It's one thing to mock COVID vaccine objectors. Must we rob their livelihoods, too?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In an age in which religiosity is waning, the notion that a person would forgo a medical treatment, perhaps even a life-saving one, because of sincerely held faith must be difficult to understand.

That’s one charitable explanation for the often uncharitable treatment of individuals who have chosen not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

But even worse than the derision such people face in the public square are the efforts of employers — now at the behest of the federal government — to rob them of their livelihoods unless they comply.

A court has prevented one such employer, United Airlines, from further implementing its plan to put unvaccinated employees — who have sought and received an exemption — on unpaid leave, pending further hearing on the matter.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-thing-mock-covid-vaccine-144858690.html

If they're working around the general public then yes. They can find other work where they're less likely to come into contact and infect others.

[Skittles]

1. life should be made difficult for people who endanger the public health

why should they be coddled? Fuck them.

[Pobeka]

2. Yes. n/t

[walkingman]

3. When you put your fellow employees and the public in danger

then that is unacceptable. I know that every place I worked there was a "Code of Conduct" as a condition of employment.

[The Magistrate]

4. An Exception, Sir, To The Usual Rule Of Headlines

A headline couched as a question generally should be answered no, but in this case, the answer is yes.

Of course people who endanger others deliberately, for whatever reason, should face public opprobrium. They deserve it.

[dchill]

5. The religion is Trumpishism.

I mock their faith because their faith mocks everyone else.

[Walleye]

6. They can pull themselves up by their bootstraps."Sovereign citizens"shouldn't need to have employers

[Ms. Toad]

7. They've got it backwards.

It is the mocking that is troublng (understanding, but troubling from a how-we-treat-each-other perspective). Vaccinatons as as job requirement are just good public health - like washing hands after you use the bathroom, wearing hairnets or caps if you are handling food, etc.)

No one is robbing anyone of their livelihood. They have a choice, and choices have consequences. There are jobs I will never hold because of my ethical choices. I could make different choices - but being shut out of those jobs is a consequence of certain choices I made.

[RockRaven]

8. If you live in a literal bubble, then being unvaxxed is solely your business. If you breathe the

same air as other people, then it is everyone else's business.

And if your job involves interacting with any other people and the air they breathe, then yes your employment status ought to be in jeopardy because of the danger you are choosing to impose upon others.