Not forced, meaning you may be fired and potentially unable to find work.
Explain to me how willingness to take disease preventing treatment isn't just a feature of Whatwhaaaaat as an employee, that makes one more or less desirable on the free market? We are able free to work "at will" most places and any employer who will have you based on your marketability and desirability. Whatwhaaaaat could even start your own company where you mandated people not be vaccinated (and then die the first time someone sneezes).
More seriously, because this is a serious topic even if Whatwhaaaaat isn't a serious person:
We should all have a right to be healthy, where such things are within our power to understand and effect.
Whatwhaaaaat should have a right to opt out (even if I think it is childishly stupid).
The only way to make those both fit in reality is to have those who opt out of the incredibly but not quite perfectly safe and life saving vaccine in contradiction to all the evidence, is to have them opt out of activities where safety is desired by the majority. So you have a choice: opt-out of both the vaccine and some professional activities, or opt-in to both.
Note how this isn't a choice that Whatwhaaaaat, as a possible unknowing carrier of covid, is willing or even capable of offering immune compromised people in a work place. This is the only sensible way to structure a society that isn't literally forcing vaccines on people like Whatwhaaaaat.
Everything in America is tied to one’s employment. It was take the shot or starve. Luckily I’m a decent enough engineer to be able to say go fuck yourself and they had no choice but to keep me. MANY of my co workers were not in that position.
I will never vote for democrats again :-)
There is no evidence based reason to not take it for nearly all people, it was well tested and very safe. If you are immune compromised to the point where the vaccine was risky a doctor visit would sort you out. For nearly everyone else the vaccine moved the chances of covid death from some single digit percentage to negligible and reduced severity of symptoms and very rare (far rarer than covid issues).
Per your own story it was not "take the shot or starve", you are simply lying.
Making a cheap good for many people opens companies up to risk. Even frivolous lawsuits are expensive and if they are getting pennies per customer even a frivolous lawsuit can destroy the profits of millions of successes deployments. Vaccines like the last round had serious issues on the order of 1 in a million cases. Even that low rate is enough to crush profits with medical costs the way they are.
Just because I’ve been (so far) able to avoid negative repercussions does not mean that I should ignore attempts to unrightfully force medical therapy upon me and react accordingly.
I’m frankly kinda shocked there are still people arguing for it honestly.
Every conspiracy theory against isn't hasn't happened. All the mass deaths that were foretold didn't happen, all the claimed heart attacks were just noise that fools tried to elevate as signal, etc... But the real thing that is still with us is a new endemic disease that is killing people.
At best you are mistaken, more likely you are actively lying. You have, per your own story, been demonstrated as incorrect. No one should take you seriously.
Relevant because we’re supposed to trust the same industry that created the virus to save us.
The astrazeneca vaccine the one in the UK did have problems and was still safer than covid! Compare the payout rates to the amount of people vaccinated and try having some nuance. The existence of a solution to a problem doesn't mean the problem was the size conspiracy nutjobs say it was.