Thread by @DavidLat

I find this stat insane:

“Among unvaccinated workers who are not self-employed, about 7 in 10 say they would likely quit if their employer required them to be #vaccinated and did not grant a medical or religious exemption.”

wapo.st/3DPR889

2/ As many have noted (see, e.g., below), these folks could be (and probably are) bluffing.

But I’m still surprised that they would even say this to a pollster—as opposed to “fine by me, I’m vaccinated.”

https://twitter.com/sanglamore/status/1434641064359563269

3/ We are all getting really tired of the pandemic. But it’s far from over, as this article by @MitchKSmith and @juliebosman makes clear, with 1,500+ dying of #covid19 on most days of the week.

nyti.ms/3n4ZG5e

4/ So let’s all get vaccinated and put this long nightmare behind us!

(Yes, I realize that #Covid probably isn’t going away permanently—but it will hopefully reach a level someday where it’s something we can live with, like the seasonal flu.)

5/ Good piece by @DavidColeACLU & Daniel Mach in @nytopinion on vaccine mandates. Yes, mandates intrude on your autonomy & bodily integrity—but it’s justifiable, since your rights “do not include the right to inflict harm on others.”

nyti.ms/3tghOKF

6/ As David Cole and Daniel Mach note, “no one is proposing forcible injections or criminal penalties.”

Take a vaccine mandate from an employer. If you don’t like it, you can simply get a new job.

7/ Employers can and do have all sorts of requirements for employees—and that’s okay, as long as the requirements are not discriminatory.

A vaccine mandate isn’t discriminatory in an illegal way. The unvaccinated are not a protected class.