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> as a base assumption and leaves no room for individual choice and risk-management decisions. We're still having this dance in 2023? Businesses can likewise r

> as a base assumption and leaves no room for individual choice and risk-management decisions. We're still having this dance in 2023? Businesses can likewise reject people for increasing the risk profile of the business provided such rejections don't touch on suspect classifications. And even that last bit is less likely to pose regulatory risk to businesses now that businesses in the US have been enabled by the Supreme Court to reject clients for things like sexual orientation. > Ditto on "designing policies that mandate vaccination". Workers under mandates can just as easily quit the job that has the mandate, or they can be terminated at will. Or rather, such is the typical argument I hear from the a certain crowd when workers complain about employers doing silly things that workers disagree with. If you're concerned that these workers should bargain for a right (to reject a vaccine) without fear of termination, maybe they should form a structure that can collectively bargain for said right for them. I'm inclined to agree with others who say that your own biases are tainting your interpretation, but your biases are also particularly revealing.

throwawayfear 3y ago
The most likely outcome is that the majority of jobs will not be allowed to discriminate on the basis of someone's covid information. I predict it will be a new protected class soon, especially seeing as one can demonstrate equivalent or better immunity from past infection and the vaccinations do not prevent infection or spread.
- logicalmonster 3y ago
  If we had governments that weren't entirely corrupt for money and power, your train of thinking would be entirely rational and perfect. But there's substantial government interest in having things like medical passports/IDs that provide them with substantial power and bureaucratic expansion (and more importantly, a huge financial win for the medical-industrial complex) Additionally, those vaccines served as an idealogical purge mechanism where people who were willing to go against the grain and not just follow orders were drummed out of the government. Hard to believe that they're just going to give up on this because it's the right thing to do.

throwawayfear 3y ago

The most likely outcome is that the majority of jobs will not be allowed to discriminate on the basis of someone's covid information. I predict it will be a new protected class soon, especially seeing as one can demonstrate equivalent or better immunity from past infection and the vaccinations do not prevent infection or spread.

logicalmonster 3y ago
If we had governments that weren't entirely corrupt for money and power, your train of thinking would be entirely rational and perfect. But there's substantial government interest in having things like medical passports/IDs that provide them with substantial power and bureaucratic expansion (and more importantly, a huge financial win for the medical-industrial complex) Additionally, those vaccines served as an idealogical purge mechanism where people who were willing to go against the grain and not just follow orders were drummed out of the government. Hard to believe that they're just going to give up on this because it's the right thing to do.