Google, which employs approximately 150,000 people in the U.S., has mandated that all workers who interact with Government contractors be fully vaccinated, even if they work from home, with all other employees ordered to report their vaccination status. However, the new measure has encountered opposition within the company itself as roughly 600 members of staff have signed a manifesto demanding that Google “be inclusive to all Googlers” and overturn this policy, while calling on fellow employees to “oppose the mandate as a matter of principle”. MailOnline has the story.
The tech giant is requiring its more than 150,000 U.S. employees to report their vaccination statuses and all employees who work directly or indirectly with Government contracts to be vaccinated, whether they plan to work in the office or not.
The manifesto, which has been signed by at least 600, or less than 0.5% of all Google employees, asks company executives to abandon the policy to create a mandate “inclusive of all Googlers”, CNBC first reported.
It urges workers to “oppose the mandate as a matter of principle” and encourages them not to allow the mandate to influence their decision to be inoculated.
Google had set a November 12th deadline for employees to request vaccine exemptions, and employees will be required to work in the office three days a week starting January 10th.
This comes after President Joe Biden announced that all U.S. companies with 100 or more employees must require their staff to be fully vaccinated or regularly tested for Covid by January 4th, 2022.
The authors sent the open letter, with the subhead “Respect the User”, to Google’s Chief Health Officer Karen DeSalvo, the document states.
“I believe that [CEO] Sundar’s Vaccine Mandate is deeply flawed,” the manifesto says, describing executives’ leadership as “coercive” and “the antithesis of inclusion”.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the company’s requirement for employees to be fully vaccinated to return in-person in a blog post in July. “Getting vaccinated is one of the most important ways to keep ourselves and our communities healthy in the months ahead,” Pichai wrote at the time.
The manifesto insists that the policy “publicly and possibly embarrassingly exposes” employees’ private choices.
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I’ll not be joining any coalition with “educated”, “intelligent”, “journalists” who use phrases like “anti-vax conspiracy theorist”. I don’t care how Spiked is funded. That word salad just marks out the user as an idiot or someone who cannot be bothered to argue properly.
Well, at this point, after everything I’ve come to learn about vaccines, pseudovaccines and Big Pharma, I’ll embrace the “anti-vax” part but I’d refute the “conspiracy theorist” slur. I’ll settle for a 50% accurate insult.
Before Covid I was aware that almost all of the reductions in deaths happened before vaccines and were down to higher living standards, and especially better nutrition in childhood.
What I hadn’t known was how little real science there is to support the claims that vaccines provide significant net benefits.
This is the real nub of the problem, the statistics don’t lie. How much illnesses pre-vaccine era were worsened by various other factors that all disappeared at about the same time is difficult to analyse. I’ve certainly lost any enthusiasm I had for vaccines as I have learned more about our immune system which has been trained over millions of years.
It’s just a meaningless term, or more accurately a term used to imply something that is usually not true. IMO most people understand the term “anti-vax” to mean someone who opposes vaccines on principle – in many cases people sceptical of the “covid vaccines” are less sceptical of other vaccines (though increasingly they are now more suspicious, understandably).
They used the term anti-vax on people who have been vaccinated with many other vaccines and have given their children all the prescribed vaccines.
The stupidity, malice and general lack of humanity of people who throw those slurs around at people who just dont want a covid jab could not ve more evident.
Whatever Bridgen says about Spiked being funded by Pfizer doesn’t even begin to compare to the hideoisness of the anti vaxx moniker.
I’m doing a Mogs, hijacking this article to post a Netherlands farming article to a Dutch resident
Mark Rutte making it very obvious who pays him & where the world’s food is going to come from…
https://twitter.com/berniespofforth/status/1655881605590728705
Lol I’m all for starting an indiscriminate dumping trend.
I try and avoid Rutte if at all possible. Last I saw he was towering over the Zalensky turd.
WEF stakeholders providing solutions to (made up) farming problems. Can there be any remaining doubt that the agenda is to take total control of food production?
Make no mistake, a hungry population will burn down its Parliament.
