I know most people here don't live in The Great State™ but there's a pretty comprehensive set of initiatives moving through our legislature aimed at protecting vaccine hold-outs.
Right now there at are at least six bills targeting this problem from different angles. At least one forbids the state (not private entities) from requiring vaccination as a condition of employment, others prohibit the government from coercing citizens by any means to get vaccinated. A couple provide unemployment benefits to those whose jobs were lost because of their vaccine status. There's one preventing school districts from taking adverse actions against students who refused vaccinations. And a couple attempt to prohibit private entities from discriminating on vaccine status, one of which would institute a civil cause of action against any discriminatory actor.
I don't know what will pass and what won't. The legislators I've talked to were broadly supportive of these initiatives, and the bills have diverse sponsorship which bodes well. I'm gonna keep track of the bills as they move along, so we'll see what happens. I'm hoping we join Texas and Florida as the holy trinity of based states.
Edit: Now that I look, some of these bills got introduced as early as last November. Nice to see some folks were ahead of the game.
Second Edit: A couple of these are stuck in committee, one is dead, some encouraging movement on others. I'm pretty confident we will see several of these pass.
Third Edit: I may start tracking legislation that pertains to resisting Biden's recent "ghost gun" bans and other gun control executive orders. EOs are overridden by legislation, and several states are already working on new laws to harden their 2nd amendment rights. Will have to check on this in the future.
There are tons of HIPPA and medical privacy issues for private employers trying to force vaccines on employees in the US. The only places I can see that being different is for those who actually work in the medical professions and certain government jobs like the military.
I've gone through my fair share of experimental vaccines as I was in the military but don't plan on doing this Covid vaccine until they do the full FDA testing that is required for normal vaccines. Besides it is best to let those who need or want it to get it first.
Well there's plenty of precedent for employers and schools mandating that employees and children respectively get vaccinated. The main difference being those were all FDA approved, and as you say, we're potentially going to mandate taking emergency authorized experimental drugs.
You'd probably know better than I, but wasn't there a massive controversy over experimental smallpox vaccinations on members of the military? Might be some interesting precedents there that can be applied to civilian life.
Children going to public schools fall into a limbo area since they don't have full civil rights because they're, well, children. Parents always have options of not using public schools and do homeschooling or some other private/charter school.
If there was one with small pox vaccine, it happened after I left the military. The one that had the most issues that I know of was the Anthrax vaccine which had many restarts of implementation for over a decade of various controversies. It's a series of five shots that takes almost three years to get the full set. I've had both the full set of Anthrax and Small Pox vaccines.
Thanks, you're right, it was anthrax.