Difference in those are vaccinations that yield quality, long lasting immunity whereas the Covid vaccine is comparable to the flu vaccine in terms of effectiveness. Also, those are battle tested and widely accepted at this point, but the Covid vaccine was a type of vaccine that reached production for the first time with these.

Polio vaccine caused side-effects, up to and including polio.

Every vaccine has carried some level of risk. I do think attitudes on that risk have changed over time though.

(I have a relative who was in the first trials of polio vaccination, and I asked her if there was the same kind of reluctance to get it we were seeing with COVID. She smirked and said "Well, let me think... I was in private school, and we were having an indoor play day that day... Indoor because the plane was gonna fly over to spray the DDT and they didn't want us to get directly dusted... Anyway, no, all our parents wanted us to get it because they all personally knew someone, or someone who knew someone, in an iron lung and didn't want that for their kids").

Comparing polio and Covid is ridiculous

Yeah, it's really sad to see all the covid survivors in Iron lungs.

Looks at the literal million dead Americans what survivors are we talking about again? If you got fired during the days where we finally had a vaccine and you refused to take it, you were fired for a very good reason.

The median age of a Covid-associated death in the US, with its grossly obese and unhealthy population, is more or less the average life expectancy. It's absurd to dictate public policy that affects everyone on the basis of keeping the elderly around for a couple more years.

No, it's absurd to pretend that "they were going to die anyway so it doesn't matter".

But if the vaccine doesn't prevent spread that means you were fired because of... what?

"Get the vaccine to reduce your symptoms or I'll fire you incase it kills you!"

It's not like the vaccine prevents spread to other coworkers, why require it?

Everyone has a different health risk, let them decide whether they can weather a certain viral load.

That is, unless, you have a vaccine that can actually prevent trasmission.

A lot of people no longer believe in personal freedom. They would rather fire employees before banning tobacco and alcohol, yet tobacco and alcohol is far more dangerous and leads to more deaths than COVID-19.

I for one thought the party that has been adopted by people that have been most lied to by the government and treated unfairly and who faced discrimination and prejudice would be least trusting, but instead they were told to trust it more and they just gobbled it up and fell in line.

Likewise, I think about Occupy Wallstreet and think how clever was Wallstreet to now have those same people jumping up and down for them with Big Pharma, the six media companies, and defending everything Nancy Pelosi does.

I guess in a way it goes to show that movements like Occupy Wallstreets only represented a small percentage of progressives that were more likely to vote for Bernie, and some went the direction the DNC told people to when it essentially colluded to steal the nomination and others left and went true independent.