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Suzanne Downing: Anchorage Assembly majority is ‘Straight Outta The Kremlin’

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The images of people being shot at, beaten, bound and dragged by Australian police are shocking. In 18 months, Australia has gone from what appeared to be a free society to one that is a severe police state, where those who remove their masks or leave their homes are arrested.

Anchorage, in spite of voting for a mayor who values personal liberty and the U.S. Constitution, is heading in a similar direction, but bypassing the police beatings. The Anchorage Assembly is turning straight toward Stalinism.

Taking a page from the era of Stalin in the 1930s, Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel and Assemblyman Pete Petersen, with a nod from members Forrest Dunbar, Suzanne LaFrance, John Weddleton, Felix Rivera, Austin Quinn-Davidson, and Kameron Perez-Verdia, are going full communist on Anchorage.

Back in the beginning of the Soviet Union, Stalin’s regime used the method of mutual surveillance to get the people to control each other. The Stalinists coerced and cajoled families to report on their members or others living in the communes, urging families to report report disloyalty to the communist party. Families began to suspect each other. Russians did what they did to survive, turning in family members in exchange for the rarest of commodities — food.

What followed was the moral degradation of the nation: Millions of Russians were sent to labor camps in remote areas, or exiled to Siberia, or executed in cold blood. This happened within the lifetimes of Americans who are still alive today, our most elderly.

The Anchorage Assembly, with Anchorage Ordinance 2021-91, is a step in that direction.

Not only must all in the city limits wear masks when around others, the ordinance turns people into informants. The enforcement mechanism is the busybody, the tattler, the revenge-seeker, or the grievance-bearing brat.

A competitor can turn another business into the administrative judge for not enforcing the Assembly mask mandate to the competitor’s liking.

Family members can turn in their estranged spouses, as retribution in child custody battles.

Neighbors who want to get rid of a neighbor can turn them in for hosting a party where masks were not worn.

People can roam through events, cameras rolling, and turn the footage into the authorities, who are then required to act.

The Stalinist mask ordinance was developed in secret and introduced at a meeting that was as close to a secret meeting as the Assembly is allowed to have. It was posted in a difficult-to-find place on the municipality’s website, but it qualified as a legal notification. The Assembly members pushing it have not gone out of their ways to mention it on social media.

But clearly, the Assembly majority doesn’t want the public to give input, and public testimony will be limited on Tuesday night. The Assembly has already stacked the testimony with doctors who support their “Mask and Report to Authorities” ordinance. The “S” version — the latest version that the public could not get access to until Monday morning, carries the extremism to a whole new level, turning Anchorage residents on each other like attack dogs.

Assemblyman Forrest Dunbar opined on social media about the inability to shut down organizations like Must Read Alaska, which has shined the light into this area of extremism on the Anchorage Assembly. In a post about the Covid-19 virus, he fantasized about future deaths that he could blame on this author. In another social media post, he worried that there isn’t a way to shut down opposing points of view:

Anchorage, just because you have elected a mayor who did not support the proposed mandates of Dunbar, or the past mandates of Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson or Ethan Berkowitz, you are far from being in the clear. There is a real and present danger posed by the extremist majority on the Anchorage Assembly: They are coming for your liberty, they are coming for your businesses, and they’re coming for your livelihoods. Australian brutality is not that unimaginable in today’s Anchorage.

Suzanne Downing is publisher of Must Read Alaska and Must Read America. She also writes for NewsMax.

Shocker: Meg Zaletel amendment pits neighbor against neighbor to report on face covering violations or businesses not requiring customers to wear them

Shocker: Meg Zaletel amendment pits neighbor against neighbor to report on face covering violations or businesses not requiring customers to wear them

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Shocker: Meg Zaletel amendment pits neighbor against neighbor to report on face covering violations or businesses not requiring customers to wear them

A new version of the Anchorage mask ordinance that has been proposed by Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel has a new twist: To enforce the mask mandate for all over the age of 2, Zaletel proposes a citizen-led enforcement provision.

