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United Airlines Prepares to Fire Employees Who Refuse Covid-19 Vaccinations

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Carrier estimates 593 workers didn’t get the shots Sept. 27 deadline

United Airlines Holdings Inc. is moving ahead with plans to terminate close to 600 employees who didn’t meet its Covid-19 vaccination deadline, company officials said Tuesday.

United in August said it would require all of its 67,000 U.S. employees to be vaccinated—the first major U.S. airline and one of the first large U.S. companies to do so.

Now the Sept. 27 deadline has passed, and while most of the airline’s employees complied, United is starting the process of firing 593 employees who didn’t get the shots, company officials said. Those workers can still save their jobs if they opt to get vaccinated in the coming days before their official termination meetings, airline officials said Tuesday.

“We know for some, that decision was a reluctant one,” United Chief Executive Scott Kirby and President Brett Hart wrote in a letter to employees Tuesday. “But there’s no doubt in our minds that some of you will have avoided a future hospital stay—or even death—because you got vaccinated.”

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Pandemic Mask Rules Are Making Even Less Sense

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed sent an important but unintentional message last week when she was caught violating her own mask mandates while partying away, maskless, in a jam-packed jazz club.

Her excuse was incoherent; she said she was “feeling the spirit,” enjoying the music and so not thinking about a mask.

But the more serious problem wasn’t her hypocrisy and lame rationalizing so much as the mixed and misleading messages sent by the rules themselves. Americans are in dire need of guidance that’s coherent, fair, sustainable and backed by evidence. And they’re not getting it from public health authorities or the rule-makers who rely on them, even as the country slouches toward a confusing new normal with no end to Covid-19 in sight.

“We don’t need the fun police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing,” Breed said when questioned. She was making a good point! But as Charles C.W. Cook wrote on Monday in National Review, she is the person who authorized the mask mandate. She is the fun police.

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Edgewater RB Baxter ‘shocked’ by Alabama offer

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Junior adds prized offer after monster 249-yard, 4-TD OT performance

Orlando Edgewater junior running back Cedric “C.J.” Baxter already was a hot commodity among college football recruiters, but his popularity has grown exponentially in the past two weeks.

When Alabama comes to town, something must be going right.

The Crimson Tide’s interest in Baxter, a 6-foot-2, 220-pound prospect, took off after his performance in a four-overtime 52-49 victory over rival Jones High.

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Packers Trainer Searched Lambeau Field Until 2 a.m. To Find Aaron Jones’ Necklace Containing Dad’s Ashes

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Aaron Jones may have scored four touchdowns on Monday, but Bryan Engel was the MVP of the night.

Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones’ father passed away earlier this year at the age of 56 due to complications with COVID-19.

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Playing with a heavy heart, Jones had a necklace created to house a portion of his father’s ashes to wear, including during games.

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Florida State Rep. files Texas-style anti-abortion bill

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State Rep. Webster Barnaby, R-Deltona

State Rep. Webster Barnaby, R-Deltona, filed a proposal Wednesday that aims to follow Texas’ lead in blocking physicians from performing abortions if there is a “detectable fetal heartbeat.”

The 40-page proposal (HB 167), dubbed the “Florida Heartbeat Act,” would require doctors to test for fetal heartbeats, which can occur six weeks into pregnancy. If heartbeats are detected, doctors “may not knowingly perform or induce an abortion” on pregnant women, under the proposal.

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Updated Windows 11 PC Health App Details Why You Can’t Update to Windows 11

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With just a couple of weeks until Windows 11 is launched, Microsoft has re-released its Windows 11 compatibility checker in the form of the PC Health App. This new version gives you precise details pertaining to the compatibility and incompatibility of Windows 11 on your system. Especially when it comes to TPM 2.0 support.

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