Coronavirus - SquareOffs

Should workers who don't get the coronavirus vaccine lose their jobs?

Asked by ABC 17 News

1,135 Votes

Should workers who don't get the coronavirus vaccine lose their jobs?

47%

Yes Yes

53%

No No

47%

Yes

The Biden administration is requiring many large companies to require their workers to get vaccinated in its push to raise vaccination levels.

The Biden administration is requiring many large companies to require their workers to get vaccinated in its push to raise vaccination levels. Show Less

6 Comments

Jamie McAtee

It’s the right thing to do. As a human, it is our responsibility to protect others from this Virus. It’s been proven safe and effective in preventing serious disease. The longer the pandemic goes on the more virulent the virus will become. It’s up to each of us to do our part.

Jamie McAtee

The vaccine is not designed to prevent you from getting the virus altogether. The data is fairly clear. Vaccinated people have less chance of getting it, less chance of getting as sick and less chance of dying. All parameters measured are statistically significant. Not a $ or political thing.

Donna Hogue

Its not about you. Do something for the good of all!

Adam Schrader

People DO have a right to take the vaccine. They DON'T have the right to jeopardize other people's health and safety. If you don't want the vaccine, find a job from home.

Adam Schrader

Yes, I'm vaccinated. And yes I got the delta strain last month. Was hospitalized. Multiple doctors said if I didn't get vaxed, I well could be dead. People, this is serious! Get vaxed for the health of everyone around you.

Jeffrey S

The unvaxinated are a place for the virus to evolve in. It is like that the virus will mutate to become worse than it allready is. PLEASE, for the sake of the newborn, get vaccinated. Signed Grandfather.

Rachel Clara Smith

❤️❤️❤️

Wendi Newman

People are worried about THEIR freedoms, not at all caring about others freedoms to a safe and healthy working environment. So their employers have to do it for them.

53%

No

Many workers, including a group of 3M employees who walked out of the Columbia plant Monday, say they shouldn't have to choose between the job and their medical freedom.

Many workers, including a group of 3M employees who walked out of the Columbia plant Monday, say they shouldn't have to choose between the job and their medical freedom. Show Less

7 Comments

John Burton

Everyone is already short-staffed. This mandate is stupid. These are the people that kept coming to work while everyone else sat home on their butts collecting a check.

Max

Why are US Senators and US House Members exempt? I think they should also be fired.

Adam Schrader

For once, I agree with you

Lisa Gore

99.96% survivable without the “vax”...the vaxed are still wearing masks, and have been catching more Covid than the unvaxed...this leads me to our intelligent freedom to choose...just like we can choose to vote for certain candidates or not, which we will remember who voted for or against. 100%

Dan Myers

It's a decision that should be made between a doctor and patient, not the government.

Will Mason

The 43% who think others should lose their jobs, should lose THEIR jobs. They are self centered jerks.

Mandi Hamlin

This is something that can have life long effects on a person. A job is just that, a job. A workplace shouldn't have the ability to make life changing or altering choices for their workers. They don't get to have a say in any other medical decision for any of their workers, this is no different.

Vernon Taylor

Because Harry D voted yes.

Max

Harry D is wise beyond your comprehension. Don't try to keep up with him, that ain't gonna happen.

Has the coronavirus vaccine mandate for large employers affected your job?

Asked by ABC 17 News

204 Votes

Has the coronavirus vaccine mandate for large employers affected your job?

37%

Yes Yes

63%

No No

37%

Yes

A federal rule requiring workers at companies with 100 or more employees to be vaccinated against coronavirus could go into effect any day now.

A federal rule requiring workers at companies with 100 or more employees to be vaccinated against coronavirus could go into effect any day now. Show Less

1 Comment

Max

It has closed and or damaged businesses, strained supply lines and raised prices across the nation. Let's Go Brandon.

63%

No

The requirement doesn't apply to smaller companies, and many workers at larger companies have already been vaccinated. (Photo Credit: Arne Müseler / CC BY-SA 2.0.)

The requirement doesn't apply to smaller companies, and many workers at larger companies have already been vaccinated. (Photo Credit: Arne Müseler / CC BY-SA 2.0.) Show Less

1 Comment

Rhonda Jones

I haven't been forced YET.

Asked by ABC 17 News

859 Votes

Is it time to end most mask mandates?

50%

Yes Yes

50%

No No

50%

Yes

More and more public institutions are ending or relaxing mask mandates. Over the past week, the University of Missouri System ended its requirements and the City of Columbia end... Show More

More and more public institutions are ending or relaxing mask mandates. Over the past week, the University of Missouri System ended its requirements and the City of Columbia ended its mandate in most city buildings. Show Less

4 Comments

Max

If your mask fogs up your glasses, or if you can smell odors through it, then it doesn't work. It should have never existed in the first place.

Kevin Wilkins

The pandemic is coming to and end. Also it is illegal to mandate anyone to wear a mask or get a vaccine for that matter, we are not under a dictatorship nor are we in a communist country. Wearing a mask or getting a shot is each person's personal choice and right.

Will Mason

Not "most". End them all.

Niki Goldenstein

All mask mandates!!!!

50%

No

The Columbia Board of Education voted this month to extend the district's mask mandate and health officials continue to recommend people wear masks indoors.

The Columbia Board of Education voted this month to extend the district's mask mandate and health officials continue to recommend people wear masks indoors. Show Less

4 Comments

Audrey Shewmaker

This covid-19 is'nt over by a long shot. People are still getting sick vaccinated or not.

Max

Then the vaccination doesn't work. Who would a thunk that?

Wendi Newman

Mask mandates need to stay in place until we have a vaccine for all age groups and everyone who chooses protection actually has it. Then let the spreaders unmask.

Becky

Last time we ended the mask mandate too soon and cases went up....give it a little longer.

Coronavirus SquareOffs

Should workers who don't get the coronavirus vaccine lose their jobs?

47% Yes Yes

53% No No

47% Yes

53% No

Has the coronavirus vaccine mandate for large employers affected your job?

37% Yes Yes

63% No No

37% Yes

63% No

Is it time to end most mask mandates?

50% Yes Yes

50% No No

50% Yes

50% No

About Coronavirus

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No No

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Yes

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Yes

63%

No

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No