Pass A Vaccination Law That Applies To Everyone - The Chattanoogan
The recent talk and push to make businesses who employ more than 100 people, responsible to do the government’s job, is confusing to me. Why are we going to force the large businesses, which make up only 1.9 percent of all employers responsible to vaccinate their people, at their expense? Yes, I said “their expense.” While the vaccine is ‘free’ the administration, production interruption, and business impacts are not. Why should businesses be expected to bear the cost anyway? I am sure one could argue, it’s a drop in the bucket for big businesses, since vaccinating larger populations of workers will ‘solve the problem” – but will it?
Only 39 percent of the U.S. population over 18 works at companies having more than 100 employees. 10 million people, or 6.3 percent of our “able bodied” population are not working at all. Another 4.7 percent are on SSDI, and 17 percent are retired. That is 28 percent of the population. When you factor in 18 and under, that number is roughly 50 percent of the population that will not be vaccinated under this program. And guess which population is more likely to be ‘out and about’?Certainly not the workers at big production facilities having greater than 100 people!
This rule fails to address roughly half the U.S. population at all. Why? Because instead of finding a way to adequately make a rule to vaccinate the entire country, our elected officials are hiding behind the skirt of OSHA – the government agency tasked with protecting Americans against “workplace” related illness and injury. COVID is a national health issue, not a workplace issue. OSHA is not staffed or set up to be the government’s enforcer of this law. OSHA’s ‘minimal’ rules can barely keep employers from killing employees as it is.
Now, there could be validity that in a hospital or healthcare setting, the exposure to COVID is a workplace risk, but Janie up in accounts payable? Uh, no. In a normal setting, an employer would deny that claim and be backed up by the work comp office in any state.
Why are our elected officials backing this stupidity? It’s clear to me – “future votes”. After all, when election time comes, they can say “I never forced anyone to get vaccinated”. But – shouldn’t they have?
I am a vaccinated Republican. I believe it is our civic duty to protect each other. It may be an old-fashioned way of thinking, but, it is how we used to be raised.
Pass a law that applies to everyone, but don’t hide behind OSHA.
Kaye Fiorello
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Perhaps we should not pass a law regarding any required medical treatment or vaccination.
Last I checked I live in the United States of America with certain inalienable freedoms granted by my Creator.
If you want to live in a land of forced medical treatment, perhaps North Korea, China, or any number of other countries run by tyrannical dictatorships.
And, by the way, my body, my choice.
Dwayne Cales
source: https://www.chattanoogan.com/2021/12/21/440481/Pass-A-Vaccination-Law-That-Applies.aspx
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