I think there’s a significant chance of feeling sick the next day, not a certainty.
This really isn’t all that different from the flu vaccine, though. I’m sure that there are going to be differing responses to the COVID vaccine by different people . . . much in the same manner that many different people do exhibit different symptoms with COVID.
Yeah, that’s the flu shot for me about 75% of the time. I got lucky this year and I didn’t spend the whole next day in bed with malaise and achiness.
Doesn’t matter, I would take a week of feeling crappy with a guarantee it wouldn’t kill me over two weeks+ of covid with death and long-term health implications still on the table.
woah, not sure imma take this vaccine then. i don’t like this side effect.
I expect many employers are going to make vaccination a condition of continued employment (which they can do as long as there are the normal religious/medical issues carve outs).
Religious issues? Okay my religion is now anti vax.
Do you prefer how we are living now? If most people opt to not get the vaccine, not much will change for a while.
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it was mostly a comment on it being silly that religious beliefs should be some exception.
but outside of that, yeah, i don’t love the idea of the vaccine making me sick for a day. that’s why i never get the flu vaccine, and it sounds like this one is likely even worse than that.
Meh, religious freedom is important. What if the vaccine was made from a pig product? Should Jews and Muslims be required to take it? I don’t think so.
Unfortunately, a lot of people use “religious exemptions” when their religion does not actually prohibit vaccinations. It’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff on that one.
Ohio recently started requiring foster parents to get flu shots (initially was going to apply to all, now only applies to new licenses). Exemptions are still allowed for religious and medical purposes, but they require a court order. I hope that makes a lot of people who were using religious exemptions for their personal feelings to stop doing that. It’s a lot of hoops to jump through for something that you just don’t really want to do. Maybe the same thing can be done for a covid vaccine.
um, so you’re gonna shame me into getting the vaccine, but you’re perfectly fine for someone not to get it due to what some fake god tells them to do?
seems silly.
Freedom to practice religion without government intervention is a constitutional right. Personal feelings aren’t. A company can require a vaccination. You can choose to not work for them if you don’t like that, or find a legally acceptable exemption. Join the Jehovah’s Witnesses or something.
I don’t believe most companies will require it as a condition for employment, though. Probably a condition for returning to the office, for a period of time.
I just came up with my own religion. It’s the anti-Covid vaccine religion. BAM! exemption!
Also, I’m not trying to shame you into anything. But the vaccine will be worthless if most people don’t want to get it. And since anti-vaxers rely on everyone else getting vaccinated while they opt not to, I’ll be shocked if the people who choose not to get vaccinated are perfectly content that we aren’t able to return to normal because the virus is still running rampant.
what does this have to do with government intervention? we are talking about companies requiring it.
if the government makes it mandatory, i still maintain that there should be no religious exemption otherwise i might become my new made up religion just to prove a point.
then there shouldn’t be an “out” just because your religious god tells you vaccines are wrong. no religious exemptions. you can’t say that anti-vaxxers are wrong, but people believing in some anti-vax god are fine in the name of religion.
and you think that people who refuse to get vaccinated in the name of religion are perfectly fine with it or they too are relying on others to do it, thus also being total hypocrites?
what if you’re vegan? that’s not a religion. do they have to take it because it’s not a religion?
I don’t think they are correct in their religious views, and if they expect others to get vaccinated then yes they are hypocrites, but it’s a protection they are afforded by the constitution. I’m not saying they are correct, don’t put words in my mouth.
Dietary preference is not constitutionally protected. Dietary requirements directly resulting from a religion are.
you said “religious freedom is important” thus agreeing that they should not be forced to take a vaccine, but it’s fine to force everyone else.