Lawsuit Over Hollywood’s COVID Vaccine Mandates Going To Trial
COVID vaccine mandates were one of history's most inexcusable policies. Not just for the attempt to compel individual behavior, but because of the blind faith and trust in "experts" required to create and enforce such policies. And for just how long they persisted after any reasonable justification had dissipated.
There never was any evidence that COVID vaccines slowed or stopped infections or transmission, despite "expert" assurances, but as 2021 progressed, it became almost immediately obvious that those assumptions were completely inaccurate. CDC studies confirmed that vaccinated populations were easily getting and spreading COVID, leading to a change in already laughable mask guidance.
Dr. Fauci, Rochelle Walensky and many others made clear predictions of what would happen once enough people got vaccinated. Predictions that were immediately disproven. Yet vaccine mandates persisted and continued regardless, as decision makers, organizations and administrators rushed to show how committed they were to "safety" and "science." While ignoring science and making decisions that would have no impact on safety whatsoever.
In the ensuing years, there's been some push to hold those decision makers accountable for their mistakes, often malicious actions and refusal to accept reality. And one of the worst industries with regards to compelled behavior is about to get its stiffest test yet.
HOLLYWOOD - Aisha Hinds, Kenneth Choi, Ryan Guzman and Rockmond Dunbar at PaleyFest 2019 - Fox's "9-1-1" panel at the Dolby Theatre on March 17, 2019. (Photo by Scott Kirkland/Fox/PictureGroup/Sipa USA)
Star Of ‘9-1-1’ Television Series Going To Trial Over Vaccine Mandate
Rockmond Dunbar appeared in 69 episodes of the television series 9-1-1 from 2018-2021, before being fired from the show after refusing to take a COVID vaccine. Dunbar had applied for a religious exemption as a follower of the "Church of Universal Wisdom," which was, naturally, denied.
Dunbar then filed a lawsuit, alleging that he had been discriminated against for the studio's refusal to grant his exemption. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled that Dunbar may, in fact, have been discriminated against, meaning his suit will go forward to trial. That trial will determine if his exemption denial was covered under civil rights law, as well as, importantly, there could have been accommodations offered that would have let him resume acting on the show without "endangering others," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
While trials are notoriously hard to predict, it's hard to imagine a compelling argument that Dunbar could have easily continued acting without "endangering others" because COVID vaccines never provided any protection to others.
And in some populations, may have actually caused more harm than good.
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Courts Have A Mixed Track Record With Accurate COVID Information
As covered in the Hollywood Reporter, the track record of lawsuits against vaccine mandates in Hollywood is mixed. Judges, often still committed to COVID misinformation, have sometimes ruled against unvaccinated actors' claims that they did not endanger coworkers, saying that close, unmasked contact with unvaccinated individuals presented a clear danger.
Making those assertions, years after being conclusively disproven, shows how far society has to go before acknowledging and accepting reality. Some actors or crew members have had success getting judgments against Hollywood studios for denying their religious exemptions, but until judges are willing to admit that COVID vaccines never provided any remote external benefit, these types of cases will always be up in the air.
Dunbar's suit provides another opportunity for a trial to result in the truth actually being told. But after years of lies, misrepresentations and rampant inaccuracies proliferating through the media and left-wing industries, that's an uphill battle to fight.