How an Unvaxed Postal Worker
Skipped the Jab and Kept his Job
Skipped the Jab and Kept his Job
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
I met Michael Mafilovski last winter, when we went for a hike with my son...
Michael refused the jab and, as a Canadian Postal worker, was told he'd be laid off without severance for his dissidence. At the time, I was helping Michael connect with local farmers, so he'd have a backup source of income. As it happens, he never ended up having to shovel pig manure. He wrote me this week to say:
Yes, I'm still with Canada Post. I never lost a day of work actually. My tactic was to exhaust all my options. So when I was denied my religious exemption, I requested a medical exemption, knowing full well that that was not going to get me anywhere — except to buy me some more time. When that was denied (simply because I did not return any filled out forms before the deadline), I requested a human rights exemption. I re-wrote my religious letter for that request, kinda reworded some paragraphs and prefaced it with the preamble of the Canadian Human Rights Act... and.. denied again!
This whole stress-filled fiasco took me right into late June, when — ta-daa! — the Feds announced that they would be suspending their jab mandates for federal employees.
This whole stress-filled fiasco took me right into late June, when — ta-daa! — the Feds announced that they would be suspending their jab mandates for federal employees.
So he beat the bureaucrats at their own game — pushing paper around until the tyranny blew over.
On an even more cheerful note (for me at least), Michael concluded his email by sharing:
BTW, I purchased your novel from Pfenning's Organic... a real page-turner for sure. I could have finished it in one week, but I chose to savour it and spread out my readings slowly so that it took me about three weeks... It was disappointing to get to the end of the book because I wanted it to keep on going!
And the villain of the story, Constable Justin T. Mackenzie, also won Michael's praise:
Quite the complex character, I liked how you fleshed out his background, with *** **** ****** ** *****, and how that solidified his draconian stance on the whole public health narrative. His breaking point on page 316/317 had my heart rate up... Such a great dramatic climax!
Few things make me happier than to hear how a brave person like Michael Mafilovski really understood, appreciated and enjoyed Much Ado About Corona.
—John C. A. Manley
PS Christmas is only a few months away. Why not order multiple copies of Much Ado About Corona as gifts to wake up friends and family on Christmas morn'? You can order copies here.
PPS Michael, and 300 other postal workers, have founded a group called Posties for Freedom and have launched a lawsuit against Canada Post. If you're a postal worker, you may like to join.
John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story, the forthcoming All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of speculative fiction. Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber at: https://blazingpinecone.com/subscribe/
