Originally Posted by
CBreezy
This was on their website:
"A chorus of whistleblowers alleging that COVID-19 inoculations may have turned pilots into airborne ticking time bombs seems to be growing louder. Experienced military, medical, and aviation personnel are citing increasing concerns about potential catastrophic side effects of the shots—such as strokes, heart attacks, or pulmonary embolisms—occurring during flights. The whistleblowers allege that federal mandates ordering the jabs conflict with FAA standards for medications. Under those regulations, pilots are barred from flying when using drugs that earned FDA approval less than a year prior. COVID shots were administered under Emergency Use Authorization, not full FDA approval."
It's certainly one thing to say that you don't want to take the shot and another to call anyone who did a danger to aviation.
To your other comment, there are extremes about everything. Certainly it was a little more heated during the height of the pandemic because there was a lot at stake for everyone. I'd be shocked if anyone currently holds that view.
I have no problem with people who didn't want to get the shot. But to frame it as everyone who took it is a ticking time bomb is reckless. And this whole conversation even came up about it because DA ran on a FF platform. He openly admitted in the crew that is ran on. And then to try and impose his own medical "expertise" on other pilots is hypocrisy. And while FF might actually hold the beliefs your friend has, DA is a FF with a platform. And what he says is easily misconstrued as the FF platform
Disclaimer. I support the freedom flyers "hands off my body" principle. Nonya. Period. Dot. I also did not get vaccinated. My decision, no one elses. I don't see where FF is against pilot mental health and other issues.
To add. I read the transcripts from Fauci's January tesitmony in the House. It's pretty bad. He basically made up the 6 foot rule and masks. He might have had reasons at the time. You know prevent a rush on masks so that our med folks would not run out or something like that. I don't know. And I'm not going to debate that here. He's supposed to be there on Monday to testify again. I'll be watching that for sure.
Things are surfacing about this whole debacle and it seems many of the folks that spoke out against it got throttled - turns out they were correct (Ivermectin comes to mind). To me it was a very sad time for our nation, that people would literally call me a murderer for not getting vaccinated. I never questioned whether some one did, or did not. It's not my business. We still have pilots wearing masks to this day. Whatever, that's what you want, fine. None of my business. That's how it should be.
I'll also be watching how the C44 stuff plays out. I agree with StoneCold, plenty of good people out there to be elected. Folks will step up, they always have in the past.