Sowing the seeds of its own destruction, comes to mind here C-1984. Have you noticed the rhetoric has changed from disagreement, and debate to; you are wrong and I am right, and now morphing into a contempt for those who have opposite views, with a hint of contempt for those people. It is the contempt for these people, that can turn to the individual, that we should be most concerned about at the moment. The contempt for the individual can morph into the contempt for the individuals right to live. It has been done before within history, idealism and indoctrination can foster purges and eugenics.
The worm will turn and then parliaments will burn. Sri Lanka was the first.
I think the broad thrust of Bridgen’s arguments need further investigation. We must understand why there are now so many non-Covid excess deaths. I think there are 3 plausible arguments 1) Vaccine harm, 2) Lockdown fallout and 3) NHS ineptitude. There’s probably a combination of all 3.
By making some exaggerated claims, Bridgen has undermined some of his own argument. But by taking such a strident, implicitly pro-Big Pharma stance, sp!ked has sh!t the bed and undermined its own beliefs in liberty and truth.
There are similar levels of excess deaths in countries that don’t suffer from the NHS.
But, to be fair, the NHS varies tremendously. Yesterday I sent my GP practice an email at 06:30. A text at 09:05 told me I’d be phoned by a clinician that afternoon. The Pharmacist called me at 13: 10 and I picked up the prescription at 14:25. No requested masking at the surgery, voluntary masking confined to those over about 75.
While our surgery has no functioning email system, massive waits on the phone, and reception’s refusal to help in any way most of the time. The surgery also insists on masking for everyone. I haven’t been in there in over three years. I’m going to sign up to Benenden. Even my Mum’s super-socialist best friend is using them now, because she couldn’t get an NHS appointment.
Isn’t it funny that majority of people suffer from nonexistent NHS services (last time I saw a GP in person was 2018!), yet we have someone, like this comment above, who has a positive story to tell. Yes? Enjoy the 1/100000000000 chance of getting help but please don’t excuse the useless NHS. Most of us are sick literally and tired literally of the sad wasteful organisation.
I’m not sure what he’s exaggerated? The Fraiman paper he used does acknowledge some uncertainty because we don’t have individual-level data from the trials so it’s not known how many of the reported AEs occurred in the same individual. But in terms of clinical trial evidence, it’s what we have to go on for now. If somebody knows better, they should show their evidence.
I think the bit that was exaggerated was using the Holocaust language, and the part about the Americans designing the virus and the vaccine – the promised revelations about this have not yet appeared.
On the vaccine harms, the data speaks for itself. My own view is that it was probable worth taking for the over-70s, more dangerous than the virus for the healthy under-40’s and somewhere in the middle for the rest.
Its best to stop digging I think.. you’re on a Sticky-Wicket. There was no pandemic.. it was a farce. They tried it in 2009 but were rumbled.
As for 2020.. and the alleged pandemic that you think warranted the over 70s to be jabbed with the toxic filth. Overall mortality doesn’t bare out the plandemic. They did for those in care homes though.. Midazolam Matt Handycock saw to that..
If you’re thinking of his claim about the US military involvement in the vaccine development, I don’t think that’s controversial, like so many of these things it’s just not widely discussed in the legacy media and people assume it can’t be true because they’ve not heard about it; Wikipedia for example mentions the Department of Defense as being involved in overseeing Operation Warp Speed including vaccine manufacture.
Agreed. There will not be just one reason for the excess deaths we are seeing in the UK and across the heavily-jabbed nations. It’s the Government/s refusal to investigate the causes which is the real problem.
But yes, Spiked has sh!t the bed with Myers’ strident, scientifically-illiterate and unjustified attacks on Bridgen and as a (small) consequence I cancelled my monthly donation.
Another “pure blood” here. I watched some of the clip from the GBN argument between the two, and rapidly came to the view that Myers was not worth listening to all the way through. It will take a while to discover the real problems. There are too many vested interests that are behind it, and we’re guessing as to when it will all emerge.
