Hi Ed, sorry for your experience and glad you pulled through because I regularly enjoy your comments!
I too know close friends and family who suffered from this virus, as do many of us here in this online community
My comment not at all directed at anyone other than government forcing a health decision on an individual to enable employment, and now CFB Coug’s suffering in part from ‘long Covid’ as a consequence. That, IMHO is wrong. It’s also bad for the PAC to have weak teams
It was clear (to many) by Oct 2021 that vaccine was effective for lessening impact of virus if you got it, but not for preventing its spread. With that knowledge, it was IMO, arbitrary to fire Rolovich for refusing the vaccine
Soon enough the Superior court of Whitman County will have its say. It will be interesting to see if Washington case follows what just occurred in New York (where state sanitation workers fired for refusing jab have been reinstated in job w/ back pay). Each jurisdiction and state case law is different so east coast example may not apply
What is nuts to me is that Inslee directive requiring vax for WA State employment is still in effect today. Even Kate Brown/Oregon rescinded that same requirement for govt workers back on Apr 1 ‘22
I understand your point. I lived in Washington for 5 years and it was
incredible how the state government would wield it’s power with no regard for the citizen’s input.
I am a coach. I saw what the pandemic did to my team and myself.Try spending 14 days in ICU. I was in isolated from everyone I knew and loved. There was a day when they called my wife and kids and said I was looking like I was not going to make it. I talked to the nurses and the doctors. I have a 25 year history of broadcasting and interviewing people. They told me their personal stories of their own relatives denying the seriousness of the disease . Then dying. This was all before the vaccine. The doctors and nurses gave up trying to convince people like Rolovich and put their head down and worked to save lives. They did not give up. There was no vaccine then and these people risked their lives to save mine They lost their own mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers. And son’s and daughters
Anyone with any kind of cognition should have looked at the deaths and said I will get the vaccine for the good of the team and the safety of me and my family Rolovich was a COVID denier and deserved to be fired. He took the selfish and easy way out and destroyed his own future.
I’ve not had Covid that I know of, but my daughter and wife have. I got jabbed 2x. I did lose 2 extended family members to Covid, both were elderly. I don’t doubt the seriousness of the virus, at all. I just have a strong belief in personal choice, and not allowing the State to control one’s livelihood for not conforming to what was a vaccine that wasn’t tested to same level as all other vaccines we grew up with. To the vast majority, the vaccine has been a huge plus. To a minority however it has not. I know several friends (in their early 40’s) who took vax and suffered myocarditis, for example. They wish they never took the vaccine. The pharmaceutical companies supply vaccines are also immune from lawsuit if something goes awry w/ your health from taking vax
For me (and you) and many others that didn’t matter, we took it anyway
Rolovich i think is separate from our own experiences. Him not taking vax isn’t telling you you or anyone else you/they should not, nor does his vax refusal discount the suffering of others who contracted Covid. It’s just a personal choice, and I hope the courts respect it and compensate him accordingly
Hi Ed, sorry for your experience and glad you pulled through because I regularly enjoy your comments!
I too know close friends and family who suffered from this virus, as do many of us here in this online community
My comment not at all directed at anyone other than government forcing a health decision on an individual to enable employment, and now CFB Coug’s suffering in part from ‘long Covid’ as a consequence. That, IMHO is wrong. It’s also bad for the PAC to have weak teams
It was clear (to many) by Oct 2021 that vaccine was effective for lessening impact of virus if you got it, but not for preventing its spread. With that knowledge, it was IMO, arbitrary to fire Rolovich for refusing the vaccine
Soon enough the Superior court of Whitman County will have its say. It will be interesting to see if Washington case follows what just occurred in New York (where state sanitation workers fired for refusing jab have been reinstated in job w/ back pay). Each jurisdiction and state case law is different so east coast example may not apply
What is nuts to me is that Inslee directive requiring vax for WA State employment is still in effect today. Even Kate Brown/Oregon rescinded that same requirement for govt workers back on Apr 1 ‘22
Did you get sick? Did you suffer? Did someone close to you die? Have you spent hours watching people coming in and corpses going out?
I understand your point. I lived in Washington for 5 years and it was
incredible how the state government would wield it’s power with no regard for the citizen’s input.
I am a coach. I saw what the pandemic did to my team and myself.Try spending 14 days in ICU. I was in isolated from everyone I knew and loved. There was a day when they called my wife and kids and said I was looking like I was not going to make it. I talked to the nurses and the doctors. I have a 25 year history of broadcasting and interviewing people. They told me their personal stories of their own relatives denying the seriousness of the disease . Then dying. This was all before the vaccine. The doctors and nurses gave up trying to convince people like Rolovich and put their head down and worked to save lives. They did not give up. There was no vaccine then and these people risked their lives to save mine They lost their own mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers. And son’s and daughters
Anyone with any kind of cognition should have looked at the deaths and said I will get the vaccine for the good of the team and the safety of me and my family Rolovich was a COVID denier and deserved to be fired. He took the selfish and easy way out and destroyed his own future.
Merry Christmas Ed!
I’ve not had Covid that I know of, but my daughter and wife have. I got jabbed 2x. I did lose 2 extended family members to Covid, both were elderly. I don’t doubt the seriousness of the virus, at all. I just have a strong belief in personal choice, and not allowing the State to control one’s livelihood for not conforming to what was a vaccine that wasn’t tested to same level as all other vaccines we grew up with. To the vast majority, the vaccine has been a huge plus. To a minority however it has not. I know several friends (in their early 40’s) who took vax and suffered myocarditis, for example. They wish they never took the vaccine. The pharmaceutical companies supply vaccines are also immune from lawsuit if something goes awry w/ your health from taking vax
For me (and you) and many others that didn’t matter, we took it anyway
Rolovich i think is separate from our own experiences. Him not taking vax isn’t telling you you or anyone else you/they should not, nor does his vax refusal discount the suffering of others who contracted Covid. It’s just a personal choice, and I hope the courts respect it and compensate him accordingly