Mandatory COVID vaccination

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by americantrucker89, Jun 25, 2021.

  1. bryan21384

    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    Ok so my terminology is off....they have been doing research in preparation for the vaccines. I still won't call it rushed. The fact is some people have side effects. If a shot or any other medication came out for HIV or cancer prevention, I don't know that it would get this much backlash.
     
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  3. BoostedTeg

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    I’m sure there will be people out there making fake papers saying you have been vaccinated if it comes to that.
     
  4. Saltyoldone

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    The COVID vaccine is no worse than getting the yellow fever, typhoid, rabies, small pox, or anthrax vaccines. The chance of getting any of those is less than COVID but I’m still glad I got them.

    Normal people have never had to get a real vaccine (the flu shot doesn’t count) and the side effects weren’t expressed hard enough.

    I refused to get the cholera vaccine when I worked for the UN because it was an experimental vaccine not approved by the FDA. Six months later while curled into the fetal position and fluids coming out of every orifice for a week straight I had plenty of time to rethink my decisions on “experimental” vaccines.
     
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  5. Midwest Trucker

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    The USA can’t mandate it because commerce would essentially stop. Rates would go to $10/mi or higher.

    Companies can mandate it but I guess little fleets like mine will have a huge influx of available drivers and will grow “bigly”. The megas and their lobbies won’t want that!
     
  6. N00bLaLoosh

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    Yep. They'll be the same guys that sell the fake proof of insurance certificates.
     
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  7. Ridgeline

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    Well ok, they were not preparing for a vaccine, that was all still in the research phase, this was rushed because before it would have to go through human testing, it goes through animal testing which takes two years minimal, then another three to five years in human testing, then if it seems safe, it is presented to the fda before there is a new drug application. These vaccines are a long long way off for approval, there is a huge lack of proper testing but now they are saying they will be approved by the end of the summer, which means really rushed.

    as for hiv, they have a shield drug which is a joke.

    cancer is too complex, the hpv vaccine was also rushed into production with a lack of testing, and approved but this is another case where the companies’ adverse events data is scrubbed for public consumption and does not give a true representation of problems with it, and parents are quick to get their kids as young as 8 inoculated.
     
  8. homeskillet

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    All this upheaval for a disease that spreads VERY easily, and yet........

    Has a 95% to 98% SURVIVAL RATE.

    I don't understand.

    But I'll use a quote that seems to work for another group, and they're not even slightly contagious.......

    "Keep your laws off my body".

    Just sayin'. I'm out.
     
  9. pavrom

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    ....the rest 15% i guess immortal :)
     
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  10. Cattleman84

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    If your employer thinks highly of you (as I believe mine does), they wont mandate such a thing.
     
  11. Lennythedriver

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    I realize the “tone” is different at different regions of the country, but in general as truck drivers are not sheep thinking people. That’s why we went into truck driving, to get away from the sheeple. Anyhow, I’d venture to bet that 75% or more of OTR drivers are not wanting the vaccine. Companies who require it are likely going to get a lot of backlash and lose many drivers.

    I don’t trust anything surrounding covid, the vaccine, any of it. I truly feel as though it’s a conspiracy of some kind and we haven’t heard the last of any of this.

    I’m not getting any of their experimental vaccines. If my company goes against my god given right to manage my own health? I’ll move to a company that doesn’t.
     
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