In other words, if code enforcers are not available or are not conducting surprise visits to businesses or private parties or events, citizens can report infractions of the ordinance, and take offenders — say birthday partiers or store owners — in front of an administrative hearing officer to address the alleged violations.

The Zaletel enforcement plan turns customers into enemies and neighbors into mask narcs.

Zaletel is plowing forward with her proposed universal mask mandate for Anchorage, and in her “S version” of her ordinance, she also says that she wants it clear that even vaccinated persons must comply with the masking requirements, but that those engaged in a select number competitive sports will not have to wear a mask — for instance, wrestling, swimming, and diving.

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The Anchorage Assembly will take up the Zaletel mask ordinance on Tuesday at the 5 pm meeting that takes place at the Loussac Library.

The leftwing majority of the Assembly has supported the ordinance, as introduced on Sept. 20 at a secretive meeting the Assembly had in a small conference room in City Hall. Poorly noticed to the public, several citizens attended after learning of the meeting through Must Read Alaska.

Read: Assembly to require businesses to police mask ordinance

Read: Power grab as Assembly goes for total mask control

Assembly members Meg Zaletel and Pete Petersen are sponsoring the ordinance, with Zaletel, who is an attorney, taking the lead on it.

The actual addendum referred to in the memo above has not yet been released by Zaletel or the Assembly Chair Suzanne LaFrance, which is very unusual. It’s apparent this addendum is being held back from public view. There are two other “S” versions, with unknown amendments.

Original ordinance, without amendments is at this link:

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Dunleavy APOC filing names outdoorsman John Sturgeon chair of campaign

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Dunleavy APOC filing names outdoorsman John Sturgeon chair of campaign

Legendary hunter and businessman John Sturgeon, who fought for the rights of Alaskans to use their rivers and won at the Supreme Court twice, is the chair of the Dunleavy for Governor campaign.

The campaign filed with Alaska Public Offices Commission on Sunday, also naming Kevin Fimon as treasurer, and Tyson Gallagher, Jordan Shilling, Cindy Glassmaker and Jill Schaefer as deputy treasurers. Glassmaker and Schaefer are Kenai Peninsula residents who are part of a fundraiser Dunleavy has planned for the Kenai this week.

Sturgeon is a larger-than-life Alaskan who was accosted by National Park Service rangers while heading for his hunting spot up the Nation River in the Yukon-Charley National Preserve. They ordered him to get his boat out of federal waters. He fought that order in court, asserting that navigable waters are state-controlled, and he won the first round, when the case was remanded to the Ninth Circuit, which ruled against him. In the second round at the Supreme Court, he won unanimously, a victory for all Alaskans who use rivers as highways.

Read about Sturgeon’s victory at the Supreme Court at this link.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy is an avid outdoorsman and hunter. He was first elected as governor in 2018, beating former Gov. Bill Walker, who has filed recently to try to win back the seat.

Anchorage Assembly to require businesses to police, ‘compel’ removal of non-mask wearers from premises

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Anchorage Assembly to require businesses to police, ‘compel’ removal of non-mask wearers from premises

The Anchorage Assembly will consider an ordinance on Tuesday that proposes to require business owners in Anchorage to enforce an extreme mask ordinance.

Ordinance No. AO 2021-91, a law proposed by Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel, says “all individuals must wear masks or face coverings over their noses and mouths when they are indoors in public settings or communal spaces outside the home; or outdoors at large crowded public events. Unvaccinated individuals are additionally encouraged to wear masks at all outdoor public gatherings regardless of size.”

The ordinance requires businesses to be their own enforcers, and that they must remove or compel people from their premises if they don’t have a mask on. Compel means forceful removal, according to Merriam Webster Dictionary. It’s unclear if this means business owners may put their hands on customers and throw them physically from the premises.

In addition, it’s got to be a surgical or cloth mask, not a face shield. “A face shield is generally not permitted in lieu of a mask or face covering, as face shields are less effective in stopping the spread of COVID-19,” the Zaletel ordinance reads.

Read Power grab as Assembly goes for total mask control

It also requires employers to make sure their employees wear those masks or face coverings when with the public or unvaccinated coworkers. The new law does not apply to those in prison or police custody.

