Companies continue to press ahead with the vaccine mandates. There are three big medical systems here in the Upstate…Prisma, Bon Secours and Spartanburg Regional. I’ve been hearing different things about what each is requiring of their employees when it comes to vaccine mandates. From what I’ve heard Spartanburg Regional has been giving exemptions. I believe Prisma’s mandate is temporarily on hold for now. However, “Catholic” Bon Secours is pressing on despite the judicial injunctions temporarily halting Biden’s vaccine mandate. How liberal they will be with exemptions is still to be seen. As I talk with people who work at big companies in general, they are not stopping despite recent court injuctions.
This e-mail that was purportedly sent to Bon Secours employees today. Note the elusive and mysterious “ministry” leadership. It seems to be a nice way to deflect from any one particular person being held responsible for this decision. Maybe all the employees know who the “ministry” leadership is but that would be great to know and see a public link to remind them who made this judgement call on the vaccine mandate. Does Bon Secours consider their multi-billion business a ministry? 🙂 I suppose. Seems like a stretch to me. But whatever…they are pushing ahead with the vaccine…maybe it’s what Jesus would want them to do. I don’t know.
People are not happy about this. I realize some of you reading this might be cheering this news on that health care companies are forcing all their employees to get vaccinated. This is not going over well here in South Carolina where there still runs a spirit of freedom and independence. My hope is that the stories about vaccine injuries and deaths are exaggerated and don’t continue to happen. If problems continue, apparently Pfizer, JNJ and Moderna cannot be held liable, but what about these companies pushing their employees to be vaccinated? Might they be held liable? The executives? The boards of directors? Only time will tell.
Yesterday people from all over the Upstate came to protest in front of the entrance to one of GE’s manufacturing facilities in Greenville, SC. In the crowd were some GE employees as well who wanted to make a statement about the newly issued vaccine mandate by the company.
The event took place at about 11am on Thursday, October 21st. I was there and would say the crowd was likely at least 150 people. What was most pronounced at this particular rally or protest were the number of blue collar men who showed up to express their concerns the the overbearing and frankly Un-American demands being made by President Joe Biden and companies like General Electric. One of the groups that has been involved in leading these protests or medical freedom rallies around Greenville is the Greenville County GOP. GC GOP Chairman, Jeff Davis, issued this statement concerning the vaccine mandate by GE.
My understanding from talking with people I know at GE is that the company is handing out both medical and religious exemptions. It doesn’t sound like they are difficult to get and the company is not stringing people along on making the decision whether someone is exempt or not. I did hear that with the medical exemption that the company is requiring a signature from a doctor. Good luck with that. There aren’t many doctors in the country I suspect willing to put their names on something like this. Given the way the country is going, they might be placed on a new enemies list. Here’s WYFF’s story. Note the overhead picture is when the crown had died down a bit so it doesn’t look like many people.
