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Never before have I seen restaurants and hospitals requiring me to show proof of a particular medical treatment before they will serve me.

westcort 5y ago
Been a hundred years since the last big pandemic…guess you hadn’t seen it all yet.
- gruez 5y ago
  Isn't this just an argument from ignorance? We probably have written records from the last pandemic. If you really think that the parent post is incorrect, why not furnish evidence?
  - westcort 5y ago
    The whole premise of protecting the replication of a virus at the expense of human life is an argument from ignorance. What if this and what if that and whining about not wanting a little inconvenience to protect my job and my life and my neighbor’s life…what a bunch of entitled snowflakes
    - gruez 5y ago
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      - westcort 5y ago
        Protecting the virus is an argument from ignorance because the arguments used are provocative what if’s like: “What if mandates are used this way or that way” or “What if it’s not safe.” It’s a lot of hand wringing and cowardice when there is a clear right course of action here to get us out of this crisis. To be against the mandate on moral grounds cannot be moral, because killing people is wrong and perpetuating the virus is anti-human. It seems like there are a lot of people out here whose morals involve choosing to kill their own grandparents because there is an asterisk in an obscure legal document they can use to cover their cowardice.
        gruez 5y ago
        >Protecting the virus Again, I don't think people are anti-mandates because they're pro-virus. Characterizing that side as "pro-virus" makes as much sense as characterizing the anti-surveillance crowd as "pro-terrorist". >To be against the mandate on moral grounds cannot be moral, because killing people is wrong and perpetuating the virus is anti-human. Consider the following: you're a consequentialist, your opponents are deontologists. You think the ends justifies the means. They don't.
        _ddzr 5y ago
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      - dang 5y ago
        Please do not perpetuate flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
jimkleiber 5y ago
Same here. Although never before (read, in my lifetime and geographic location), has it been possible for people to get so heavily sick or die from breathing in the exhaled air of another human. I agree that the vaccine requirements are unprecedented. I just don't think they're the only thing that's unprecedented at this time. I can't imagine being a business owner and having people die because of the air in my building. Even if it's "not my fault" I'd still probably feel horrible. As a side note, my great uncle, we believe, caught covid at a restaurant, along with his wife and his brother-in-law. He died and she was really sick in the hospital.
- areyousure 5y ago
  https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
  - jimkleiber 5y ago
    Not sure what you're implying with this link, will you share more of what you mean?
mpyne 5y ago
I seem to remember "No shirt, no shoes, no service" in my time, justified as a public health measure (even if that wasn't the real justification). Likewise food service workers have long been required to bandage wounds, wear hair nets and gloves, avoid work when ill, etc. If COVID were only transmissible when you were symptomatic there would probably be no real public health need to apply this kind of check. But since it is silly to think you can simultaneously use masks and eat in a restaurant, as anti-vaxxers are fond of reminding us, you're left with measures like that if you want indoor dining in a restaurant.
throw0101a 5y ago
> Never before have I seen restaurants and hospitals requiring me to show proof of a particular medical treatment before they will serve me. Perhaps because previously everyone (or "enough" people) were required to get particular medical treatments (i.e., vaccinations) to get into kindergarten, and that it was just assumed that 'everyone' had the vaccinations—or at least anyone who go into and graduated kindergarten. The only change is a new disease that previously did not exist so there was no vaccine for it, so we all had to get it all at once now. Rules for my local jurisdiction: > Unless they have a valid exemption, children who attend primary or secondary school must be immunized against: diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, meningitis (meningococcal disease), whooping cough (pertussis), chickenpox (varicella) – required for children born in 2010 or later. * https://www.ontario.ca/page/vaccines-children-school https://www.ontario.ca/page/vaccines-children-school I'm also amused by current members in the military objecting to having to get the COVID vaccine… when you had to get a whole bunch of vaccinations to join in the first place. And this is nothing new: in the US, General George Washington had mandates.
- areyousure 5y ago
  Your link requires children to be "immunized" against the diseases, which presumably does not mean "vaccinated". (For example, I have never had a chickenpox vaccine.)
- kcplate 5y ago
  The thing that I think people are missing in this whole situation isn’t that the government hasn’t had immunization mandates before, but how it’s trying to implement this one. There are definitely exemptions to it, and some of those exemptions appear to follow some historical political alliances (democrats and certain unions as an example). When you carve out exceptions based on politics instead of logic, people will resist. While I don’t like mandates, I would be less resistant to them if they were applied logically…or if short of logically—at least evenly.
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westcort 5y ago

