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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by eagsalazar2 on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:05PM (#28279711)
It is an empty slogan coming from you. You apply it so nonsensically here that it is obvious you care more about chest pounding faux-nationalism than the true meaning of those words. Consider the fact that right now in the US, no one is being forced to take the vaccine. No one. So your choice to defiantly refuse the vaccine is just defiance against a boogeyman you have self-servingly created, not an act of defiance against oppression.

Note: there are half-way decent arguments against taking the vaccine. Resisting govt oppression is not one of them.

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by OJFord on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:53PM (#28280314)
Well to be fair there's significant 'peer pressure' (just look at this thread!) and there's debate about 'vaccine passports' for non-travel, i.e. restaurants etc.

I had my second dose today, but I'm against having to 'prove' (or comment on) that when I decide to go anywhere (within the UK, I don't mean for travel) again.

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by eagsalazar2 on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:34PM (#28281546)
Why? As a private business I can exclude you for many reasons. If I believe you pose a health risk to me, and I demand you prove you've been vaccinated, that's my choice and it is your choice to take your business elsewhere. I might piss off or lose all my customers but that is my right. Again, no govt oppression or threat to your liberty.
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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by OJFord on Monday August 23, 2021 @07:12PM (#28283242)
I wrote another couple of paragraphs that touched on that but deleted them.. yes, as an option for individual businesses, fine, free market, fully in support of that.

I just don't want to see it mandated. (Nor disallowed.)

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by guscost on Monday August 23, 2021 @06:04PM (#28282572)
You are of course entitled to your own opinion, but I am still going to do what I think is right, and you are going to deal with it. Simple as that.
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