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> Due to waning efficacy of the primary series of COVID-19 vaccines and the emergence of highly transmissible variants such as Omicron, a booster shot is now pa

> Due to waning efficacy of the primary series of COVID-19 vaccines and the emergence of highly transmissible variants such as Omicron, a booster shot is now part of staying up to date with your COVID-19 vaccination to protect against severe disease I'm probably reading too much into it but: I buy the argument that you want employees vaccinated so they don't spread covid, but now they are asking their workers to do something "to protect against severe disease"? Such a motivation is well outside what is appropriate for an employer to have a say in. Maybe apple should also mandate employees don't smoke, or eat bacon?

epistasis 5y ago
Interesting choice of cropping out the first part of the sentence: > Due to waning efficacy of the primary series of COVID-19 vaccines and the emergence of highly transmissible variants such as Omicron, That would seem to undermine your entire characterization of this. Considering that you had to read the sentence to know where to cut it off, your choice of quote seems very deceptive.
- version_five 5y ago
  I cropped it for conciseness. I don't understand what you think I was hiding, but if you think that preamble helps contextualize the point I was making that's fine, I've added it to my post now.
ostenning 5y ago
Agreed, Omicron is so infectious that any argument to 'protect others' is increasingly difficult to justify aside from reducing hospitalizations and by that token perhaps a general health mandate is in order, with monitoring of peoples daily steps, food consumption and drug use. I'm being hyperbolic, but at some point we need to draw a line. Taking peoples livelihoods away due to their health status or beliefs is in my mind akin to fascism. It is discrimination
- raxxorrax 5y ago
  Never a call for nuance to call something fascism but I assure you that the characters demanding such mandates would be the first to adopt its tenets if politically convenient. Same with the fight against misinformation. People demanding censorship had no problem at all about being lied to about alleged Russian misinformation. It just happened to fit their interests.

epistasis 5y ago

Interesting choice of cropping out the first part of the sentence: > Due to waning efficacy of the primary series of COVID-19 vaccines and the emergence of highly transmissible variants such as Omicron, That would seem to undermine your entire characterization of this. Considering that you had to read the sentence to know where to cut it off, your choice of quote seems very deceptive.

version_five 5y ago
I cropped it for conciseness. I don't understand what you think I was hiding, but if you think that preamble helps contextualize the point I was making that's fine, I've added it to my post now.

ostenning 5y ago

Agreed, Omicron is so infectious that any argument to 'protect others' is increasingly difficult to justify aside from reducing hospitalizations and by that token perhaps a general health mandate is in order, with monitoring of peoples daily steps, food consumption and drug use. I'm being hyperbolic, but at some point we need to draw a line. Taking peoples livelihoods away due to their health status or beliefs is in my mind akin to fascism. It is discrimination

raxxorrax 5y ago
Never a call for nuance to call something fascism but I assure you that the characters demanding such mandates would be the first to adopt its tenets if politically convenient. Same with the fight against misinformation. People demanding censorship had no problem at all about being lied to about alleged Russian misinformation. It just happened to fit their interests.