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Should the government require employees of large businesses to be vaccinated from COVID?

In September 2021 Italy became the first European Country to make COVID-19 health passes mandatory for all workers. By the end of the same month Canada, the United States, Australia, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia and Turkmenistan all announced similar vaccine mandates. Proponents of the mandate argue that these mandates are the only way to end the global COVID-19 pandemic. Opponents cite evidence that people who already have natural immunity are at heightened risk of vaccine side effects caused by an augmented inflammatory response.

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No, I think businesses should require vaccination but not by government mandate

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 @B3HJK9Rfrom Manitoba  answered…1wk1W

Private businesses should be allowed to decide for themselves, provided that there isn't an active pandemic that poses a significant threat to public health. Under normal circumstances, there should be provisions which allow for vaccine exemptions based on allergies or genuine risk of a hyper-inflammatory response, citing herd-immunity as a reasonable measure to reduce the spread and prevent mutations, thus protecting individuals who cannot be vaccinated.

Under pandemic circumstances, a business should also prioritize alternative working conditions, such as work from home models, reducing capacity, or staggered office days with proper desk sanitation protocols to prevent the spread of a virus.

 @B3G3R7Sfrom Ontario  answered…1wk1W

Absolutely not! No mandates are required for government employees or large businesses, including unions. No one has the right to force anything into another's body period!

 @B3FQXHLfrom Ontario  answered…1wk1W

I think we need to establish a 2-week shutdown protocol, Federal support for those 2 weeks, and actual cooperation from the public, not what they might interpret as government control

 @B3BP22Rfrom Saskatchewan  answered…2wks2W

Vaccinations are personal decisions but if infected public access should be limited for everything not just Covid

 @B2WVXMBfrom Ontario  answered…4wks4W

Government should not control the mandate unless government run (schools and vaccine mandate) business's can make their own decisions

 @9ZYVF3Mfrom Ontario  answered…3mos3MO

I think that vaccinations against deadly diseases should be mandatory except with the cases of allergic reaction

 @9ZRFBNYfrom Ontario  answered…4mos4MO

The government should only require those working in industries such as services or any other that involves frequent close contact with the general public (i.e., people in restaurants and fast food, cab drivers, etc.). Whether people are required to be vaccinated in other industries should be up to the discretion of employers.

 @9W7GNYVfrom British Columbia  answered…5mos5MO

I think that the government should mandate vaccines in healthcare and some other industries, and require vaccination in large enough numbers to spark herd immunity.

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Peace Over Party: Arab American Leaders Stun Democrats with Mass Trump Endorsement

Former President Trump earned endorsements from "highly respected" Muslim leaders and Imams during a campaign rally in the battleground state of Michigan. Trump, speaking to a crowd in Novi, Michigan, on Saturday afternoon, called the group of Muslim leaders "highly respected," before bringing them onstage."I’m thrilled to accept the endorsement of these highly respected leaders," Trump told the thundering crowd.The group of leaders cited Trump’s commitment to ending wars and ensuring global peace as a primary reason for their support, describing him as a leader who "promises peace, not war.""We, as Muslims, stand with President Trump because he promises peace, not war!" Imam Belal Alzuhairi said. "We are supporting Donald Trump because he promised to end war in the Middle East and Ukraine," Alzuhairi said. "The bloodshed has to stop all over the world, and I think this man can make that happen. I personally believe that God saved his life twice for a reason.""We're going to stop the wars, we're going to make the United States safe again, and we're going to make the world safe," Bazzi said."What a nice endorsement," Trump said after Bazzi’s speech. "These are great people."The Muslim leaders official endorsement came after Amer Ghalib, the mayor of the Detroit-area suburb Hamtramck, announced his support of Trump in a Facebook post on Oct. 20."Though it’s looking good, he may or may not win the election and be the 47th president of the United States, but I believe he is the right choice for this critical time," Ghalib wrote in Arabic on his Facebook page. "I’ll not regret my decision no matter what the outcome would be, and I’m ready to face the consequences. For this, and for many other reasons, I announce my support and endorsement for the former, and hopefully, the next President of the United States, Donald Trump."Ghalib’s endorsement of Trump comes after the two met in Flint earlier this week for a private 20-minute conversation. Ghalib told The Detroit News that Trump "knew a lot about me before the meeting." "We talked about various topics including the debates, the polls updates, the statistics of votes in Michigan and Wayne County, the Arab American concerns and the Yemeni Americans in particular. We also talked about the situation in Yemen," Ghalib said.

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Defense Bill Blocks Transgender Care To Minors

The Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a defense policy bill directing $895 billion toward the Pentagon and other military activities, moving over the objections of some Democrats who opposed a provision added late in the negotiations that would deny coverage for transgender health procedures for minors.The 85-to-14 vote, coming a week after a divided House passed the same measure, cleared the bill for President Biden’s signature.Most Republicans and many Democrats supported the measure, which provides a 14.5 percent pay raise to junior enlisted service members and a 4.5 percent pay raise for all other service members. It also expands access to meal assistance, housing and child care programs that benefit those in uniform.But several Democrats withheld their backing in protest of a provision preventing TRICARE, the military’s health care plan for service members, from covering “medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization” for children under 18.The language, which would affect the gender-transitioning children of service members, was recently added to the measure at the insistence of Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, who refused to bring a defense bill to the House floor without it, according to aides familiar with the negotiations.Twenty-one Democrats, led by Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, proposed an amendment to strip the provision from the bill, but the matter was never brought to a vote. Several of them took to the floor on Tuesday to lodge their objections.“It’s flat-out wrong to put this provision in this bill and take away a service member’s freedom to make that decision for their families,” Ms. Baldwin said, estimating that the provision could negatively affect as many as 6,000 to 7,000 military families.

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