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October 12, 2021

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8 UCW OCTOBER 13-19, 2021 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM OPINION Each year the male Elk, called a "bull," will fight another bull to collect a female elk called a "cow" into his herd. When a bully bull threatens a dominant bull, the fight is violent. ese fights only have three outcomes: surrender, a tie or a kill. e tie is the most brutal of the battle. e antlers of the two bulls lock together and they cannot get free. Eventually, fatigue leads to collapse, starvation, and finally, death. e other bull may still be alive only to watch his opponent die in his clutches. His end is near and his victory is in vain, but a win is a win. at is America these days. During the election, America locked antlers, and America is now fatigued — exasperated by the pressures of inflation, government spending, overregulation, open borders, Afghanistan, increasing taxes. At the same time, people are getting paid to stay at home (aka "the Great Resigna- tion") and COVID restrictions, mandates, bipolar mask rules and rules which make absolutely no sense at all. e COVID data shows that the vaccines are working, but the virus is still spread- ing. e Delta variant has caused new con- cerns. Hospitals are reporting that most life-threatening cases are in non-vaccinat- ed people. Advocates for the vaccine question why people do not want to get the vaccine. On the other hand, many people think it should be their choice. Many people have gotten the vaccine but believe that it is their right to keep their information private and resent the idea of showing a COVID card to go into an event or business. On Sept. 9 President Biden announced an Executive Order for mandatory vac- cines. He is issuing this order with a needle in one hand, holding a gun to your head in the other while waging war on the Second Amendment. e order lacked de- tails, but behind the scenes, Biden is using the Department of Labor and the Occupa- tional Safety and Health Administration to draft an "emergency temporary standard." According to news reports, officials said the agency would begin enforcing the rules: collecting reports of violations and sending out inspectors who will be em- powered to impose $13,650 fines for viola- tions and up to $136,500 for those that are willful or repeated. Biden and his administration are work- ing on implementing his new policies to address some form of a vaccine mandate for employers with 100 or more employees and in most Centers for Medicare & Med- icaid Services (CMS) regulated workplac- es. is means that if you work at less than 100 employees and your business receives Medicare or Medicaid payments, everyone must be vaccinated or lose that revenue. Military, federal executive branch work- ers and some federal contractors will be required to have the vaccine. He wants military personnel who refuse to get the vaccine to be dishonorably discharged. at is the discharge usually held for those convicted of murder, treason and other serious crimes. So good luck with getting a decent job with that discharge but thanks for fighting and keeping us safe for all these years. Note: e Legislative branch and Federal Courts are exempt. Last year millions of health care work- ers, teachers and first responders were the frontline heroes of the COVID pandemic. With this Executive Order, these same cou- rageous, frontline workers and millions of others are being told to get vaccinated or LOSE YOUR JOB! Now, the government uses employers to be "Great Terminators," the enforcers of his vaccine. As with many socialist coun- tries, starvation will be the root motivator to get you to comply. You will not get un- employment, no insurance, no way to pay your rent or mortgage. Here is the potential career-ending ques- tion. How is it that some of the most intel- ligent people in our society (doctors and nurses) choose not to get the vaccine after working in this since the beginning? Is it because they know something we do not? Is it because they have had COVID and have antibodies? Is it because they have been around it so long that they believe they have natural immunity? Is it because they think that medical choices should still be a choice? Last month on CNN, Dr. Sanjay Gupta spoke with Dr. Fauci. Dr. Gupta said that a study in Israel showed that natural im- munity showed that it was better than the vaccine; Dr. Fauci's response was, "You know, that's a really good point, Sanjay. I don't have a really firm answer for you on that. at's something that we're going to have to discuss regarding the durability of the response … So, I think that is some- thing that we need to sit down and discuss seriously, because you very appropriately pointed out, it is an issue, and there could be an argument for saying what you said." Dr. Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis- eases and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, and he hasn't studied natural immunity.-Does it seem that my mom knew more about viruses when she sent me down the street to play with a kid who had chickenpox? Here are why some people struggle. We have watched Dr. Fauci change his story so many times that if he were in your high school science class, you wouldn't cheat off him because you know he will change his answers. Where in the Constitution does it say it is the government's job to keep you safe? If that was the case, they should outlaw cars, cigarettes and the 8,000 other ways a person can die. How does this work out? How does a doctor see patients without a staff? Will teachers go to 100 students per class? How do first responders save lives with less people? Like the mighty bull elk, the courageous, the cowards and the bullies who are hell- bent on a fight, the government, business and the people are in the process of lock- ing horns with their employees and in the process will kill themselves while winning the battle for the cows, but a win is a win. Courage, cowards and bullies battle for the win by JIM JONES JIM JONES, Contributing Writer. Comments? Editor@upandcomin- gweekly.com. 910- 484-6200.

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