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🗓️ 18 February 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As we look back now, and much of this COVID pandemic is in our rear view mirror, it hasn't |
| 0:06.9 | completely gone away. We're waiting for the pandemic to fully come to a close here in |
| 0:11.9 | America. But now we have to think about all those that got vaccinated, whether it was |
| 0:17.6 | on purpose or they were forced to do it, they ended up sort of giving into the pressures |
| 0:23.0 | from the work or the President of the United States for that matter. And in many ways, |
| 0:27.7 | I've said it from the beginning, I'm not here to eradicate vaccines from the planet. |
| 0:31.3 | That's not what I feel like. My mission is, my mission is to make sure that everybody |
| 0:35.0 | always has a choice when it comes to their body, what goes into it. I am all about ending |
| 0:41.6 | mandates. We're going to keep focusing on that with our legal team and working towards |
| 0:45.7 | that end. But now, and when I think about that, when I think about what it means to be free |
| 0:50.9 | and to live and let live, in most circumstances, you know, you want to get the vaccine, that's |
| 0:55.8 | your deal. But what happens if some of the people that, you know, went along with that |
| 1:00.7 | or were forced to get that vaccine, you know, could actually influence our lives? I think |
| 1:06.7 | this is a growing story and something we're going to visit today because remember, one |
| 1:11.2 | of the mandates was on our airlines. And it looked something like this. |
| 1:17.5 | The Biden administration says companies have until after the holidays to get their staff |
| 1:21.5 | vaccinated. |
| 1:22.5 | Most major carriers have said they will follow Biden's rule. |
| 1:25.4 | United Airlines is in the process of firing hundreds of employees who are fusing to comply |
| 1:30.0 | with the mandate to get vaccinated. |
| 1:31.8 | Today is the first day for unpaid leave for United Airlines employees. Now thousands |
| 1:36.6 | of them around the country are having to figure out ways to support themselves and their |
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