Pushback: Legal and public pressure forces California college to cancel plans to fire employees for not getting jab
The board of trustees of San Diego Community College
They’re coming for you next: The board of trustees of San Diego Community College in late February 2023 had been moving to fire a number of teachers and employees because they all refused for various medical and religious reasons to get COVID shots or boosters.
The policy was senseless in all ways. As Tracy Kiser, a pregnant black professor who was refusing the jab because of the risk it posed to her unborn child, noted in a February 21st op-ed:
“Last year, after a decline in enrollment, the San Diego Community College District dropped the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for students, but it has not been dropped for faculty and staff,” wrote Kiser, who also directs her school’s math center. [emphasis mine]
If the college’s trustees believe blindly that the jab prevents COVID (which it does not) and wants to protect its employees, why does it allow those employees to teach unjabbed students?
The board’s idiocy was further illustrated by Kiser’s description of this incident during one board meeting:
During a Board of Trustees meeting on Dec. 15, Jim Mahler, the president of the American Federation of Teachers Union Local 1931 and a supporter of the vaccine mandate for faculty, joked that Chancellor Cortez should be recognized “for his efforts to get into ‘The Guinness Book of World Records’ for the individual with the most contracted variants of COVID.”
I was there to speak at the board meeting to defend my career. It was painful to hear how Board of Trustees members laughed and clapped for the chancellor testing positive for COVID-19 multiple times at the same time Chancellor Cortez says that people like me are “posing an unnecessary risk to others” because of my vaccination status.
The board considered it humorous that its chancellor had gotten jabbed and yet got the Wuhan flu multiple times anyway, yet was still willing to fire Kiser and others out of a insane belief that their unjabbed status somehow posed a risk.
Such people should never be allowed to run anything, especially a college. They do not know how to think.
The plan had been for the board to officially fire these employees at a March 2nd board meeting. The legal and public pressure however was enough to force them to back down. In fact, the pressure not only caused the board to cancel its termination plans, it agreed to reinstate those employees it had improperly fired previously.
No one, especially these employees of San Diego Community College, should relax their guard, however. This was not the first time the school’s trustees tried to fire people for not obeying absurd COVID mandates and was forced to back down. They tried to do it in 2021 and backed down when threatened with legal action. They then tried to do it again in 2022 and backed down again in 2023.
The brainless thugs that run this college are still in power and will remain so until the 2024 election. There is no reason to expect them to suddenly become rational and thoughtful. If you teach there be prepared to fight them again, and again, and again, about all kinds of stupid issues. They like to be dictators, and likely resent the resistance they have faced to their mindless authoritarian policies.
The real question will be whether local California voters will do anything to replace these thugs come the 2024 election. It would be right and proper for them to do so. It would also be reasonable to expect nothing to change, based on the past half century of American voting patterns.
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The board of trustees of San Diego Community College
They’re coming for you next: The board of trustees of San Diego Community College in late February 2023 had been moving to fire a number of teachers and employees because they all refused for various medical and religious reasons to get COVID shots or boosters.
The policy was senseless in all ways. As Tracy Kiser, a pregnant black professor who was refusing the jab because of the risk it posed to her unborn child, noted in a February 21st op-ed:
“Last year, after a decline in enrollment, the San Diego Community College District dropped the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for students, but it has not been dropped for faculty and staff,” wrote Kiser, who also directs her school’s math center. [emphasis mine]
If the college’s trustees believe blindly that the jab prevents COVID (which it does not) and wants to protect its employees, why does it allow those employees to teach unjabbed students?
The board’s idiocy was further illustrated by Kiser’s description of this incident during one board meeting:
During a Board of Trustees meeting on Dec. 15, Jim Mahler, the president of the American Federation of Teachers Union Local 1931 and a supporter of the vaccine mandate for faculty, joked that Chancellor Cortez should be recognized “for his efforts to get into ‘The Guinness Book of World Records’ for the individual with the most contracted variants of COVID.”
I was there to speak at the board meeting to defend my career. It was painful to hear how Board of Trustees members laughed and clapped for the chancellor testing positive for COVID-19 multiple times at the same time Chancellor Cortez says that people like me are “posing an unnecessary risk to others” because of my vaccination status.
The board considered it humorous that its chancellor had gotten jabbed and yet got the Wuhan flu multiple times anyway, yet was still willing to fire Kiser and others out of a insane belief that their unjabbed status somehow posed a risk.
Such people should never be allowed to run anything, especially a college. They do not know how to think.
The plan had been for the board to officially fire these employees at a March 2nd board meeting. The legal and public pressure however was enough to force them to back down. In fact, the pressure not only caused the board to cancel its termination plans, it agreed to reinstate those employees it had improperly fired previously.
No one, especially these employees of San Diego Community College, should relax their guard, however. This was not the first time the school’s trustees tried to fire people for not obeying absurd COVID mandates and was forced to back down. They tried to do it in 2021 and backed down when threatened with legal action. They then tried to do it again in 2022 and backed down again in 2023.
The brainless thugs that run this college are still in power and will remain so until the 2024 election. There is no reason to expect them to suddenly become rational and thoughtful. If you teach there be prepared to fight them again, and again, and again, about all kinds of stupid issues. They like to be dictators, and likely resent the resistance they have faced to their mindless authoritarian policies.
The real question will be whether local California voters will do anything to replace these thugs come the 2024 election. It would be right and proper for them to do so. It would also be reasonable to expect nothing to change, based on the past half century of American voting patterns.
Now available in hardback and paperback as well as ebook!
From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.
Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors, with the ebook priced at $5.99 before discount. The ebook can also be purchased direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and I get a bigger cut much sooner.
Autographed printed copies are also available at discount directly from me (hardback $24.95; paperback $14.95; Shipping cost for either: $5.00). Just email me at zimmerman @ nasw dot org.
That clown brought her own wig!
Yeah, having an expectant mother take the jab is no big deal. According to Pfizer itself during the “testing”:
“What happened in those 32 pregnancies they followed up on? My hands are literally trembling as I write this, but here goes. In these 32 pregnancies, there were:
– 23 spontaneous abortions
– 2 spontaneous abortions with intra-uterine death
So, 25 of the 32 pregnancies with known outcomes resulted in a miscarriage, a rate of 78%. Note that miscarriage normally occurs in only 12-15% of pregnancies
– 2 premature births with neonatal death
– 1 spontaneous abortion with neonatal death
– 1 normal outcome
Note that this only adds up to 29 known outcomes, but then they note that “two different outcomes were reported for each twin” and then they talk about “fetus/baby cases as separate from mother cases.” I have no idea how to interpret this explanation of outcomes, so it may have been one or two less (or more) deaths then.
So, of the 32 pregnancies they knew the outcome of, 87.5% resulted in the death of the fetus or neonate.”
( From: https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/massive-miscarriage-rates-among-vaccinated?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web )
A meme to add a little space flavoring to the discussion
https://bit.ly/3ThDkeM