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Once people are mandated to return to the office, they will not tolerate working alongside unvaccinated coworkers.

Can you sue your employer if you get covid from a colleague and they didn’t mandate vaccinations (but did mandate return to office and your employment would be terminated otherwise)? IANAL.

I think congress put in some protections for.. employers, on this lol

Fully vaccinated, and I don't care in the slightest. The vaccines provide nearly perfect protection against serious outcomes.

I am far more upset by the idea of continuing this indefinitely. Desperately want to be back in the office.

People who want to return to work should be allowed to do so. Those who do not should be allowed to do so. May the most productive employees win.

"Nearly perfect" is doing a lot of work there. I am perfectly fine with offices, conferences, etc. mandating vaccines for people. ADDED: People do have a choice, especially at companies not requiring people to come back to offices.

Nearly perfect protection for you, maybe. Catching it when vaccinated is still unpleasant for many, can wreck social plans if you have to isolate, and puts you at risk of passing it on to someone more vulnerable.

Already you sound adversarial, like this is a battle of work cultures and you want your side to win. You say things like "return to work", as if the people who are working from home aren't already working. Did you mean your comment to come across this way?

No, you're reading into it.

I think that both sides of this issue should be allowed to do whatever they want to do, and we'll find out what the result is.

Not if you have children under 12.

Children are at exceptionally low risk from Covid. The data is simply overwhelming.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28041775

I don't understand how after nearly one and a half years into this pandemic, people still keep parroting "but what about the children!". There is close to 0 (zero, nada, zilch) risk to children from COVID-19. You're much better off worrying about the other more dangerous things that can kill children.

"The vaccines provide nearly perfect protection against serious outcomes."

I am vaccinated, however, my young child is not. If I get a breakthrough case, I don't want to spread it to my kid. I know this is anecdotal, but... my wife's office just closed because of a breakthrough case, and another friend was recently exposed to someone with a breakthrough case.

Children are at exceptionally low risk from Covid. The data is simply overwhelming.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28041775

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