I am not an anti-masker or a pro-masker, but the meme has a point.

@freemo
When FDA approves the vaccines in full, they will be mandatory and requested in full by companies.

No more debates with idiots. They will vaccinate for the same reason they use belts on cars or stop on red lights.

@pthenq1 Unlikely, we didnt even do that with the poliovaccine and that disease was many orders of magnitude worse.

@pthenq1 Sure, though they will need to change some pretty huge laws to make that even legal... Thankfully so far no one has made any attempt at walking back HIPAA regulations that protect your medical records.

@freemo no really. Private companies can and will require vaccine probe. Or you can find a job somewhere else.

There's always a Waffle House to look for employment...

@pthenq1 Companies are perfectly welcome to ask for a vaccine probe, what they cant do is demand your private medical records to prove it. Therefore they cant really verify it.

@pthenq1 That is for the vaccine registry, which is voluntary and does not cover all individuals. I can be perfectly vaccinated and not be in that registry and may not be able to even get added to it after the fact.

So no companies cant really lean on that.

@freemo they can. Uncle Sam pays the vaccines and states coordinate the effort. All is recorded (vaccine wise) and legally you can be asked by companies to present probe or be gone. They do all the time things like that with marijuana tests, financial tests, etc.

@pthenq1

Again, yes you can be asked if you are vaccinated. But it is very very trivial to lie as there is no consistent and objective way for a person to prove they are vaccinated due to HIPAA making it impossible for the companies to access doctor records directly.

All you have to say is you were vaccinated in a state where there is no vaccine registry (which is most states) and they can probe all they want but they have no legal way to verify your vaccinated.

@freemo in theory.

It would be sad people lying and all that.

We'll see. Let's continue in October.

@pthenq1 It would be the moral duty to lie in such a situation IMO as a way of protesting the violation of their medical privacy.

@freemo

Well... No moral on lying. The moral is to find a job that agrees with you ideas.

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@pthenq1 No, I wouldnt say the proper response to companies violating medical protections and anonymity is to cater to them, not at all. Thats like saying black people just shouldnt apply to companies that prefer to hire whites. It is an inappropriate response to a moral violation.

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