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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by Zigurd on Monday October 11, 2021 @07:39PM (#28834320)
The government is not mandating you get vaccinated. Other than in health care, the government is mandating that large enterprises where people work closely with the public or with each other require either vaccination or frequent testing. The same goes for crowded indoor venues: Show proof of vaccination or a recent test.

This is a very lax "mandate." Nobody is going to require vaccination to drive a long-haul truck.

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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by EricE on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:24AM (#28840050)
>The government is not mandating you get vaccinated.

So they are conscripting others to mandate you get vaccinated on their behalf. Gee, that sounds an awful lot like they are conscripting companies to be state actors on their behalf. Good luck with any company trying to hide behind that. It hasn't yet sunk into corporate America the liability plank they are about to walk off of but they better wake up fast or it's going to get expensive very quickly.

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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by Zigurd on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:25AM (#28840871)
How many of the thousands of other ways the workplace is regulated for safety amounting to totalitarianism? Nearly all those regulations pertain to low probability events, which you can tell by the relative scarcity of severed limbs and poisonings etc. Why is this different?
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