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by meetingthrower 1290 days ago
Unbelievable huge win for humanity! And all that glory could have and should have been worn by the Trump administration. 90% reduction in deaths!!! Amazing! What a collosal stupid species we humans are to complain about this result.
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tekknik 1290 days ago
Who’s complaining about the result? I’m specifically complaining about the forced vaccination. I’m a big boy and can isolate myself to avoid illness. Why force it on me?
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lern_too_spel 1289 days ago
If you were isolated, who was there to force vaccination on you? The point of society is that if you live with other people, you get to benefit from hospitals and schools, but you must also submit to the rules of society to let you access those benefits, including vaccination to not overrun the hospitals and taxes to fund the schools. If you live by yourself, nobody is going to bother you, but you don't get the benefits either.
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tekknik 1289 days ago
My job forced me, again I explained and like many other in tech I even worked from home. That still didn’t stop the mandates. And you’re still ignoring the many others that have lost their jobs. NY was forced to reinstate police officers recently.

Also you do realize you’re contradicting yourself? You’re saying nobody forced anything but if you want to live in society you must follow the rules. There were no laws forcing me, it was my desire to keep my job. My job created the mandate, not society.

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lern_too_spel 1288 days ago
Where is the contradiction?

Regarding your new argument, which doesn't seem to be pointing out a perceived contradiction in any interpretation I can make of it, your job created the requirement because society said it didn't want age discrimination in employment. If your employer forced only older employees to get the vaccine in order to keep its insurance costs low, there would have been lawsuits. Forcing all employees to get vaccinated has well-established legal precedent and has the benefit of reducing insurance costs slightly more.

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tekknik 1283 days ago
If you read my post again I point out the contradiction. Read it again.

Yea I’m not sure my job has many older people, nor would they care about their insurance costs.

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