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Besides this war between companies and tech companies, I'm glad that I live in a part of the world where vaccine mandates are not happening.


> I'm glad that I live in a part of the world where vaccine mandates are not happening.

Haven't heard this sentiment much. So I'm curious what's problematic about such vaccine mandates?


well there are lots of demonstrations in Europe against vaccine mandates, ofc it ain't on TV wink wink


A vaccine mandate should not be mandated by corporations, instead it should happen on a country level if necessary.

To me it's a slippery slope to allow corporations to mandate what happens to our own body.


The corporation isn’t mandating what happens to your body any more than the government is (as long as there isn’t forced injections). They’re simply choosing not to associate with un vaccinated people. This is first amendment from both sides all the way.

It’s literally no different from not wanting to employ people that don’t have a driver’s license, or some credential, or are convicted of crimes.


So i must agree to disagree then, none of the examples mentioned require you to make changes to your body.


Then you need to read it again. No one is making you make changes to your body. You are always free to go somewhere else.

Come on. If vaccines are ao offensive, why do you want to work for someone that only wants people that are vaccinated around them? Take some responsibility for your life choices instead crying, “Woe is me!” No one owes you a job, nor do you owe any employer your labor. Walk if you don’t like it.

Finally, if you think employers and body modification is some recent bridge too far, perhaps you should google tattoos, hair styles, facial hair, and piercings in the workplace.


Well, if all companies apply the same rule then you are not really free to choose are you ?

I don't take offense with the vaccine, it has helped to turn things around, it's the mandate that i have a problem with.

And again, tattoos, hair style and so on are things that you freely choose to do, they are not mandated and thus are not the same thing.


> Well, if all companies apply the same rule then you are not really free to choose are you ?

You are always free to start your own company and endanger other people’s health there.

At this point you’re basically complaining that it sucks to be unpopular. Well, that’s a personal problem. Stop trying to say that people are being forced to do anything. They’re not. They just aren’t free of of the consequences of their (in)actions.

You’re not allowed to enroll in a public school or the military without specific panel of vaccines. Again, you’re always welcome to not join the military or to enroll in a private school that doesn’t require vaccines or even homeschool. Whining that that private schools are too expensive, or homeschool is too much of a time sink, isn’t the responsibility of anyone except the person that decided to opt out of the system. Take the responsibility. Antivax folks don’t have a right to endanger others.




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