Eric Boehlert: Who cares if anti-vaxxers quit their jobs?

[babylonsister]

https://pressrun.media/p/who-cares-if-anti-vaxxers-quit-their

Who cares if anti-vaxxers quit their jobs?
It's not news
Eric Boehlert
1 hr ago


Wringing its hands at the sight of workers walking away from jobs when faced with simple vaccine mandates, the Wall Street Journal over the weekend became the latest national news outlet to shower attention on the topic.

The sympathetic, 2,000-word Journal piece focused on a minuscule portion of the workforce that has irrationally decided not to take a free, safe, and effective vaccine. Instead of presenting these actions as delusional, the press often frames the quitting as being principled or even heroic. (The “resistance” is “unwavering,” the New York Times announced.)

The continued, hand-holding coverage — “brainwashing” is virtually never used — represents the latest example of the press helping to normalize irrational, nihilistic behavior by Trump followers.

As we watch a parade of unreasonable people needlessly blow up their careers and walk away from good paying jobs with excellent benefits, the questions that linger are, should we care, and should this trend be breathlessly treated as Big News by the media? Should we care that a tiny percentage is embracing rabbit-hole conspiracies about a vaccine that nearly 200 million Americans have safely taken? Should we care that they’ve decided to believe non-stop lies to the point where they’ll likely be unemployable for months, and maybe years to come?

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Brainwashed Covid zombies will continue to walk away from good paying jobs and put their families at risk, economically. But that doesn’t mean we have to care. And that doesn’t mean it’s news.

[Walleye]

1. I hope they lose their jobs. And they get miserably sick

They are doing their best to ruin our beloved country. Losing their jobs is too good for them. They should lose their health insurance

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

6. Seriously! They put in grave danger those of us acting responsibly in protecting against COVID.

[Walleye]

8. I'm pissed. 3/4 of us are doing our best for the rest the country and have worked hard at it

[NurseJackie]

14. Agree. Cull the herd.

And... I still need to invest heavily in: the Funeral Home industry; the Casket industry; the Grave Vault industry; the Cremation industry; the grave-digging industry; the headstone industry; the brass grave marker industry; the embalming chemicals industry; the mortuary school industry; the hair and makeup for corpses industry; the custom-hearse industry.

These guys must be making a FORTUNE!!!

[lagomorph777]

20. I need to look up stock prices for Clorox, Ivermectin, and Hydroxychloroquine.

[NurseJackie]

23. Excellent idea! Get rich off the bastards before the die!

[BigDemVoter]

29. [phone]

[634-5789]

2. And, there's plenty of fresh faces to take their place, especially those 5-6 figure jobs.

[OLDMDDEM]

4. I agree nt.

[Lovie777]

5. They can all congregate in those red states and infect each other . . .

but alas, there are a lot of good people who also live there as well who cares about their fellow human beings.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. Yes, it's time to go beyond mandates... if it takes vaxxing people against their will, so be it!!

[machoneman]

11. Hey, let's lock'em up in barbed wire cages. Treat them like the Border Patrol treats immigrants.

No need to treat them with a COVID vaccine. Just keep them away from the rest of us until they die or get better. Only then let out the few who survived.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

26. That might be more objectionable, idk, but not a bad idea...

Just make it so getting vaxxed is their only "get out of jail free card."

[lark]

9. Making way for non-Covid idiots is a good thing in my book.

Hope some poor working class stiffs who haven't been able to get a break will finally get their job with these departures.

[gab13by13]

10. It's a lose - lose situation for them,

lose income and lose health care.

[IronLionZion]

12. DeathSentence is welcoming them to move to Florida

where he will hire them without any vaccine mandates.

So, having lots of unvaxxed dumbasses working closely together. What could go wrong?

[area51]

13. I'd like to get one of these good paying jobs w/bennies that they're leaving. n/t

[bullwinkle428]

15. That the WSJ is doing this should not be a surprise. However, sources like NPR are

STILL stoking the fires of this story, even this morning.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/24/1047947268/covid-vaccine-workers-quitting-getting-fired-mandates

[wnylib]

25. They should give equal coverage

to these same people when they are overwhelming hospitals with their covid infections, are on ventilators, or have infected their families as a result of their decisions.

As for NPR, they do bothsiderism constantly. Very few of their programs are worth listening to anymore. IMO, the good ones are: Fresh Air with Terry Gross, This American Life with Ira Glass, Science Friday with Ira Flatow, and On the Media with Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone. Cooking and travel programs are entertaining and informative. Their "news" reporting and other programs reflect the influence of their corporate sponsors.

[hay rick]

16. When I was a child, parents had an expression for this.

"If you're going to cry I'll give you something to cry about." In a world run by adults, you are still entitled to your own opinion (I'm being treated unfairly!), but not entitled to act on that opinion without consequences.

[greymattermom]

17. Build another villages in Florida for younger folks.

Make it gated.
Lock the gate.

[Mysterian]

18. It's especially good when imbecile anti-vax cops and health care workers quit

They self-identify as unqualified for their jobs.

[Ford_Prefect]

19. They are putting everyone else at risk!!! Why is anyone holding their hands over this????????????

It's like hand-holding the alcoholic who just wrecked your car and put your kids and granny in the hospital.

[peggysue2]

21. It's all about framing the story

Is it news? Not really. A one off at best about how the delusional would rather blow up their lives than take a simple shot to protect themselves and those around them.

As Boehlert says, look at the WSJ wording: the resistance is unwavering which washes and rinses vaccine rejection, dilutes the selfish nonsense going on with a minority in the country.

The media does this all the time shaping the narrative for eyeballs and click bait. Why? Because chaos and dissension and heightened agita sells.

The Wall St. Journal really has to scramble to make Republican revenge songs sound reasonable or even close to acceptable. I suspect this is an example.

[BidenRocks]

22. Imagine a drowning victim

The good news is the cop saved you with mouth to mouth.

The bad news is that now you are dieing of covid.

Public safety and service my ass! These are walking, talking killers!

[OAITW r.2.0]

24. Anti-vax is anti-social. I view it as an opportunity

to purge anti-socialists from public safety jobs. They can always move to Florida and practice their authoritarianism there.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

27. I just really, really wish that hospitals would turn away non-vaccinated people

who present with Covid.

[Mister Ed]

28. It's this year's version of the stupid, endless interviews in small-towen Iowa diners. n/t

[hadEnuf]

30. Why should anybody care about people who are probably Republicans and / or Trumpers

quitting or losing their jobs? These same people despise unions and just about every other job protection that is left on the books. Anybody who is laid off and collects unemployment is called a taker and a bum, they are all for right to work and at-will laws and their usual answers to any unfairness or complaints in the workplace is "quit and GTFO".

Screw these idiots.