America’s Largest Health Care Union Vows to Fight Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccines

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14 points·walterbell··6 comments

What is it about Covid-19 that made people crazy. All lab worker need to be MMR vaccinated as well as many others. What is it about C-19?

It was all politicized. That's all. Scientifically speaking, there is tons of evidence supporting the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine.

We don't have long term data. That's all.

What is it about Covid-19 that make people want to decide what others should do (vaccine mandate).

The MMR vaccine was made nearly 60 years ago and it took another five years to improve it.

On the other side you have the fastest vaccine ever created for the entire world in the form of Covid-19 vaccines.

To mandate the vaccine is overreaching, and i for one am glad that this is now being addressed.

Let people choose the vaccine freely without any coercion or mandate.

If they want to isolate themselves into a room with no contact whatsoever with other humans for five years while we perfect the vaccine, then I would support their right to do that.

However, I suspect they’re not going to like that alternative.

> Health care employers considering these mandates may be encouraged by a recent ruling in Texas. Last week, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit in which employees of Houston Methodist Hospital challenged the health care provider’s vaccine requirement. Ultimately, 153 people resigned or were fired over their refusal to get the vaccine, according to The Washington Post. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has also issued guidance saying it’s legal for employers to necessitate staff to get vaccinated in order to enter the workplace.

It is unlikely these unions have a leg to stand on.

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