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Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

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Re: Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

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It seems we are heading in a direction where those who don't take the jab will be blocked from receiving government services, prevented from patronizing various businesses, and even restricted from traveling and the ability to work. Are most citizens really okay with this medical apartheid, or are they afraid of speaking out against it?

Re: Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

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I don't understand, if the vaccines work then why the issue? However the vaccines don't stop you catching or spreading the virus, so why is this banning of the unvaccinated a thing? Very odd.

Vaccines reduce spread because of lower viral load. Also reduces severity.

Antivaxxers can be execrated for all I care - dumbest way to enforce your freedom

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I don't understand, if the vaccines work then why the issue? However the vaccines don't stop you catching or spreading the virus, so why is this banning of the unvaccinated a thing? Very odd.

If a seatbelt doest stop you from dying in 100% of car crashes, I don't understand why they're mandatory?

> If a seatbelt doest stop you from dying in 100% of car crashes, I don't understand why they're mandatory?

While I do agree that wearing a seatbelt is in most cases a good idea, there still do exist people who are opposed to the mandatory seatbelt laws (even decades after they were introduced).

Re: Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

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I don't understand, if the vaccines work then why the issue? However the vaccines don't stop you catching or spreading the virus, so why is this banning of the unvaccinated a thing? Very odd.

The vaccines do work by diminishing severity of symptoms and thus reducing rate of hospitalization.

The unvaccinated are banned as means to put social and financial pressure on individuals to get the vaccine. It is an unfortunate misconception that any of the currently-approved intramuscular vaccines reduce transmission to a meaningful degree.

This social and financial pressure is placed on individuals because urban hospitals do not have the money or resources to deal with the rate at which they're admitting patients for severe Covid-19, and most of the patients they're admitting are unvaccinated.

Re: Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If a seatbelt doest stop you from dying in 100% of car crashes, I don't understand why they're mandatory?

Do we ban people from driving if they refuse to wear seatbelts?

You can always lose your license in some places if you are not wearing a seatbelt repeatedly.

Remember that a seatbelt also prevents your body from being a projectile that would be launched against other people in an accident, you're not just a danger to yourself when you don't wear one.

Re: Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

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I've been asking friends that believe in such punishments whether they would have punished gay people in the 1990s that got AIDS. Condoms are extremely effective at preventing transmission. Invariably no one wants to go there. Gay people with AIDS that didn't use a condom are to be cried over in our society, while those with COVID that didn't take the vaccine are to be punished.

Re: Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

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Horrible logic. Seatbelts are in the same position. They are mandatory and greatly reduce harm done in an accident. Same thing for the vaccines, you won't die and won't likely be using an ICU bed that other patients need. Go spread your FUD elsewhere.

Seat belts shouldn't be mandatory either.
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