Tag: covidiot

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Crying ‘discrimination’ because you refuse to wear a mask isn’t just silly, it’s offensive

COVID-19, coronavirus, public health crisis

Please watch this short video and then let’s talk.

This woman claims discrimination because she refuses to wear a mask in public.

“Stand back,” and “You don’t care about other people,” are just a couple of the attacks this woman has received because she refuses to cover her mouth and nose.

Technically, this is discrimination in that she is being treated differently than mask-compliant folks. But this isn’t Discrimination.

The type of discrimination we worry about is the invidious discrimination individual suffer because of some innate trait over which they have no control and/or a fundamental individual liberty—race, sex/gender, LGBTQ status, religion, national origin, disability, age, etc.

The type of this discrimination about which this woman is complaining is discrimination of her own choice—her selfish choice to purposely avoid and ignore the most basic of safety and health measures everyone (or at least everyone with common sense and a rational belief in science) agrees is necessary to protect us during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Discrimination against marginalized groups is a major problem in our country. Let’s not trivialize it by elevating these complaints to its level.

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You have every right to be a 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘵, and we have every right to fire you for it

termination, covidiot, workplace violence, gun, weapon
“Covidiot: A person who acts like an irresponsible idiot during the COVID-19 pandemic, ignoring common sense, decency, science, and professional advice leading to the further spread of the virus and needless deaths of thousands.”
A Dallas law firm has terminated the employment of a document services manager after it discovered his threatening, offensive, racist and very public Facebook post taking issue with mandatory face masks.
“No more masks. Any business that tells me to put on a mask (Whole Foods on Lomo Alto) in Dallas will get told to kiss my Corona ass and will lose my business forever. It’s time to stop this BULLSHIT. Do I have to show the lame security guard outside of a ghetto store my CV19 test results? I will show him my Glock 21 shooting range results. With Hornady hollow points. Pricey ammo, but worth it in this situation. They have reached the limit. I have more power than they do…..they just don’t know it yet.”
Bain’s post, which any reasonable person would interpret as just plain wrong, resulted in his termination. As my friend Eric Meyer pointed out yesterday (borrowing from a comment on the Facebook page of Bain’s former employer): “Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences for that speech.”
In other words, you have the right to your opinion, no matter how offensive. But once you share that opinion publicly, we have the right to fire you for it … coronavirus or no coronavirus.
COVID-19 might have temporarily upended our world, but just cause for termination is still just cause for termination. So please don’t be a covidiot. Employers don’t like firing people under the best of circumstances. We especially don’t like doing so now. But we will if we have to.