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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by rualca on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:36AM (#27993134)
> Is this really pushing the envelope though? Routine drug testing by employers, for example, has been considered totally acceptable by society for decades now.

I don't know what's the experience in the US, but in my home country everyone has a little booklet they carry with them since pretty much birth where we register not only when we took vaccines, such as measles or tetanus or hepatitis, but also when we should take the booster shots.

Oddly enough, the booklet looks a bit like a passport. Well, a passport is also a log, right?

So I'm kind of baffled why some people claim this is a radical turn of events.

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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by ad404b8a372f2b9 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @04:21AM (#27994141)
The radical change is when you make access to events, places and employment conditional on this passport's contents.
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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by hef19898 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:37AM (#27994563)
The radical change is that previous generations took, at scale, vaccines against Polio and Small Pox. To the point these diseases don't matter really anymore. Today we tend to prioritize personal inconvenience over a truely greater good.
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