Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices

Post by fruityrudy » Fri, Aug 06, 2021, 7:42 PM UTC

muyuu wrote: post #565

fruityrudy wrote: post #364

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> “I decided the risk was worth it” It’s funny though how you say this phrase for a vaccine and not for the hundreds of other riskier situations you face daily. “I drove a car…risk was worth it I decided”. It sounds a bit self-important. Vaccines are just something you do. For me it was not a decision. It’s an interesting exploration in psychology where people oppose something mostly because they are told to do it. L…

> It’s funny though how you say this phrase for a vaccine and not for the hundreds of other riskier situations you face daily. “I drove a car…risk was worth it I decided”. epistemic risk is fundamentally different from empirical risk you started off strong with the max level condescendence and ignorance but I do agree with the rest of the message, roughly at least

Thanks, had a good read up on epistemology.

Post by ovi256 » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 11:43 AM UTC

jeofken wrote: post #357

oldcigarette wrote: post #90

I work at google and am vaxxed but this pisses me off. I decided that the vaccine was worth the risk and for the best overall but if someone makes a different calculus I can understand and respect that. IMHO they gone way outside the reasonable scope of an employer - this is a cultural decision at the society level - why the fuck does my employer give a shit about this. Unless the employees are only commuting back an…

If you’re programming, I encourage you to get into self employment. Your customers will care about your output, reliability, and value to them.

If you need to meet customers in person, in their offices, they'll most likely require visitors to be vaccinated against Covid too. So you'd have to meet remotely only, which is a different market (it seems to put you in competition with a jillion people from low cost countries).

Re: Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices

Re: Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices