My job is requiring COVID vaccine now
By maezee
@maezee (41988)
United States
August 19, 2021 8:27pm CST
I work for the government, and maybe this is not new, but they announced this week that if you work ON SITE, you are required to either be fully vaccinated OR get covid tested (and a negative test) EVERY WEEK and present it to your manager. If you are fully vaccinated (and prove it with the card), there's no need to be tested weekly.
I am really surprised my job is doing this. To be honest, while I am pro-vaccine - I don't feel like it really impacts ME if my co-workers are not. Does it?
I have talked to a lot of different people about this, and different people give me many different opinions on the matter. Some have said GOOD! Others have said - facism! Not right! Etc.
Where do you weigh in on this?
Is your job or any other place you frequent requiring them?
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22 responses
@mom210 (9117)
• United States
25 Aug 21
I hear there are many jobs requiring it now. Seems like if you want to eat you have to do it. But I wonder if they require it from those that get food stamps? It seems to me, if you are going to require it from productive citizens you should from the unproductive as well. I do not agree with the requirement we are a free country.
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@thedevilinme (4128)
• Northampton, England
20 Aug 21
I dont agree with compulsory vaccination in the digital age as those passports will have other medical information n
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@Fleura (30404)
• United Kingdom
14 Sep 21
@thedevilinme I see. That is a concern. Also a surprise - even my own doctor doesn't seem to know my medical history!
@thedevilinme (4128)
• Northampton, England
14 Sep 21
@Fleura The digital passport will ACCESS our medical records in the UK
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@pumpkinjam (8763)
• United Kingdom
20 Aug 21
I really think it depends on the job and the reasons for the requirement. There are already businesses and industries (health is the usual one) where certain tests and vaccines are required.
I also work for government but I work from home so it wouldn't make sense for them to require anything like that! For those working in the office, especially those on the front desks interacting with multiple different members of the public each day, I could understand if they asked for them to be vaccinated.
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@marguicha (223077)
• Chile
20 Aug 21
In my country while vaccine is volontary the government strongly advises in favor of vaccines.My personal feeling is that people should receive the vaccine to maybe beat the covid.
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@prashu228 (37524)
• India
20 Aug 21
yes it requires...
All the government officials are already vaccinated ..in the office itself ..free..
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@liuhanliang666 (65)
• China
20 Aug 21
As of yesterday, China had inoculated 1.9 billion doses of COVID vaccine,I have got my second doses of vaccine two month ago. everyone around me has finished inoculated, or at least one dose, too. In my opinion,we should actively cooperate with the government's prevention countermeasures.
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@Butterfingers (66583)
• India
20 Aug 21
I feel soon everything will be this way, already you need to be fully vaccinated to travel abroad and also for domestic travels and things will be strict
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@snowy22315 (180805)
• United States
20 Aug 21
It is part of the social contract. I think it is not only your right but you responsibility to get vaccinated, and why some people wanto play politics with their lives and those of others is beyond me.
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@kaylachan (69824)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Aug 21
I get disability and don't work. At least not for an employer. I work for myself doing tasks online. That's my "job". It doesn't require COVID testing or vaccination.
Depending on the job, I could see a vaccionation record being needed. Every year we had to get TB tested (if we could) or if not, get a chest x-ray done every five years. We still had the right to refuse, as there's no law saying a business can force anything on you, but with COVID, places have no problem firing you, if you don't comply. Well.... not necessarily true. Some places might threaten it, but can't afford to lose the employees they already have.
Okay, so I got distracted. If you work closly with people, school, hospital, nursing home, then I can see and understand the requirment. But considerations should be made for those who might be alergic to the vaccine, are vaccine resistant (can't get ANY vaccine) and so on.
Weekly testing is only going to inflate numbers. Every test counts as a new case, reguardless if it's possitive or negative. So, that should not be a thing, because that'll only cause more problems. Test someone enough, for example, it's eventually going to switch to either positive or negative because there's a thing called false rate...
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
20 Aug 21
If the vaccine is not FDA approved — and it isn’t — then I don’t see how anyone can be forced to take it.
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@youfiq (2565)
• United States
20 Aug 21
this is the government's most effective strategy, asking workers through their companies to be vaccinated, it can also be said that this is forced voluntarily
because many companies make vaccines as the standard of work, otherwise there may be mutations for workers. we certainly don't want that to happen
but even so the goal is good, so that we all take care of our health
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