopped trying.

I'd get further talking to a waffle-iron.

[secondwind]

21. lol

[Richard58]

26. I feel frustrated as well.

Like you, I gave up trying to talk to the MAGA people I know. They are conspiracy minded nitwits who have no critical thinking skills. Everything to them is a hoax. Climate change is a hoax. Covid is a hoax. And somehow it's all aimed at making America a communist nation. WTF? I can show them all the scientific research in the world and they will dismiss it and call it liberal propaganda. I can't begin to tell you how maddening it is when you can't even agree what reality is. So I have given up. To hell with them and their idiocy! Our only hope of survival is vote out their politicians. Otherwise America as a democracy and as a sane society is doomed. We are standing at the precipice of an abyss. Let's pray we don't fall into it.

[wryter2000]

18. Oh, I do

I'm terrified that I'll be able to go to physical therapy whenever the therapist wants to see me. I'll have to do all those exercises. I won't have any more excuse to avoid my relatives in other parts of the country. I'll have to go to restaurants and concerts again. Who can afford that?

Don't stop owning me, please.

(I love my relatives. As soon as I have my booster, I'm off to Arizona.)

[calimary]

32. They don't "own" this "lib" either.

And they NEVER will.

[NurseJackie]

34. Except when I'm angry... they make me laugh.

They're just so stupid. Is it wrong for me to be enjoying the fact that the worst of the worst are dying so quickly?

[GoCubsGo]

3. And, thank you to all of you who are medical personnel.

If I ever get sick, I'll know I won't have anyone that stupid working on me.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

4. +1000, amen.

[gab13by13]

6. I wonder how many people there are like me,

I'm 74 and need a knee replacement one of these days, but I am trying to put it off until these infections drop. I am going to see if golfing helps it out today. These stupid people have made it terrible for everyone.

I live in Pa. and our governor made masks mandatory in schools. The other day I drove by an elementary school and there were protestors out front calling for the freedumb for their children to get sick or for their children to give Covid to the cafeteria workers and teachers. I drove by and gave them all a thumbs down. Dozens of them attended a recent school board meeting, all unmasked, pushing for the freedumb for their kids to go maskless.

[infullview]

7. We should require the vaccination before making unemployment or food stamps available

so that people who are considering quitting have no state or federal fallback to rely on.

[markpkessinger]

12. Thar would be a terrible idea . . .

.>> Once you start potting those kinds of tests on unemployment benefits and food stamps, conservatives will, the next time they are in power, use that same rationale to impose all sorts of other tests. I am currently unemployed, but not because I want to be. We really don't need to add to the difficulties faced by unemployed and poor people!

Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should Democrats havbe anything to do with weaponizing assistance to the poor and /or the unemployed -- for ANY reason!

[leftstreet]

36. +1

[The Jungle 1]

9. I want them banned from the hospital also

No way should the un-vaccinated be putting our healthcare workers at risk.

[lagomorph777]

10. Ta-ta, twits

NOTE: your post has a big duplicated block.

[turbinetree]

11. In one emoji for these people beside good riddance and good-bye, don't let the door hit you in the

ass as your walking out, and your lungs turn into leather that is dried up and you have tube inserted into you throat.....

[lambchopp59]

13. Oh, hell if that's what it takes to get them compliant... okay, RW fux you own me.

They certainly own the current pandemic.
They own, practically have cornered the market on throwing childish tantrums in public.
They own having completely confusing, nonsensical theories all over the place: that the whole pandemic is a liberal plot, or doesn't exist, or is just the flu, or intentionally created for some nefarious purpose, or any other idiotic thing the toaster told them.
They own us all in not being able to resume life in a semblance of "normal".
Where they insist on contaminating an indoor space with their unmasked tirades, they own that room.
They own the unchecked ability of this virus to morph into more virulent forms.
They own the whole hostage situation they've held us in for months.
They own many of their own in their death beds.
They own what we have gained out of all this:
Not one valuable goddamn thing.

[Bucky]

38. They wouldn't know what to do with you

The party of Ben Shapiro should not be trifled with.... if you know what I mean by "trifled"

[AllaN01Bear]

14. the very ones who are commiting american genocide.

[question everything]

15. This is especially valid for health care workers

I really do not want to be treated by one of those

[Wounded Bear]

16. Yep! I'm tired of playing "nice" to the willfully ignorant and intentionally rude...

Y'all want to troll out, fuck off.

[calimary]

33. Right there with ya, my friend!

[ffr]

17. Kpete, the post repeats itself

Like pasted twice, beginning with
This is for those of you who’ve chosen to quit your jobs rather than submit to a vaccine mandate.

half way down. Might want to cut out the duplicate.

[NCjack]

19. On the positive side, I have spent a lot more time with good people --

the vaccinated, the masked, the socially distanced. Those not in my face, hacking, coughing, and touchy feely.

[Botany]

20. " Because this thing could have been over by now, and you're the reason it isn't.

n/t

[Marthe48]

22. CBS radio news featured a nurse who will lose her job today

because she isn't vaccinated. Boo f'n hoo.

She can get another job, probably, kind of hope not, but I can't get a redo on Christmas 2020, New's Eve 2020, Easter 2020, 2021, Mother's Day 2020, 2021, Thanksgiving 2020, my birthdays, time with my kids, time with my grandkids, plus I have to deal with worrying about my loved ones even if they have a vaccination, and the pain of loss of people that if not in my everyday life, were in my universe, which is emptier by about 19 lights, thanks to selfish, monoric idiots like the woman they interviwed.

[RicROC]

23. They quit or lose their healthcare jobs?

GOOD! because now I feel safer going to the doctor, dentist or Optometrist than I did 2 weeks ago.

THANK YOU for protecting me and my family. (Even though that was not really your intent..concern about MY health, you healthcare Pharisee)

[TeamProg]

24. Dead on !

Man, I wish I came up with that in these same words.

[Hekate]

25. Amen

[bluecollar2]

27. You left out

Hasta la vista pendejos!

[Initech]

28. Don't let the door hit ya on the way out!

[samplegirl]

29. This post is everything.

Thanks for sharing as it speaks for all of us here.

[Dukkha]

30. Dont' let the door hit you where evolution split you

Because $1 million says they have no moral dilemma in government mandates on women's bodies. But when it comes to harmless vaccines they start the pearl clutching and feign victimhood.

[BlueIdaho]

31. I have no shits to give.

These self important little fascists can go fuck themselves for all I care. If they are healthcare workers - they should be banned from that career permanently.

Maybe they can set up one of those Trump flag operations on the side of the road.

[Wingus Dingus]

35. Yep.

[OriginalGeek]

37. Our CEO sent an email to everyone this weekend

that since we do contract with the government and are governed by the FDA and are well over a hundred employees that they are looking very closely at the new mandates.

They are already paying us extra if we have to come in because our jobs aren't suited to working from home and paying us to get the vaccine and gave them to us on-site for everyone that wanted one and they are raffling off 50 $1,000.00 prizes among the folks who get at least the first dose by the end of September plus a 250 dollar gift card to everyone who is vaccinated but now there are some hold-outs who are worried they will have to get the vaccine.

I won't miss a single one of them.