I am sure more mandates will follow if this goes unchallenged.
I’m not aware of any legal basis for successfully challenging such mandates by private employers, except where state or local law specifically forbid it. Any state or community which places any value at all in individual Liberty would have a law forbidding such discrimination, yet I’m only aware of Minnesota passing such a law.
I am now being forced by my employer to chose between trying to get a religious exemption (which would require weekly testing and make me a pariah in the work place), or losing my income.
Mandated testing is equally as unacceptable to me as mandatory vaccination. Any organization demanding either has zero respect or care for its members. Anyway, I’d guess that regular testing would lead to regular positive results, which will not only add statistical fuel to C19 propagandists, but also force you to quarantine regularly, causing loss of income and perhaps lost freedom of movement. It may even lead to your eventual termination for frequent absences, depending upon future legal precedence, or just demanding vaccination outright, without a regular testing alternative. Be it because of your personal violation of the absence policy, or because policy was amended to purge the testing alternative.
The vaccine is my line in the sand, I will not take it, and I hope I am not the only one.
My suspicion is you will be one of the few, and those of us opposed to these things would be far better off seeking employment by a small business which doesn’t appear interested in forcing such mandates on its employees. Businesses which aren’t providing incentives for vaccination, which aren’t requiring masks, testing or written declarations that you’re not symptomatic and haven’t been exposed to anyone who is. Whose recruiter and interviewer say they have no such policies nor do they intend to develop them, nor do they inquire as to your vaccination status or respond negatively or with hesitation to your questions. In theory, anti-vaxxers fleeing large corporations for employment by small businesses could cause corporations to suffer and small businesses to thrive, reversing the current trend. Alternatively, one could go into business themselves, but that’s a daunting step made worse by the immense government regulation intended to persuade you not to do that, and you may not be in a position to do it right now anyway.
Injections work both ways.
If only our betters were concerned about such prospects.
