So more and more employers are requiring the vaccine to maintain employment. Most allow for health/religious exemptions. Some are going to allow weekly testing for those who do not want the vaccine.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/united-airlines-will-require-all-67-000-u-s-employees-n1276156?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
I have to say that while I do not believe in forcing people to get vaccinated, I do believe in the ability for an employer to ensure the safety of their employees. From comments I'm reading, it seems many people believe they have a "right" to employment.
I'm happy to see United take this stance. Interestingly, their rate of vaccination among employees appears higher than among healthcare workers.
It's one of those instances where having a free market can be a good thing... Want to work? Get a Vax... And you're absolutely right that an employer has a right to protect their staff and customers. asses from being sued by someone who got Covid working or shopping there..
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That's the only reason why businesses are giving a crap about Covid and having to vaccinate.
If nobody was allowed to sue, I am sure they wouldn't care at all whether someone is vaccinated or not. As that is not their reliability to worry about. That would be on the customer to know the risks involved in waking inside their business.
Businesses I am sure are tired of having to change their overall processes of how they do business. There isn't a permanent process now, it's constantly shifting to something new the business has to abide by. Some arent able to accommodate to the new policies in place as it would take time for them to set up the process to do business.
It's rough on the small businesses to accommodate to these conditions. Some do not have the available resources to adapt to these and those were the ones that ended up closing their doors.
But people DO have the right to sue; that's the premise in a free society. You get to do what you want, but if you cause harm* to someone else, you may have consequences.
*harm - I mean that in the legal sense, not in the sense that it has come to mean in the identity politics discussion. I mean physical, quantifiable - in extent and dollars - and measurable. I don't mean getting your precious feelings hurt.
You gotta wonder when the medical insurance industry will play their hand... I mean the cost of one covid patient in the ice for two weeks has to be equal to a few thousand vaccines... The math has to play out heavily in favor of vaccination for them, they gotta have something in the works. Just pondering out loud.
That just makes me wonder why healthcare has to be so expensive and not something we could just use easily without having to pay someone for all us humans to utilize?
I find that aspect one of the messed up things of our current world.
How is it, healthcare is a privilege and people are wanting to use it as a privilege and deny others access to it all because that person does not want to take some new life saving technology?
What do you mean by "not something we could just use easily without having to pay someone for all us humans to utilize?" Obamacare was supposed to drive out cost, but that didn't happen, because they didn't bother to address it. They didn't remove the state-by-state jurisdiction over insurance. They didn't address the pharmaceutical issue (in fact, they cut a deal GUARANTEEING the pharmaceuticals tens of billions in profits to not "torpedo" their deal). There are other areas to address this issue as well.
I also don't follow the last part; depending on where you sit on the debate (I am an advocate for single payer, by the way; yes it's an exception to my normal fiscal approach to things, but I think it's a necessary one) healthcare is a privilege or a right; if it's a privilege, then it absolutely should follow - if one is interested in consistency - that we could demand vaccination if one wants to avail themselves of those privileges. If it's a right, then we cannot demand vaccination as a precursor to receiving that right, since by definition one is entitled to it. The funny thing is, if you subscribe to the accepted wisdom of the ideology, the "privilege" people are the one's saying we shouldn't demand vaccination, and the "right" people are the one's saying we should.