"Covid and the vaccines are more about having the right politics than health, safety, keeping people out of hospitals, etc etc. People are fighting back agains the wrong thing. The managerial class now has a new way to measure who their true followers are and they are going to keep using it."
This is absolutely true.
If it weren't true, then natural immunity would count for something - but it doesn't. Because it's not about health.
And then there's this -
A place where I used to work part-time, and am now down to limited free-lance as I transition out completely, has a vaccinate-or-test policy.
I happen to know who else is using the test option because I was privy to that info. The vast majority are vaxxed; a few people have official medical reasons and are using the testing option, and one person has a strong philosophical objection, and has also already had covid. (As for me, I kind of slid under the radar; I initially told them that I had "concerns" about the covid vax "due to a vaccine reaction in the past" - technically true, in the most stretched sense of the word "true" - but that I "hadn't yet spoken to my doctor" (true), so they told me just to use the test option until it got sorted out with my doctor. Then I went from part-time to freelance and started transitioning out, and the whole thing sort of got dropped for me, since I'm on site so little, and I just bring a negative test in case they ask for it. Pretty soon I won't be there at all.)
Anyway, the rest of the employees know that some number of people have medical exemptions (but not who), and that one person made a stink - and they know who that one person is.
Who do you think they're afraid of?
There was a meeting with a bunch of grousing about how "unsettling" it was to be around so-and-so, who "won't get vaccinated even though she can!", and someone asked "are we sure she's getting tested?!" Mind you, they ALSO knew that this person had already had covid. And also know that any one of the people in the room might be one of those with a medical exemption.
They have no concern about the medical-exemption people hiding among them. Just the philosophical-exemption person who is not only getting tested, but who ALSO has natural immunity.
There is absolutely no health or safety logic to this. It's some kind of bizarre in-group political loyalty test.
And these people are in my experience typical of the mindset of the PMC.
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This is absolutely true.
If it weren't true, then natural immunity would count for something - but it doesn't. Because it's not about health.
And then there's this -
A place where I used to work part-time, and am now down to limited free-lance as I transition out completely, has a vaccinate-or-test policy.
I happen to know who else is using the test option because I was privy to that info. The vast majority are vaxxed; a few people have official medical reasons and are using the testing option, and one person has a strong philosophical objection, and has also already had covid. (As for me, I kind of slid under the radar; I initially told them that I had "concerns" about the covid vax "due to a vaccine reaction in the past" - technically true, in the most stretched sense of the word "true" - but that I "hadn't yet spoken to my doctor" (true), so they told me just to use the test option until it got sorted out with my doctor. Then I went from part-time to freelance and started transitioning out, and the whole thing sort of got dropped for me, since I'm on site so little, and I just bring a negative test in case they ask for it. Pretty soon I won't be there at all.)
Anyway, the rest of the employees know that some number of people have medical exemptions (but not who), and that one person made a stink - and they know who that one person is.
Who do you think they're afraid of?
There was a meeting with a bunch of grousing about how "unsettling" it was to be around so-and-so, who "won't get vaccinated even though she can!", and someone asked "are we sure she's getting tested?!" Mind you, they ALSO knew that this person had already had covid. And also know that any one of the people in the room might be one of those with a medical exemption.
They have no concern about the medical-exemption people hiding among them. Just the philosophical-exemption person who is not only getting tested, but who ALSO has natural immunity.
There is absolutely no health or safety logic to this. It's some kind of bizarre in-group political loyalty test.
And these people are in my experience typical of the mindset of the PMC.