Just posted this on patriots.win but wanted this forms input too. I’m a healthcare worker in NY who’s the process of moving to MT due to the unconstitutional vax mandates. I thought I’d be safe out in MT due to the law banning discriminatory vax mandates. But a prospective employer just emailed me asking if I was planning to relocate due to vax mandate as she believes that hospitals will soon receive the same mandate as nursing homes. I googled more info regarding what she was talking about and apparently the fed govt. mandated nursing home employees to get the jab in MT. I know a fed mandate does not supersede state law but I don’t know enough about the political landscape in MT to make an informed decision regarding relocation. Nor can I rely on Google searches for accurate info. So, MT Pedes what are your honest thoughts? Are your politicians based? Will this drastic move made to preserve my rights be in vein? At least, I’m sure MT offers religious exemptions (NY does not), is that correct? Thanks in advanced! Also, here’s a link w some info regarding the nursing home mandate https://www.kulr8.com/news/president-biden-requires-covid-vaccines-for-nursing-home-staff/article_1755f290-0086-11ec-a5ac-97599e5aaf24.html
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I'm an RN in MT. No pressure or even suggestion to get the poison. We do wear masks. I'm okay with it. (Only bc it makes many Pts feel less vulnerable. )
Utah, Wyoming and SC are also enacting the same legislation. Utah passed theirs a week ago.
Thank you, love hearing this… just was concerning to have a potential employer say those things.. concerned that I’ll just have to move again.
I hope some with more knowledge than me answer your questions, good luck.
Thanks, pede
Not MT but a major healthcare system in South Dakota just stated all healthcare workers at their facilities would need to get the jab to remain employed with them. I think the deadline was Dec 1.
I live here in MT (hence the username lol). The whole federal/state thing would turn into a giant pissing match between the state and the feds. Right now things are pretty in our favor and I don't see the state backing down. Gianforte (governor) is pretty based but I'd say that Knudsen (state AG) is even more so. Sen. Daines isn't a RINO but he's not really pushing anything either, more just holding status quo. Sen. Tester is a full-blown commie. We're getting another federal House seat pretty soon too and so shit is flying between how that's going to be districted and who's going to have the most say.
That being said, I'd say it also depends where you're moving in the state. Places like Bozeman and Missoula might as well be next door to San Francisco with their crazy local liberal governments. They're trying to work on all sorts of ways right now to challenge the no vax/mask mandates that got signed into law. Feel free to send me a DM if you want more info about what part of the state you're looking at moving to and want to keep it private. Lots of housing issues right now because of all the people moving here. Might be able to get you more info.
Thanks so much, will send a DM!
MT.gov.
Governor Gianforte https://governor.mt.gov/executive-orders Check out Glasgow MT
Will do ty
MT House Bill 702 prohibits discrimination based on a person's vax status. This includes employment. leg.mt.gov/bills/2021/bilpdf/HB0702.pdf
I remember watching a couple YT vids made by a realtor in Montana, trying to discourage folks from other states moving to MT...depending upon the location. Can't find the vids in my history. Remote locations without services, brutal winters with possible issues of roads being blocked by snow and not being plowed regularly, being stranded with no help on rural roads, locals not wanting values being transplanted into their state from elsewhere (and not being very friendly as a result), etc., etc.
They're not wrong. It does depend on where you're at but we're basically the Alaska of the Lower 48. People don't understand that and move here thinking that it just means there's less Applebees or whatever. Then they end up going for a walk in a chinook and freezing to death when the temperature drops 70 degrees in 15 minutes. Or they end up getting eaten by a grizzly because they go camping with soap in their tent. Or they just go for a hike, break a leg, and starve to death in the woods because there's no cell service and no one passing by the same area for weeks at a time.
We've got less Internet access per capita than Alaska and the highest rate of highway deaths. Huge rates of alcoholism, suicide, divorce is off the charts. Lots of drug problems. Winter lasts 7 months and from November to March you go to work in the dark and go home in the dark. You can go two or three months where it never gets above 25 degrees or so and there's only two or three sunny days. And yeah, if you go even 15 minutes outside of a "major" city then there's certain places where people live and commute daily from that you can only access by snowmobile and only have generator power.
All that said though I wouldn't ever want to live anywhere else...well, maybe Alaska. But it does take a certain type.
Wow, that's a real eye-opener to hear it from a MT native!
Stay away from the reservations
MT peeps really on themselves and good neighbors, not the government to rescue you.
Looks like you’re here too? I mean that’s half the reason people are so nice to each other up here. If someone’s living in a town of 1,000 people and being a dick, then wait til they have their car break down on the side of the road in a blizzard when it’s -20°. Might have a lot of people roll on by and just wave…
Instead you learn to help your neighbors whenever you can but in the end be able to handle your own problems. No one else going to be there to save you from your own stupid.
Yes. It's true. The saying around here is if you're a dickhead, no one will come running to help if your house is on fire.
I spent years there live next door and work there all the time.its not as great as everyone here that has never been there makes it out to be and the west side is turning into a California with really really crappy weather.