We don’t need or want “flexibility”.
That’s capitulation.
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Agreed. While the idea of mandates with accommodations such as weekly testing are being bandied about, rarest wife and I are prepared to say “no” and potentially lose our jobs over it. I’m not going to give an inch on this. Mandatory testing for a job where neither of us reports to an office is absurd, and I’m willing to lose my job over it.
That’s capitulation.
Agreed.
It's not an anti-vax thing (for me anyway). I've had all the usual vaccines for someone my age - including a Tetanus booster recently. Before I would consider a covid vaccine I want to see 5 or 10 years of data on long-term effects.
It's not that I'm anti-testing. Knowledge is good, and if you're sick you should stay away from others. That goes for covid, the flu, colds, whatever. That's just common courtesy - which is apparently less and less common these days.
However, when it comes to a government flunky or my company demanding that I get a vaccine or any medical procedure or decision, that I do have a problem with. A big one. You want to see my resolve harden, this is exactly how you do it. For a government to mandate medical procedures and treatments, to force them on people is wrong. If you're feeling good about it, like "Yeah, everyone should have to...it's for your own good." just look up Nazis and what they did. They experimented and forced things on people - to gain knowledge and "for the common good" too. If that doesn't change your mind, you might just be a fascist.
It's not that they are mandating a vaccine (even one that I don't want).
It is that they think they can mandate my personal medical decisions.
This is a bad, very bad precedent if we allow it to stand.