Been a hundred years since the last big pandemic…guess you hadn’t seen it all yet.

gruez 5y ago
Isn't this just an argument from ignorance? We probably have written records from the last pandemic. If you really think that the parent post is incorrect, why not furnish evidence?
- westcort 5y ago
  The whole premise of protecting the replication of a virus at the expense of human life is an argument from ignorance. What if this and what if that and whining about not wanting a little inconvenience to protect my job and my life and my neighbor’s life…what a bunch of entitled snowflakes
  - gruez 5y ago
    [flagged]
    - westcort 5y ago
      Protecting the virus is an argument from ignorance because the arguments used are provocative what if’s like: “What if mandates are used this way or that way” or “What if it’s not safe.” It’s a lot of hand wringing and cowardice when there is a clear right course of action here to get us out of this crisis. To be against the mandate on moral grounds cannot be moral, because killing people is wrong and perpetuating the virus is anti-human. It seems like there are a lot of people out here whose morals involve choosing to kill their own grandparents because there is an asterisk in an obscure legal document they can use to cover their cowardice.
      - gruez 5y ago
        >Protecting the virus Again, I don't think people are anti-mandates because they're pro-virus. Characterizing that side as "pro-virus" makes as much sense as characterizing the anti-surveillance crowd as "pro-terrorist". >To be against the mandate on moral grounds cannot be moral, because killing people is wrong and perpetuating the virus is anti-human. Consider the following: you're a consequentialist, your opponents are deontologists. You think the ends justifies the means. They don't.
        _ddzr 5y ago
        [flagged]
    - dang 5y ago
      Please do not perpetuate flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

jimkleiber 5y ago

Same here. Although never before (read, in my lifetime and geographic location), has it been possible for people to get so heavily sick or die from breathing in the exhaled air of another human. I agree that the vaccine requirements are unprecedented. I just don't think they're the only thing that's unprecedented at this time. I can't imagine being a business owner and having people die because of the air in my building. Even if it's "not my fault" I'd still probably feel horrible. As a side note, my great uncle, we believe, caught covid at a restaurant, along with his wife and his brother-in-law. He died and she was really sick in the hospital.

areyousure 5y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
- jimkleiber 5y ago
  Not sure what you're implying with this link, will you share more of what you mean?

mpyne 5y ago

I seem to remember "No shirt, no shoes, no service" in my time, justified as a public health measure (even if that wasn't the real justification). Likewise food service workers have long been required to bandage wounds, wear hair nets and gloves, avoid work when ill, etc. If COVID were only transmissible when you were symptomatic there would probably be no real public health need to apply this kind of check. But since it is silly to think you can simultaneously use masks and eat in a restaurant, as anti-vaxxers are fond of reminding us, you're left with measures like that if you want indoor dining in a restaurant.

throw0101a 5y ago

> Never before have I seen restaurants and hospitals requiring me to show proof of a particular medical treatment before they will serve me. Perhaps because previously everyone (or "enough" people) were required to get particular medical treatments (i.e., vaccinations) to get into kindergarten, and that it was just assumed that 'everyone' had the vaccinations—or at least anyone who go into and graduated kindergarten. The only change is a new disease that previously did not exist so there was no vaccine for it, so we all had to get it all at once now. Rules for my local jurisdiction: > Unless they have a valid exemption, children who attend primary or secondary school must be immunized against: diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, meningitis (meningococcal disease), whooping cough (pertussis), chickenpox (varicella) – required for children born in 2010 or later. * https://www.ontario.ca/page/vaccines-children-school https://www.ontario.ca/page/vaccines-children-school I'm also amused by current members in the military objecting to having to get the COVID vaccine… when you had to get a whole bunch of vaccinations to join in the first place. And this is nothing new: in the US, General George Washington had mandates.

areyousure 5y ago
Your link requires children to be "immunized" against the diseases, which presumably does not mean "vaccinated". (For example, I have never had a chickenpox vaccine.)
kcplate 5y ago
The thing that I think people are missing in this whole situation isn’t that the government hasn’t had immunization mandates before, but how it’s trying to implement this one. There are definitely exemptions to it, and some of those exemptions appear to follow some historical political alliances (democrats and certain unions as an example). When you carve out exceptions based on politics instead of logic, people will resist. While I don’t like mandates, I would be less resistant to them if they were applied logically…or if short of logically—at least evenly.
- deleted 5y ago
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