Vaccine stupidity: Republicans 43%, Democrats 5%

As Mark pointed out, terminating an employee who refuses to get vaccinated wouldn't be "slippery" at all; there's ample legal precedent. Employers have always been able to mandate compliance with safety rules and procedures as a condition of continued employment.

And yeah, I would imagine there will be lawsuits when an employee who is fired for noncompliance bleats about his religious freedumbs or his paralyzing fear of adverse reactions. As far as someone getting the shot under duress and suffering a serious or lethal reaction--well, how many times has that happened? What, one person out of 75 million vaccinated developed lethal blood clots? It's not really a potential issue.

I would frame it this way. You work among other people, you assume more responsibility than you would have if you lived in a dark hole in the ground and never came out. There's an implicit social contract that you will not put other people with whom you come in contact in danger. We agree to obey traffic laws, not assault others or put them at risk of injury, not play with explosives or toxic chemicals, etc. I don't see how agreeing to not be a potential lethal virus carrier is any different.

Covid 19s are still on emergency approval (thankfully...I'd have hated to have to wait years).   I'll wait to read about the first court cases about 'tenured' employees who refuse it and are terminated. 

Glad I got mine.  Now...will it be every year like the Flu vaccine?  Fine with me.  I'll be first in line.

Good discussion, though.

Candy

The very latest word is that the presence of the new variants, which are 60% more infectious than Version A, bumps up the herd immunity requirement to 80%---and we were unlikely, what with all the (idiotic) vaccine reluctance, to get to the previous goal of 70%. So this is going to be a continuing need, and we'll all have to get booster shots every year or even as often as twice a year. All because millions of moronic fuckfaces refuse to get a simple, easy, free, and harmless shot in the arm.

The New York Times published today a nationwide map showing vaccine compliance and vaccine hesitancy (as per the results of several polls). The states with the greatest compliance were the Pacific Coast states, the North Atlantic states (including Virginia and Pennsylvania), and Minnesota. The former Confederacy, the northern Rockies and Plains states, and Cornpone Country all showed low compliance. In other words, there was an almost perfect correlation between political bent and vaccie compliance. You could see in in detail on the map, as it was keyed county by county---for instance, Houston and DFW showed high compliance while the rest of Texas was low.

Why is this still a political issue? Shouldn't people want to be safe and responsible no matter what their politics may be?

As a nation, we're doomed.

They like the idea of a uniform state because that's all they are capable of understanding. They are so blatant with their hatred but they are so hell bent on branding themselves as a 'peace-loving community'.

Stupidity knows no party affiliation:

https://news.yahoo.com/kamala-harris-says-she-wont-take-covid-vaccine-just-on-trumps-sayso-020511962.html

Both Kamala Harris and myself are vaccinated.   And both Kamala Harris and myself agree 100% with the headline of your article. 

I got vacinated because the CDC told me to....not because of anything Ex-President Clorox said.

PJ, I recall all Liberals complaining that Trump didn't pay attention to science.  Next I recall all Liberals complaining how Trump chose the best medical attention available that wasn't available to others.  Was he just lucky in his medical choices or was he listenting more than you wish to admit?  You know the answer and I know the answer.

Are these the same pollsters who predicted voting in the last two presidential elections?

So PJ takes the vaccine because Joe Biden says so but not because President Trump and Operation Warp Speed got vaccines tested and approved by all required bureaucrats in record time.

I got the vaccine and would have not matter who was President.  I'm funny that way,

No pollster has ever predicted anything. That's something you and all our other conservitards have struggled mightily to comprehend.