Why the extreme right wants to destroy Dr. Fauci.

[Norbert]

I can see it in the workplace. My company started late last Summer. Corporate 'suggested' employees get vaccinated by mid-October. At the time vaccinated employees were about 45%. It increased to 56% about 10 days ago but apparently not enough for the powers-that-be. Now there is more incentives. Be vaccinated by early December. The company as of this week will no longer pay for time off for a 2-week quarantine if you are unvaccinated as there PTO or unpaid leave must be used. Uncaccinated employees will pay higher health insurance too. We have masked up for over 1.5 years now and they are very anal about you keeping the masks on. I am waiting for the final shoe to drop after the first week of December. Oh, and new hires you MUST be vaccinated period.

The company my former coworker is employed is taking an even harder line and that is, be vaccinated by the first week of December or else you must take 30 days of unpaid leave. After the 30 days are up, if you still aren't vaccinated you will be terminated.

The point is, companies are mandating that you get vaccinated more than ever. Fauci and the science community are winning with their message. More companies are mandating masks and vaccinations. Southwest Airline's decision has been upheld. The far right must be livid about this. Dr. Fauci is the most obvious high profile person to blame for this which is why the conspiracy theories about him has stepped up quite a bit very recently. The RWNJs are losing and they hate it.

[jimfields33]

1. Medical testing on puppies. PETA is pissed to.

[Walleye]

3. I have suspicions about PETA. Just sayin

[jimfields33]

4. They do some good work, but I admit go overboard.

[Walleye]

7. They lost me when they wrote to the city council of Fishkill, NY demanding they change their name

I began to wonder if they weren’t infiltrated by some right wing types, when their actions were used against us so much.The right wing loves to take trivial things and blow them all out of proportion. I am completely sympathetic with their cause

[smirkymonkey]

16. Ugh! There are a few town names in upstate NY, particularly around the Hudson River that were

Settled by the Dutch that end in “kill”. It just means creek or stream in Dutch. Sometimes they are just ridiculous.

[Walleye]

21. There's a stream in Delaware called the Murderkill

[ForgedCrank]

24. Yea on the surface the appear to be a good org

with good intentions, but they just cross lines sometimes.
They are a pretty large organization who can do a lot more if they attracted more donors.

[NurseJackie]

17. Thank you. You're not the only one who feels that way.

[Coventina]

2. Boeing has now said all employees must be vaccinated. A lot of RWNJs work there.

Including executives.

They are going nutz.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts also just instituted an employee mandate.

This may push them over the edge.

[nitpicker]

15. They still are offering free donuts to the fully vaccinated

I guess it wasn't enough to tempt some workers to get fat/get vaccinated.

[GoCubsGo]

19. The workers aren't necessarily the one having this hissy fit, though.

It's the anti-vaxx wingnuts, in general. I.e., their customers. Lots of boycott threats coming from that crowd.

[womanofthehills]

5. In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-risky-virus-research-in-wuhan


A spokesman for Dr. Fauci says he has been “entirely truthful,” but a new letter belatedly acknowledging the National Institutes of Health’s support for virus-enhancing research adds more heat to the ongoing debate over whether a lab leak could have sparked the pandemic.

On Wednesday, the NIH sent a letter to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that acknowledged two facts. One was that EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City–based nonprofit that partners with far-flung laboratories to research and prevent the outbreak of emerging diseases, did indeed enhance a bat coronavirus to become potentially more infectious to humans, which the NIH letter described as an “unexpected result” of the research it funded that was carried out in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The second was that EcoHealth Alliance violated the terms of its grant conditions stipulating that it had to report if its research increased the viral growth of a pathogen by tenfold.

[PSPS]

13. Aw Jeez...

[Bev54]

10. It costs companies a lot of money having people off sick or

Quarantining. I am quite surprised they haven’t been more strict. They should be put on unpaid leave now and fired in 30 days if not fully vaccinated. It only takes one asshole to bring the virus into a group.

[Mike 03]

11. It could be more than that. Fauci is a unifying figure for the most part.

He's liked and trusted. The real reason Trump hated Fauci is because his approval ratings were so much higher. But in a larger sense, destroying a figure of endearment and trust is right out of the Russia/Authoritarian playbook, where you want to destroy the ability of citizens to trust any one or anything. It's the flip side of the "fire hose of falsehood" strategy, where you inundate people with alternate explanations for an event (except for the honest one) and try to burn people out so they stop believing it's possible to know the truth. But in the case of destroying a trusted figure, they are trying to destroy trust in anything. They've also done this with government institutions as well.

[maxsolomon]

22. That explains it far more than the OP did.

The right cannot allow trusted figures to exist.

[kysrsoze]

12. They've hated him since he opted not to go along with Dump's bullshit ravings. Birx went along

with it, and paid the price long-term. I doubt Fauci really gives a shit what they all think.

[Trueblue1968]

14. IF YOU DON'T GET VACCINATED, you. are. out. FIRED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lindysalsagal]

18. There's a huge far-right religious piece, too. They're "persecuted by Fauci."

This is their favorite self-righteous tantrum: "Wha-waaa" I'm not getting enough jesus privilege waaa waaaa."

The evangelicals don't want equality or freedom: They demand privilege, and exceptions to everything: taxes, financial regulation exemptions, hiring equal opportunity exemptions, and of course, the right to control the fertility of the population.

Fauci says, "Your invisible god isn't enough. We need science." They can't tolerate it.

If their religion could control covid, they'd love it. But they can't so they reject it. They like invisible monsters that they can pretend to control: Satan, demons, angels, ghosts...But real stuff they can't control, it's gotta be a liberal plan to take over.

[Xolodno]

20. Company I work for is allowing people to return to certain offices...

...next month on a volunteer basis. But must be vaccinated in order to do so.

Add to that, they explicitly stated that once the Federal guidelines for mandatory vaccinations come out, they WILL implement it. On our Workplace site, some were none too happy. But the rest were all for it.

But the real kicker is this. They will transition some positions to virtual, but may still require you to come to the office once every week or two. In some cases, like myself, I will have to fly up to Seattle once every quarter and be in the office for a week. So that means, even if you are "virtual" you are still going to have to get vaccinated for those few time you do show up.

[IcyPeas]

23. they are trying to get trump off the hook by blaming fauci