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I personally know 20-30 people looking for new jobs due to the vaccine and masking mandates. At least 3-4 families I spoke with around my home in Illinois are l

I personally know 20-30 people looking for new jobs due to the vaccine and masking mandates. At least 3-4 families I spoke with around my home in Illinois are leaving Illinois out of concern (in various levels of moving). It’s why I bought land and started a farm earlier this year. I don’t think people realize how much fear and anger there is under the surface. People don’t move their families for fun, they do so for opportunity. The New York City vaccine mandate alone is massive. There’s no medical exemption and impacts employees and consumers alike. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/restaurants-gyms-suing-york-city-232144565.html https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/restaurants-gyms-suing-y... I won’t comment on effectiveness or anything else, but a lot of people aren’t vaccinated. It’s not worth it and many people will leave.

pensatoio 5y ago
I'm moving out of IL for this reason. I'll be working fully remote from a farm for the rest of my life. Not interested in participating in this totalitarian, political virtue-signaling.
- version_five 5y ago
  Overall, I believe the average workplace (in tech) is much more into only tolerating the "correct" viewpoint than previously. There are lots of examples beyond vaccines, even if having health choices and subsequent proof of them forced on you seems like the most extreme. Even before the vaccine stuff, one of the big factors in my change of job was all the protesting and politics and extremism. It's pretty easy to just keep your head down and go through the motions, and I expect that's what most do. But given the choice, I'd rather "bring my whole self to work" which includes holding and discussing opinions in a non- fanatical manner and not being forced to, as you say, signal my alignment with non-work related groupthink. For example, I don't use drugs but I would not work somewhere that subjected me to a drug test. It's no different than being vaccinated but not agreeing to share that information with my work or anyone else that asks. The first opinion seems acceptable for now, the second gets me called an anti-vaxxer

pensatoio 5y ago

I'm moving out of IL for this reason. I'll be working fully remote from a farm for the rest of my life. Not interested in participating in this totalitarian, political virtue-signaling.

version_five 5y ago
Overall, I believe the average workplace (in tech) is much more into only tolerating the "correct" viewpoint than previously. There are lots of examples beyond vaccines, even if having health choices and subsequent proof of them forced on you seems like the most extreme. Even before the vaccine stuff, one of the big factors in my change of job was all the protesting and politics and extremism. It's pretty easy to just keep your head down and go through the motions, and I expect that's what most do. But given the choice, I'd rather "bring my whole self to work" which includes holding and discussing opinions in a non- fanatical manner and not being forced to, as you say, signal my alignment with non-work related groupthink. For example, I don't use drugs but I would not work somewhere that subjected me to a drug test. It's no different than being vaccinated but not agreeing to share that information with my work or anyone else that asks. The first opinion seems acceptable for now, the second gets me called an anti-vaxxer