Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
I understand that their are laws which are intended to provide both safety and balance. Yet, what you said...
“allowing people to make decisions based on their personal health risk“, too often does not appear to be the case with the Covid vaccine mandates. I’ve known of or read of too many accounts where a person is not allowed to make a decision based on their personal health risk. There are people who have had serious bad reactions to their first shot who don’t or didn’t want the second, but faced the loss of their job if they refused. Some have been permanently injured or died when getting the second. Others have lost their livelihoods rather than risk further injury.
Thankfully, the courts are taking a stand against the unconditionally of these mandates.
So far, it seems that employment mandates aren't really a big deal for most people. For the most part, it appears that the majority of Americans are free to choose; more so than if I can drive without a license or drunk as a skunk.
Though...does this mean there is a greater acceptance of the importance of employment and we can kill the argument that people who complain about things like low pay can just change their employment? Is this the end of the argument that if someone doesn't like their minimum wage job they should just get a new one or move somewhere with better opportunities?