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Australians fired for refusing Covid vaccine search social media for 'welcoming' employers

Cait Kelly
The Gaurdian
Mon, 01 Nov 2021 19:56 UTC
Australia Vaccine
Unvaccinated Australians who have lost their jobs for refusing to comply with Covid vaccine mandates are using social media to find and share employment opportunities at workplaces where the new rules are not being enforced.

Telegram and Facebook have had an influx of people searching for paid jobs after states and territories implemented mandates covering a range of industries from health and aged care workers, teachers and police to construction and hospitality workers.

On some job boards, businesses that are happy to accept unvaccinated people advertise that they are "welcoming of everyone".

Beauty therapists, childcare workers, disability support workers and accountants are among 20,000 people who are members of the largest Facebook group for unvaccinated jobseekers in Australia.
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Multiple people injured after 2 passenger trains collide inside tunnel near Salisbury, Britain


RT
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 21:42 UTC
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© Reuters/Henry Nicholls
Emergency services personnel inspect the site where two trains crashed near Salisbury, Britain October 31, 2021
Two passenger trains collided inside a tunnel in the southwestern English city of Salisbury, with multiple fire trucks and ambulances working at the scene of the crash.

The incident reportedly happened after one train derailed and "knocked out all of the signaling in the area" after hitting an object on its approach to Salisbury station. Another train then collided with it.

Comment: The derailed train was a sitting duck as warning signals to the accident ahead were absent:
The incident happened near Salisbury station in Wiltshire on Sunday night when the rear carriage of a Great Western Railway (GWR) service from Portsmouth Harbour to Bristol Temple Meads derailed. At least 17 people were injured, with passengers being thrown around pitch-black carriages. Firefighters and paramedics rescued around 120 people, including a three-week-old baby girl.

BTP confirmed there were no fatalities, but a "small number" of people, including the driver of one of the trains, were taken to hospital to have their injuries assessed. One of the drivers was cut free having suffered a suspected broken ankle.

A senior Network Rail engineer told MailOnline that when the GWR service derailed, there should have been an automatic obstruction warning to stop any train entering the same mile-long stretch.
"There has been a major flaw within the signalling system within Network Rail. The system says that the line is not safe for the passage of another train because there is an obstruction on the line.

"According to my system, the signalling system was aware seven minutes before impact. It should've automatically stopped the train. It should've automatically set all signals to red. If the driver didn't see the signal, the system should've made the train stop."
A statement released on Monday read:
"At around 6.45pm, a Great Western Railway service from Southampton to Cardiff collided with a South Western Railway service from London to Honiton as they both entered the Fisherton Tunnel in Salisbury.

"Both trains were travelling in the same direction and one train struck the side of the other, causing it to derail whilst in the tunnel. The front few carriages remained upright while the back tipped on their side.

"Ninety-two passengers were on both train services. Around 30 people attended a casualty centre which was set up in a nearby church, the majority of who were walking wounded and assessed at the scene."

"Unfortunately, the driver of the train was more seriously injured and his injuries are believed to be life-changing. He remains in hospital in a stable condition this morning, and his family have been informed.

"We have now moved out of the rescue phase of the operation and into the investigation which will involve the trains remaining in situ for some time. The investigation remains at an early stage but a senior detective has been appointed to lead the enquiries as we work to establish the full circumstances of how this incident came to happen.

"This will no doubt have been an incredibly frightening experience for all those involved and our thoughts are with them and their families today.

"Specialist officers and detectives remain on scene in Salisbury and we are working closely alongside the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) and the Office of Rail and Road to establish exactly how these two trains came to collide.

"We are keeping an open mind but at this early stage there has been nothing to suggest the train struck an object or that there was any significant delay between the trains colliding and then one derailing.

"This has been a large scale, multi-agency operation and I would like to pay particular to thanks to our emergency service colleagues for their efforts in safely evacuating passengers, and to the many members of the local community who reached out with offers of help."


