We are all from different parts of the world with different walks of life. At the peak of the vaccine mandate, things got really intense--especially in some parts of the world. I had no social pressure from friends or family, but there were was some with my career.
The place I work at sent out a letter saying that vaccination was required for further employment. I began sending out job applications, and got an interviewed for a job that I really wanted, but they said I had to get vaccinated. At that time, I realized how much the pressure sucked for those I was reading about in the news. Very thankful now I never took the vaccine.
What is your story? Did you ever consider taking the vax?
pressure at work - we switched insurance companies at the beg of the year - it was going to cost us more (previous one was utter crap no one accepted it) so I went from paying out of pocket like 5 bucks a month for insurance to now just over 300 based on my choices.
Work though was willing to subsidize $250 if you had proof of the jab - this covered most people's expenses so it would be free insurance. I knew of a few people at work that got it just for that since adding an additional $250/mo expensive (more if they had spouse/kids on insurance) was not something they could afford to do.
I plan to bring it back up to our HR if this will continue - the company should just subsidize everyone (at this point it is subsidizing more than 50% of the company anyway).
For me the additional $3k yearly expense was something I could thankfully absorb easily, but I feel for those who were not in the same financial position to do so.
The legality of this is a very fine line. You can't charge extra for women who are of childbearing age, for example as that is discrimination in the group and the point of group insurance is to share and spread the risk.
Early on, I had a wait and see approach because I have a history of seizures. (It is controlled- last one was over 15 years ago.) I was filling out an application recently though and the ADA questions do include epilepsy. Even though that is not my actual diagnosis, it never occurred to me that I could sue for discrimination.
Like the new cost of insurance was because we had a much better provider that was actually accepted at hospitals so everyone would see the increase but if you have proof of the jab they would pay 250 because you were "doing the right thing to curb the spread" since they claimed most of the 2020 and 2021 insurance claims were covid.
We have a company survey going on Monday - thats definitely something I am going to be bringing up now that the "science" has caught up why shouldnt everyone get the same 250 credit or chaotic scenario (which would suck but I think would help red pill) remove the 250 credit from everyone.