Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices

Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by penny4yourthot on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @09:13PM (#27991695)

I'm trying to think how this could be even close to the same situation.

I realize it's hard to believe I'm not being snarky, but I'm legitimately asking. How is this similar to segregation based on skin color?

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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by jimmydorry on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @09:22PM (#27991754)

Not the GP, but I'm imagining that they meant that in the same way the 'War on Drugs' was not discrimination based on skin color, it had a disproportinate impact on African-American communities (which for all accounts was by design).

Lower socioeconomic communities have poorer access to vaccinations and lower rates of vaccination.

Just because something does not claim to discriminate by race, does not make it true. Measures to segregate the unvaccinated WILL impact lower socioeconomic communities more than middle class communities.

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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by Animats on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @09:39PM (#27991861)

Lower socioeconomic communities have poorer access to vaccinations

Early on, maybe. Not now.

Find the poorest zip code in Alabama, 35203, which is in Birmingham. Look it up in Vaccines.gov. Nearest vaccination locations:

Publix Supermarket, 0.79 miles, in stock.

UAB Hospital, 1.03 miles, in stock.

Walgreens, 1.62 miles. CVS, 1.65 and 1.74 miles.

Legion Field vaccination clinic, 1.99 miles.

There are a dozen more within 5 miles.

That's a populated area. If you look for Cotopia, AL, a small remote town in the poorest county in Alabama, where the post office closed in 1986, it's not quite as easy. You have to go 9 miles, to the nearest WalMart (#10-0731).

If you can make it to a WalMart, a CVS, or a Walgreens, you can get vaccinated.

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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by Animats on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:21PM (#27992462)

The Tuskegee airmen experiments.

Which confuses two completely different events, the Tuskegee untreated syphilis experiment and the Tuskegee airmen, both over half a century ago.

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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by Fine-Cut4983 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:33PM (#27999022)

The US government has historically conducted quite a bit of experimentation on broad swaths of the population [1], not just your favored marginalized groups. So it sounds like "Karen" is perfectly justified in her skepticism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by TeeMassive on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @09:18PM (#27991725)

Religious convictions, lack of trust, fear of getting an experimental vaccine (which it is under the laws they were authorized and developed). To answer to your question, those things are very hard to change although not at hard as race.

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