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Originally Posted by MandoMan

I strongly agree with mandating vaccinations. Consider that when people enter the military service, they all receive a lot of shots and vaccinations, often injected at one time by air gun. They get mandatory haircuts, even if it is against their religion. Of course Covid vaccinations should be required!

And of course OSHA should be involved, as this is a matter of workplace safety. OSHA mandates when masks must be worn when removing paint, for the safety of workers. Workplace safety is their job! Keeping people away from workplace infections is part of a safe workplace.

There are a lot of jobs where you can’t work if you have tuberculosis, or AIDS, or Herpes or if you are a carrier of some strains of bacteria. Many workers are required to get tetanus shots. Smoking isn’t allowed usually in restaurants, stores, hospitals, government buildings, offices. Why? Because the smoke might hurt those who don’t smoke. The risk from Covid is much greater. One role of government is keeping us safe. These rules help keep us safe. Do you want to enter the hospital knowing that the nurse or aide or janitor there might be giving you a possibly fatal disease? I want Covid vaccinations required in medical settings! I want them required for grocery store check-out clerks!

Back when George Washington required all of the soldiers in his army to be inoculated for smallpox, I’m sure there were some who didn’t want to be, but they had to anyway, even though a couple of them caught smallpox from the inoculations and died. Those smallpox inoculations saved hundreds of lives and so helped win the war. I doubt that many of them who were inoculated would rather have contracted smallpox or given it to other people.

Excellent post.