Those opposing the new ordinance, which was sprung in a poorly advertised, nearly secret meeting of the Assembly last week, plan to attend the Assembly meeting on Tuesday at 5 pm. The Assembly meets on the ground floor of the Loussac Library. Opponents of the ordinance say they will wear red to take a stand.

Social media campaign by opponents of the mask ordinance.

According to the ordinance, the mayor will be stripped of his executive authority, as all workers in the municipality will come under this ordinance, including those working in his administration, putting the Assembly in the driver’s seat for the city’s human resources management.

The ordinance also mandates that all city meetings “shall” be limited in numbers of attendees, but doesn’t say what that number is. This gives the Assembly the ability to once again shut people out of its public meetings, as it did in the summer of 2020, so it could pass controversial purchases of hotels to house and treat the inebriates in Anchorage.

It’s expected there will be changes to the ordinance that are made at the last minute and that the public will not know about until Tuesday’s meeting. Those changes could include more strident enforcement mechanisms.

Assemblyman Chris Constant, Assembly Chair Suzanne LaFrance, and Zaletel are expected to offer “S” versions.

“The Municipality reserves the right to use all available enforcement options to assure compliance with this Order,” the ordinance reads. The Assembly plans to mask the public through Dec. 31, but may remove the mask requirement earlier if it chooses.

The Assembly leftist majority has lined up doctors to testify in favor of the mask mandate, and the doctors will present a letter signed by dozens of medical workers in support of the Assembly majority.

Zaletel recall ballots to be in the mail Oct. 5

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Zaletel recall ballots to be in the mail Oct. 5

Ballots will be in the mail next week for a special Anchorage municipal election in Assembly District 4 that concludes Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, to determine whether Assembly Member Meg Zaletel, of District 4 Seat F, should be recalled. 

Zaletel is the prime sponsor of an ordinance that requires masking of all in Anchorage over the age of 2. That ordinance will be the subject of a public hearing on Tuesday at the Assembly’s regular meeting, which starts at 5 pm in the Loussac Library, ground floor.

Read: Power-grabbing Assembly seeks total control on masks

​​​Recall ballot packages will be mailed to qualified Anchorage voters in District 4, 21 days before Election Day, Oct. 26, 2021.

To check if you live in District 4, visit the Assembly Districts map and type in your residence address into the search field in the upper left corner of the map. You can view the website by clicking here.

It is important for your address information in the voter registration database to be current. The last day to register to vote in this special election was Sunday, Sept. 26.

For information regarding the recall petition, visit the petition Information webpage by clicking here. 

Delta variant: Airlines asking competitors to share their ‘no fly’ lists so those customers can be banned across companies

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Delta variant: Airlines asking competitors to share their ‘no fly’ lists so those customers can be banned across companies

Delta Air Lines has asked competitors to share their no-fly lists of passengers who have caused disturbances on planes or who have been removed for not following instructions of flight attendants.

Kristen Manion Taylor, senior Vice President of inflight service, and Eric Phillips, senior Vice President of ACS and Cargo Operations, said in internal memos that there are more than 1,600 people on the company’s no-fly list, and the company has submitted 600 names to the Federal Aviation Administration in 2021 as part of the Special Emphasis Enforcement Program.

“We’ve also asked other airlines to share their ‘no fly’ list to further protect airline employees across the industry – something we know is top of mind for employees as well. A list of banned customers doesn’t work as well if that customer can fly with another airline,” the company wrote.

The memos were sent as the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure held a hearing on unruly passengers and the growing problem of air rage.

Since the beginning of the year, the FAA has logged 4,385 reports of unruly behavior by passengers. The vast majority — 3,199 — are those “refusing to comply with the federal face mask mandate.”

The FAA has issued more than $1 million in proposed fines to those passengers.

According to Fox News, in January there were over 880 banned from Delta Air Lines, 500 banned from Frontier Airlines, 432 banned from Spirit Airlines, 303 banned from Alaska Airlines and 615 banned from United Airlines.

By February, an estimated 3,000 were banned from U.S. air carriers.

