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>Aldi this week became the latest grocery chain to offer employees compensation for getting vaccinated, saying it would provide workers with two hours of pay for each of the two vaccine doses.

so $100 for potentially serious consequences . sounds like a poor deal.

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Getting covid, which a grocery store worker is more exposed to than your average hn poster, has potentially serious consequences.

100% certainty isn't possible, so you must weigh risks. Covid is at least as likely, probably much more likely to have unknown future serious consequences. That's to say nothing of Covid's extremely known consequences.

Eh I've paid $100 or more to put a greater number of unknowns into my body for simple pleasure from less professional and less ethical strangers.

I always thought linking the vaccination to the stimulus or federal legislation of Marijuana would have been great for the economy. Sad it didn't gain more traction.

Your free choice to put a substance into your body is hardly an analog to "we will fire you if you don't put this substance into your body with the specific purpose of inducing an immune reaction".

(Not an anti-vaxer and I'll be getting the vaccine as soon as I'm able, if that context matters.)

>potentially serious consequences

What? I'm not following vaccine news closely.

It's just FUD. Trials show a good safety profile in a large population. A few people with severe allergies have had severe allergic reactions, but this is possible with any vaccine, and it's why the nurse usually has an epi-pen on hand when you get a flu shot. But again, this is very very rare.

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