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07-17-2021, 11:21 AM

#31

Globemaster2827

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Originally Posted by USN2FEDEX

If we are anything like the national average….I’d guess half our pilots aren’t vaccinated yet. Wonder if the 3 that tested positive were vaccinated.

Firing Line is CLEAR!!!

Looking at our demographics I bet less than half of us are vaccinated. My guess is that we're probably even less than the TN average.

07-17-2021, 12:01 PM

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Huck

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Originally Posted by Globemaster2827

Looking at our demographics I bet less than half of us are vaccinated. My guess is that we're probably even less than the TN average.

I overheard a captain and his FO in Ops about three months ago. The captain asked the FO if he had gotten his vaccination. The FO said nope. Said that they were implanting an operating system in everybody to control them. I looked up to see if he was joking - he wasn't. The captain had an interesting look on his face....

07-17-2021, 01:09 PM

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Globemaster2827

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Originally Posted by Huck

I read something on 538 recently that was discussing this issue and allegedly 1 in 5 Americans believe that. It's not as strange to encounter those who believe that as you think. I heard it on the crew bus last year a few hours after my wife's grandmother passed from Covid.... It's absurd. But you know a ton of people who believe that.

07-18-2021, 04:15 AM

#34

MEMA300

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This vaccine is considered experimental. The gov has also waived any legal rights you previously had under US law to sue for damages. Want me to take it...make it not experimental and also dont waive my legal rights. Until then I will take my chances.

07-18-2021, 06:11 AM

#35

opt0712

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Originally Posted by Huck

Airbus crew?

07-18-2021, 06:16 AM

#36

DirtyPurple

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Originally Posted by MEMA300

Amen. And I don’t accept society’s guilt for not participating.

07-18-2021, 06:43 AM

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HIFLYR

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Originally Posted by Globemaster2827

I'm guessing this would be legal in America. If you stay at a hotel then the room is the property of the hotel. Once you leave the hotel it's their property and you have zero attachment to it. It'd be a responsible precaution for both workers and future guests to check it for Covid to prevent the needless spread of this thing. If they found evidence of Covid then they'd have a responsibility to tell you.

Maybe coordinating with the government would be a bit much... In China the gap between the government and a private entity is completely blurred so it's cut and dry there. There they can and will do whatever they want to you. The only thing they need to worry about is infuriating the company or pilot group (or both) so bad that we simply refuse to go there.

So by extension you are ok with the same thing being done with your DNA and them selling/sharing it with others? After all you left it!

07-18-2021, 09:47 AM

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Globemaster2827

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Originally Posted by HIFLYR

So by extension you are ok with the same thing being done with your DNA and them selling/sharing it with others? After all you left it!

In China they can do that for sure. I'm not sure what my "DNA" would be worth or why anyone would want to buy it though. I'm not sure why anyone would be curious what's in my DNA but I do shed it everywhere I go. If someone takes it and finds something interesting to do with it then maybe we'll cross that bridge when we get there. The American government isn't following either of us around to force hotels to steal our DNA....

07-18-2021, 11:19 AM

#39

Hedley Lamarr

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Shana, they didn’t get the vaccine, they knew what they were getting into. I say let 'em die!

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07-18-2021, 11:36 AM

#40

FXLAX

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Originally Posted by BrianH

Let's get back to the point of this thread.

DFT, AVA, or any other flying is protected in the contract, you can do it if you wish. If you wish not, that is also your right.

Conflating that issue with the CAN testing muddies the waters.

That was my thought when reading the OP’s rant. As legitimate as this issue of bot being informed of post hotel testing, we shouldn’t conflate it with his obsession with pilots that do what is in their contractual right to do when flying DFT or VLT. That’s an entirely different discussion.