ALBERT ROTH, BART EMPLOYEE: Yeah, Jay, I'm not giving in and there's a number of us that have the same opinion, we're not giving in. We're holding ground, we're holding firm on what our beliefs are

Hold. The. Line.🥹❤️💪 https://t.co/YVZ78ewnes pic.twitter.com/Pfce7E7PXh

— Brook Jackson 💜 (@IamBrookJackson) October 24, 2024

19-year BART employee, Albert Roth, who is an unvaccinated ordained minister and had requested religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, is reacting to this email he received Wednesday morning, one day before Thanksgiving, that said, "After careful review and consideration of the information provided, your request is denied."

"Yeah, Jay, I'm not giving in and there's a number of us that have the same opinion, we're not giving in.  We're holding ground, we're holding firm on what our beliefs are."

The agency's vaccine mandate goes into effect on December 13th.  

BART tells us that as of right now about 600 employees are unvaccinated.

Board Director, Rebecca Saltzman, said this last month, "We need to protect the health and safety of BART workers and BART riders."  

In a statement just released, BART says "We are working with our labor partners to deliver safe and reliable service now and in the future."

Roth though believes a loss of hundreds of workers could impact safety and so does Community Service Officer 14-year BART employee, Rhiannon Doyle, who received her religious exemption denial Wednesday too.  

In my department alone, I believe there's 60 of us.  I'd say a good handful are civilians, maybe 5 or 10, but the rest are officers.  That is really going to impact the response time for emergencies.

Doyle says she's not an anti-vaxxer, but had COVID-19 in September and believes taking the vaccine would be an attempt to fix something that's not broken.  

Doyle and Roth are against being told what to put in their bodies, and say that they're ready to walk if need be if daily text testing isn't allowed.

I've been homeless before and this is what I told the BART board.  I'm not afraid to be homeless again.  Now they're tapping into people's rights, and I'm not going to stand for that, not on my watch.

BART says riders are depending on a healthy workforce.  They plan to hold additional vaccine clinics for unvaccinated employees next week.

JR Stone, ABC7 News

WARNER MENDENHALL: BART workers fired due to COVID vaccine mandate to get over $1M each, federal jury decides

BART workers fired due to COVID vaccine mandate to get over $1M each, federal jury decides https://t.co/muZvOpq0Dv

— Warner Mendenhall (@MendenhallFirm) October 24, 2024

LAURA DEMARAY: We had a small but mighty win yesterday together in Caldwell, Idaho.

A team of expert and compassionate doctors and scientists whose names may be familiar — Ryan Cole, Peter McCullough, Renata Moon, David Wiseman, Christina Parks, James Thorp, and John Tribble — met with the Idaho Southwest District Health Board on 10/22/24 (7 members representing 6 counties in Idaho). The big names were backed by a medical freedom team who worked so hard to make this meeting come together and end with an amazing outcome.

Timestamps:

2:25 meeting start

3:58-30:58 Perry Jansen, MD

31:15-41:36 John Tribble, MD

41:57-46:48 Christina Parks, MD

47:00-1:03:35 Ryan Cole, MD

1:04:00-1:08:10 Peter McCullough, MD

1:08:30-1:14:20 James Thorp, MD

1:14:50-1:31:06 David Wiseman, PhD

1:32:25-1:37:36 Renata Moon, MD

1:37:56-1:42:55 Perry Jansen, MD

1:42:55-1:46:22 John Tribble, MD

1:47:00-2:07:15 Board discussion

2:07:15-2:08:08 Vote

CHAY BOWES: The Magnificent Pavel Milukov gave BRICS delegates a masterful display Cultural and mutual understanding is a key pillar of the BRICS idea.

Not enough diversity nor inclusiveness for my taste. And where's the twerking? https://t.co/CReDy9mAyt

— Alex (Sasha) Krainer (@NakedHedgie) October 24, 2024

MARY TALLEY BOWDEN: Medical mandates are fundamentally wrong, and vaccine manufacturers should be subjected to the same rules as everyone else.

I like it.  

In a transactional world, vaccine manufacturers should be subjected to the same rules as everyone else.  This is an important argument when someone is discussing the virtues of vaccines or even choice.  Once vaccines are mandated, it means that one, you don't have a choice, and two, the vaccine manufacturers are not held to the same rules as the recipients.  So the bargain, the mandate is fundamentally corrupt.  Where's the moral virtue of vaccines then?  

Casey Means won’t sign this.

— Mary Talley Bowden MD (@MdBreathe) October 23, 2024