Your understanding of vaccines is hilarious considering you work in the health field, but no worries, you are not being forced to get the shot you can always walk away, your choice.

I know many posters have put forth the supposition of "choice", however I feel it is a form of economic blackmail, imposed by legislature. It reduces the "right", to govern one's body, which would imply, that one's own body, is the property of the state.

ow when I get the shot, so far, I don't get the flu. Amazing how that works.

No... YOU CHOOSE to alienate that 'right' (and sometimes other rights) when YOU CHOOSE to work in a field where the full exercise of that right puts the well-being of others at undue and preventable risk.

The statement is tantamount to saying "it's economic blackmail if I can't attend my job when I am an active but asymptomatic carrier of TB" or "it's economic blackmail when my employer supresses my free speech under threat of dismissal just because I'm gratuitously bad mouthing his business and costing him clients".

Working in health care brings certain inherent risks both from patient to worker and worker to patient.

I guarantee you that the vast majority of health care workers would raise holy hell if they were required to work with patients with known communicable diseases without being provided necessary safeguards (even though the safeguards may alienate the same 'rights' of the patients) yet some seem to think that they have no obligation to take similar safeguards with respect to the hazards they may pose to patients.

The Op chose to work in a healthcare profession, however the law changed after he had already established himself as a healthcare professional.

I chose to work in the construction industry - does that mean I have the right to disregard the safety regulations that get put into place after I started? During my apprenticeship, I trained on powered-lifts without a safety belt... now I can't board one without wearing a safety harness and lanyard.

We either adapt to the regulations that govern our profession, or we find a line of work that allows us to be more carefree in our attitudes.

I'm getting the impression that the concept of 'rights' has overshadowed the concept of 'responsibility'...

Over the past 34 years, I have worn a N95 face mask or similar at work if I remotely began to feel sick. It was to protect my patient from me should I be getting ill. Last thing any sick patients need is a sick health care provider. I can tell you that wearing such a mask for a 12.5 hour shift is NOT an easy thing to do so my bet is most staff will not do this . It does make breathing somewhat harder and can be very hot.

Good point! Please let me explain something here. I have an allergy
to eggs, so by the same laws that invoked this Mandate, I am exempt.

I HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE
WHAT GOES IN MY BODY! NOT THE GOVERNMENT!

I feel it is a form of economic blackmail

Most people who take it come down with the flu. While most of us who do not take it ...never miss a day of work!

This is really a more fundamentally simple question than it's being made. Are you allowed to endanger the lives of others ? Anybody who answers "yes" or replies with a "No , BUT...." isn't thinking straight. You simply DO NOT have that right. It's really just that simple. It has never been anybody's "right" to endanger the lives of others with our own irresponsibility. When people do do that , we call it criminal negligence.

I feel it is a form of economic blackmail
Would you be sympathetic to a surgeon who refused to scrub up before surgery - or a cook who refused to wash hands after going to the toilet?

at the first sign of illness, he could always stay at home until he is recovered. However, there is strong pressure from the medical community to take tylenol and still go to work, since with "said" absence will impose upon "said" facility, a shortage of healthcare professionals and possible negligent care.

Irresponsibility would only come into play, if the Op would go to work, knowing that he was sick, and not taking necessary precautions.

These are preventative measures, that are as equally effective, as a flu vaccine.

To force the Op is financial blackmail, as he would lose his job if he did not comply...

This ISN'T about YOU , it's about US. If you don't want to take a shot then fine , don't take it. Get another job. I and WE have a responsibility to the hundreds if not thousands of people you will endanger with your disregard for their safety.

If he cared that much about his patients he would at least have taken the time to read up on the science behind vaccinations.

Wrong. What you feel when you come down with the flu is your own body's attempts to fight it off. The time when it was contagious is already passed for the most part. In other words , by the time you know you've got it , your body is already suppressing it. It's the time before you feel it that represents the greatest danger to those around you.

sick calls are really discouraged and often punished by hospitals already working with minimum staff

But as for the topic.
You should have the FREEDOM to not take the shot. WHY? It's your body! You are an ADULT! Not a child that the government thinks you need to be protected from your own parents!

As long as people continue acting like children in an irresponsible/negligent manner, someone has to tell them what to do to protect the rights of others.