{"id":68934,"date":"2021-10-12T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=68934"},"modified":"2021-10-11T19:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T23:56:18","slug":"the-southwest-canary-in-the-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/10\/12\/the-southwest-canary-in-the-coal-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Southwest canary in the coal mine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Treacher<\/a> wonders, based reactions from the self-imagined elites, if they consider airline pilots to be slaves now:<\/p>\n

I’m one of the pesky minority of Americans who are both pro-vaccine and against vaccine mandates. The evidence overwhelmingly proves that these vaccines are effective against the coronavirus, and I will continue to encourage everyone to get vaccinated. And, also, in addition to that, vaccine mandates are not only un-American but counterproductive. In addition to all the other dishonest, lame-brained, self-negating messaging we’ve heard during this pandemic, telling Americans what to do just doesn’t work. That’s not how we’re built.<\/p>\n

And just on principle, vaccination is your decision as an individual. That’s how it’s supposed to work in this country. This is still a republic, if you can keep it.<\/p>\n

Which is why it’s interesting that now this is happening:<\/p>\n

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Southwest is the only airline cancelling so many flights. Is that because the employees, including the pilots who are needed to fly the planes, are refusing to comply with the company’s new vaccine mandate?<\/p>\n

The airline is saying otherwise:<\/p>\n

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“Disruptive weather”? Wouldn’t that affect all the airlines, not just one?<\/p>\n

In any case, the smart fellers seem to think it’s about the vaccine. And they ain’t happy:<\/p>\n

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Oh, is that how it works? Those pilots are no longer individual human beings, with individual thoughts and opinions? They must subsume themselves into the corporation? The government throws money at everything in sight, and therefore all that stuff is owned by the government? All those people are owned by the government?<\/p>\n

And these clowns call us<\/em> fascists?<\/p>\n

Airline pilots aren’t slaves. If they don’t want to work because of an employer’s mandate, that’s between them and the employer. If they get fired, that’s their problem. But nobody owns them, let alone entitled @$$holes like Andrew Ross Sorkin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, you can always trust The Babylon Bee<\/em><\/a> (America’s Most Trusted News Source\u2122) to get to the heart of the matter:<\/p>\n

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Jim Treacher wonders, based reactions from the self-imagined elites, if they consider airline pilots to be slaves now: I’m one of the pesky minority of Americans who are both pro-vaccine and against vaccine mandates. The evidence overwhelmingly proves that these vaccines are effective against the coronavirus, and I will continue to encourage everyone to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,84,66,10,13],"tags":[123,1202,720,244,1363],"class_list":["post-68934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-government","category-health-science","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-aircraft","tag-epidemic","tag-protest","tag-publichealth","tag-wuhancoronavirus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hVQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68950,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68934\/revisions\/68950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}