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December 16, 2021

Another Fake Story in the News?

Timothy Birdnow

I call bullshit on this.

k]Kentucky candle factory staff with more than 100 workers on shift 'would have been FIRED if they'd left as tornado bore down' leaving eight dead and ten missing

First, what would a British newspaper know about what happened in Kentucky?

They are getting this from one or two sources reported by the notoriously liberal NBC.

I would add Kentucky is a Right-to-Work state and the press hates them for it. This strikes me as a tool to bludgeon Kentucky into repealing RTW.

Workers may well have asked to leave well before the storms hit. There was no reason to believe this particular town would get slammed so hard. Notice they did not say this happened within minutes of the storm coming. These employees probably wanted the whole night off based on forecasts.

I don't know any employer who would refuse shelter to employees during a tornado.

The article states:

'You can't leave. You can't leave. You have to stay here,' Conder said managers told her. 'The situation was bad. Everyone was uncomfortable.'

Mark Saxton, 37, who drives a forklift said he was given no option to leave.

'That's the thing. We should have been able to leave. The first warning came, and they just had us go in the hallway. After the warning, they had us go back to work. They never offered us to go home.

'It hurts, 'cause I feel like we were neglected,' he added.

So, if a tornado was coming would it be a good idea to let employees go out into it?

This article strikes me as having ulterior motives.

The company denies this, I might add.

And who is going to obey such an order if they fear for their lives? Jobs are plentiful right now and nobody is going to risk dying for a crappy job in a candle factory.

I do not believe this story for a minute.

Almost all the news we get these days is fake.

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Apparently this is true. It's also on Fox News, here: https://www.foxnews.com/us/kentucky-tornado-mayfield-candle-factory-lawsuit-deaths

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 12:40 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 I think you're probably right. I'll let you know if I see any more about this from other sources.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 16, 2021 02:54 PM (rDOKo)

2 Please do Dana. I smell a rat here.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at December 17, 2021 09:02 AM (OYnC2)

3 It's on Fox News. I added a postscript to the article with the link.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 18, 2021 12:26 AM (rDOKo)

4 Thanks Dana!

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at December 18, 2021 09:50 AM (7yq9k)

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