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Compulsory Covid vaccines for NHS workers could trigger winter staff crisis

Laura Donnelly, Ben Butcher
The Telegraph
Mon, 01 Nov 2021 02:47 UTC
Sajid Javid
© Hollie Adams/Getty Images
Health Secretary Sajid Javid
Compulsory coranvirus vaccines for NHS workers should be delayed until spring in case the move fuels a winter staff shortages crisis, health chiefs have said.

A fifth of frontline healthcare workers are still unvaccinated in some areas, even though they were in the first priority group at the start of the rollout.

The latest NHS figures show that 90 per cent of staff have been double-jabbed. However, around 120,000 workers are not - and at some trusts, including major hospitals in London and Birmingham, uptake is as low as 80 per cent.

Barts Health NHS Trust, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust all have an uptake of 80 per cent or less, according to NHS figures for the week ending Oct14.

Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, last week said he was "leaning towards" making jabs compulsory for frontline health workers.
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Iowa's GOP governor signs bill allowing those fired for refusing Covid-19 vaccine to get unemployment benefits

Jon Dougherty
BPR
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
Kim Reynolds
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Governor of Iowa Kim Reynolds
Iowa's Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, signed legislation on Friday that allows her residents to receive unemployment benefits if they are dismissed from their jobs for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

The GOP governor has been staunchly opposed to government vaccine and mask mandates and said that "no Iowan should be forced to lose their job or livelihood over the COVID-19 vaccine," according to remarks reported by The Associated Press. On Thursday, the Republican-led Iowa legislature passed the legislation during a special one-day session on a 68-27 vote.

The AP noted further that Reynolds has been an advocate for the vaccines, saying that she believes they are the best means of protection from the virus. She just doesn't favor the mandates, however.

Citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the AP reported that Reynolds' state is 23rd in the country for the percentage of its population who are fully vaccinated — 55.4 percent. Roughly one-third of Iowans have not gotten at least one dose of the vaccine "and most of the state continues to experience a high level of community spread of the virus," the newswire added.

But despite that, the governor said she will direct her attorney general to file a lawsuit against the federal government to challenge President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for private employers that have more than 100 workers as soon as the rule is published by the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nearly two dozen other GOP-led states are teeing up to file suit against the mandate as well, according to reports.
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One brave ICU physician reporting Covid-19 vaccine injuries leads to a dozen more

Aaron Siri
aaronsiri.substack.com
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:00 UTC
Maddie
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Pfizer vaccine victim Maddie de Garay
One act of bravery begins to snowball. Dr. Patricia Lee "risked it all" to step forward, after being ignored by public health officials, to reveal the serious series of harms she witnessed from Covid-19 vaccines in her intensive care unit. With that one act, my firm has now been contacted by more than a dozen other physicians. Attached are 11 declarations from physicians across the country attesting to serious harms from Covid-19 vaccines.

These physicians, like Dr. Lee, reached out to public health authorities at the CDC, FDA, and NIH for over ten months only to have their concerns dismissed or ignored. These agencies typically respond by saying that VAERS is not showing a safety signal so there is nothing to worry about. If you don't already know, VAERS is the system that the CDC and FDA say cannot show that a vaccine causes an injury, but yet can show a vaccine is safe. Meaning, heads they win, tails you lose.

Worse, many of these physicians were injured by a Covid-19 vaccine themselves and despite being physicians, the physicians from whom these injured physicians sought treatment also typically dismissed their injuries. And they are physicians seeking help from fellow physicians!

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At least 4 dead after high-rise building under construction collapses in Nigeria, trapping workers


RT
Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:40 UTC
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© Reuters/Temilade Adelaja
People gather at the site of a collapsed building in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria November 1, 2001
A multi-story building under construction has collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria, with the structure reduced to a pile of concrete. Local officials have confirmed at least four deaths in the incident, while dozens are feared trapped.

The incident occurred on Monday in the affluent neighborhood of Ikoyi. An unknown number of construction workers are believed trapped under the rubble, with a local official from the National Emergency Management Agency confirming that four people have died and a further four have been rescued alive.

