On: Canada imposes Covid-19 vaccine mandate on federal...

[woodruffw]

Your right to emigrate is not meaningfully impaired, for the same reason that it isn't meaningfully impaired by the requirement that you wear shoes at the airport.

[gfodor → woodruffw]

Interesting claim that a requirement to take a drug is the same burden as wearing shoes. The world has gotten very strange.

[woodruffw → gfodor]

> Interesting claim that a requirement to take a drug is the same burden as wearing shoes.

Because it is. Vaccine mandates were already present every US state and, because Canada is our hat, probably there as well.

[gfodor → woodruffw]

Citation needed that you need a vaccine to get on a train in the US.

[woodruffw → gfodor]

You don't. You just need one to go to daycare, public school, or college.

[ghaff → woodruffw]

Or increasingly to enter a large number of other venues including offices--or to stay employed generally.

[gfodor → ghaff]

The claim was this was a burden on par with shoes. I claim it is far beyond that and many of the US mandates will be struck down. The precedent is a state level mandate with a $150 penalty.

[ghaff → gfodor]

Organizations/companies can still impose basically any requirements they want to in the US. In general, state/federal requirements are basically air cover.

[gfodor → ghaff]

Different topic completely than universal government mandates.

[woodruffw → ghaff]

> Or increasingly to enter a large number of other venues including offices--or to stay employed generally.

Good!

[chana_masala → woodruffw]

All of those places have previously allowed medical, religious and philosophical exemptions

[woodruffw → chana_masala]

> All of those places have previously allowed medical, religious and philosophical exemptions

Medical, yes. Religious and philosophical? Broadly, no[1].

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/vaccinations.htm...

[chana_masala → woodruffw]

Your own source shows that religious has broadly been accepted previously.

[woodruffw → chana_masala]

Here's the full CDC brief[1]. The short version: your religious belief generally has to be "sincerely held" (which means that you don't get to pick and choose which vaccines you take based on political winds). Some states have even stronger constraints, including you to present an affidavit and demonstrate that your religious beliefs are not merely an extension of some misguided personal belief.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/docs/school-vaccinations.pdf

[chana_masala → woodruffw]

> your religious beliefs are not merely an extension of some misguided personal belief

Is there a difference? I ask this as an ardant Hindu who practices lots of woo woo

[woodruffw → chana_masala]

That's between you, your god(s), and your local bureaucrat.