The sharing of Alaska Airlines list with Delta could lead to Sen. Lora Reinbold having no practical way to go back and forth between the Capital City and her home in Eagle River. Delta provides summer service to Juneau, but the primary carrier is Alaska Airlines.

Jab or no job V: Military serviceman faces discharge, religious exemption for C-shot will be denied

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Jab or no job V: Military serviceman faces discharge, religious exemption for C-shot will be denied

This is the fifth in a series of stories of people losing their jobs in the because they have declined to take the required Covid-19 vaccination. In this edition, Must Read Alaska has compiled several stories from workers out of the huge volume of personal stories sent to MRAK. The identities of these workers are being kept confidential because they fear reprisal. More stories will be included in future editions of this series as it continues this week. Send your story to [email protected].

Serviceman at an Alaska military base: We’re being told we’ll be administratively discharged if we don’t take the vaccine. I’ve applied for a religious exemption, but I’m hearing that they are all being denied. 

Leadership has been telling us we cannot go home on leave unless we take the vaccine. One enlisted man wanted to go home for a funeral but could not until he took the vaccine. Because Alaska is considered OCONUS (outside continental United States) it’s harder to get leave. Now they are making the vaccine a condition of leave.

There are men serving whose wives are delivering babies, and the men are not allowed to see their newborn babies until they take the shot.

I know of one enlisted man who took the shot and now has myocarditis, a resting heartrate of 170. He is going to be medically chaptered out. He’s only 19 years old.

They are trying to meme this into reality that it is safe and effective. None of that is true.

They are using this to force out all the Christians and conservatives from the military. The free thinkers have got to go. The Christians have got to go. I am a genuine believer, and there are not that many of us in the military, which is why I have to keep my identity anonymous.

I believe the next stage that comes is genocide against the unvaccinated. There are eight stages that lead to genocide: Classification, Symbolization, Dehumanization, Organization, Polarization, Preparation Extermination, Denial. We are at Stage 5 – Polarization, where extremists are driving us apart. 

I should be getting a medical discharge because of several injuries, but if they administratively discharge me, I won’t get any benefits, although I have served for these several years. If they decide to dishonorably discharge those of us who are refusing the vaccine, we could even lose our VA benefits and our records will be tarnished forever.

Meanwhile, they are recruiting people with a $12,000 bonus. I received no bonus when I enlisted, but they’re pushing us out and replacing us.

Those who are dishonorably discharged are considered felons are federally prohibited from owning guns.

Federal contractor: I am being asked to mandate vaccines for myself and my employees in order to keep one of our main work contracts. The contract is federal funds, through a native corporation. We are a small company in [redacted] AK and this contract is over half of our annual revenue. Thank you for tracking this and reporting on it! 

Veterans Administration employee: Yes, I likely will lose my job. I’m a government employee working at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Been employed with them for five years. We currently are being told we have 8 weeks to get fully vaccines or discipline will follow. We have been given medical and religious exemptions, however they will not say if they will hold up. Only thing that’s being told is, you will have to be weekly tested, which I find still  unconstitutional/violating my rights. If you like to have some additional information, please let me know as I will gladly share as I’m likely to lose my career due to my stance of medical freedom.

Central Peninsula Hospital worker: I am one of those who work in a hospital setting and being threatened by the individual in DC. Central Peninsula Hospital and South Peninsula Hospital will fire employees that don’t conform. They are waiting on the final rule to see what the requirements will be. They can’t afford to lose the Medicare and Medicaid money so they’ll happily get rid of the employees who DC Crazy Man is after. After all if you don’t get a vaccine you must be lacking in brains. Our only hope is if we are allowed to use a religious or medical exemption we may be spared. This is absolutely crazy and we need to find a way to to stop it!!! Ashnha is not for the people of Alaska , but supports the liberal agenda that most hospital executives support. They are buying votes!! It is unbelievable how evil this all is. 

Have you lost your job because you won’t take the Covid-19 vaccine? Are you a medical professional? Send your information to [email protected]. You will be kept anonymous.

