To Vaccinate or Not---The Rat Flu Odyssey Continues

[toast2266]

I've been thinking about how to make this point without coming off like a dick it is what it is. You don't need the government or anyone else to pay your employees to get vaccinated if you think that is what should happen. You can make that decision on your own as their employer.

Yeah, I've thought about that a lot as well. But if I, solely as the business owner, offer to pay employees to get the vaccine, it will inject a very political discussion into the workplace. And I try pretty hard to keep that sort of political shit out of work (or at least out of my relationship with my employees) because it's guaranteed to make things toxic. On the other hand, if the government is publicly offering it as an incentive that passes through businesses, I can offer that to employees without personally wading into the fray. It adds a level of disconnect that's actually pretty valuable, at least in my particular situation.

It's not about the money; I'd happily pay a chunk of money for employees to get vaccinated, regardless of any government incentives. It's 100% about not turning my workplace into a political dumpster fire.

I dunno, maybe my situation is just unique as a small business with a pro vax owner and anti vax employees.

[Ted Striker]

Really? We have to pay these assholes to get jabbed? More like tell them they are not covered for Covid related hospital bills that can't be eliminated through doing a BK.
Fuck those stoopid people.

Young people aren't even slightly concerned about the hospital or medical bills, because they don't think they have any chance of incurring any.

[PNWbrit]

If I required vaccinations, I'm 99% sure everyone would quit.

I dunno, maybe my situation is just unique as a small business with a pro vax owner and anti vax employees.

What business are you in that 99% would quit?

[dan_pdx]

With Delta in the house, how are people feeling about group road rides? Thinking of small groups, 3-5 riders, with moderate drafting. Best avoided?

[DougW]

^ Just to make your intent clear, you mean the death rate due to a breakthrough infection after getting vaxxed is much much lower than natural infection.

No just the death rate generally from covid, I don't think that there is death rate for breakthrough infections which I would think is almost zero as would be the death rate for a reinfection after a previous infection.

I was comparing the % harm of a unvaxxed remaining unvaxxed and getting delta vs getting the jab jab. I think its pretty much slam dunk to get the jab.

[toast2266]

What business are you in that 99% would quit?

A business where I only have 4 employees, all of whom are deep down the right wing media rabbit hole, and who could move to any number of other businesses in town that offer similar pay / benefits.

It's not a bad place to work, but it's in an area where armed people are protesting school mask mandates. If I required employees get vaxxed, I believe I would be the only business in my county to do so. I think the business might get burned down (joking, but not really).

The koolaid is strong, and a whole lot of people drink it around here.

[PNWbrit]

This is why we can't have nice things.

.....and 99% of four people is how many?

[Thaleia]

In Canada we're seeing daily announcements from hospital networks, concert and sporting venues, universities, large corporations, municipal work forces etc that they are requiring all staff to be fully vaccinated. The (embarrassingly anti vacc) Toronto police is the latest.

[toast2266]

This is why we can't have nice things.

.....and 99% of four people is how many?

I'll quote myself so you'll see that the reason we can't have nice things is because people like you can't read good.

If I required vaccinations, I'm 99% sure everyone would quit.

[XXX-er]

^ Just to make your intent clear, you mean the death rate due to a breakthrough infection after getting vaxxed is much much lower than natural infection.

I read something about the coverage an unvaxed might get from a breakthru infection changing fairly quickly with time, as in < a year ??

[XXX-er]

This is why we can't have nice things.

.....and 99% of four people is how many?

I'm going to go ahead and say all of them

[goldenboy]

I think there have been lots of carrots in a lot of places. Even now, you can get a $100 gift card to Wal Mart in CO when you get jabbed. That hasn't really helped from the studies I've seen.

It's time for more sticks. Don't want to get the vaccine? OK, but no more airline flights, restaurant dinners, sporting events, or jobs that involve any amount of exposure to other people without a vaccine. Hell, I hope Vail requires proof of vaccination to ski this winter.

