09-15-2021, 05:16 PM
(09-15-2021, 04:19 PM)Or1on Wrote: I have been reading over this thread for awhile and decided to finally comment:I'm sympathetic to the idea of not mandating vaccines. Is a full on blanket vaccine mandate nationwide under consideration? Nope, it will never happen.
You simply cannot force someone to inject something into their body that they don't want to. Or eat a pill they don't want to. Or say something they don't want to. Or worship a deity they don't want to.
I got the vaccine. It was my choice. No matter how much some of you berate those that choose not to get it, that doesn't make your point of view correct. Yes, the world we live in is different now. Some would even say its f#*#-ed. People are losing loved ones. Sadness and sorrow runs deep. Still you cannot force people to get vaccinated. Should our government go fully "big-brother" and try to make it a mandate to be vaccinated, it would get really ugly. Much worse than it is now with all the people that would rise up in resistance.
They could be mandated as a condition of employment, however, or for kids to attend school. For example, all students, faculty and other employees at Harvard are required to be vaccinated.
Health (and death) care workers are not allowed to opt out of treating Covid patients. Actually in many places, they are denying services to other patients in order to deal with the more immediate, acute needs of Covid. We've heard many stories nationwide of state health officials expressing great concern that their hospitals were in danger of collapse from these demands.
Speaking of death care, have you guys seen this one? It's quite the story from a Texas embalmer. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-cov...c9c012139c