So My coworker does not get vaccinated for anything due to religious practices and she’s worried about our job making it…

If raising the premium by $200/month means people especially those who have strong religious values don’t have to go against their faith or morals to please society so be it. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I believe in what’s morally acceptable and telling someone with strong religious values to get vaccinated for something that 100% goes against their beliefs is wrong.

@ajaecymone184, Those mitigation policies you have in place at work can’t last forever. Y’all can’t be holed up in your offices on zoom for the next 3 years, so looking forward the employer feels vaccines are necessary to return to as normal as possible. Like others have said, she is free to find another job. No one forces anyone to stay employed at a certain place. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@ajaecymone184 alot of trucking industries. My husband and brother both worked for JB Hunt and Currently a contractor for fed ex. Neither required it. My future bil is a door manufacturer for reeb and they aren't requiring it.y other bil works in sales I don't remember what company they didn't require it. Both gas stations my sister worked for did not require it.

@ajaecymone184, there’s many.

what industry isn’t requiring employees to be vaccinated?

then find a different industry. Choices have consequences. It’s not entrapment. That’s grasping at straws.

@dontblockmesis-imjustspeakingfacts, Technically it’s not, because it’s entrapment. That’s like saying to small towns “you don’t have to shop at Walmart” but that’s the only grocery store in the whole town. If every job starts requiring it (which in my state that looks to be the case) there really aren’t other options.

They aren’t being forced. She can work at a company that doesn’t require it. It is optional. She had the option to work else where.

We already practice strict Covid-safe practices though. I work in a law firm as a paralegal and we all have our own individual offices, we do our meetings over zoom, majority of our faxing over email, wear mask and they have a cleaning crew come through every night to disinfect everything. So I don’t think making vaccines mandatory is really necessarily especially since people who are vaccinated can still catch/pass the virus to others and in circumstances where religion is involved I think it’s inhuman to force them to get vaccinated. Maybe you aren’t religious or as deeply invested into it as others but some people value and take it very seriously. Idk I just think it’s wrong.. and it’s not really “optional” when you have kids to feed, bills to pay and other responsibilities.

@squishymommy1, for real I was like this comment doesn’t even deserve a response 🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

Sometimes I can’t help myself 😩 😂

yes I understand! Sometimes I start typing a response and just delete it halfway through like what’s the point lol

@wellabean0413, builds the amune system lol nothing more than a head cold to us. Keep sheltering your poor kids and they want have a amune system at all. That’s cute how y’all think a shot is gonna pretect you from a virus lol just like those silly mask you all wear.

@wellabean0413, Imagine how reckless and irresponsible you have to be to get covid 3 times. Not sure I believe that anyway. 🤨 They must have poor “amune” systems to continue to get covid.

@wellabean0413, oh long term side effects you say just like that new vaccine 🤣 enjoy 😉 your future we are doing well and very healthy.

We are in a pandemic meaning we don’t have enough herd immunity so it’s extremely dangerous to not get vaccinated. People are still dying at an alarming rate.

Is there a pandemic right now for any of the things you just mentioned ? No.

furthermore, girl you know damn well what I mean when I say it only affects you meaning your body. I’m not talking about an employer needing to look for someone to cover you which wouldn’t be that hard.

Unvaccinated people can pass that infection on to others in their family, at the workplace, literally anywhere. In other words, “your choice about your body” can result in many other bodies being negatively impacted.

Have a nice day.

@ekko, she’s about to fall from how far she’s reaching.

For all of those, except HIV, if you were to infect me with any, or all, of which you've listed, I can seek treatment, my life wouldn't necessarily be in grave danger if you refuse to get treatment and put me at risk. Furthermore, none of those have caused a pandemic, but correct me if I'm wrong. Now HIV, it has such a specific route of infection, if you knowingly infect someone with HIV, that's a crime. Anyway, let's say you did infect someone with HIV, it may be an epidemic, but it was never a pandemic, also, individuals who are HIV positive live long healthy lives with treatment. If you refused treatment, that doesn't mean I would be affected, as long as I'm not swapping certain body fluids with you. Covid-19 is far deadlier than all the infections you've mentioned.

I'm sorry it affected your thyroid, I truly am. Covid could have affected your thyroid too had you been infected. The thyroid hormone production is often affected by viral and respiratory infections. I really hope that your endocrinologist will find something that will work to lower your tsh and thyroid hormones

I was infected with covid, so was my husband and daughter back in November of 2019, when everyone was told its just a random virus. I lost sense of smell, taste and my hearing was muffled, pounding headache, and a cough that lasted months, chest tightness and an on again off again fever. Oddly did not affect my asthma, or thyroid. Hubby had shortness of breath, loss of taste and smell cough that did not go away and a fever for 2 weeks. my daughter was weird with vomiting and diarrhea and had a fever and cough for 2 weeks. August of 2020 we still had decently high antibodies.

I'd rather have covid again then the symptoms from my thyroid.

It’s still your body your choice but it’s their company and their choice 🤷🏼‍♀️

See, I still see it as there being a choice. Vaccinate or don’t work there. Those are the choices. You are free to make yours. Arby’s probably won’t require it. The requiring business are trying to save lives and trying to save their business. Either help, or get out.

Lose employment, your financial security or get a vaccine is the government forcing people to be vaccinated. If you’re for authoritarian style governing just say that. Don’t try to act like it’s not something, that it clearly is.

that is not force. That’s a choice you are making by not getting vaccinated. Just like you can’t travel internationally to many countries if you don’t get vaccinated (and not just for covid). Choices have very real world consequences

I think people are just for keeping people safe at work. If a company requires people to work onsite then policies need to be put in place to help keep employees safe. I don’t think it’s right that companies are requiring people to return to the office with no proper protocols put in place especially when a lot of jobs can be done from home.

@dontspankme, damn I didn’t even see you here at first lol

@dontspankme, everyone is religious now that they are allowing religious exemption.

mmhmm no need to lie boo boo

If raising the premium by $200/month means people especially those who have strong religious values don’t have to go against their faith or morals to please society so be it. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I believe in what’s morally acceptable and telling someone with strong religious values to get vaccinated for something that 100% goes against their beliefs is wrong.

@ajaecymone184, there’s many.

@ajaecymone184 alot of trucking industries. My husband and brother both worked for JB Hunt and Currently a contractor for fed ex. Neither required it. My future bil is a door manufacturer for reeb and they aren't requiring it.y other bil works in sales I don't remember what company they didn't require it. Both gas stations my sister worked for did not require it.

@ajaecymone184, Those mitigation policies you have in place at work can’t last forever. Y’all can’t be holed up in your offices on zoom for the next 3 years, so looking forward the employer feels vaccines are necessary to return to as normal as possible. Like others have said, she is free to find another job. No one forces anyone to stay employed at a certain place. 🤷🏼‍♀️