WIth one final prediction for stormy weather for the nation that he loves, meteorologist Karl Bohnak of Upper Michigan signed off for one last time because he had been fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.
Bohnak had held his position as weatherman for Michigan’s WLUC-TV for 33 years, as reported by the Washington Post. Gray Television is WLUC’s parent company and they had instituted a vaccine-or-else policy that had gone into effect on Wednesday.
Even though he was fired, Bohnak took the termination from the job he loved like a gentleman, quoting Lou Gehrig’s famous farewell speech as he announced his departure in a post on his Facebook page.
“I am sad, but, to borrow a quote from a famous ballplayer, ‘I’m the luckiest man on the face of the earth’ because I had a dream as a kid to be a weatherman.
“That dream came true and to top it off, I got to broadcast weather for one of the most challenging, beautiful spots in the United States. As an added bonus, the people I broadcast to all across Upper Michigan were so kind and encouraging,” he wrote.
However, after TV6 fired Karl Bohnak, a beloved weatherman of more than three decades in regards to his choice not to be vaccinated, the people of the small Upper Peninsula Michigan town of Iron Mountain protested, threatening to boycott the station because of their decision to let him go.
“The abrogation of our liberty and freedom under the guise of a pandemic is very disturbing to me. Hopefully, whether you lean right or left, you are concerned about what has occurred the last year-and-a-half.
“I just wanted to go about my business, ‘live and let live’, and keep my mouth shut. But this act by the federal government through corporate America has brought me to a crossroads. Our way of life, our freedom and liberty, is collapsing before our eyes,” Bohnak wrote.
At the end of the day, Bohnak believes that personal freedom should be paramount.
“Many of you have taken one of these injections, and that is absolutely your right,” he said. “It is also my right to choose the medical options I feel are right for me. I have authority over my body.”
Bohnak proceeded to lay out why he had refused the vaccine.
“I have decided against the vaccine option, first and foremost, because the manufacturers of these injections have absolutely no liability if injury or death occurs after the shot. I asked myself, would I buy brakes for my vehicle if the brake company had no liability if the brakes failed? No!”
“So, I will certainly not allow a medicine in my body from a company that does not stand behind its product,” he continued.
Bohnak also noted that he probably would have gone ahead and received the vaccine had that risk of death COVID-19 been as significant as the news media had made it out to be.
“However,” he wrote, “for a normally healthy adult not housed in a nursing home or not suffering from serious comorbidities, the chance of surviving COVID is well over 99 percent. I will take the chance and go without a shot. I choose not to risk serious side effects.”
“It’s time to wake up to what is occurring here in America and across the world,” he continued.
“We are being bludgeoned with fear, I believe, in an effort to control us. Eminent doctors, virologists and epidemiologists who post facts contradicting the ‘official’ accepted narrative regarding COVID are being censored; some are losing their jobs,” he also noted.
“It’s time to honor those who served. For me, I honor them by saying ‘Enough! I have the right to choose — we all do. If we do nothing, we will lose that right.”
Bohnak concluded with “a distillation of a portion of Jefferson’s masterpiece, the Declaration of Independence: ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’
“Those who love America and the freedom and liberty it stands for, must speak up. Hopefully, it’s not too late,” he wrote.