I think a lot of us wanted a vaccine, fast. But few if any of us wanted (or want) *mandated* taking of it.
It’s the principle of the thing. There are lunatics on both extremes, and those of us who are going to go with which position has more support amongst people with the specific expertise regardless of how much any pro or anti (*ANYTHING*) is frothing at the mouth and declaring the End Of Days.
I don’t support required vaccinations; as far as employers being able to require them, well, once they can take your blood for a drug test, or make you pee in a bottle, then your ‘right to work’ already includes giving them permission to control your body chemistry under pain of firing.
Almost certainly fewer people got vaccinated because of mandates and the discussion became hijacked into not about what is the best choice for our healthcare but whether or not someone was "complying" with The Man by getting vaccinated or not.
Republican in occupied CA wrote:
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I don’t support required vaccinations; as far as employers being able to require them, well, once they can take your blood for a drug test, or make you pee in a bottle, then your ‘right to work’ already includes giving them permission to control your body chemistry under pain of firing.
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Defense contractors ask job applicants for drugs tests and urine samples; they don’t want druggies working on classified projects.
But taking shots as a condition of being accepted?
No way.
BTW, a major defense contractor backed off on the shots requirement, since 10% of the workforce was going to bail on them.
I heard this from a current employee of that major defense contractor.