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The incredible cruelty and folly of forced vaccines finally came home to roost.
The vaccine mandate backlash has been bubbling just under the surface, but now it has spilled out into the open, threatening to completely derail an already crumbling economy and to obliterate a deeply unpopular U.S. president and administration.
Seemingly out of nowhere what appears to be a Southwest Airlines rebellion has taken flight this weekend. According to media reports, scores of pilots and other Southwest employees have coordinated the taking of "sick days" to use them up in advance of a Southwest Airlines mandate to get the jab or lose the job.
Over Saturday and Sunday more than 2,000 flights have been cancelled, with airports experiencing full-on mayhem.
The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association is suing the airline over the imposed vaccine mandate, bolstering the claim that there is a "sick out" underway among angry Southwest pilots.
The mainstream media is doing its best to keep a lid on the expanding rebellion against the vaccine mandates, and Southwest Airlines itself is blaming the cancellations on bad weather and a lack of air traffic controllers.
However, the weather problems that Southwest claims to be experiencing seem unique to that carrier: no other airline (thus far) is reporting such weather-related cancellations.
And FAA spokesperson Steve Kulm told USA Today that "No FAA air traffic staffing shortages have been reported since Friday."
Will other pilots, such as at American Airlines, follow suit?
Rumors are circling that this is only the beginning.
Over the past few weeks, thousands of nurses, medical workers, and first responders have either quit or been fired for refusing to receive a medical treatment they do not want or need.
The "nursing shortage" that Democratic politicians and the mainstream media had been blaming on "rising COVID cases" has been in reality a man-made disaster of historic proportions.
The nursing crisis is not caused by "COVID" — cases have been in decline in the U.S. for weeks. It's caused by the firing of medical personnel who refuse to take the experimental COVID shots.
The stupidity of adopting a policy of firing healthcare workers while at the same time claiming that there is a raging pandemic gripping the country has not been lost on Americans.
President Biden’s polling numbers have unsurprisingly been in freefall, with major Democratic candidates like Virginia's Terry McAuliffe openly complaining that the deeply unpopular Biden is threatening him in a tight race for governor.
While Biden administration lackeys like Fauci are telling Americans they can’t celebrate Christmas again this year, more and more of America is finished with this "public health" terrorism.
Here in Texas, a hundred thousand unmasked Texas A&M fans poured onto the football field on Saturday after a last minute surprise victory over Alabama.
In Texas and elsewhere, the administration is losing the fear factor.
History may record this weekend as the turning point against the Biden administration’s COVID tyranny. From nurses to pilots to truckers to even Amtrak workers, it appears that America is standing up and saying "Enough!"
Every one of our fellow citizens standing up on principle to oppose tyranny — facing the loss of their jobs and security — is owed a debt of gratitude by all who love liberty. Let’s hope that the peaceful rebellion continues to grow!
Ron Paul is a physician, author and former Republican congressman. Paul also is a two-time Republican presidential candidate and the presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in the 1988 U.S. presidential election. His latest book is "Swords Into Plowshares." Read Ron Paul's Reports — More Here.
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