After Delta Airlines told its employees they would get charged $2,400/year if they didn't get the free vaccine, they had... wait for it... zero people quit over the policy. Instead 4,000 more of their workers chose to get vaccinated. People are all talk. Mandates work.

Speaking of whackos against mandates… what ever happened to that guy who led the Norwalk Connecticut group Citizens Coalition Against a Mandatory Seat Belt Law? I looked up where he is today and… OMG

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@arlenparsa Currently there are approximately 38,000 fatalities per year, including 650 children, and the entire nation, without exception, is required to to this. In 1983 there were 39,000.

@lessbarb The US Dept of Transportation says the 1983 number was 42,589. But even if they were exactly the same number it would still represent a huge decline because US population is now much larger than it was in 1983 (by 95 million people).

@arlenparsa Yep....wearing a seatbelt is EXACTLY like getting a vaccine when one has already had covid but whatever....

@arlenparsa @hbdchick Giving in to tyranny doesn't make it not tyranny

@Move2TheCenter The state I grew up in

@arlenparsa Thanks for posting this. The difference is the people trying to get elected were 3rd party people that had no chance of winning not sitting Governors, Congressman and legislators from one of the two major parties.

@arlenparsa FYI I did the math and even if no one in all of New Hampshire (the only state not requiring for you readers) wore one it wouldn’t make an impact, they’re about half a percent of the US population.

@arlenparsa It blows my mind so few people used seat belts in my life time. Also if you want a laugh some time ask a boomer what kind of car seat they had for their kid. One told me once he built a homemade one out of a wicker basket.

@arlenparsa The difference here, is that because covid is passed around, and car accidents are not transmittable, we do not have time to wait for the naysayers to be ridiculous. And-of course they compared seatbelts to the Holocaust. Good grief. History was not their strong suit then either

@arlenparsa The difference is there wasn't right wing media lying to them 24/7

@arlenparsa @questauthority First it’s seat belts, next it’s full on communism.

@arlenparsa @questauthority It seems almost like something out of the Onion today.

@arlenparsa @LSKazalski This time we can't afford to wait 40 years to see if vaccine-refusers eventually come to their senses, though.

@arlenparsa I remember all the kids fighting against the one lady in our car pool who tried to make us buckle up in ‘85. By the time I started driving in ‘89, everyone in my high school wore seat belts without being asked.

@arlenparsa I’m old enough to remember when you could smoke on planes in certain rows, as if the second-hand smoke knew which row to stop at. But those damn regulations against people killing their fellow citizens finally put an end to that.