Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eventually be fired

Re:Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eve... by belltaco on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @12:10PM (#29568723)

Quitting alcohol is nowhere as easy as getting covid vaccines. If there was a cheap/free safe vaccine that reduced the chances of getting hospitalized or dying of cancer by >60%, your point would be more valid.

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Re:Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eve... by s1artibartfast on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @02:55PM (#29570802)

They are clearly not the same, but you first have to make the claim that insurance coverage should be tied to ease of prevention at all, before arguing where the line should be.

I'm not aware of any other risky behaviors that exclude coverage, so this would be a precedent.

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Re:Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eve... by criddell on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:24PM (#29572373)

I've since come around and now think they wouldn't exclude coverage, but they might charge a different premium. That seems fair.

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Re:Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eve... by ekianjo on Thursday December 16, 2021 @08:10AM (#29577745)

So are they going to charge premiums for gay people because they have a higher risk of STDs? Seems fair to you?

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Re:Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eve... by criddell on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:33AM (#29579175)

You wouldn't charge gay people more because that isn't a choice.

Do you think it's unfair that smokers pay more for life insurance?

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Re:Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eve... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:35AM (#29579198)

Pretty much every smoker has higher medical bills. Labelling all gay people as STD risks is a much bigger reach?

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Re:Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eve... by ekianjo on Thursday December 16, 2021 @08:09AM (#29577741)

If you don't have 3-4 comordibities your risk of hospitalization + dying of COVID is so low it's close to zero. Not sure what you point is, unless you consider everyone has loads of comorbidities out there.

> Quitting alcohol is nowhere as easy as getting covid vaccines

you have a choice to buy the next bottle or not, as far as I know. It's not like addiction is unavoidable. And cancer risk for alcohol consumption is not even related to addiction, you increase your risk of cancer significantly even with a small, non-zero consumption of alcohol. Look at the data.

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Re:Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eve... by azth on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @02:00PM (#29570196)

The difference is that it's a choice to get addicted to alcohol.

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