Ok. My speculation is that Biden and his aides feared recurrent violent episodes at airports, but that would have been unquestionably w/in his power and I wish he had done. Further: do you object to all prongs of Biden’s announced policy, eg, health care facilities, fed workers?
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I was inclined to support the mandate for health care workers. But someone pointed out to me that if concern is overwhelmed hospitals doing something that could cause healthcare workers to quit could be counter productive. So not sure.
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I've also not yet seen a compelling scientific examination of the difference between the immunity conferred by vaccination & the immunity conferred by a previous COVID infection, which is a major reason some people refuse the vaccine. (Open to persuasion on that point.)
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What I've seen is that while both the vaccines and prior COVID infection provide good immunity, prior infection immunity is stronger (the downside is that you have to get COVID).
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Yeah, there’s one study that indicated that. Don’t think that is yet the consensus, although there is agreement that prior infection and vaccination together offers the most immunity.
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The OSHA legal question is whether vaccination offers a provably significant enough improvement in immunity and/or contagiousness over prior infection that it presents a grave risk to vaccinated people to work with people who only have natural immunity from prior infection.
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Like seatbelts, vaccines reduce, but don’t eliminate risk. So “significant” is the operative word here. But again, the choice for the 100+ workers category is to have regular testing.
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These vaccines seem so good that I don't think protecting the vaccinated is a good justification (particularly sense we are talking about working age people).
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It's a 2-sided problem. If you argue protecting the vaccinated, you have the issue that the vaccinated are not in serious danger. If you argue protecting the unvaccinated - which is less politically satisfying - you run into the fact that they've made their own choice.
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One other point to make here and it’s an obvious one—25% of the workforce is unvaccinated and they pose a grave danger to *each other.* And, given how many of them there are, workplaces will obviously include multiples numbers of them (true even in health care facilities).
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The endanger each other only as a result of their own private choices.
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