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re: Some NOLA restaurants going to vaccine mandate for customers.
Posted on 8/1/21 at 10:29 am to clooneyisgod
Posted on 8/1/21 at 10:29 am to clooneyisgod
What does that have to do with a user asking another user on a message forum if they are vaccinated? That’s what I was responding to. It has never, ever been normal to ask random friends or strangers things like that. Now.. I get the question weekly.
It would be like going around and asking strangers about their birth control status or what STDs they have or whatever else for no reason. You don’t ask people that.
Providing vaccination paperwork (a vaccine that isn’t even a long term, one and done deal like our childhood ones are) for what is essentially the flu for most people (and everyone else who it isn’t so easy for has been vaccinated on their own) to a RESTAURANT to have a meal is wildly different than submitting to college admissions that you got your polio vaccination 20 years ago. The world isn’t black or white. We can simultaneously accept established vaccinations being checked for schooling and reject Shiloh at the front door of a sandwich shop requesting a glorified flu shot printout.
It’s interesting how Tigerdroppings.com has had this shift in the past few days regarding all of this. I follow a couple of anti-lockdown subreddits and their attitude is totally on the upswing. Other states are refusing to go back to masking, standing up for themselves. And people of all beliefs/backgrounds are waking up to how absurd the whole vaccine rollout and messaging has been. TD is strangely moving the other direction.
As I said prior, I’m far from anti vaccine. Didn’t get it because I’m young and healthy. Now, I’ll have antibodies and am even less inclined to rush out. But even if I had 15 vaccinations flowing through me, I wouldn’t agree with the ostracizing of folks society is trying to do for something that isn’t deadly for the majority of people. Especially when everyone has their own opportunity to get vaccinated. ESPECIALLY not for some random service industry kid to be the enforcer.
It would be like going around and asking strangers about their birth control status or what STDs they have or whatever else for no reason. You don’t ask people that.
Providing vaccination paperwork (a vaccine that isn’t even a long term, one and done deal like our childhood ones are) for what is essentially the flu for most people (and everyone else who it isn’t so easy for has been vaccinated on their own) to a RESTAURANT to have a meal is wildly different than submitting to college admissions that you got your polio vaccination 20 years ago. The world isn’t black or white. We can simultaneously accept established vaccinations being checked for schooling and reject Shiloh at the front door of a sandwich shop requesting a glorified flu shot printout.
It’s interesting how Tigerdroppings.com has had this shift in the past few days regarding all of this. I follow a couple of anti-lockdown subreddits and their attitude is totally on the upswing. Other states are refusing to go back to masking, standing up for themselves. And people of all beliefs/backgrounds are waking up to how absurd the whole vaccine rollout and messaging has been. TD is strangely moving the other direction.
As I said prior, I’m far from anti vaccine. Didn’t get it because I’m young and healthy. Now, I’ll have antibodies and am even less inclined to rush out. But even if I had 15 vaccinations flowing through me, I wouldn’t agree with the ostracizing of folks society is trying to do for something that isn’t deadly for the majority of people. Especially when everyone has their own opportunity to get vaccinated. ESPECIALLY not for some random service industry kid to be the enforcer.
This post was edited on 8/1/21 at 10:43 am
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Posted on 8/1/21 at 10:42 am to LouisianaLady
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We can simultaneously accept established vaccinations being checked for schooling and reject Shiloh at the front door of a sandwich shop requesting a glorified flu shot printout.
You know, I actually agree with this....but I also know that ridiculously low vaccination rates in LA have led to crisis operations for hospitals in at least two of LA's major population centers. It's a bad time to have a heart attack in BR or Houma/Thib, or (g=d forbid) see a mass casualty event from accident or human foolishness in those places right now. So if not being able to go to a favorite place motivates someone to get vaccinated, then I don't care. To me, it's like requiring proper attire, or no-shoes-no-shirt-no-service. A business owner can impose particular rules within reason on their patrons.
Yes, the messaging has changed--because the dang virus continues to evolve and certainty isn't science (that's faith).
But we are capable of making calculated choices even in an environment of changing info. My choice to be vaccinated isn't really "how will this illness affect me?" It's more about "how will this illness potentially affect my immunocompromised 10 y o neighbor kid, or my transplant survivor co-worker, or my immunosupressed nephew" or any of the countless people who are at more risk than I.
A worldwide vaccine campaign has nearly wiped out polio, and we've managed to get rid of smallpox outside of bioweapons....wouldn't it be nice to see coronavirus & other illnesses go the same way.
Posted on 8/1/21 at 10:56 am to LouisianaLady
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As I said prior, I’m far from anti vaccine.
I think if you could go out of body & read your posts, you would disagree with that sentiment
Posted on 8/1/21 at 11:56 am to LouisianaLady
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As I said prior, I’m far from anti vaccine. Didn’t get it because I’m young and healthy.
It would be one thing if that was your actual position this whole time, but instead you’ve been justifying it by throwing out a bunch of Aunt Gladys forwarded email pseudoscience talking points and bullshite about the “messaging.”
This post was edited on 8/1/21 at 11:59 am
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