Andrew Bridgen’s holocaust comparison was in fact entirely correct. Britain, the United States, and so far as I am aware the entire western world all refused to treat covid patients medicinally in 2020 and, in particular, refused to recognise the efficacy of monoclonal antibodies, vitamin D, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine (not an exhaustive list). Doctors who disobeyed their masters and treated patients using these medicines testified that their patients, treated early enough, always got better, but their testimony was ignored. Nearly all the fatalities associated with covid were preventable and nearly all can be laid at the door of the medical authorities, who, persuaded from the outset that the vaccines were the only cure, deliberately withheld treatment and said “Wait until the vaccines come on stream”. I vividly remember getting covid myself in December 2020 and relaying the symptoms to my GP. She had nothing to offer except the advice that I should get tested.
Absolutely correct. And African countries with prior widespread use of
Ivermectin etc (malaria, river blindness etc) and with very low uptake of the Gene Therapy jabs (NOT even meeting the definitions of vaccines!) have way better outcomes, despite obvious other health problems.
Big Pharma have been using poor African people as drug guinea-pigs for decades. Read “The Real Anthony Fauci” by RFK Jr. for chapter and verse.
Many millions murdered deliberately over the last 30 years. The profits Big Pharma made from bogus reports based on wicked experimentation, then leading to the subsequent “Authorisation” for sales in the West, running to many Billions.
Doing something as basic as providing clean drinking water would have cost a tiny fraction of the vaccine profits, for enormous benefits.
And Africa is just the worst example. You should see some of the ‘trials’ even in the USA!
It is utterly cowardly to proclaim that the truth must lie in the middle.
I decided not to get jabbed because I couldn’t think of a benign explanation for the governments determination to jab us all with experimental gunk that couldn’t possible have been properly tested when it was known that the virus posed a trivial threat to the vast majority of people.
Reason, not “overdosing on red pills”.
I decided not to get jabbed because it was blatantly paraded as the “only way out” of lockdowns. The impacts of lockdown were so profound that no government was ever going to admit they were wrong to implement them; and if lockdowns “worked” (stopping spread) as the governments of the world insisted, and if the disease had to be curtailed as it was so “deadly”, then the ONLY way out of lockdowns was a medical intervention that claimed to prevent the spread as well as the disease. That is gangster politics: a classic protection racket scam that pressurised the weak willed to cave to the blackmail. No one does that to me!
Yes I’d managed to go from March 2020 to Jan 2021 ( when the jabs were rolled out here ) and not see a single person collapse and face-plant the floor when I was out and about, like on the Chinese videos, so I knew it was all piss and wind.
No but seriously, I knew it was total bunkum from early on. I mean, it came out of China!
I don’t know if the China comment is tongue-in-cheek Mogs (I’m sure it is) but otherwise 100% with you.
Just a reference to the sheer amount of comedy Chinese propaganda we were assaulted with in the early days…and expected to fall for.
I wholly agree with you Near.
Two articles by a truly independent journalist relating to Andrew Bridgen which challenge one’s perspective, raising pertinent questions. They’re best read in the order of posting for context.
https://miriaf.co.uk/heroes-holocausts-and-hijabs/
https://miriaf.co.uk/a-bridgen-too-far/
Thanks for these two interesting links. She makes the pertinent point that Bridgen has not stood as an independent nor allied himself with any of the many who want to open debate on all issues from covid to the Ukraine war.
Instead he has joined with an old Tory mate who is as cocooned from the world and as contemptuous of the electorate – as Bridgen claims he is not.
Bridgen should reflect on the label “Reclaim”: so far it has reclaimed nothing – and looks set to continue so.
I think you should reflect on the wise old saying:- “The Perfect is the Enemy of the Very Good”.
If you are content to wait for an MP who is so saintly that he radiates heavenly light, you will wait for a very long time.
If you note Bridgen’s human frailties and little failings but welcome the fact that at last, one of our Beloved Leaders has had the cojones to put his head above the parapet and speak truth to corrupt and evil power, we might, just might, have the chance to get somewhere.
The criticism of the “….. since the holocaust” comment is an odd one. It specifically excludes the holocaust from the comparison. If someone said; “the Chinese famine in the 60s was the worst event since the holocaust” no would bat an eye lid. The holocaust remains as the single worst event against which other things are measured.
Indeed, it’s curious that other historical atrocities were worse, in terms of numbers killed, yet it’s verboten to compare it to any of them, or even to use it as a reference point to anything since.
