United Airlines says it, too, won't hire unvaccinated workers

So funny that you’re afraid of your guns being confiscated. Even after Heller and McDonald. What else are you irrationally afraid of, spiders? You’re not even embarrassed to be that much of a “kitty cat”? Ok, continue to live in fear little “kitty”.

What "Freedom of Religion" ? In Pennsylvania in 2020 Governor Wolf banned Church Services and closed the churches.

Get a free test, make a blood donation to the Red Cross. I was surprised and pleased when I was notified that I had tested positive for antibodies. Eight gallons donated so far.

There is plenty of evidence that they're effective. Jurisdictions where more than 50% of the eligible adult population is vaccinated are reporting virtually zero hospitalizations of vaccinated people and very few mild to moderate infections.

The side effects of COVID are worse than the side effects of the Vaccine so explain that logic. It’s like you’re in the ocean and can’t swim. Someone throws you a rubber raft and you say “no thanks, I have latex allergies.”

Current data says the vaccines are 91% effective at preventing infection, and 100% effective in preventing infection that causes serious symptoms requiring hospitalization. And that obviously requires enough exposure to cause infection, so I'd say your chances of getting it in the current environment is pretty darn low.

If the unvaccinated give it to each other what concern is that of yours? We're only at around 40% vaccination, and the number of total cases and particularly deaths continues to drop by the day. So even with 60% of the country running around sans vaccine it certainly doesn't support your "health hazard" fear mongering.

And lastly, herd immunity is not based on vaccinations, it's based on antibodies. People who have been infected develop these antibodies naturally, those that haven't depend on the vaccine(s). Again current research suggests that those with natural antibodies maintain them long term in bone marrow even when they are no longer detected in the blood (data suggests around 4 months in blood). So there's a good chance we are near herd immunity if not already there. Unfortunately because the antibodies leave the blood around 4 months, and because there are untold numbers of people who were asymptomatic so likely have antibodies but were never tested it's impossible to know for sure just what percentage of the population has some level of immunity.

But again the numbers don't lie. Even as the vaccination rate has slowed, the country continues to open, and most places now are not requiring masks for those who have been vaccinated. And despite all this the infections and deaths continue to steadily drop. So the vaccines are obviously working, but natural immunity must be increasing as well.

Wear a mask then.

If you are quoting Falsie, which one?

And that is without overloading our health infrastructure. Many of the people who did survive only did so because of a hospital bed with appropriate care and equipment/supplies. There are other countries where the influx of new cases simply overwhelmed the health infrastructure, resulting in much higher mortality rates.

And this affects other people as well, ever bed taken up by a covid patient is a bed that can't be used for whatever else happens on a normal day.

I don’t trust the numbers. A local boy was killed in a motorcycle accident and they tried to write it up as a Covid-19 death. Sometimes getting sick gets you better immunity anyway. And when it’s your time to die, you will.

It’s up to you to decide what you do. If you are scared of death or COVID, get the vaccine. If the vaccine is so great, then anyone who is worried should get it and be fine. If it’s lousy, then why get it? It makes people sick when they get it.

You are a moron who obviously knows nothing about where stem cells come from.

Thanks for telling the truth Sidney. It’s really scarce today.

Far from everyone gets the flu shot every year, though. That isn't what we should be shooting for. Likewise, the amount of people who have some sort of side effect with the flu shot is far less than with all current variants of the COVID-19 vaccines.