WaPo: Biden’s planned vaccine rule meets resistance from large groups of federal workers
"In order for everyone to feel safe and welcome in their workplaces, vaccinations must be negotiated between employers and workers, not coerced," said the union’s president, Randi Weingarten, typically a prominent liberal ally. "We believe strongly that everyone should get vaccinated unless they have a medical or religious exception, and that this should be a mandatory subject of negotiation for employers to keep their employees safe and build trust. But healthcare professionals are concerned that mandating vaccines outside contract negotiation will only result in more people leaving the bedside at a time when staffing levels are already low from the trauma of the past year."
So the unvaccinated healthcare "professionals" might leave patients' bedsides? Good! Even if they weren't contagious who wants to be attended by a nurse or doctor who doesn't believe in vaccinations or the communicability of viruses?
So far the administration and state and local government have done everything they can to get the country vaccinated. They made the vaccines widely available and free. They advertised vaccine efficacy and safety. They offered incentives including scholarships and lotteries. The private sector offered free beer and admission to concerts and more. Celebrities and others have cajoled people to get the vaccine. Now the time has come for government and private employers to make vaccination or regular Covid testing a condition of employment.
The unvaccinated are highly protective of their own supposed rights at the expense of the rights of others. The unvaccinated are unconcerned about the rights of children under twelve, the rights of the immunocompromised and the rights of the small percent of vaccinated people who are subject to breakthrough cases not to be infected with a deadly virus.