I often wonder about how we are conditioned to wall off certain subjects in our minds, as if they’re surrounded by 12 foot tall barbed-wire fences with klaxons and red flashing warning lights and signs saying “Don’t go there”. Somehow we become the prison guards of our own mental jails.
“the ‘Purity Police’ – those on the anti-woke side who have overdosed Red Pills, knocking back a fair few Black Pills in the process, ending up in a position where anything short of the most extreme, most paranoid take renders you a totally cucked shill. “
Yup count me in that category.
The problem with this “debate” between Bridgen and Myers is that all Myers can do is sling insults. He can’t be bothered to address the science based arguments Bridgen puts out there. That makes him worse than a fool, it makes him a disgrace and a coward.
Myers is the enemy, a”totally cucked shill”. He’s on the field aligning himself with drug companies that have lied, killed and maimed millions. F’ him.
I hope spiked goes the way of Budweiser.
Yes, they’ve let me down badly. I’ve long regarded Spiked! as interesting, level-headed libertarian site. I haven’t agreed with them on everything – their republicanism or their pro-abortion stance, for example – but I’ve considered them interesting people and I’ve enjoyed reading their views, which have given me something to think about.
I can genuine say I was shocked when I read Fraser Myers’s article. It was a nasty jump back two years and more the sort of rhetoric I’d come to expect from the left wing mainstream press and the below-the-line comments. I genuinely don’t think I’ve read anything like it on Spiked! before. My immediate reaction was ‘Who’s funding this?’ Even worse, the second Myers article is about him: it’s not analysis. It’s a post-humiliation article that says ‘I got wiped out on GB News, but I insist on having the last word!’
Whether it’s obligations to funders or the frantic desire to still be invited to metropolitan dinner parties, Fraser Myers is the one stuck in a lazy echo chamber shaped ditch. But one that’s filled with many of his equally inflexible, preening and posturing friends I’m sure. Nothing Myers said in that interview had any substance or weight, just sweeping comfort blanket monotonous slurs, scattergun deflection, relentless contradiction and evidence of a true lobotomy where it comes to Covid jabs. As I pointed out in my Spiked comment just before we regrettably cancelled our subscription last week…
‘We have had vaccines for everything up to this point in our lives but we avoided these jabs because they have categorically and demonstrably not been trialled properly. And apart from anything else they don’t work. So our decision to not be pressured or coerced into taking these jabs no more makes us ‘anti-vaxxers’ than it would make you an ‘anti-piller’ if you were worried about a certain pill that had no track record,. burgeoning safety signals and didn’t even work.’
Yes. It would be more to the point if we proudly stated that we genuinely “Anti -experimental, inadequately and fraudulently tested, ineffective and provenly unsafe Gene Therapies. And particularly when jabbed into the little arms of those at zero risk.”
A bit of a mouthful, but I would have hoped that everyone might sign up for that.
But unfortunately, that would be way too radical for 99% of the vicious venal barstewards who have tormented us.
‘Pure blood’ here too. I’m surprised at Myers losing his sh*t so emphatically, even if he is the deputy editor of a website born of the ashes of the publication Marxist Living, which was an offshoot of the Revolutionary Marxist Party. Myers’ latest article is a rant because Bridgen kicked his arse so comprehensively on GB News that he has to have the last word. The fact he says he won’t talk about it again is an admission he’s lost, so he’s throwing out every remaining ‘conspiracy theorist’ and ‘antivaxxer’ ad hominem out there.
Myers started this fight throwing around the sort of rhetoric I’d hoped we’d heard the last of. It reminds me of a time not so long ago when being called an ‘antivaxxer’ could put you at risk of being ostracised, physically assaulted or worse. I had to countenance the (however distant) possibility of going on the run, possibly having to sneak out of the country (to go where?), to try to work out how I could fund a regular financial penalty when my freelance career had been thrown into chaos, to try to sort out care in my absence for my elderly parents, one of whom has a Pfizer vax heart injury.
