Former “Deadwood” actor Brent Sexton is suing Apple Studios, alleging the company rescinded an offer to have him star in a new series because he declined to take the coronavirus vaccine due to medical reasons, costing him nearly $600,000.
MSN:
Sexton’s Los Angeles Superior Court disability discrimination suit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
Apple corporate and retail store employees were not required to be vaccinated against the coronavirus if they underwent required testing, but Apple Studios “trampled the rights” of those who worked for the Los Angeles- based subsidiary that produces content for Apple’s new streaming service, Apple TV+, the suit states. Anyone who worked on an Apple TV+ production was required to get the shot and submit proof, the suit states.
Sexton believes the subsidiary “bowed to pressure from the entertainment industry, one of the most aggressive proponents of universal COVID vaccination,” according to the suit…
Apple offered him a deal worth nearly $600,000 and incentives with a seven-episode minimum, the suit states. But after accepting the deal, Sexton was told he would have to comply with the vaccination policy despite its potential negative impact on his longtime medical problem of a platelet deficiency, the suit states. He requested an accommodation for regular coronavirus testing and included a note from his doctor in support, the suit adds.
Apple allegedly did not question the legitimacy of Sexton’s request, but denied his accommodation request within 48 hours and withdrew the job offer.
MacDailyNews Take: The fallout from the idiocy of the various and sundry COVID responses, most of them ludicrously overblown and hysterical, will continue to reverberate for years.
COVID-19 is here to stay. It will very likely become endemic, yet pose less danger over time. People will acquire immunity via vaccines (effectiveness TDB) and naturally as they contract and recover from variants like omicron since the partially-effective vaccines permit not only transmissibility, but also breakthrough infections. Influenza and the four human coronaviruses that cause common colds (OC43, 229E, NL63 and HKU1) are, of course, also endemic, but a combination of annual flu vaccines and acquired immunity means that sane societies tolerate the unavoidable seasonal deaths and illnesses they bring without requiring lockdowns, masks, social distancing, indefinite return-to-work delays, etc.
At which point, if ever, will some people decide that wasting away their short lives in abject fear of a bad flu, very likely engineered by China and partially funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is a hysterical self-defeating overreaction? – MacDailyNews, December 16, 2021
The COVID-19 data is clear: Stop the panic and end the total isolation… A severe economic disruption will very likely provoke the immeasurable costs of widespread unemployment, social isolation, and increased mental health issues, suicide rates, bankruptcies, civil unrest, crime, and war. – MacDailyNews, April 23, 2020
There are any number of countries where, prior to this ongoing COVID-19 collective behavior experiment, we could have imagined a compliant population capitulating to the random, illogical, and ever-changing whims of so-called “experts” and ignoramus politicians – actually allowing themselves to be quarantined, locked-down, restricted, put out of business, deprived of family and friends, tagged and tracked, digitally and otherwise, but not America. Obviously, we were wrong.
“The land of the free and the home of the brave?” Pfft. Seemingly just empty words today.
Yes, COVID-19 is real. Yes, COVID-19 is a contagious disease. Yes, COVID-19 can kill, especially those with underlying conditions who should be protected as best as possible. However, the reaction to COVID-19 has clearly been blown out of all proportion and the ramifications of such overreaction will be long-lasting and difficult, if not impossible, to overcome.
Those who have lived through this period (in other words, the vast majority of people) and who are still capable of rational thought, will understand implicitly how easily fear and bad data, especially as amplified, massaged, and repeated ad nauseam via mass and social media, can be used to control even so-called “free” people who, it seems, will cede their freedoms en masse with nary a bleat. – MacDailyNews, December 28, 2020
And you thought sheep were herdable animals. – MacDailyNews, March 9, 2020
The real virus is the panic. – MacDailyNews, March 9, 2020
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Not only was the reaction overblown, the data have been falsely massaged with fraudulent testing to drive that reaction. So the so-called “reality” of COVID-19 is also questionable as to what it really is… as in is all COVID-19 really COVID-19?
food for thought: exactly! kind of makes you wonder if the same people who faked the moon landing were in charge of all this covid hullabaloo…
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And FfT’s post is downgraded by 50% (at this point). Good gracious, some hang on to matters of belief long after truth has be CLEARLY revealed. “Russian collusion of 2016+” remains truth for those as well, I bet.
private company, private rules.
Is a restaurant a private company? It must be. Therefore, it can exclude black people, by your logic. Or white people. Or Christians.
I don’t mind people making their own choices, but if you don’t want to get vaccinated say so. Take a real stand in your convictions. Don’t claim it’s for “medical reasons”.
We were told if you took the vaccine you wouldn’t get Covid.
We were told if you took the vaccine you wouldn’t infect others.
We were also told you had to get the vaccine to better survive Covid.
We were also told if were didn’t get the vaccine you could infect people who did.
The first three are lies…
F••k your rights wasn’t it? Appalling how quickly those in charge trampled on the rights of society at large through fear and threats to a virus that wasn’t all that serious to most.
99.6% survival rate for COVID never merited the economic destruction; human rights devastation and misery generated by the deep state fake panic created to decapitate the up-to-then very successful DJT presidency. Many in-hospital and retirement home residents were needlessly killed while they helplessly tried to be compliant.
The same people who told the 100% pure lies about the vaccine preventing COVID, preventing transmission and being 100% safe and effective, also told these whopper lies
the world will end by 2010 (now 203) if we don’t stop using fossil fuels
electric cars and electric homes are “zero emission”
white people are all racist
black people cannot be racist
men can transform themselves into women
humanity was produced via evolution from microbe sludge
no Creator created Creation
Democrats are tolerant
Russia stole the 2016 election
So, everything these people say is a lie. Everything these people say is intended to ruin good things. Democrats are not democrats, they are communist lying thugs. They need to be isolated and kept away from sharp objects and any form of power. They are deadly to all that is good.
You can’t blame snakes for being snakes, but people that blindly follow those snakes are what gave them the power to hold us hostage to the fear and lies. Even if those people don’t want to admit they got fooled, I just hope they wake up and realize it.
I hope Sexton wins his lawsuit. More likely, the parties will come to an accomodation with a requirement that the details are sealed – to save Apple from having to try to defend such a depraved position.