Some 100 people may have been at the site when the building went down, two construction workers there told Reuters.
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American Airlines cancels another 250 flights, blames 'bad weather and staffing issues'

Will Feuer
New York Post
Mon, 01 Nov 2021 07:58 UTC
Airlines worker/plane
© Reuters/Carlos Barria
American Airlines worker at Los Angeles airport after nearly 1,000 flights were canceled.
American Airlines canceled over 250 more flights — about 9 percent of its scheduled trips — on Monday morning after canceling over 1,500 flights through the weekend, blaming the travel disruptions on weather woes and staffing issues.


Comment: YEAH RIGHT! Its pilots are on STRIKE because they won't take the damned vaccine!


By 8 a.m. ET Monday, American had canceled 269 flights for the day and delayed another 117, according to data from aviation tracking site FlightAware.

The recent bout of cancellations comes as the airline scrambles to recover from a messy Halloween weekend that saw the airline cancel as much as 30 percent of its scheduled flights on some days.

In a note to staff on Saturday, American COO David Seymour blamed the delays on poor weather conditions around the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the airline's base of operations, that had displaced staff around the country, according to CNBC.


Comment: These gormless ghouls are shameless!


Comment: They're gonna start backtracking all over the place as they figure out that nothing will run without 'those useless anti-vaxxers'.

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Monty Python icon Terry Gilliam has new live production CANCELLED after staff uproar over 'transphobic' views


RT
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:29 UTC
The Old Vic theater Terry Gilliam
© AFP / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS;AFP / VALERY HACHE
London's Old Vic Theater; (inset) Terry Gilliam.
A London theatre has been criticised for "pandering" to mob rule after cancelling a production by Monty Python star Terry Gilliam - reportedly due to staff unrest about his views on trans rights and the #MeToo movement.

80-year-old Gilliam was set to co-direct the musical Into the Woods at the Old Vic next year, but the show was abruptly cancelled last week. While no reason was given, entertainment news outlet The Stage reported that there had been dissatisfaction among staff since May, when the production was originally announced.

Staff concerns apparently revolved around Gilliam's previous comments in the press relating to transgender issues, race, and the #MeToo movement, which some felt were at odds with the theatre's "culture and values."
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Early closure of bars and restaurants had no impact on the spread of Covid in Japan

Noah Carl
The Daily Sceptic
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:31 UTC
Japan
When comparing the impact of Covid in different countries, Japan is a clear outlier. In 2020, the country had zero days of mandatory business closures and zero days of mandatory stay-at-home orders. Despite seeing less change in mobility than major European countries, Japan has not had any excess mortality since the pandemic began.

As you may recall, the country hosted the Summer Olympics between 23rd July and 8th August. But even that did not lead to a large number of deaths. It has been suggested that Japanese people, and perhaps East Asians in general, have some degree of prior immunity to the virus.

In January of this year, Japan introduced restrictions on businesses for the first time. Specifically, 11 prefectures (including the capital, Tokyo) prohibited bars and restaurants from selling alcohol after 7pm, and forced them to close at 8pm.
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Drug companies win in California opioid crisis lawsuit

Robert Jablon and Donald Thompson
Washington Times, AP
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:05 UTC
opioid prescription drugs
© AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
A protester gathers containers that look like OxyContin bottles at an anti-opioid demonstration in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington on April 5, 2019. A California judge has ruled for top drug manufacturers as local governments seek billions of dollars to cover their costs from the nation’s opioid epidemic. Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson issued a tentative ruling Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, that said the governments hadn't proven the pharmaceutical companies used deceptive marketing to increase unnecessary opioid prescriptions and create a public nuisance.
A California judge has ruled for top drug manufacturers as local governments seek billions of dollars to cover their costs from the nation's opioid epidemic.

Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson issued a tentative ruling on Monday that said the governments hadn't proven the pharmaceutical companies used deceptive marketing to increase unnecessary opioid prescriptions and create a public nuisance.

"There is simply no evidence to show that the rise in prescriptions was not the result of the medically appropriate provision of pain medications to patients in need," Wilson wrote in a ruling of more than 40 pages.

"Any adverse downstream consequences flowing from medically appropriate prescriptions cannot constitute an actionable public nuisance," the ruling said.
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