Truth is, I’m really tired and heartsick now. My Mum’s best friend won’t come to our house anymore – the friend’s husband, who is someone I’ve dined with and cooked for on many occasions, says anyone unvaccinated should be in prison. Another of my Mum’s friends has just had a sixth Pfizer jab and says they’re perfectly fine and anyone who says otherwise is a liar. Our hairdresser’s sister died in agony from blood clots after her second Pfizer jab, a family friend we loved, who had no history of heart trouble, died of a heart attack where his heart was jammed up with blood clots.
I feel like I live with a shadow over my head now. I’m likely on lists as a potential troublemaker for my kicking 77th Brigade trolls’ arses on the Telegraph website in the comments section and I ignored all overtures to have the various jabs. I’ve had all remaining trust in the people around me and our institutions shattered.
Candace Owens did a piece about being ‘black pilled’ on Daily Wire. She said she and her husband (George Farmer, the new CEO of Parler and the son of Baron Farmer of Bishopsgate) had been so optimistic a few years ago and, now they have children, they often just want to go somewhere far away and live a quiet life blocking of what passes for ‘civilisation’. I feel the same way. I’m profoundly disappointed in friends and neighbours, I’m disgusted at the British public being so easily manipulated and becoming so judgemental, and generally I’m terrified for the future of the Western world. As I look at half a millennium of incredible intellectual, scientific, literary, health and domestic progress having been shoved down the drain, I think of places like Skellig Michael where civilisation survived (as Kenneth Clark said) by the skin of its teeth. Where can we and our families ride out this new globalist techno-feudal dark age?
You´re very lucky to be able to tangle with Ellwood´s 77th at the Telegraph.
Try similar dissent over the Ukraine and you are rapidly shadowbanned, as I have been.
The Telegraph is as intolerant of dissenting views on the Ukraine as the BBC is of dissenting views on gender-bending, wokery, free speech, well anything really in the case of the BBC.
But I had expected better from the Telegraph.
Hi Dom,
In 2019 I bought a farm in Wales. It started looking quite clever by 2020 when the madness began. I was anticipating a financial crash and wanted to lay low and work on self sufficiency to ride out the coming economic storm. I have my own water and power source as well as food.
Increasingly I’m not so sure that this is going to work. I’m seriously considering searching for an escape hatch beyond this one. The Western world as you say, looks increasingly hopeless for anyone not wishing or able to play a part in the corrupt class happy to destroy our society, and economy.
I am currently looking to a few places in the Middle East. I’m looking at countries that are too low tech and weakly run to avoid the panjandrums that will probably tax and regulate me out of a self sufficient life.
Middle East?
Wow. You seem to be a glutton for punishment. Probably the last place I’d consider but Hey! Good luck to you.
The lunatics are the ones who think that the Covid Jabs are safe and effective. In fact anyone in the media who says this is probably a psychopath.
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I have been a doctor for nearly 40 years.
For the last 3 years I have trawled through research and data on Covid and the jabs.
I believe my decision against taking the transfection agents was based on sound scientific evidence.
I also strongly believe that the vast majority of medical professionals who took the jabs did this because they were pressured or advised to by corrupted public health officials. I am also aware that most doctors did zero research into the “vaccines”.
Fraser Myers is not a doctor.
I would not deign to write an opinion piece on the existence of black holes.
Why Myers feels he has any credibility in writing on a subject so completely beyond his comprehension, then throwing in the moronic “anti-vaxxer” insult is completely beyond me.
Beyond me too, but from the same playbook as calling genuine scientists (or ordinary folk with a bit of common sense) “Climate Deniers”.
Or calling coal trains “Death Trains”, for that matter.
The ‘anti-vax’ slur aside, he is right, and I have made this point myself many times.”
I’d like to see the representative survey of “anti-vaxxers” where Fraser Myers and Nick Dixon discovered that this is how “anti-vaxxers” think. I didn’t know that any representative sample of “anti-vaxxers” had been surveyed. Or do Fraser Myers and Nick Dixon think that all “anti-vaxxers” think the same, therefore they only need to know the views of a few to know how all the rest think?
Personally, I don’t regard my choice to be unvaccinated as anything to do with original thinking, quite the opposite, it’s good old-fashioned thinking.
