This blog site is 12+ years old from 2009 with President Obama's first term. The focus has been eclectic though focusing on national affairs and culture, and occasionally discussing new technologies. Sometimes Perilces21's observations receive a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains honed and unblunted as a sharp eye is always kept on the ways and directions of American politics and culture.
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The Supreme Court will soon hear cases related to whether an employee in a public-interfacing job can be exempted from being vaxxed or tested ...while continuing in that job. This doesn’t make sense — the Covid virus, like any other disease, doesn’t obey road signs and traffic lights… or exemption notices. That just doesn’t work for them.
On-the-job exemptions from Covid vaxing or testing are like a town debating whether a tornado has the right to rip a town apart while the town is flying to pieces. Tornadoes, blizzards, earthquakes, and viruses, can’t read, can’t hear, and follow their own paths. They are not religious nor are they affiliated with a particular political or personal ideology. They are forces and agents indifferent to human wants unless influenced by engineering or scientific means. Humans have limited options to cope with such forces and all options require agency not debates or committee consensus. Building and going into shelters, or getting out of a storm's way generally works.
In the workplace, in the case of the Covid virus, it seems the rational response to a request for exemption from Covid vax or testing is, if there are means, to permit an employee to transfer to a distanced or otherwise non-infective function, to take a leave of absence, to work at home, or to look for another job. There are so many options to exemptions that ‘firing’ should not happen. The same arguments and options seem to apply to cases where exemptions are sought for ideological or religious reasons.
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