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Google employees to lose pay if don't comply with vaccination policy

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"Google asked its more than 150,000 employees to upload their vaccination status to its internal systems, whether they plan to come into the office or not"

That's the important bit. Government can't do such a thing, but a public company can - it's not restrained by the Bill of Rights. Even though courts have voided the order, they can't tell companies what to do and in effect the courts' decision is being ignored. This precedent is dangerous. Soon all these corps demand to get a booster every 6 months (regardless of whether you gobto office) and you'll have to comply, unless you're rich.

How is this different from college campuses and the military requiring vaccines for many decades now?

It’s much a lot more difficult to leave the military or change colleges than it is to get another job after Google, so Google actually has a lot less leverage here

Where is vaccinations mentioned anywhere in the bill of rights?

Don't worry. Google will sell this data to government.

The US government has an absolute right to require vaccines in emergency situations, period. That was addressed by the supreme court multiple times.

In this was the case, the gov would've just done that: ordered citizens, not companies, to vax up. But the gov isn't dumb: they knew such an order would be struck down by a federal judge in a matter of days. That's why they this clever truck with companies.

Jacobson v. Massachusetts. States have a constitutional right to enforce vaccines for public health reasons.

The current supreme court would uphold that decision. https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/10/court-turns-away-religiou...

more generally, the police powers of a state exceed that of individual liberty in emergency situations. otherwise, the state loses its ability to handle existential crises.

That's not an emergency situation.

Except in this case it is not emergency. Same as flu each year is not an emergency.

Meanwhile Cornell closed its campus because Omicron is on campus and infections are sharply rising. Good luck to us all.

What a bizarre overreaction. Between the known risk factors, and the availability of vaccines and other effective treatments, the vast majority of us have no need of luck.

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