US workers overwhelmingly comply with Covid vaccine mandates

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Paywalled. Anyway, that's like saying victims of theft at gunpoint overwhelmingly comply with the thief. That's a true statement, most people just hand over their money. Obviously coercion will "work" to a great extent, but that doesn't mean it was right. It will certainly have devastating consequences in terms of trusting the institutions moving forward.

No kidding. I liked Southwest, and just flew via Southwest as recently as yesterday. But learning that they have a bunch of antivaxxers among their employees leaves a bad taste. Maybe some other airlines are better in that regard.

wow, bunch of antivaxxers here in hacker news too eh?

Well, off to conjure up another scapegoat to blame for the everlasting pandemic!

I have to ask: How long did you expect a pandemic to last? What's a reasonable timeframe to get a pandemic under control, in your opinion?

Approximately when it became clear the measures to contain it weren’t actually working and weren’t going to work. It’s possible to disagree there but I don’t think it’s reasonable for the timeline to be infinite which is the new claim, with infinite booster shots being required. Anyone should be able to see that that just isn’t sustainable. It’s just a backwards race to see how long it can be dragged out until there’s no choice but to let go anyway.

Like Australia and their zero covid policy. In my opinion clearly untenable, in other peoples opinion a great attempt. Whatever we all think it clearly failed and now they have to give up anyway, and whatever gains people think it resulted in it did cost a large population their freedom for an very long, in my opinion unreasonable, amount of time.

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