I’m sure this has been discussed already, but it’s important to remember and stay focus on facts.
“Knowingly filing a false VAERS report is a violation of Federal law (18 U.S. Code § 1001) punishable by fine and imprisonment.”
If you have conversations with your employer, co worker, church, school, friends etc remind them of this.
If they want to discredit VAERS reporting, then ask them why aren’t charges being brought to thousands of people. Why would thousands of people risk going to prison? There’s no logical reason to lie about this. The normies won’t have an answer.
The data to prove you’re point is often not hidden or found on websites the mainstream folks have never heard of. Show them facts. Show them evidence. Ask them questions.
Don’t comply with these ridiculous vaccine passports and requirements at work. I will likely be fired in the next two months or be forced to find a new job, but I’m not going down without defending my rights. The next shitty job will likely try the same exact shit.
We’re at a critical point in human rights history. Fight back with facts.
Yes, Everything you are saying makes sense.
But my employer isn’t making me purchase the scary AR15. My elected leaders aren’t pressuring everyone to buy and use one. I’m allowed to make that decision. That’s the difference to me.
That logic makes perfect sense as long as you don’t take the threat of COVID seriously.
But if you do, then an unvaccinated individual poses a risk even to the vaccinated, since no vaccine is 100% effective.
If you take the virus seriously, then someone claiming a right to be unvaccinated in your workplace is like someone claiming the right to have a religious bonfire in their cubicle. Perhaps that right does exist in some sense, but when other people are put at risk by your decision, the calculus changes.
I know people here have their own opinion on the dangers of COVID, but your employers have the right to decide to listen to the people who are credentialed on these matters rather than, say, VAERS data interpreted by you.
And if they decide you aren’t worth the risk the scientists and researchers claim you to be due to your decisions, then how is that not their right to decide that?
You are welcome to take any risk you want, but nobody is obligated to let you take that risk on their property and around their people.
As far as the employer - Having the right to do it doesn’t make it right. Ethically I don’t believe an employer should get involved in their employees personal lives, specifically health. Legally sure, they can. But one thing to consider is how massive big corporations are, how connected they are with the government, and how small businesses are dwindling away. So perhaps we need some changes on what major corporations can require of their employees considering a lot of people rely on major corporations for employment.
In regards to Covid. I believe it is an illness, and I believe people have died from it. But unfortunately that is part of life.. you get sick, and you die. Covid is not life threatening to the vast majority of the population. The flu killed 400 children in the 2018-2019 flu season. We weren’t running around enforcing masks, shutting down our economy and mandating you receive a vaccine in order.
If people are waiting for there to be zero Covid deaths, that day will never come. So it is up to people to decide where their line in the sand is.
I’ve discussed the vaccine with my S.O. Daughter, parents and other close family members and made my decision. For my employer to tell me what to do with a new vaccine that has not had years of exports use to show proof of its safety is unethical.
Also, If you are vaccinated you should not be worried about dying from Covid at all according to the experts you rely on.
It might be unethical, but that’s always a matter of perspective. Some people find it equally unethical that a baker have the right to refuse baking a cake for a gay couple.
I am not sure what you want the solution to be. Like I said, from the employer’s perspective, it’s like claiming you should be able to light your desk on fire for religious reasons. The passion of your belief is never going to override a scientist telling them that flaming desks are dangerous to the whole building.
Even if you find that decision to be unethical, you surely must see how it’s an extremely ethical decision if you accept the facts they have accepted.
Comparing lighting my desk on fire in the middle of a multi level building with hundreds of people in it vs potentially spreading a disease with a very low death rate to individuals who have been vaccinated against said disease is a poor example.
It all comes down to how you balance your concerns with contracting Covid vs allowing the government and employers to control individuals throughout the situation.