cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Wed Sep 15, 2021 10:09 am
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 9:13 pm
a fan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:39 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:07 pm
Others may add to these, but seems to me that we really should 'care' about getting everyone vaccinated and, thus, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and medical system stress.
I care. But when you have a freaking police union freaking out over mandates-----don't you realize that you can't push any harder? These are public servants who are used to seeing death. If they're so far gone that they won't take an FDA approved vaccine that they know full well will keep them out of the ER?
That's it mate, game over. Reason won't work on these people. It sucks, but here we are, paying the price for the power of the internet.
Ohh I quite agree that it's an enormous problem.
If I wanted to really say something dumb, I'd say we've been looking for a way to wash many of these knuckle draggers out of the police force, maybe this is the way? Screw the unions, they're the problem to begin with...
ugh, we need trained, good police.
I do say, let'em sue. Charge those unwilling to get vaccinated for the increased risk, provide an option for weekly testing, mandatory masks.
"Screw the unions" does that apply to teachers and federal workers as well? How do you define a knuckle dragging police officer? How many of these knuckle draggers have spent countless hours in the ED after being assaulted on the job. How many of your "knuckle dragging" customers have ever punched you in your face and sent you to the ED? You don't know jack chit about what the reality is for police officers that patrol the mean streets. My nephew did it for 5 years. After a freaked out crack head got his gun and almost shot him in the head your attitude changes. The easy answer is that TLD tells me if you can't stand the heat then find another job. My nephew has serious PTSD issues and has tried a couple of times to kill himself. He lives in Las Vegas now with his dogs. Smokes a lot of weed and is still messed up. Was he a knuckle dragger when he first joined the force? No he wasn't, he became a victim of a police force that is hated and disrespected by the people they serve. That is not a reality he had any part in. That mistrust that has been generations in the making. This is one of my nephew's memories of his time on the force. His is patrolling on Hudson Ave in Rochester at zero dark thirty. A car flies by him weaving all over the place as it blows through a red light. He pulls the car over. Driver berates him why he is hassling a black man. He explains, or tries to explain why he pulled him over. The eff bombs start to flow and the accusations of him being a racist soon follow. So the drunk dude tries to reach through the window and punch my nephew. The accusations fly that my nephew only pulled him over because he was black. My nephew tells the drunken moron this bit of wisdom. Until I walked up to your car your tinted windows made it impossible for me to see who was in your car. In case you didn't know, not a lot of white boys drive down Hudson Ave at this time of night. My nephew, the knuckle dragger that he was called the guys wife. He let her park is car off the road the knuckle dragger he was then followed them home and did not arrest his drunk ass. That is what knuckle dragging police officers do. They have no sense of humanity at all.
As I've told you many times in the past, I am never speaking about your nephew nor any specific individual cop...(unless I name them specifically). I have friends in the police, including a HS classmate.
Please read with a little more effort at comprehension what I wrote, including the opening phrase "If I wanted to say something dumb"...
But ok, yes, there are indeed some, indeed too many, "knuckle dragger" cops...racists, sexists, numbskulls...fact. And also fact, the police unions in many/most areas have protected them from being canned when all of us would have been better off with them off the force.
I then said, "ugh, we need trained, good police."
Try to change the subject in your usual personally affronted way, but that's what I wrote.