What does it matter? I haven't asked a single person if they're vaxxed because I couldn't care less. Two co-workers didn't get the vaccine until last month as it was "mandated" and it didn't matter to me at all and we all spend hours in the same room together. Why would I concern myself with some super super super low danger that's far less than the danger of driving to work? And if I did care and purposefully avoided them every way that I could and treated them like a bag of germs instead of a human being, you think that would've made them more likely to get vaxxed?So, if the passport will not increaee jab intake, are the antivaxxers staying at home? Or illegally creating their own passports?
And what place in the US besides NYC or possibly some places in Cali are implementing passports of any kind? Even in NYC, no businesses actually care about enforcing the vax requirement. Why do you wanna shut these people out of society? The benefits you gain is less than the harms to society that you're causing. If the mandate went through like nobody would be able to fly anywhere because 30% of pilots aren't vaccinated and 50% of flight attendants aren't vaccinated. And guess what is more dangerous than flying? Driving, which is what you'd be pushing people to do then if they can't fly. IIRC from an article I saw awhile back, transmission on planes is almost nonexistent so why are you forcing someone to get vaccinated when it's not harming anyone flying and then actively killing people that would've flied but now are driving and getting in fatal car accidents? Everything you do has harms and benefits and you only do something if the benefits outweigh the harms. Lastly, people previously infected have as good or better immunity than those only vaccinated so why are you wanting to force those people to get vaccinated for no benefit? Just to make you feel safer while not actually making you safer? Please tell me how say an 8 year old that had covid that you forced to get vaccinated is making you or anyone any safer to go to a restaurant?
"X DESTROYS Y!!!" isn't the title of the video. "Staggeringly Overbroad" is the title which is directly from the fucking court's report. You can read the report yourself. It's not clickbait, that's literally what the court said.That's pretty normal wording for a court ruling, it's not particularly out of the ordinary. What it represents is just that particular court's view (the Fifth Circuit being a particularly conservative one, note).
But I'm not actually disputing whether or not it's illegal or not. What I find off-putting is the clickbaity hyperbole. Nobody says "X DESTROYS Y!!!" unless you're on a pretty childish or partisan source.
Right, so you're basing what the current UK population believes on the smallpox vaccination effort of the 1850s? We've changed somewhat. Well, most of us.
The current UK government is not basing its public health policy on this stuff. The current UK government is basing its public health policy on protecting business income, balanced occasionally with a hesitation to look too mean or stupid.
Has human psychology changed since 1850? The way to get people to do something is not forcing it on them and shoving it down their throats, it's not shaming people for not doing something either. Again, HIV pandemic showed us this as well if you think 1850 is too long ago for basic human psychology. You treat people like humans and sincerely acknowledge and answer their concerns. A person on the fence over the vaccine is going to be even more against it when you force it on them, but if you just treat them like a human fucking being, you can get somewhere. A lot of people don't like the MRNA vaccines because they're too new, yet where's the article saying the J&J vaccine isn't MRNA so if that's your concern, we got something for you? Where's the article breaking down the fact that if you're a guy, the J&J is the safer vaccine as myocarditis happens almost exclusively in guys in the MRNA vaccines so take that instead, and if you're a gal, the MRNA vaccines (Pfizer/Moderna) are safer because the blood clots from the J&J vaccine are almost exclusively in women? That really fucking simple messaging and education is non-existent in the US.
Here's a perfect example of why mandating things for every single person is stupid. Louis Rossmann (Apple repairman and advocate for Right to Repair) will not be complying with NYC's mandate because one of his employees that got vaccinated got myocarditis, which resulted in a mild heart attack and basically lost 5-6 months of his life. And he even talks about how you get compliance from people in the real world, you treat them like a human being. He even points out how vaccine mandates aren't a progressive way to get people vaccinated. It's like solving crime with more police vs figuring out why crime happens in the 1st place and fixing it there.
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