Read: Part 1: Nurse losing job, after her medical exemption refused

Read: Part II: Pharmacist losing job

Part III: Southcentral Foundation employee losing job Oct. 15 over shot refusal

Part IV: Dozens of Alaskans come forward to tell their stories of being fired for not getting the shot

Read: Doctor says hospitals are not in crisis, not rationing care

Read: My doctor fired me because I won’t take the vaccine

Jab or job IV: Stories from the health field, as dozens more Alaska workers write about losing their jobs because of the shot

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Jab or job IV: Stories from the health field, as dozens more Alaska workers write about losing their jobs because of the shot

This is the fourth in a series of stories of people losing their jobs in the medical profession because they have declined to take the required Covid-19 vaccination. In this edition, Must Read Alaska has compiled several stories from workers out of the huge volume of personal stories sent to MRAK. The names of these healthcare workers are being kept confidential because they fear reprisal. More stories will be included in future editions of this series as it continues this week.

Hospital support worker: We are hearing a lot about doctors and nurses in the medical field that will be affected by the vaccine mandates coming down. There are vastly more support workers in the medical field that will be disproportionately affected by these mandates. Many of the support workers make considerably less than doctors and nurses with many less options to fall back on. We are feeling a greater pressure of being forced into getting an experimental drug or losing our livelihoods than any other in the medical field.

No one should be in this situation is America. Thank you for listening.

Worried Spouse: Recently my wife was forced to resign from her front desk position at an Anchorage medical office because she would not be vaccinated for Covid. No accommodations whatsoever were offered to her to keep her employed. She was clearly being punished for not submitting to the far more ‘knowledgeable’ doctor who claimed there was NO RISK in being vaxxed. Ironically, three weeks ago one of the clinic’s patient’s, middle-aged mother died the day after receiving her vaccination.

My wife is now seeking employment and we are facing financial hardship because of these people with Marxist views masquerading as a noble individual.

Thank you for requesting our stories.

Nurse: The article listed your email as a way for medical workers to get their story out. I’ll want to say vaccinating or not is no longer about the vaccine and is now a matter of choosing to preserve my freedom.

My wife and I are currently residents of Louisiana and have been planning to relocate to Alaska. We will make the move soon. We are both 20-year nurses with irreplaceable amounts of critical nursing experience, we are both leaders in our field.

A new graduate cannot begin to know what we know or achieve what we can. My wife resigned two weeks ago facing “vaccinate or you’re fired” mandates. We both have been neck deep working Covid units etc. since day one. Much of that time in the beginning we worked with Covid patients without even a mask.

Now we are disposable, and I cannot tell you how disappointed I am with the medical industry for supporting such nonsense. After all the highly infectious patients we’ve cared for over the years and suddenly our processes and precautions aren’t good enough.

I am the director of nursing at a local psychiatric hospital in my town. I have experience in nearly every area from ER to acute psychiatry. I am also facing Biden’s mandate in the next 75 days.

My workplace desperately does not want to lose me and will allow me any loophole that may exist once we see what the regulations say. That said, I fully intend to quit and enjoy a few years of extremely early retirement in Alaska and just wait and see what happens next.

I guess my point is Alaska will soon be crippled by the decision to fire critical frontline staff in a nursing shortage compounded by a pandemic compounded by nurses burning out. Once the Lower 48 begins to have even a small percentage of us leave over the next days to come, Alaska won’t have a chance at getting enough travel nurses to keep a float. As short as we have all been for a decade and now when we are at our shortest, this country allows the president to run off the only people showing up.

To top it off we make sure we extend the critical shortage by decades by schools deciding to expel the already low enrollment of student nurses that actual signed up.

If America decides to embrace freedom above fear or if enough people die in the parking lots of Alaska’s hospitals, ya’ll just say the word and we will consider coming out of the woods and back to saving lives again. The thing about nursing is that it’s stressful, so when you push a nurse with a tyrannical mandate, it takes about 3 seconds for them to switch gears and start looking forward to being forced into retiring 20 years early.

Good luck, America.

Worried Spouse: My husband works on base as a federal employee and he’s been told if he doesn’t get the jab by November 22, he will lose his job. I’m hoping you have an attorney or idea how he can keep his job and not get the toxic jab. Fingers crossed! Thank you in advance. 