Unfortunately, there is a mind set that has been engrained in most people who have had a university education. And Fraser Myers appears to be a prime example. Unable to comprehend the fact that modern, 21st century medicine is not fit for purpose. Iatrogenic harm is the third leading cause of death and illness in the USA. People are so brainwashed by men in white coats that they trust everything they are told no matter if the evidence suggests otherwise. The last thing they will do is question the science. Myers is simply parroting what he believes without a hint of cynicism.
Myers is a “useful idiot” – out there doing the spadework. If nothing else he is a distraction that Bridgen must find a way of avoiding.
Please, please stop referring to yourself as a ‘pureblood’. It’s childish and silly and gives an ‘easy win’ to anyone who would like to criticise us. Your blood (and my blood) is no more ‘pure’ than anyone else’s!
Over at Spiked at the moment is the “Final Word” on this subject by Fraser Myers.
I’ve read the article but frankly if anyone says that AB “compared the vaccine rollout to the Holocaust” they are not on the same team as me. HE DID NOT COMPARE THE VACCINE ROLLOUTS TO THE HOLOCAUST. He re-tweeted a comment which said the vaccine rollout is the worst crime against humanity SINCE the Holocaust. With apologies to Christians here but – J—s F-ing C—t! Has the world gone completely mad? Don’t answer that.
I was subscribed to Spiked until they stated that the 2020 US elections were fair. I then realised they were elite stooges and I unsuscribed immediately. Their Bridgen attack now proves I was right.
I agree with you re the 2020 US elections, and cancelled my subscription to The Spectator because it is so dismissive of any argument that the 2020 election was illegitimate.
Steve Kirk’s Substack article, link below, illustrates how difficult it is to change people’s belief system despite the evidence presented to them.
“When I asked her, Professor Dorit Reiss was unable to locate a credible objective US study showing that ANY vaccine in America is safe to use. In short, the “vaccines are safe” narrative is built on faith in seriously flawed studies. It’s turtles all the way down”.
Fraser Myers should be similarly challenged.
https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/my-failed-attempts-to-red-pill-dorit?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android
Another layer to the cult of vaccine effectiveness worth listening to is Spartacus’s latest.
https://open.substack.com/pub/iceni/p/spartacast-09?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android
Seems to me the person here that “needs to wake up and face reality” is Myers. He couldn’t answer ONE of Andrew Bridgen’s questions. The “piece de resistance” was “we should have a debate about the weekly excess deaths but we wouldn’t find they are caused by the vaccine” how the f does he know? His arrogance knows no bounds.
Myers should certainly drop the anti-vaxxer slur – which is ridiculous since Bridgen had two jabs of the AstraZeneca Clot-Shot, before the dangers became known and the Government restricted it to (firstly) over 30s and then over 40s.
You cannot be an anti-vaxxer if you agreed to have a product marketed as a vaccine, although it was really an experimental gene therapy, injected into you.
However, Bridgen is not wrong to raise the issue of Spiked’s funding. “Follow the money” has a very useful and enlightening history when it comes to identifying the reasons why certain organisations and/or people say or do things.
And we know, for instance, that Gates was providing a great deal of funding to the MSM in order to get the propaganda the Plandemic Godfathers’ wanted.
If by anti-vaxxer Myers means anti-untested-novel gene therapy then I am definitely an antivaxxer. I am not necessarily anti all vaccines, especially well tested and tried ones, but the last 3 years has made me wary of these as well.
I watched the debate and you are right – this Fraser guy is so anal and so repetitive with his insults I immediately sided with Bridgen. I had to look up Fraser on the internet and he’s a fringe journalist who clearly has a chip (would that be a dollar?) in his back pocket. Rumours re Pfeizer aside, his persistent defence of the vaccine is too obvious, too blatantly rehearsed!!! To watch that in Gb News and being endorsed by Doyle tells me something sinister and devious. In 2023, after all the revelations in the last year, confessions by Pfeizer, by the EU official, by Dr John Campbell, by excess death stats, and we have someone on GBN defending Pfeizer and co?
This is Hart Group’s response to Fraser Myers: https://www.hartgroup.org/blunted/