I actually agree with the idea of conscientious objection and religious exemption, and religious exemption does not need to be some organized religion, but it doesn't apply to vaccines in a public health crisis.
Religious exemption is also not some blanket protection. It's enshrined in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it's a good law, it's a good thing to have, but employers only need to
reasonably accommodate employees. There is always debate around what a reasonable accommodation is, but in a global deadly pandemic that has killed ~600,000 Americans and made millions sick, protecting your other employees, protecting customers, and protecting your business from the personal medical decisions of a minority of your employees -- thus mandating vaccines as an employment requirement -- is a
reasonable accommodation. For states that have "undue hardship" requirements (like Massachusetts), the health and well being of your employees is an "undue hardship."
I think the Biden Administration is using the OSHA oversight creatively, but it's the right way to go about it. They're essentially protecting employers from being sued by using OSHA to protect them, and most employers are happy to implement the mandate because they can say that they're complying with federal employment guidance.
I see this girl on my Instagram feed and TikTok giving out templates to thousands of people a day, a lawyer written and approved Religious Exemption letter. It's basically quoting a bunch of scriptures as to why she doesn't have to get the vaccine.
here is an excerpt
Isn't this dangerous? Like these people could die from not getting vaccinated and isn't this just …..idk being counter productive to what society wants to do (survive covid)
the thing is you know people that aren't even religious are using letters like this to get out of vaccines at jobs and government agencies.
how is this allowed?
The fetal stem cell thing isn't even true of Pfizer and Moderna.
There is a lot of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine, but health care experts at UAB provide the facts behind some of the most common myths.
www.uab.edu
Myth: The COVID-19 vaccines were developed using fetal tissue.
Neither the Pfizer nor the Moderna vaccine uses cell lines that originated in fetal tissue taken from the body of an aborted baby at any stage of design, development or production.
Fetal stem cell lines were used for J&J, as they have been for like dozens of vaccines since the 1930s. Many childhood vaccines that we've all taken were developed using cells from fetal tissue back before abortion was even routinely performed. The treatment that Donald Trump received, Regeneron, uses human stem cells from donated organs from the 1970s.
