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In reply to the discussion: This is why a mandate is necessary. [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,062 posts)28. No. This is NOT political. Do not permit the right wing to frame it that way.
It is a matter of public health, and the solution is a public health mandate - NOT a political one.
I am done with allowing anyone (regardless of politics) to frame it as political. Responding as if it was a political issue has been a major contributor to the millions of cases of COVID, the hundreds of thousands of lives lost, and the millions disrupted.
Your freedom to choose ends when your choices put my life at risk. You don't get to choose to let your 12 year old drive a car. You don't get to drive on the wrong side of the road. You don't get to kill other people. No one frames any of these choices as political - and we wouldn't tolerate it if they tried. There is no reason to tolerate it with COVID.
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Everybody knows this has become completely political. The solution has to be political as well
Walleye
Sep 2021
#1
Some people might be under the impression the vaccine involved fetal stem cells...
Beartracks
Sep 2021
#7
I don't tolerate it. It's not political with us, just with the right wing morons
Walleye
Sep 2021
#31
Good luck with that.So we appeal to their civic duty and their conscience? Doubt that works
Walleye
Sep 2021
#36
I agree. But we're not dealing with rational minds. I prefer not to listen to them at all
Walleye
Sep 2021
#48
That's correct. To me it's humanity versus the virus, you're either with us or against us
Walleye
Sep 2021
#50
The WHO has a position paper on the ethics of vaccine mandates for Covid, and this is one
RockRaven
Sep 2021
#3
The bottom line, is that citizens of the Presidency, Biden has the right to vaccinate us.
fescuerescue
Sep 2021
#10
Not really. Only 2% of companies have more than 100 employees, but they account for about 65% of the
Dream Girl
Sep 2021
#19
I agree with that except the health insurers raising rates on the unvaxxed
fescuerescue
Sep 2021
#56
Depends who it affects. If it mostly hits gay men, Republicans wouldn't talk about it for a decade.
tclambert
Sep 2021
#55
Don't forget this is just another symptom of a for profit medical system. I asked this question in
LT Barclay
Sep 2021
#17
I just mean those salaries and payroll expenses are unnecessary costs. They do nothing to help.
LT Barclay
Sep 2021
#39
The tragedy includes 100 years of hard-fought medical advances utterly wasted
lostnfound
Sep 2021
#47
Would be nice if the dead Alabama man's family could sue the unvaccinated patients taking
Ziggysmom
Sep 2021
#53