Reply to Montgomery County Vaccine Passport Coming

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Montgomery County Vaccine Passport Coming"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I won’t support any business that enforces this terrible form of discrimination [/quote]

I am 99% sure you're being facetious, but hard to tell these days.[/quote]

It is quite literally discrimination based on medical history. Separating society into two classes has historically proven a really, really bad idea and I won’t support it. [/quote]

No, it isn't discrimination based on medical history (and the suggestion that it is is frankly offensive to people who actually are disabled or have medical histories that can leave them subject to discrimination).

It's discrimination based on a choice. And guess what? Society wouldn't function without that kind of discrimination.

We "discriminate" against people who don't educate their kids, or pay taxes, or drive drunk, or do 10 million other things.

[/quote]

You can dance around with semantics all you want. A business refusing service to a person based on their medical history is discrimination. Those are the facts. Sorry if it hurts your feelings.[/quote]

My feelings aren't hurt.

You seem really pleased with your idea of calling vaccination status "medical history." I think your thinking may be that "medical history" connotes an involuntary class, and/or a protected category? In any case, choosing to get a vaccine or not is not "history," it's a presenst-tense choice. If you want to be in the other category, you can join it today.

Again, the vaccine passport that's being proposed in MOCO is NOT a mandate, so this forum isn't really the place for this post. But for argument's sake, let's say we're talking about DC's bar/restaurant mandate. If a democratically elected government decides that it's in the interest of public health to require vaccination for voluntary activities such as going to a bar or restaurant, you have a bunch of choices: 1) You can decide that remaining unvaccinated is more important to you than patronizing bars and restaurants, and that's your choice. 2) You can decide that it's more important for you to go to bars and restaurants, so you can get a vaccine. 3) You can work to elect officials who agree with you and pass different laws. 4) If that's not possible, you can move to a place where your views are in the majority.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics