> Government can't fire private industry employees. The government can apply pressure to companies in the private industry using the absurd power of the CDC (which shouldn't actually have any power beyond offering possible advice); they can mandate that all employees must be tested weekly if they don't get the shot. And here is how the pressure is applied: **TAXES AND FINES.** "Oh what's that, company? You haven't vaccinated 75% of your people and aren't making them get tested weekly? $70,000 fine for you, then." This is not outlandish, this is already happening in a lot of states and counties. I think NYC has some pretty strict fines, and there's more in the pipeline for the entire country. They're going to keep turning up the heat, making the un-shot more and more uncomfortable and inconvenienced until they finally say "fuck it, stick me". This is what they want, and this is why **every sensible man and woman** should be drawing the line at "You don't get to put objects into my body", meaning needles or cotton swabs up the nose. There are so many methods in use to make people get the shot: peer pressure, bribery, threats, and now I'm hearing that all former servicemen are to lose their benefits, which they fucking *earned* (for the most part) if they are un-shot by November 1. I think tomorrow was the deadline for active duty troops to get the shot or face some kind of punishment, but they may have pushed that date out. I believe this is where they are overplaying their hand. They're kicking a wasp nest- and these wasps have fought or at least trained with the US military. Many of them are still armed. They understand how the US fights. This might be... "they turned the heat up a little too much, and the boiling frog suddenly realized he was in danger" kind of moment.