Oh yea- definitely a not liberal area haha!

If I had to guess, Florida

I'm doing the testing but some of the rules on vaccination and isolation is really messed up, I punch in on like a minute, I'll add more info later

And then honestly a lot of stores - especially in the more conservative states- won’t have enough employees and will have to probably shut down is my worry- which means everyone loses out - even those who are vaccinated…..

But no matter what side of the spectrum one falls on…. This all does feel unconstitutional

The new policy on isolation is so BS
I’m sorry you weren’t notified (you should have been) and I hope you’re able to stay healthy!

One we start weekly testing which is feb 9 they will not pay you to get vaccinated or booster

There’s also the bit about enforcement. I live in a purple coastal county in California. We are currently under a statewide mask mandate for indoors, regardless of vax status. Only larger businesses are enforcing, and even then, aren’t pushing back at all when customers ignore the mandate. Omicron is running wild too, only reason we aren’t seeing as much death in CA as in other states is that our vax rate is higher, but ERs are reaching max capacity in urban areas like LA.

I am too, and both a grandpa and a great-aunt went through cancer last year. Survived, but I've been super cautious.

I just am currently in 2 extremely difficult 8 week class this term and 3 next term (aka second half of the semester) and don't have time to presently get the booster. I regret not getting it over winter break lol. I'm also super cautious and paranoid and don't go out except for work (thankfully our favorites mask) and school (mandatory masking).

I think I'm more worried about those who aren't concerned. 😶

Ok serious question: *why* are you “paranoid”? Like why are you worrying about this? Chances are like, yeah, you will probably get Covid. But also, **overwhelmingly**, chances are it will be mild because you are vaxxed. You did everything you could. Why are you wasting energy worry about this?

This isn't a "personal choice that doesn't harm anybody," if you are unvaccinated, you have an extremely higher risk at becoming infected, transmitting the virus, as well as potentially increasing the infection spread of any variants and mutations. Plus, you know... the death toll of the virus, the likelihood of getting long-covid, and any other lasting effects that could happen to you and/or anyone you possibly infect.

The vaccine does not fully stop the spread, no. No vaccine ever has ever been 100% effective, funnily enough. However, with the covid vaccine, your chances of infection *and* contagion are far far lower than if you are unvaccinated, and your chances of falling severely ill *should* you test positive are phenomenally lower than if you are unvaccinated.

Medical reasons are entirely valid. Skipping it because you don't believe in the virus, or think your immune system will just fight it, etc. all personal choice like that comes across as extremely selfish, especially if you are then going to insist you still go to work to be in close contact with people.

You seem to be a victim of horrible misinformation. Vaccines limit the severity of symptoms and the likelihood to develop symptoms at all. This limits spread by coughing/running nose and surface contact. Vaccines also decrease the average length of your symptoms and contagious period which limits spread. Saying vaccinated and unvaccinated people pose an equal risk of transmission to their coworkers is plain wrong, and choosing to not get vaccinated for literally no reason is selfishly putting your coworkers, friends, and family at completely unnecessary increased risk.

Additionally, being vaccinated decreases the amount of severe infections in the general population and thus decreases the chance of the virus mutating further.

Thank you.

This is incorrect, factually incorrect.