But I pay for my driver's license! And my marriage license! We do this all the time!
(I'm kidding with you, personally, Skeever, but also making a larger point that has nothing to do with your post specifically.)
I won't try and argue the principle with you - because I probably can't. But I know how unpopular this mandate is going to be with a large portion of the workplace who, for whatever reason, just don't want to get the vaccine. And as much as I don't like it, I feel we owe these people some kind of consideration even though they've refuse to get with the program - after all, they've been lied to and led to believe in unchecked falsehoods for so long by so much of their own leadership.
Giving the unvaccinated a free test until they get with the program is no different to me than offering food stamps or some other form of welfare to those who refuse to work.
The unvaccinated have not chosen to be a social burden, they've just been brainwashed, and punishing them for it will only get so far. Punishing them for it is no different than taking away benefits from the poor or fining people for BS violations. Instead, I'd like to see them more gently brought up to speed...
And if you're vaccinated. You have no reason to worry about the non vaccinated.
This is demonstrably false, and frankly I'm sick of seeing this line of bullshit being repeated. The vaccine is not 100% effective, and for those who it is not effective, their risk is amplified by the non-vaccinated. If you're vaccinated and one of the 5%-15% that don't receive proper protection from it, where will you be safer? In a small room with 100 vaccinated individuals or in a room with 100 non-vaccinated individuals? It's basic math, and it's not debatable. Vaccinated people have still died (yeah, I know the count is low), and those who don't die can still have lifelong effects, so to say vaccinated people "have NO reason to worry" is wrong and irresponsible. I don't know if the vaccine is doing it's thing on me or not. I'll tell you what though, I'm not itching to get back to my unvaccinated co-workers in our open office floor plan to find out.
Ben-Jamin's thinking is of course certifiably fallacious.
Vaccines only work the way they're supposed to when most of the population is inoculated.
BTW, the willfully unvaccinated are currently the ones who will be responsible for cooking up the next several variants. And that will be ALL of our problem.
Yup. That's why vaccines are not a miracle drug, and there will never be a miracle drug. As long as we humans become ill by bacteria and infectious diseases then all we as humans can do is better our own health in whatever way we can to not become susceptible to them in the long-term. A vaccine is just a quick fix, like a band-aid, to mend the problem and lessen the severity of the wound, well it's more like a tourniquet than a band-aid.
What is proven to actually be causes of susceptibility. I would rather not be obese, not have heart disease, and not have these easily revers-able underlying health conditions.
Just think, if the population were not over-weight, didn't have high blood pressure, and hardly any heart issues, would this really have been an issue as most people would've had mild cases due to not having these underlying conditions that are making these case numbers rise.
You have to ask, why were people getting severe side effects of covid-19, and as everyone is different and not the same, everyone has their own health reasons why they are susceptible to the severe side effects of covid-19. If you know your health and where it stands, you should understand the risks involved with you and the people you care about. That is, if the others do tell you of an underlying health condition. Which is why I used Norm MacDonald as an example of someone still going through life without worry and no one even knew about his condition to sympathize about his health and his battle with Cancer.
I would like to ask those with underlying conditions and those whom are unable to take the vaccine how they feel about asking others to take action and work their lives around them, so they can live and thrive? Because we won't know how they feel and if our supposed feelings of sympathy for the sick are actually worth it if they do not care at all, and will go out regardless and end up getting in an accident because death decided to play the claw game and picked that person to die this way.
It's why Death, is a very important topic when discussing morality and ethics and whether those that are not taking a vaccine are actually deplorable and heartless people, and people that just do not care for anyone but themselves, such soulless bastards the unvaccinated are.
Which amazes me at the amount of hate people have for one another.