[XXX-er]

It sounds like thats ^^ what is happening up here in BC along with mandatory masking indoors once again

[Bronco]

I have 3 employees and offered them each $100 to get vaxed when they were first available. One was planning to get vaccinated anyway, one is a Fox News guy and it gave him an excuse to get it. One is holding out until they are FDA approved so hopefully he gets a shot here in the next few days. I forgot to revoke the offer so I'll probably pay him as well.

I also have friends who work in a school and health care. They are planning to move to Montana to evade the vaccine requirements in Washington.

[funkendrenchman]

Hell, I hope Vail requires proof of vaccination to ski this winter.

I would not be surprised.

[evdog]

That's actually one of the objections I hear lately: they're suppressing side effects and deaths because the system requires voluntary reporting. There must be a simple way to address that, right?

A guy I know and ride with occasionally refuses to get vaxxed. He recently sent a link to a vid by "America's Frontline Doctors" which he says proves the "truth" about vaccines. I clicked on it... it starts with a doctor in cowboy boots saying how nice it is to see a crowd of people not wearing masks, since those things don't do a damn thing anyways **applause!** He then immediately moves on to 10s of thousands of people who are vaccinated have died but autopsies are not being done, insinuating that vaccines are cause of death and its a cover up. This is all within the first 30sec. That's as far as I made it. My response to said friend.... I'm not angry at you, I'm just really disappointed.

[AK47bp]

A guy I know and ride with occasionally refuses to get vaxxed. He recently sent a link to a vid by "America's Frontline Doctors" which he says proves the "truth" about vaccines. I clicked on it... it starts with a doctor in cowboy boots saying how nice it is to see a crowd of people not wearing masks, since those things don't do a damn thing anyways **applause!** He then immediately moves on to 10s of thousands of people who are vaccinated have died but autopsies are not being done, insinuating that vaccines are cause of death and its a cover up. This is all within the first 30sec. That's as far as I made it. My response to said friend.... I'm not angry at you, I'm just really disappointed.

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[bennymac]

Memorial Hermann closes 3 stand-alone ERs in Greater Houston

-COVID-19 surge prompts resource management for hospital system

http://katytimes.com/stories/memoria...r-houston,4650

Everything is fine!

[Skidog]

Pretty much

[CarlMega]

one is a Fox News guy and it gave him an excuse to get it.

^this is a group that is worth targeting. People who have a conservative identity but are possibly ambivalent to the vax...give them some plausible deniability to break-herd..."hey a hundred bucks is a hundred bucks and that dick wasn't going to suck itself."

[skiJ]

Brit -

99% of four people is 3.96 people - however, as toast points out, his comment was different
( confidence, Not percentage of staff )

thanks for the chuckle --


the idea a person needs to be paid to take a vaccination during a pandemic is depressing ( and disappointing ) to me -

I do not believe History will be favorable to our response to coronavirus/covid -

I appreciate the discussion that is occurring in these pages -

Thank you, maggs... skiJ

[Percy Rideout]

I think there have been lots of carrots in a lot of places. Even now, you can get a $100 gift card to Wal Mart in CO when you get jabbed. That hasn't really helped from the studies I've seen.

It's time for more sticks. Don't want to get the vaccine? OK, but no more airline flights, restaurant dinners, sporting events, or jobs that involve any amount of exposure to other people without a vaccine. Hell, I hope Vail requires proof of vaccination to ski this winter.

NYC is going in the same direction, but...GASP. Turns out these blanket restrictions disproportionately affect minorities. THAT'S RACIST!

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/18/us/bl...tes/index.html

[KQ]

When you can't run for re-election enacting mandates is no problem:

Oregonians must mask up outdoors, governor says

[Adolf Allerbush]

When you can't run for re-election enacting mandates is no problem:

Oregonians must mask up outdoors, governor says

Overall numbers in Oregon have been pretty good...other than getting the numbnuts in the suburbs and sticks to get the poke. Point being that she has made the right calls more often than not.

[sirbumpsalot]

$29,000 a plate fundraiser in Napa over the weekend, nothing but white people with POC servants.....where are the masks? Masks for thee, but not for me:

https://nypost.com/2021/08/22/video-...si-fundraiser/