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We know that 1) mask wearing is broadly considered to be a reasonable precaution against contracting COVID, and 2) COVID tends to be more serious and lethal for people who are older or have underlying health issues. Thus, the policy implicitly favors people who are younger and healthier. So you have potential age discrimination and potential discrimination on the basis of disability. |
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What are the precedents around MAGA hats or other “politically sensitive” or offensive attire? The restaurant could make the argument that the mask-wearing couple were trying to make a political statement and this was disruptive to their business. Masks are largely about virtue signalling at this point so they would have an argument. |
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Hence Bolsonaro anti-vaccine rhetoric is tuned down a lot in NYC (see how uncomfortable he was when Boris Johnson asked if they got the British vax). It’s really bizarre and an international embarrassment. The country is ruled by a maniac with a strong and very radicalized fanbase. |
As recently as July 6th Florida's 7-day rolling average of deaths per day was just 21. Now we stand at 445 deaths per day on average (and still climbing, it was in the 300s last week). More than twice as high as the previous wave back in January 2021. Almost 10k dead recorded in Florida just since August 23rd. All with a vaccine readily available. Meanwhile DeSantis has instituted fines on businesses that try to find ways to force vaccination of their employees or business (like cruise lines) that require vaccination.
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IF they have an immune compromised child, they have a very legitimate reason for wanting to take special precautions. It's not a fashion or political statement like a MAGA hat. It's a valid medical issue. And once again, I bet they'd have a case under the ADA for not being afforded reasonable accommodation of that issue. |
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Polls indicate he defeats Bolsonaro by a confortable 55%-34% lead on the 2nd round. Bolsonaro has a persistent and faithful base (24% of approval despite all the madness) but his rejection is at 55%. Middle and upper-class and the wealthier South/Southeast/Midwest continuous to be very anti-left, but on the other hand, Bolsonaro has facing a strong rejection on big cities while the centre-right doesn't have a competitive candidate. With Lula in the game, he can retain the vote of the poor and from the poorer Northeast that could otherwise started to go to Bolsonaro as the president in office usually use social programs to conquer those votes. And now there are people like me: I've always been (centre) right-winger, never voted for Lula or the left, but Bolsonaro converted me. Not only a hate this maniac and everything he represents, but I deserted the right altogether as they're to blame for having this thing elected. They showed themselves to be way more regressive than the local left. Not to mention the classism and racism that is incredibly present on the middle-class mindset. |
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I agree with DeSantis. Businesses shouldn’t have to police their employees on something like this, and they shouldn’t be put in a position where they have to. If some idiots refuse to get vaccinated and die, that’s their own problem. As long as we don’t have significant numbers of vaccinated people becoming seriously ill and dying (and we don’t) then it’s frankly a non-issue. The hospital beds problem can be solved in other ways, of course (like, just don’t give the last available beds to unvaccinated Covid patients). |
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They might become one as a result of legal proceedings, but that wouldn’t be relevant in this particular case. |
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Someone unusually vulnerable to infectious disease could be limited in all sorts of ways. And that person's parental caretakers would be quite reasonable in taking extra precautions. |
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And no it will not stop at Covid vaccine status. Anti-Vax has taken cracked the door into the GOP and they are looking into vastly expanding exceptions for vaccinations for all other diseases well. |
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I have a lot of sympathy for the argument that employees should be protected from invasions of privacy by their employers (which is something people should care about). I don’t think employers should be allowed to drug test either. And there are all kinds of issues when most people also get health coverage through their employer. Again, I’m fully vaccinated and not anti-vaccine or anti-science or anything else. I just think that governments have done, and people have allowed them to do, a whole lot of things that they should never ever be allowed to do again. The last year and a half has been an Orwellian nightmare. |
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