Coronavirus: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 03:28:37 PDT 2022


https://www.theepochtimes.com/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-worldwide-pandemic-2_3277200.html

https://www.theepochtimes.com/navy-warship-was-at-sea-when-officials-said-it-was-undeployable-commander_4338891.html
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21417637-emergency-motion
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21417641-navy-commander-transcript

US Navy Warship Was At Sea When Officials Said It Was Undeployable: Commander

The warship that U.S. Navy officials described as undeployable if they
were not able to remove the unvaccinated commander was actually
deployed when the assertions were made, the commander told a judge
during a recent hearing.

“No sir, I do not,” the commander, who has not been publicly named,
said when asked whether he thought the officials’ statements were
accurate.

U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday, a George H. W. Bush appointee who
is overseeing the case, ordered military officials in February not to
take punitive action against the commander because they appear to have
wrongfully denied the commander’s request for a religious exemption
from the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

In an emergency motion to the judge on Feb. 28, officials alleged the
ruling was affecting military readiness because unvaccinated sailors
“pose a risk to other personnel” since the COVID-19 vaccines have
proven effective at halting the spread of the virus that causes the
disease.

The order “effectively places a multi-billion dollar guided missile
destroyer out of commission,” the motion stated. “For example, if it
becomes necessary to deploy an East Coast-based surface ship in
response to global events in Ukraine (or elsewhere), the Navy will not
deploy the Commander’s vessel. In this way, the Court’s order will
have a wide-ranging impact on Navy operations and national security.”

Besides federal health officials saying the vaccines don’t affect the
transmission of the virus, and the vaccines proving virtually
ineffective against preventing infection, the claim about the ship
itself was undermined by the commander’s testimony in federal court,
according to a transcript released March 14.

“I was out at sea” on Feb. 28, when the motion was entered, the commander said.

The officer said he was in charge of his ship and there did not appear
to be any problems stemming from his vaccination status, as both
unvaccinated and vaccinated people can test positive for COVID-19,
particularly since the emergence of the Omicron variant of the CCP
(Chinese Communist Party) virus.

The training exercises the ship was completing lasted through about
March 4, according to the commander.

The Navy and Department of Justice, whose lawyers are representing the
military in the case, declined to comment.

    “I’m here today because the military is not executing this policy
while respecting the constitutional freedoms laid out in the First
Amendment or RFRA,” the commander said, referring to the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act.

    “I should not be the one standing here to say that today; generals
and admirals, the executives in our service, should be here to say
that to the politics, to the bureaucracy, to their decision-making.”

One day after the hearing, the judge rejected the government’s motion.

The Navy has asked an appeals court to step in; that court has yet to
rule on the request.


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