49 percent of GOP men say they won't get vaccinated: PBS poll
About 30% of American adults say they will refuse the vaccine, which makes it near impossible to achieve herd immunity as a nation.
That means that 30% of Americans will be susceptible not only to the current variants but other mutations that come along (the more the disease can be spread, the more mutations will occur.) Some of these mutations may be more dangerous, even deadly, and more contagious. Some may be vaccine resistant, although the pharmaceutical companies are preparing for the possibility of boosters.
A more dangerous, contagious, vaccine-resistant mutation, spread by the 30% of the unvaccinated, could put us back to where we were last March.
How do we prevent the deadlier, more contagious variants? Simple! Vaccinate everyone so all the current variants die.
I've had both my vaccine doses. The shot was so painless I barely felt it, and the barely perceptible stiffness at the site of the vaccination was easily dealt with.
In many states, employees can be discharged from their jobs at will, for any reason--or no reason. Personally, I believe that workers don't have enough protections, but I also don't believe that the unvaccinated by choice should be a protected category in the same way that disabled or older workers are.