Covid survivor: I might lose my job working at the hospital. I asked for medical exemption due to having natural immunity to Covid . My doctor told me that I don’t have to get it. I heard that they’re not accepting that reason for an exemption since it’s not CDC medical contraindication. I haven’t heard personally yet that it’s denied, but I would not be surprised if it is.

Vaccinated by choice: I am a licensed healthcare provider in the state of Alaska. I am vaccinated by choice and my workplace is not mandating the vaccine (they are however mandating weekly testing). I am against any and all mandates of the vaccine. I believe there are risks and benefits with the vaccine just as there are risks of being infected with COVID-19. Everyone should be able to make that decision on their own. I don’t know that I will be getting a booster shot even if it is recommended in the future.

Army Corps of Engineers employee: I will be losing my job as a contracting specialist with USACE sometime next month because I refuse to get any of the COVID vaccinations.

Southcentral Foundation employee: On Oct. 15, 2021 I will be terminated from my job for refusing the covid vaccine. I work for SCF assisting customer-owners with applying for Medicaid, Medicare, and food stamps. I don’t work directly with customers but my job is considered essential. It certainly is essential to me and my family. 
I am not sure what else to say. If you have any questions for me please let me know. 

Southcentral Foundation employee: I am an SCF employee who is losing my job because I refuse to get “vaccinated.”

Southcentral Foundation employee: As you can see [from attachments] I am losing my job at the same time that there is critical shortage of my profession am in in the region. I am currently writing an appeal (with more finesse). I do have other employment, for now, so it is not a critical loss, but I did greatly enjoy working in villages for the last 30 years. Right at this moment I am in a village with 25% COVID outbreak, and have given monoclonal antibody treatment emergently with many more scheduled today. But this is my last job, pending appeal. I am not vaccinated and do not fear COVID again.

Southcentral Foundation employee: Hi Ms Downing. I work for Southcentral Foundation (SCF) and am one of the many here losing my job on October 15th. It will be noted according to SCF as a VOLUNTARY RESIGNATION which is a lie from the pit of hell. This unconstitutional mandate is certainly not in accordance with SCF’s Mission, Vision, and Values..Their hypocrisy is disgraceful. I submitted 3 Religious Exemptions, all have been denied. Come the 15th of October I will begin researching how this mandate is connected to funding…I have no doubt money is involved…the root of all evil. Thank you so much for caring!

Southcentral Foundation employee: I work at Southcentral Foundation and will be losing my job of 13 years as a [job title deleted to protect employee] on Oct. 15 for not getting the Covid shot.

Hospital employee: I work at a hospital and may lose my job if the mandates go through. Right now we are required to test every two weeks or have the vaccine. Why aren’t places letting natural immunity be as good as a vaccine? What options do I have if the vaccine is mandated? Thank you

Credit union employee: Yes, I am probably going to lose my job.  The company I work for, [Redacted] Credit Union, just announced that they will be complying with the mandate.  They are going to let us know the details later. 
I am beyond angry,  worried,  scared, disappointed and disgusted!

Federal contractor: In response to the question you asked, yes, as of right now, it appears that I may very well lose my job over the vaccine mandates.

I am a Federal contractor, and as you know, President Joe Biden has issued an executive order requiring all Federal employees and contractors to be vaccinated.  So far, the only communications I have received (other than what the press is reporting) are a few vaguely worded statements that the organization that I contract to is starting to plan out how to comply with the mandates.  The contracting company that I work for has not yet said anything about how they plan to comply with the mandates.

I will not submit to the vaccine requirement.  I have heard far too many stories of adverse reactions, many debilitating, to take this vaccine at the present time.  Given that the statistics and my own personal experience with illnesses suggest that I am not at significant risk of serious outcomes from Covid, I do not believe that, in my case, the benefits of this vaccine outweigh the risk.

Furthermore, regardless how many experts testify that the vaccines are “safe,” the truth is that the vaccines have not existed long enough to know what the long-term effects are.  This is the first time an mRNA vaccine has ever been rolled out, and therefore, we can’t even make any educated guesses about long-term effects based upon similar vaccines already in use, because there aren’t any.

