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your liberty is being sledgehammered. next will be a BMI mandate, because high BMI individuals are responsible for taking up 10X more hospital beds than covid patients.


Please stop using HN for ideological battle. That's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it regardless of their ideology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


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The 'pandemic emergency' ended last July when this became an endemic disease among many mammalian populations, including humans and deer.


PAGE 15 "The underinclusive nature of the Mandate implies that the Mandate’s true purpose is not to enhance workplace safety, but instead to ramp up vaccine uptake by any means necessary"


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So you agree with the court's assessment that the mandate's purpose was to "ramp up vaccine uptake by any means"?


What is the ultimate purpose of ramping up vaccine uptake?


Ending the pandemic in the US and saving lives.


But ending obesity would save 10x as many lives. Therefor saving lives is obviously not the point at all.


Careful, getting a bit close to saying the quiet part out loud here: “The federal boogeyman is coming door to door to take our guns.” Got news for you, there are federal laws on the books that can do a lot of harm to you if you do something antisocial. And not getting the vaccine is antisocial, so no this is not a harbinger or something to come. It’s not something new or radical. But you know what is? January 6. Neofascist terrorism. Destabilization of democracy through foreign influence campaigns online—-maybe even this thread.


I'm sorry to pile on, having already replied to you twice, but your flamewar comments in this thread have been one of the worst cases of on-tiltness and breaking the site guidelines that I've run into in quite a while (and that's saying something!) Fortunately your previous commenting history looks great. Please don't do this again. I realize that divisive topics entail strong feelings, especially when encountering views that we consider to be deeply wrong—but that's when it gets more important to follow the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29214068

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29214041


The ends don't justify the means. There's a vast difference between a measure designed to directly improve safety in the workplace (ie. "let's make vaccines mandatory if you want to work, so there won't be workplace infections"), and a measure designed to punish non-complying citizens (ie. "let's make vaccines mandatory if you want to work, so non-vaccinated people have to vaccinate, otherwise be ruined financially").




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