kaylee.

Don’t worry, I was not expecting lightbulbs to ignite.

The decisions to raise prices are made by those at the head of businesses and corporations. Sure they may blame the “supply chain”, but the reality is, the supply chain, taxes, or any other factor, caused them to incur losses, and raising prices is a way to either make profit or make up for losses. Many losses in profit occurred during the last 2 years. After an economic downturn coupled with a pandemic, that is what happened. We now have the highest inflation rates in 40 years. I am not claiming these correlations are absolutely the only factors, but it would be naive to not consider this considering this is how capitalism works.

Crazy-Left Here: since this would never cross your mind naturally: inflation is the result of the decisions of 1% of the population — the business and corporate elite—and while the 99% endure the impact of rising prices, this tiny minority does not suffer from the economic realities they created. if awareness of basic facts of economics and holding a critical view of our capitalist system makes me crazy, then awesome.

The ONLY contraindications to the vaccine are allergy related, particularly anaphylaxis or a known allergy to one of the ingredients. Other serious medical conditions do not preclude getting vaccinated. Not only that, but such patients are high priority for vaccination because if they get covid they are at very high risk of severe disease or death. This is not about being argumentative, or being right. At this late stage any misperceptions must be confronted. This is no longer the time to be doubling down on one’s beliefs with information that may very well save your loved one’s life.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a visit to the AN Covid boards over the last 6 months drove the decision for this new statement…

We care about the unvaccinated because we want to end the pandemic! The reason we still have a pandemic despite an effective vaccine is because there is still a large enough proportion of the population without immunity to allow the virus to perpetuate. And YES - its true that the vaxxed are spreading it too, but this will eventually decline and halt once enough of the population has immunity. The longer the virus is allowed to replicate and persist, it is more likely that a new variant will emerge that is more infectious than the current, and a higher and higher percentage is needed to reach herd immunity to end the pandemic.

One word: capitalism. employers set the terms, and you have contract freedom: you are free to coply and free to leave. Enterprises under capitalism tell you what to do, when to do it, and under what conditions. As workers our locus of control absent collective action is to agree with their terms or find employment elsewhere.

To the OP: what is your take on it? Surely you already have some opinion on the matter, which is why you initiated this discussion. As for me I am in support of mandates for this vaccine that are in line with the other important vaccines that we require for children in schools.

Here are three people to search in you tube immediately. They are experts who are passionate about educating science. I follow them religiously. Paul Offit - My #1: The guy other experts turn to for guidance. Vincent Racaniello - Colombia Virology professor and has podcast called This week in Virology (twiv). I have learned SOO much from his content!! Gregory Poland from Mayo - excellent weekly updates If you are interested in learning and understanding the science, please check these guys out!

I laughed for the entire 4 minutes I spent reading that article!

I couldn’t have summarized it any clearer than that! Love this!

this vaccine especially, but I am not in support of personal exemptions for vaccines in general… my example was not meant to mirror or mimick closely the situation, I was just making the point that employers must ensure that employees - in whatever way possible - are not increasing risk of harm to patients, or customers…drinking pilots is an extreme example…but unvaccinated healthcare workers and drunk pilots both pose a danger to those they are caring for.

Airlines set standards on the behavior and actions of pilots. they cant do things that put the passengers at risk, like drinking on the job. The things that can harm others are things a company is responsible for preventing, and this includes ensuring employees choices, actions and decisions are one’s that do not put clients/customers/patients/other employees in harm’s way. A pilot can either not drink before flights or not be a pilot. In healthcare, employees can harm patients in many ways, one of them is potentially spreading a deadly virus. A nurse can either vaccinate, not work as a nurse, or, if a nurse chooses to remain susceptible, must mitigate the risk to others by wearing a mask, weekly testing, etc. I personally would be happy if all personal/religious exemptions were eliminated for schools and other sectors.

The idea of colonization proposed that instead of integrating freed slaves into American society, they would be better off if relocated to Africa where they could pursue a life free from the prejudice they would indefinitely face living in America. Your comment was: “Africa should be built up in a way that if blk people didn't want to deal with racism, they should have the option of living equally nice in Africa”. To suggest that if Blacks don’t want to deal with racism they can just leave is much more disturbing when suggested in 2021.

So basically you support the ideas of colonization? If not you could have fooled me, since this is almost word for word one of their main arguments. If you have no idea what I am referring to then your words are just ignorant, but no less racist.