Came to work today and learned that one of my maintenance guys got his first shot a couple of days ago. He has called in for the last 3 days. Today his face was swollen and he can't sign his name. This danger is real. I saw it with my own eyes.
UPDATE After further discussion tonight I found out that he didn't understand about the vax. He told me he needed to get his next shot next week. I told him he should wait and not do that since it was so hard on him. Then he tells me something extremely disturbing. He said he was he already had 2 shots but since the vax he took was not approved he thought he had to do it again. This is freaking unbelievable. I almost yelled at him. I told him to STOP and he is fully vaxed and to not take anymore shots and that its going to kill you if you do it again.
So I now have first hand knowledge of what the booster will do unwittingly. Everyone who is against the vax is coming up to me asking if he is going to be OK. I am deeply concerned about him now. I'm seriously not making this shit up.
I told my employees that if they get the vaccine they will be fired.
Isn't this literally the same thing we've been complaining about but in reverse?
With a few exceptions for jobs where it is directly and completely necessarily relevant, you really shouldn't be applying pressure/coercing/forcing people to make a personal health choice by holding their job as collateral.
It may not be as directly or overtly as immoral as coercing people into an experimental treatment [which borders on or is a crime against humanity, depending on situation], but it is still the same kind of thinking that's the problem.
It'd be one thing if you told them what you thought about the vaccine and recommended it, but it's another entirely to threaten firing for it.
The fact that so many people are upvoting this is disturbing to me. I'm used to this kind of hypocrisy from leftists, not people on here.
Agreed. We are defending freedom of choice, the left is supposed to be the “fall in line or else.”