Cuando el presidente Joe Biden emitió una orden ejecutiva para un orden de vacunación para todos y cada uno de los trabajadores y contratistas federales, y el requisito de que todas las compañías con cien o bien más trabajadores impongan vacunas o bien pruebas regulares para los empleados, estaba muy en favor de ello. He visto la velocidad con la que las personas no vacunadas pueden extender el COVID-diecinueve.
Haywood County, North Carolina, the county attached to my Buncombe County, just ran out of intensive care beds. We went from 6 deaths in the month of July to fifty-one deaths in the month of August. In fact, Western NC Mission Health Center, the area's largest hospital system, has had to turn away patients. A COVID-XNUMX patient died in the parking lot.
What does this have to do with business? It's really simple: you can't be a successful business if your employees (or customers) get sick or die. And it's going to be hard to find (or keep) workers if they feel they're at risk of putting COVID-XNUMX to work.
Not the entire planet is on board, of course. Even before President Biden made his announcement, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) tweeted: “Vaccination orders are not American. Former Vice President Mike Pence criticized President Biden's COVID-XNUMX vaccination orders in an interview with Fox News, saying Biden's announcement was "unlike anything I've ever heard from an American president."
Indeed, when George Washington ordered the Continental Army to be vaccinated against smallpox, he was not yet president. Washington did this, he wrote, because "we should have the most to fear, that of the opponent's sword.
Vaccines help. According to the latest figures from the CDC, the unvaccinated are more than ten times more likely to be hospitalized and eleven times more likely to die than those who are fully vaccinated. So as a business owner, what should you do?
I have always said that you should insist that all your employees get vaccinated. Not only is it legal in most cases, but it also makes sense. Do you want your workers to get sick? Do you want them to transmit the disease to service customers? Do you want your employees to no longer meet physically? I hope your answers, whatever your politics, would be no, no, and no.
Look, we've been down this road before. In XNUMX, due to a smallpox epidemic, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, board of health ordered that residents of the city be vaccinated. Henning Jacobson was denied as he asserted that it violated his constitutional rights.
Does it look familiar to you?
3 years later, in XNUMX, the Supreme Court, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, ruled that he was wrong. As the Court wrote: “The liberty guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States to everyone in its jurisdiction does not imply an absolute right of each and every person to be, at all times and under all and each and every circumstance, absolutely free from any limitation. There are multiple restrictions that each person is necessarily subject to for the common good. "I suspect that President Biden and his advisers read the ruling before producing this executive order. His comment - "A different minority of Americans, supported by a different minority of elected officials, prevents us from turning the page" - could have come directly from that XNUMX resolution.
In other words, you can challenge the court order, but you won't win in court.
Nor will it support its employees. Personally, even if I work from home and have no intention of going back to the office, I would never work for someone who is anti-vaccination. It shows a disregard for reason, science, my health and the bottom line of the business. I suppose you will find that many of your people agree.
In other words, “Do it! Just insist that your crew get vaccinated.
So read this:
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