The world is, as it always has been, chaotic. Right now, the direction of the civil government of the United States is, at best, uncertain. While secular government is a good institution given to us by God, there are times when individual governments go beyond the bounds of protecting the people and maintaining order. At what point do we as Christians judge it suitable to to refuse to obey unjust laws or engage in outright resistance against a bad government?
I find it difficult to even settle on a firm definition of "bad government." Even in the worst regimes, murderers and thieves were still punished, admittedly often not as effectively under subjectively better governments, but the force of law for the common good was still in effect to some extent.
A genocidal regime, for example, would easily be classified as bad, and it would be right to refuse to comply with laws that facilitated murder, but would noncompliance be the only option, or would it be morally appropriate to engage in the active, violent dismantlement of the political structure for the purpose of facilitating change?
War has long been accepted as a sometimes necessary, though not morally good, means of securing the safety of a people or the removal of a great evil. The Israelites engaged in many wars against the Canaanite tribes during the settlement of Israel, and God also used warfare as his instrument prior to sending Israelites into exile.
What is the breaking point after which it is acceptable for citizens to declare war against their own government? Peaceful, more democratic options are certainly preferable to open warfare, but truly tyrannical governments cannot be dismantled by voting, as by that point the corruption would undoubtedly be so deeply embedded in the existing structure that votes would be utterly meaningless. To the best of my ability to articulate, the point of no return would be when the government is more inclined to perform evil deeds than enforce morally good law, and any morally good laws are used as weapons against opponents or solely as means to maintain order and cement their own power.
I was so hopeful when they implemented the federal mandate for healthcare workers that work in Medicare/Medicaid facilities (like my hospital). All I’ve heard during this pandemic is how terrible vaccines are and how all the nurses want to leave if it becomes mandated by the hospital and the federal mandate gave me hope that finally they couldn’t keep complaining. Except now it’s been blocked and of course our governor (DeSantis) always has something to say.
I had a talk with a travel nurse a couple of weeks ago about how he liked working here and wanted to extend his contract but not if the vaccine would be mandated and if it was mandated he would just quit working as a nurse.
The fear and anti vax rhetoric in the clinical setting and in this state is SO difficult to deal with and I have to hear about it at work constantly.
Rant over; I’m just tired of how politicized everything is.
I recently had a long discussion with a tankie claiming China's WTO non-compliance is actually compliance. Here is the WTO's commitment portal. You can search by commitment and compare it to reality. Post your findings below. Select China and "show commitment paragraphs only".
Portal:
http://acdb.wto.org/tabs.aspx
Source documents:
https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/a1_chine_e.htm
Edit: I don't have any prizes lined up, so I'm open to ideas. Maybe Lithuanian Rum?
As the deadline approaches for getting the shot, I'm wondering what will actually happen to some of these people that are refusing. I know there are disciplinary steps outlined on the safer federal workforce site, but I'm not sure about how those steps will be applied across the spectrum.
A) In the case of tenured/career employees, if they still refuse after counseling and suspension, are they going to be terminated or put on indefinite leave?
B) For probationary/NTE/Temp employees, are they even going to bother with the counseling etc? Won't they just be let go pretty much immediately?
And for both groups, if people ultimately decide to get vaccinated after being let go, will they be eligible for federal service ever again?
I feel like this information would help convince people to reconsider their positions.
One of my classes is legit gonna give me covid, y'all.
I don't know the instructor very well, but he seems nice and wears his mask diligently.
However, my classmates horrify me. At least 1/4th of them wear their masks under their noses. And one guy legit won't wear his at all.
The instructor hasn't said anything about it. I'm hoping he's just conflict avoidant.
That said, I am definitely conflict avoidant, and I have no idea how to deal with this.
Do I email my instructor directly and politely ask him to be more strict? Do I contact a third party so that I don't have to get directly involved? Do I just keep silently seething while they breathe on me?
Advice is appreciated.
Hear me out please. I acknowledge I am painting with broad strokes. I know you guys have studied humans and diseases for a while so I came here to ask: can bad CHF actually worsen difficult behavior?
15 years as a nurse, 2 years now on a CHF floor, and man oh man, I saw more outrageous, jaw on the floor, “just can’t believe this” situations in my first month here than I did over a whole decade prior.
Before this floor, I had seen enough non-compliance that it didn’t really bother me. The patients that were simply not going to take care of themselves. The patients who just wanted pain medicine. We all do our best.
But now many of these < 15% EF patients aren’t interested in any of that. They don’t really want pain medicine. They don’t want to get better. It seems…they just want someone to fight with. The moment they can breath they demand gallons of water. The moment they wake up they refuse bipap. The moment they are clear for discharge they refuse to leave, claiming stroke symptoms or suicidal ideation. Before they are safe to stand they are threatening AMA.
At first, I thought their obstinate behavior is what caused their CHF. But I quickly began to wonder if I was getting things out of order.
I’m a former flex pool nurse, and I’ve worked on every adult floor in the hospital. And I’m telling you, more than any dialysis patient, more than any gang affiliated gunshot victim, CHF patients take “difficult” to a whole new level.
So what do you think of my hypothesis: CHF negatively affects patients decision making abilities, and is actually the cause of their non-compliant behavior.
I was supposed to get COVID tested yesterday but forgot. I have a new test scheduled for later today. Is it safe for me to leave my dorm, or are they going to deactivate my husky card? I know this is a dumb question lol I'm just paranoid
Basically, I'd like to have Intune send my users several push notifications on a schedule before I force their hand to update their devices in order to keep access to company resources.
Here's my proposed schedule:
- patch day (day 0)
- give users 7 days to take action
- on day 7, send push notification
- on day 14, send push notification
- on day 20, send push notification
- on day 21, device becomes non-compliant and all access to company resources on iOS devices gets blocked (conditional access policy kicks in here, which requires a compliant device)
Intune's wording for actions for noncompliance, aka, "Schedule (days after noncompliance)" is a little confusing. Can I set "mark device noncompliant" to 21 days and send push notifications at 0/7/14/20 days? Or does that mean my push notifications are only going to go out after the 21 days have elapsed?
How do you handle this in your environments? For context, the company owns all of the devices, but a user can take the device with them if/when they leave the company (so basically BYOD, we don't have ABM/supervision, yet). I'm all ears if there's a better way.
