“all civil rights” meaning you have full civil rights but can't force a private company to give you a job when you refuse to follow safety rules? Especially in a country where employers pay for healthcare it doesn't seem unreasonable to require a safe, easy, and highly effective means of avoiding very expensive treatments.
This is also far from unprecedented. I've worked at jobs which required other vaccinations, schools all around the country require a ton of vaccinations, and the people who don't want to do that for whatever reason have always had the option of homeschooling, finding another job, etc. If this is such an important issue to you, take responsibility for the consequences of your choice — there's certainly a long tradition of people accepting that as a cost of their religious decisions.
Regarding the status quo: Yes, mandates exist. The school example is a piece of paper you turn into the school office during enrollment and no one ever thinks about it again. It's not a status tracked in real time, apps don't have to be presented to enter buildings. And in most cases, people can file for exemptions if it really matters to them.
My friend started college in his late 30s and didn't have access to his childhood immunizations since it was so long ago. He had to get a blood test showing immunity before he could attend class.
Government mandating private business to inject their workers every 6 months to save face (and $$$) for the "vaccine" manufacturers is fascist and anti-human. Thankfully the over-arching Biden mandate probably won't go anywhere, but large companies such as Google are doing this as a political and financial move. NOT FOR HEALTH
When politics and money make it necessary for companies to coerce people into injections every 6 months, a constantly shifting definition of "vaccinated", then things should be re-evaluated. And if you believe in this garbage you should honestly re-evaluate your concept of liberty.
But if this seems so difficult I wonder how battling climate change will seem to us.
Definitely interesting times. Albeit dark.
Maybe the shortage of competent developers will end one day but until then, there is a very competitive labor market for all technical people not just developers. In this market, workers are not required to come into an office therefore vaccination is not an issue.
If they act on the threat, it's at their own peril and other businesses will gain. It's not the end of civil rights though.
This is like the free speech debate. You have the right to say whatever you like. Other people don't have to put up with it by listening to you though. Just as if you don't get a vaccine, other people won't want to work with you.
It is puzzling that such "bypass of privacy / speech rights" was ferociously resisted by the some of same people who now applaud the "bypass of medical / physical integrity rights". Hey look, it's not us doing the violence and suspending basic human rights – it's the private companies!
I guess people need to see how this ugly pattern plays out in full, again. I anticipate a lot of future "How could they let this happen?" and "Nobody could have foreseen this!" as well as the sad classic, "Is there no one left to stand up for me?".
Anyway. Maybe in US/SV good jobs come easier (I'm in 2nd grade EU country) and thus you can see things clearer. Dunno
You don't have a civil right to employment at Google.
It’s not a useful tool for an argument because anything can fall under that.
“Stop taking drugs because you’re harming society. You’re still free to take them though, you’ll just be put in jail. But it’s your choice.”
Au contraire [1]. For example:
> During the Revolutionary War, by contrast, George Washington immunized his troops against smallpox even against their will.
[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-long-history-of-vaccine-man...
- We got him now. We'll get these two first, then the others.
- What others? Wales and the kid are the last ones.
- Oh, no. Texas is full of rebels.
- Lots of work to do down in Texas.
- We get Josey Wales and it ends.
- Doing right ain't got no end.
They are, in fact, extremely common. The first vaccine mandate in the US was in 1809.
Complain if you want, but don't base your complaints on blatant falsehoods.