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I'm vaccinated now so I have no reason to quit, but I was entirely willing to before I got a dose.

It is not acceptable for anyone to force a medical procedure upon you. To that, some would retort "then surely everybody else should have the option to exclude you?". No, this is coercion.

I don't know how this is even an argument. There is disturbing trend upwards in infringement on people's rights. It feels like almost daily we have a thread on HN about another Big Tech company heinously infringing on privacy. Now some are saying we need to bribe people with keeping their jobs to do something they might not be willing to do? Horrifying.

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Just because there haven’t been new vaccine mandates in your lifetime doesn’t mean they’re a new or unprecedented idea. I say new because anyone who attended a school has very likely already been subject to vaccine mandates for diseases we don’t see as much anymore, so it’s only the introduction of a new mandate that presumably may seem unprecedented.

In the UK, I've never had to prove vaccination of any kind. From my perspective, these "mandates" have never existed before.

Good to know! [1]

> Vaccines offered through the national immunisation programme in the UK are not mandatory.

Which is probably why measles is not/no longer eradicated in the UK:

> In August 2019, the WHO’s European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC) determined the UK had lost its measles elimination status.

But still useful to get a non-US perspective. (It's easy to forget how policies differ, worldwide)

[1] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

Just because you haven't been to jail for abortion in your lifetime, doesn't mean it is new or unprecedented idea. So let the Texas law run free and expand to other states. Before Roe vs Wade it was illegal, so there is a precedent to make it so again right? Is this the logic? Same with slaves, it used to be ok and legal, so no worries about me keeping some haitians working at home and whip them if they misbehave. Remember, there is precedence after all.

How is a requirement that children get vaccinated to go to school anything like what you listed? Are you arguing that those vaccines are crap and that polio would be awesome to have back?

How privileged you are.

My last two Visas had multiple vaccine requirements. Prove I'm vaccinated, get vaccinated, or lose my job.

This isn't anything new for a lot of people.

Your situation is different.

If you require a visa, you are by definition a guest in another country. It isn't the hosts' responsibility to take care of you if you fall ill. You have the choice to stay or leave.

Citizens on the other hand don't really have any options. Being unemployed isn't an option. Nor is becoming a citizen of another country for most.

When I went overseas from the USA to another country I had to get vaccinated as well. It's required. That's different. I'm neither agreeing or disagreeing with either point here, I'd just like to point out that it is different.

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