The Pfizer vaccine is now fully approved by the CDC.\u00a0 That should put to bed the argument some vaccine-hesitant people continue to use stating that the vaccine is experimental \u2013 but it won\u2019t.\u00a0 I got to thinking about this vaccine hesitancy and why there are now lawsuits against some businesses that have mandated all of their employees get vaccinated.\u00a0 I really don\u2019t understand this.\u00a0 The people claim that it infringes upon their rights.\u00a0 Don\u2019t the businesses have any rights?\u00a0 After all, in the court case Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission the Supreme Court essentially ruled that businesses have the right to spend unlimited amounts of money to support political candidates through \u2018SuperPacs\u2019 as an expression of the First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, if businesses have First Amendment rights just like an individual, don\u2019t they also have the right to run their business any way they like?\u00a0 Many of the same people who are arguing against the vaccine and mask requirements imposed by businesses are the same people who, in the name of \u2018religious liberty\u2019 want businesses to be able to refuse to serve members of the LGBT community.\u00a0 Once again, the hypocrisy is strikingly blatant and another example of how when these people talk about \u2018rights\u2019 and \u2018freedom\u2019 they only mean it in the context of what they personally believe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If anyone has ever had a dog and wanted to board that animal, most boarding facilities will demand that those pets be vaccinated before they will accept them.\u00a0 The same is true when animals are transported on aircraft.\u00a0 If a boarding kennel can require any pet under its care in its facility be fully vaccinated, why is it any different for businesses to require employees in its facility to be fully vaccinated.\u00a0 Do we treat our pets better than we treat each other?\u00a0 Likewise, it is fairly standard practice to vaccinate livestock against certain diseases.\u00a0 Do we treat our livestock better than we treat each other?\u00a0 I guess the answer is \u2018yes\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It just boggles my mind that people are willing to play Russian roulette with their lives and the lives of their children because of politics.\u00a0\u00a0 There is virtually no scientifically backed reason why children in schools should not wear masks to help stop the spread of this insidious disease.\u00a0 I can only surmise that politics and \u2018making a statement\u2019 are more important than a child\u2019s health.\u00a0 Seems pretty sad to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People vaccinate their pets to protect them from diseases.\u00a0 People vaccinate their livestock to protect them from diseases.\u00a0 But somehow people are refusing to vaccinate themselves or wear masks to protect themselves, their families and their communities against this insidious COVID virus.\u00a0 And humans are supposed to be the more intelligent species??\u00a0 Really??<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Pfizer vaccine is now fully approved by the CDC.\u00a0 That should put to bed the argument some vaccine-hesitant people continue to use stating that the vaccine is experimental \u2013 but it won\u2019t.\u00a0 I got to thinking about this vaccine hesitancy and why there are now lawsuits against some businesses that have mandated all of … Continue reading August 24, 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7FBZO-pb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikingwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}