Your employer's ability to coerce you into taking vaccines, or even collect information about your vaccine status is going to be dependent on your state's implementation of HIPAA and ADA laws. California (ironically) and Florida I know have greater protections against such employer medical questions, and whether they fall under HIPAA. From the ADA perspective, if you are compelled to provide proof of vaccination or an explanation as to why you haven't been vaccinated, that may result in an incidental disclosure of a disability, thereby violating ADA. This is what corporate legal teams are warning leadership of right now. Everyone is walking a fine line, trying to avoid a lawsuit, but pushing forward where they feel they can.
We need to be educating ourselves on our respective states' implementation of these laws and urge lawmakers to tighten those protections. You can request that your state rep or senator's policy staff conduct a policy analysis to determine what the present status of the law is. We're talking about minor tweaks to existing HIPAA language. Nothing grandiose. We cannot rely on lawsuits to give us justice in 10 years.
Employers are probably going to get sued no matter what they do. I'd be curious to know if there are any lobbying for greater right to violate your privacy and protections against litigation. I'm reaching out to Tennessee's House Research staff this week to run down what our legal landscape is. Will report back when I learn anything useful.
Legislation is going to be key. Unlike lockdowns, I wouldn't count on executive fiat being sufficient to prevent this shit from happening.
In the end it's up to us to refuse it. If it makes engaging with the economy more difficult, then find ways around it.
Maybe everyone in power will come to their senses and back off.......JUST KIDDING APRIL FOOLS!!!
It's up to us to assert and defend our rights, preferably before we end up as impoverished peaceful protestors.
Ok... what fucking state might that be?
Florida and South Carolina so far.
https://sports.yahoo.com/florida-governor-issues-order-banning-111159919.html
https://sports.yahoo.com/gov-mcmaster-vaccine-passports-no-170713798.html
When vaccine supply exceeds demand, the war over vaccine passports will go hot. My city, state, and workplace will almost certainly come down on the wrong side of this debate, which means I am very likely to be migrating in the not-too-distant future. Sucks balls.
2020: "Just wear the damn mask!"
2021: "Just take the damn vax!"
"Vaccines are key to going back to normal- and my normal we mean mandatory vaccines every six months and full tracking of everywhere you go."
Florida and SC then.
I reached out to mine earlier in the week (Monday I think). I've been reaching out regularly since January about different things. Mine are already doing the right things, but since this is a metro area the liberals actively encourage harassment of the legislators, even the ones they don't even live in. So, I just want to let them know we have their back in standing up against these overreaches.
I've starting paying a LOT of attention the the dealings of my state's legislature this year. I check the calendar a few times a week just to see what's going on. They haven't voted on a ton yet, but there's a lot of bills I like in the works that I think they will pass. There's a pretty decent bill in my state that would block discrimination based on vaccine status with respect to damn near everything including employment.
I'm calling mine