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AgentSmith 08-14-2020 01:48 AM


Originally Posted by flightmedic01 (Post 3108663)
Any thoughts??

You afraid you'll get autism?

6010C 08-14-2020 02:13 AM

No way I would get it.

Bill Gates is just trying to finally get rich $0.01 at a time.

BoilerUP 08-14-2020 03:11 AM

Who deleted WutFace insulting cargo pilots?

rickair7777 08-14-2020 05:32 AM


Originally Posted by BoilerUP (Post 3109824)
Who deleted WutFace insulting cargo pilots?

Looks like he thought better of his behavior. No harm, no foul if you take it back in the narrow window that's allowed for that.

Kind of like email should have a delayed transmission for a cooling down period, especially business email accounts.

Downtime 08-14-2020 05:54 PM


Originally Posted by BoilerUP (Post 3108680)
Do you have a legal citation with that?

As an example, I get why requiring certain vaccines are BFOQs for medical professionals...but its going to be a very tall stretch IMO to apply that to air crew. I'm certainly not all-knowing but am not aware of any airline REQUIRING its flight crews to get an influenza vaccine, and that past practice would be difficult to justify away in court.


Sure every single hospital system in the country requires a flu vaccine for employment.

Seneca Pilot 08-15-2020 06:36 AM

When I was in the ARMY I resisted the flu vaccine. I took all the required ones for the deployments but since I had never had the flu and didn't want to introduce it into my body I managed do dodge the docs and avoid the flu vaccine. I was threatened with discipline but when push came to shove they did nothing.

I have still never had the flu. I have only thrown up three times in my life (two of those due to alcohol). I am certain I was exposed to the Corona virus in Feb/Mar due to people around me who were displaying every symptom, but never had more than a sore throat for a day. My immune system is up to the task.

I am not anti vaccine but fight to avoid the ones that are not particularly effective due to various strains of the disease being in play. The flu vaccine is always the best guess as to which strain to treat for in a given year. My children have had the important ones but we claim a religious exemption for flu with our school system. My kids have never had the flue either.

Downtime 08-15-2020 06:47 AM


Originally Posted by Seneca Pilot (Post 3110279)
When I was in the ARMY I resisted the flu vaccine. I took all the required ones for the deployments but since I had never had the flu and didn't want to introduce it into my body I managed do dodge the docs and avoid the flu vaccine. I was threatened with discipline but when push came to shove they did nothing.

I have still never had the flu. I have only thrown up three times in my life (two of those due to alcohol). I am certain I was exposed to the Corona virus in Feb/Mar due to people around me who were displaying every symptom, but never had more than a sore throat for a day. My immune system is up to the task.

I am not anti vaccine but fight to avoid the ones that are not particularly effective due to various strains of the disease being in play. The flu vaccine is always the best guess as to which strain to treat for in a given year. My children have had the important ones but we claim a religious exemption for flu with our school system. My kids have never had the flue either.

I will be curious to see how this goes. I kinda think we will be rehired because lost other countries are going to require it for entry. I doubt foreign immigration authorities are gonna care about why we don’t want it.

rickair7777 08-15-2020 07:12 AM


Originally Posted by Downtime (Post 3110282)
I will be curious to see how this goes. I kinda think we will be rehired because lost other countries are going to require it for entry. I doubt foreign immigration authorities are gonna care about why we don’t want it.

Even if they don't actually mandate it for their own people, they won't be nearly as accommodating to incoming foreigners.

WHACKMASTER 08-15-2020 07:42 AM


Originally Posted by Seneca Pilot (Post 3110279)
When I was in the ARMY I resisted the flu vaccine. I took all the required ones for the deployments but since I had never had the flu and didn't want to introduce it into my body I managed do dodge the docs and avoid the flu vaccine. I was threatened with discipline but when push came to shove they did nothing.

I have still never had the flu. I have only thrown up three times in my life (two of those due to alcohol). I am certain I was exposed to the Corona virus in Feb/Mar due to people around me who were displaying every symptom, but never had more than a sore throat for a day. My immune system is up to the task.

I am not anti vaccine but fight to avoid the ones that are not particularly effective due to various strains of the disease being in play. The flu vaccine is always the best guess as to which strain to treat for in a given year. My children have had the important ones but we claim a religious exemption for flu with our school system. My kids have never had the flue either.

Interesting. When claiming religious exemption did you need to provide details or explain yourself?

Seneca Pilot 08-15-2020 08:27 AM


Originally Posted by WHACKMASTER (Post 3110308)
Interesting. When claiming religious exemption did you need to provide details or explain yourself?

No, the school system is not particularly worried about details as long as the main "scary" diseases have been covered. Our children have MMR and the other big deal disease immunizations. We just feel that the flu vaccine is not effective and largely speculative with regard to which strain will be active in any given season.


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