Therefore, if push really does come to shove, I will refuse the vaccine, and my employer will have to fire me, at which point, I will seek legal representation.

Ms. Downing, if you would be so kind, I would request that my name be withheld if you choose to quote any statements I make here, at least for the time being.  If my employer decides to terminate my position with the company, I will have no qualms about speaking freely and openly, but for now, I would prefer to remain anonymous.

Have you lost your job because you won’t take the Covid-19 vaccine? Are you a medical professional? Send your information to [email protected]. You will be kept anonymous.

Read: Part 1: Nurse losing job, after her medical exemption refused

Read: Part II: Pharmacist losing job

Part III: Southcentral Foundation employee losing job Oct. 15 over shot refusal

Read: Doctor says hospitals are not in crisis, not rationing care

Read: My doctor fired me because I won’t take the vaccine

Jab or job III: Southcentral Foundation employee says Covid vaccine is new religion

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Jab or job III: Southcentral Foundation employee says Covid vaccine is new religion

This is the third in a series of interviews with people who are losing their jobs in the medical profession because they have declined to take the required Covid-19 vaccination. The names of these healthcare workers are being kept confidential because they fear reprisal.

Southcentral Foundation has grown over the years, and Jessie has been a big part of that. He works in an area of the hospital that relates to information, and has no contact with patients. During the early months of the pandemic, he was able to work from home, and he believes he could still perform 100 percent of his job from home.

But he will lose his job on Oct. 15 because he is not going to be vaccinated for Covid-19. Jessie asked for a religious exemption and was immediately denied. He is being fired.

Southcentral Foundation serves the Alaska Native population. Its mission statement is, “Working together with the Native Community to achieve wellness through health and related services.” The organization has 297 vacant positions advertised on its website. Jessie’s is now one of them, even though he has 20 more days.

While he’s not a doctor or nurse, Jessie has studied it enough to believe the vaccine is leading to more variants, and more rapid variants. The vaccine has just one strategy for defeating the virus, and that makes it easier for the virus to come up with its own mutation to evade the spike protein, he said.

Plus, Jessie thinks that if the government is mandating that people be injected with something, then the country is on a dangerous path to tyranny.

Mostly, he thinks that the push for everyone to be vaccinated has become a religion, and it’s in conflict with his own belief system.

On Oct. 15, Jessie will be placed on leave for three days, and if he still doesn’t comply, he was told it would be considered a voluntary resignation. He disputes that it’s voluntary.

Jessie is frustrated with Gov. Mike Dunleavy for using FEMA resources to replace nurses and other medical workers who are being fired. It doesn’t make sense to him, and he and his whole family voted for Dunleavy, but now he’s having his doubts.

“In every instance we support tyranny, we put another nail in the coffin of the United States of America. If these hospitals truly could not get by, they would not be firing workers. They claim it is health and safety but it is dogma. If I was talking to the governor, I would have a lot to say.”

Jessie knows of single mothers who are losing their nursing jobs and their homes over the vaccine mandate.

“It is a satanic attack on mankind. Eventually, it is going to be about a vaccine passport. We won’t be able to buy or sell without vaccine passport. Then there will be counterfeit vaccine passports, and I worry it will lead to implanting something in our bodies. Whenever the government tells you you have to receive something in your body to engage in commerce, that is where I am going to be drawing the line,” he said.

Jessie probably will land on his feet. People with his skills are in high demand and he is looking for a new job. It will be the Southcentral Foundation that suffers, he said, as well as all of its “customer-owners,” who he points out do not have to have the vaccine to receive services.

“I’ll find a job, and it will be one that pays me more money,” Jessie said.

Jessie is an assigned name to protect this healthcare worker. Have you lost your job because you won’t take the Covid-19 vaccine? Are you a medical professional? Send your information to [email protected]. You will be kept anonymous.

Read: Part 1: Nurse losing job, after her medical exemption refused

Read: Part II: Pharmacist losing job

Read: Doctor says hospitals are not in crisis, not rationing care

Read: My doctor fired me because I won’t take the vaccine

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