Depends on your definition of “required”. Legally? No, and it’ll never happen. As far a mandates for privileges such as jobs and advanced education? Yes. It’s no different than any other vaccine requirement.
And this has been pointed out ad nauseam, nowhere am I mandated to show proof of any other vaccination to work.
I was not mandated to show proof of vaccination when I attended high school nor college.
Yes, gradeschool had the checklist for my doctor to verify, but I also went to gradeschool with kids that were unvaccinated.
Some for religious reasons, others for personal reasons, a few for medical reasons.
They weren't denied an education. I wasn't denied an education. We all sat in the same class. Unmasked. Within 6 feet of one another.
At all my schools and places of employments, I've picked up colds, flus, whatever. It happens.
There are risks we accept as humans for wanting to live on this planet.
We can get struck by lightning. We can get hit by cars. We can drown in pools/bathtubs/lakes/rivers/oceans/seas. We can overdose on drugs. We can not have our chute open skydiving. We can fall off a mountain trying to climb to the top.
Point is, there are inherent risks just being a human that is afforded liberties and freedoms.
Father time is undefeated and we all go at some point. Some get to have Willard Scott ( used to, anyway ) wish them happy 100th. Some aborted in the womb. And a whole host of ages in-between. We can't prevent ALL death. It sucks when anyone dies, especially those close to us.
But this, all of this, surrounding COVID seems like using a Hiroshima style nuclear bomb to kill a gnat.
Heart disease and cancer killed almost twice as many people each in 2020 than COVID.....with the caveat "confirmed or presumed COVID".
While heart disease and cancer are non-communicable, we also have to factor in the number of people who contract these diseases/causes of death that do not die from them.
This Viewpoint from the US National Center for Health Statistics reports a 2020 mortality estimate 17.7% higher than that of 2019, with leading causes of death comprising heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19.
jamanetwork.com
How many people have contracted COVID and lived?
How many people contracted COVID and didn't even know it because they were asymptomatic?
How many people did the old "just gonna lay on the couch and drink broth and water until I feel better" and didn't get an OFFICIAL diagnosis to be counted?
I'm strictly using the reporting numbers, and again, it seems like such a knee jerk reaction to something that is essentially a ramped up flu.
If these current vaccines, all the MRNA versions, do NOT prevent the transmission nor the acquisition of the virus ( and they do not ), what's the point to those that wish to chalk this up to just another landmine in life to navigate and just go about their normal business?
Those who wish to take the "wait and see approach" to the current vaccines, or wait for a different kind of vaccine, or don't wish to vaccinate at all for whatever reason.....why are we treating them as lepers and outcasts? Why are we bullying them? Why are we discriminating against them? The only confirmed positive of the current MRNA vaccines is that you're not "hit as hard" as if you were unvaccinated.
So taking the vaccine ONLY benefits you......nobody else.
The nonsense about "overburdening" the hospitals/doctors' offices is just that. NONSENSE.
I work for a hospital system.
Our system has not mandated the vaccine yet.
But there are surrounding competitors that have, and they face overburdening because of lack of workers due to forced resignations/firings over the vaccine.
These same people who were OK to work there when there was no vaccine, who didn't have proper PPE and forced to reuse N95 masks or even cloth masks, to do their jobs treating medical injuries?
REE-DIC-U-LOUS.
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