Hospital threatens to fire workers who refuse COVID-19 vaccine

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21. In Montana, they're already trying to make it illegal!

I posted this in a response to another DUer's post earlier today:

From the Helena Independent Record (April 7, 2021):

A bill prohibiting publicly accessible businesses and government agencies from denying access or goods to people on the basis of their vaccination status advanced on a preliminary vote in the House on Tuesday.

House Bill 703 passed second reading on a 58-42 vote, while another measure making it easier to get a medical vaccine exemption, House Bill 334 moved forward a 29-21 second reading vote in the Senate.

HB 703, sponsored by Rep. Jedediah Hinkle, R-Belgrade, focused his comment on vaccine passports, a concept being developed by some states, countries and businesses as a type of documentation required for people to travel or attend certain events to ensure they have immunity to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.


https://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/montana-lawmakers-advance-measures-barring-vaccine-passports-easing-exemptions/article_030c7ab9-5982-5d72-8e1e-0eb45b9620da.html

What I want to know is, does this mean they will STOP requiring schoolchildren to be vaccinated to attend public school? Is that next? Right now, they're required to be vaccinated against no fewer than five different diseases.

https://www.mcpsmt.org/Page/2111

And what about requiring people who work at a hospital to take a TB test? I suppose they would see that as a terrible infringement on individual rights, too!

My hope is that as the anti-vaxxers see that people who have been vaccinated are NOT dropping over dead, nor are they dying from Covid or getting seriously ill from it, that they will grudgingly go get themselves vaxxed.

Also, I'd like to see businesses give very generous perks to people who have been vaxxed, like 20 percent off their purchase, maybe special events just for the vaxxed, things like that. Just a cavalcade of benefits that would give anti-vaxxers a crushing FOMA (fear of missing out) reaction.

And I'd like to see people reward businesses in turn by only patronizing those in which all employees have been vaxxed and still wear a mask to protect against variants.