Vaccine Mandates:
Regardless of what you think
of the CV19 shot, most people hold a reasonable position about allowing the
government to control your personal health and “mandate” anything for your own
good. The administration’s mandates and
the coercion to get corporate America to institute their policy, is hitting
some major pushback. With the military,
law enforcement, education, health professionals and of course inside
transportation, some resistance has surfaced.
Delta’s Ed Bastian stated a
nuanced policy position on Maria Bartiroma about what he called “divisive”
mandates and that no one would be fired for not complying. SW CEO had earlier made that same point but
company position had not changed until now:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/19/southwest-vaccine-mandate-unpaid-leave-exemptions.html
Delta’s Ed Bastian here
below:
Delta Air Lines CEO Ditches ‘Divisive’
Vaccine Mandate
•Oct 16, 2021
DailyWire.com
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Delta Air Lines is ditching a vaccine mandate for employees,
according to company CEO Ed Bastian, who notably emphasized the “divisiveness”
of such an order.
Bastian said announcing a plan to get all employees vaccinated, without
enforcing a mandate, has worked, allowing the company to reach a
90% vaccination rate.
“The reason the mandate was put in by [the] president, I
believe, was because they wanted to make sure companies had a plan to get their
employees vaccinated,” the CEO said, according to
Fox Business. “A month before the president came out with the mandate, we had
already announced our plan to get all of our people vaccinated. And the good news
is the plan is working.”
Bastian “acknowledged that there will need to be religious and
medical accommodations made for those who wish to remain unvaccinated while
avoiding having to threaten employment status,” Fox Business noted.
“By the time we’re done, we’ll be pretty close to fully
vaccinated as a company without going through all the divisiveness of a
mandate,” the executive said.
Back in August, Bastian warned unvaccinated employees enrolled
in Delta’s health care plan they would be subject to higher premiums to cover
increased costs associated with COVID, The Daily Wire reported:
Effective November 1, employees who have not been immunized
against coronavirus will face a $200 increase in their monthly payments.
“The average hospital stay for COVID-19 has cost Delta $50,000
per person,” Bastian wrote in the memo. “This surcharge will be necessary
to address the financial risk the decision to not vaccinate is creating for our
company.”
[…] Other changes detailed in the memo include requiring
unvaccinated employees to wear face coverings in all indoor Delta settings,
effective immediately.
President Joe Biden in September formally announced his
administration would be mandating vaccination, testing, and mask requirements
for not just federal employees, but many private businesses, too.
“Companies with at least 100 employees must require their
employees get vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID-19 tests under a new Biden
administration plan to combat the coronavirus and encourage vaccination,” The Daily Wire reported
at the time. “President Joe Biden is scheduled to outline a revamped federal
strategy to address COVID-19 that includes far more invasive regulations and
restrictions than the federal government has put in place to date. Part of
Biden’s six-point plan involves cracking down on 100+ employee companies to
push their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.”
Last week, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly blamed Biden
for the airline’s decision to enforce a vaccine mandate on its employees.
“I’ve never been in favor of corporations imposing that kind of
a mandate,” Kelly told CNBC.
“I’m not in favor of that, never have been. But the executive order from
President Biden mandates that all federal employees and then all federal
contractors, which covers all major airlines, have to have a vaccine mandate in
place by December 8. So we’re working through that.”
Southwest had to cancel thousands
of flights, starting last weekend. Curiously, the company has seemed to blame
everything outside of the vaccine mandate, including weather.
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I wish to thank Capt Bruno
Brunasso for sending in this interesting link to an article about Delta’s
resurrecting dormant aircraft.
How did Delta
Airlines awaken 570 dormant aircraft?
How did Delta Airlines awaken 570 dormant aircraft? -
FreightWaves
Or
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-did-delta-airlines-awaken-570-dormant-aircraft
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From:
Walter Burkett
Sent: Saturday, October 9, 2021 8:04 PM
To: misc.pcn@gmail.com
Subject: Age of death averages
Found this site recently and unfortunately found some that I
have flown with. Sad to see them go, especially the ones at a young age.
Would it be possible for you to add to the site the average age of death? Just curious what that would be and how it trends.
Thanks,
Walter Burkett Jr
330A DTW
Editor: Capt Burkett, thanks for your email an request. Each year David Roberts produces an extensive spreadsheet of all those in the Delta family that have Flown West. Because it is an Exel spreadsheet, it should be very easy to run all sorts of calculations from the data. The comprehensive list updated thru April 2020 is found on this page: http://pcn.homestead.com/FlightWest.html
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