COVID Payday

A federal jury of all things, in lib-tarded San Francisco:

• A federal jury has sided with fired BART workers who sued the agency claiming they lost their jobs over a COVID vaccine mandate.

  There are six of them total in the lawsuit and each will receive more than $1 million.

  The employees claimed religious exemptions to the vaccine mandate but say they were not accommodated by the transit agency, and subsequently lost their job.

  BART did initially grant vaccine exemptions, but the plaintiffs argued they weren't accommodated. An accommodation could have meant that they were able to work from home or get COVID tested regularly for COVID. They argued none of that happened and they lost their job.

Groot lucked out here. A sharp-eyed cop noted that the CPD was denying religious exemptions to Officers at something like a 75-to-90% rate while other city departments were granted everything under the sun. He publicized it and made a stink and it all ground to a crawl before dying out.

We know we could have used a million bucks, though waiting for four years would have made it very difficult to maintain our current lifestyle. Perhaps those who resigned or retired under pressure could have some sort of recourse? A few hundred cops being compensated for Groot's dictatorial power grab would be amusing at the very least.