Walker’s video has gone viral at a time when anti-vaxxers are trying to gin up the narrative that pilots are leaving their jobs en masse in order to protest the vaccine mandate. On Sunday evening, for instance, after Southwest Airlines announced it would be cancelling more than a quarter of its flights due to an “operational meltdown,” a rumor circulated among those on the far right that the cancellation was due to “sickouts,” or workers using sick leave to stay home to protest the mandate.
There is no evidence that pilots are orchestrating a “sickout” in response to vaccine mandates. The FAA has issued a statement saying that bad weather conditions, in combination with staffing shortages in a Jacksonville control center due to Covid, are the reason behind the cancelations.
I'm sure that this reasoning is just as correct as this asshat's spelling of "cancellations".
There are a lot of them. I've got a couple of Boomer parents who just can't accept that the society they inherited, the one they spent their entire working lives contributing to, was a transient thing, a brief interlude of peace and prosperity in between reversion to the reality of human nature, and that it's well and truly over now.
People keep their heads firmly buried in the sand rather than acknowledge that the governments and institutions they've spent their lives trusting have been politicized beyond recognition and corrupted beyond salvaging.
My parents ignored me for my entire school career as I tried to tell them what was wrong.
As I grew up I started to think that maybe the problem was my inability to articulate the problem. But no, the more articulate I became, the less coherent they became, until they completely degraded into nonsense.
The Boomers didn't just let this happen, they complied to maintain their high standard of living. I have little to no sympathy for all the fools who thought their money would care for them in their old age, who died in retirement homes due to negligence from people who aren't even related to them.
tl/dr: Southwest relies on pilots working overtime to make its schedule. Mandate news dampened enthusiasm, pilots stopped jumping for the time and a half, and cascade of problems ensued.
I'm sure that this reasoning is just as correct as this asshat's spelling of "cancellations".
The propaganda has been so blatant for the past decade that now people who see it don't read it and the ones who do read it just want to believe.
There are a lot of them. I've got a couple of Boomer parents who just can't accept that the society they inherited, the one they spent their entire working lives contributing to, was a transient thing, a brief interlude of peace and prosperity in between reversion to the reality of human nature, and that it's well and truly over now.
People keep their heads firmly buried in the sand rather than acknowledge that the governments and institutions they've spent their lives trusting have been politicized beyond recognition and corrupted beyond salvaging.
My parents ignored me for my entire school career as I tried to tell them what was wrong.
As I grew up I started to think that maybe the problem was my inability to articulate the problem. But no, the more articulate I became, the less coherent they became, until they completely degraded into nonsense.
The Boomers didn't just let this happen, they complied to maintain their high standard of living. I have little to no sympathy for all the fools who thought their money would care for them in their old age, who died in retirement homes due to negligence from people who aren't even related to them.
So true. I see this with my parents, who still think it is the 1950s.
I called it. I knew they would try to blame this on COVID itself.
Kinda makes sense if you look at it like "Big Covid" - same as Big Pharma, Big Oil, etc it all leads to the same people.
A sort of middle ground explanation:
https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/11/a-southwest-pilot-explains-what-happened-over-the-weekend/
tl/dr: Southwest relies on pilots working overtime to make its schedule. Mandate news dampened enthusiasm, pilots stopped jumping for the time and a half, and cascade of problems ensued.