You stated there were states with compulsory vaccinations. This is not the case and will never be the case.
My next response to this will come when someone explains how someone who shelters at home and doesn’t leave is harmed by someone going to work somewhere else in a town. Makes no sense. All we got is either I want to control you or we need to placate the handful of people that want accommodations/compensation for any situation they can dream up. It’s part of what’s wrong with our country now. Everyone feels entitled to a safety net.
Liberty, I sympathize with your point, so please read what I say next patiently.
Some people will need more help then others right now. Some companies will also need the same. The most important thing, however, is people's health and safety. That comes first.
For example, my company has accepted government money and in return, they cannot lay off or reduce salaries for the next few months. They instead created a company wide "schedule reduction" where we can only work 30 hours per week and will only get paid for that amount. You wanna know how many hours I've averaged since this policy came out? It's much more than 30 hours per week and im working into the weekends as well.
Now I'm not complaining, far from it. I understand that this helps the company, which in turn helps to keep other people employed. I'm happy to do it. It's also easier for me to do it since I can work from home for most of it.
The problem is that some people don't have my same luxury and their job requires them in a workplace in order to keep a salary. These are the people that need the help the most. Now if employers were able to provide masks, gloves and other ppe, then that's a start for those jobs that require us to leave the home. This is a burden financially and logistically as these are in short supply.
Because of the above mentioned and lack of hospital space, we have the shelter in place and social distancing policies. Now those only work if we all follow it as much as possible. You are free to do a you like, but if you really don't need to go into the office or where ever your work is, why do it? I think the flaw in your argument is that you think if you get sick, then you're the only one at risk. But what if you get sick, don't know it, hold a meeting with you staff, some of them get it and from there the dominos fall. To me that is an avoidable case where simply working from home, if possible, helps to protect everyone.
If you have already offered that, then great! But I think what some are having issues with go back to my original point with the "work schedule reduction". On paper I'm not required to work more than 30 hours, but the reality is I'm required to work much more than that.
I'm working my tail off not only for my self, but for my family and those who cannot at this time earn a safe living.
It's times like this that we all need to be a little more understanding and make some adjustments. We must be be willing to lean on others or have others lean on us. Those who can work safely, let's double down and put our nose to the grindstone, because we will have to pick up the slack from those who can't.
