Originally Posted by Thedude86

So the hospitals are short staffed, but we’re going to fire 10-20% of the staff because they’re not vaccinated? Even though most of these people have natural immunity from working in hospitals for the last 18 months? Doesn’t sound like they’re too worried about staffing levels. And if they are…why are they making it even worse?

People are back to normal. The only thing holding us back are the restrictions corporations and governments are putting in place world wide. Domestic travel is pretty much back to pre-covid levels. The only thing hurting air travel is international travel. Which again, isn’t because people are scared to travel outside the U.S. It’s because of the ridiculous rules still put in place. People have gotten on with their lives. Even the triple mask people are doing what they wanna do. They only thing holding us back are the ridiculous rules and restrictions. Not the virus.

Pilots have more to lose in salary and seniority by quitting so it might not have much of an impact on us, but if 10-20% of nurses are already being fired… how much more do you think air travel is going to improve when 10-20% of the entire country’s workforce doesn’t have a job because they don’t want to comply with King Biden’s mandates. Again, the restrictions are what is hurting the economy and air travel. Not the virus. Spend some time in a red state. No one gives a flying f. Everything is back to normal. The only time I have to play the stupid covid game is when I show up to the airport.

50% of the U.S. is fully vaccinated. In the age group that primarily dies of the virus (65 and older) over 80% are vaccinated. Yet, we now have MORE covid deaths in 2021 than we did in 2020 when NO ONE was vaccinated. Israel is over 85% double vaxxed. They’re over 60% triple vaxxed. Yet, in September, Israel had the highest covid case per capita in the entire world and more than they ever had last year when no one was vaccinated. They’re still one of the highest today. Plenty of countries less than 10% vaccinated doing much better. Even if King Biden mandates vaccines for every single man, woman, child, insert whatever pronoun it will be no more effective at stopping covid than if he mandated us to do the hokey pokey before bed every night. People have moved on. Lift the restrictions and watch air travel boom.