Well... we see companies which hire the smartest people in America - in Tech (e.g. Facebook, Google, Cisco), in Big Law, in Big Firm Consulting, Major Banking & Finance entities, and large Accounting firms requiring vaccines for employees returning to the workplace. We also see over 80% of the employees in many of these firms supporting their company's policy requiring vaccination. Are you trying to say that all of these people are low IQ. I expect the low IQ unvaccinated people work for penny-pitching small companies (that are unlikely to be public or planning an IPO) that nobody ever heard of. Even the leading stock market in the U.S. (NYSE) is requiring Traders to get vaccinated. You would think the "traders" here on ET would emulate them and follow suit. FOX found a couple traders whining about this NYSE policy... but noted the large majority support the policy. New York Stock Exchange traders complain about 'double standard' COVID-19 mandates on the floor NYSE requiring traders and others on the floor be vaccinated or pass thrice-weekly COVID tests https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets...plain-double-standard-covid-19-mandates-floor Some floor traders at the New York Stock Exchange are up in arms about the exchange’s new COVID mandates that they say both blindsided them and treats them as second-class citizens inside the Big Board’s lower Manhattan headquarters, FOX Business has learned. Traders who spoke to FOX Business said that they were not consulted about the new COVID mandates the NYSE announced via an internal memo Wednesday amid a surge in the more contagious delta variant of the virus. Some traders also said NYSE is operating in what was described as a "double standard" in enforcing its new rules that are effective Sept. 13. Traders and others working on the NYSE’s iconic floor must be vaccinated or, if exempt due to religious or medical reasons, must pass COVID tests that are mandated to be taken three times a week and traders must pay for them out-of-pocket. Most traders on the floor are independent contractors or executives at firms that serve as designated market makers. But traders said NYSE staff who are working in the exchange’s headquarters in lower Manhattan but do not work directly on the floor will only have to abide by an honor system that they’ve been vaccinated and have tested negative for COVID. "It totally feels like a double standard," said one trader who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he frequently deals with NYSE officials. NYSE REQUIRES COVID VACCINATIONS TO ACCESS TRADING FLOOR An NYSE spokesperson would not deny the differing COVID mandates between floor personnel and others working in its building. The new policy, according to the memo, will pertain to all those with access to the trading floor including employees of member firms, NYSE employees and vendors. "This is a policy that pertains to the floor," one NYSE executive said. Amid the widespread ramp-up in COVID vaccination, many big companies began demanding their employees return to the office. The NYSE is just the latest major business requiring proof of vaccination status for employees to return to the office amid a nationwide surge in COVID cases, and in some places, increased hospitalizations, particularly among the unvaccinated. Money management firm BlackRock, and banks like Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, for instance, have imposed vaccination requirements for office entry. JP Morgan, the nation’s largest bank, is demanding that unvaccinated office employees remain socially distant from others and wear a mask except when eating and drinking. Goldman Sachs is asking employees to report vaccination status to the company. The responses among employees now returning to the office and facing the mandates have been mixed; some say they'd rather work from home if they will have to wear masks all day and be forced to take frequent COVID tests. The worker response has led to some companies like Amazon and Google delaying requiring employees to return to the office until later in the year. As of now, exchange officials estimate about 75% of the roughly 700 people who trade on the NYSE floor are fully vaccinated. That means the remaining 25% will either have to get vaccinated or work from home indefinitely, resulting in fewer people in the trading arena than usual. As FOX Business first reported, the NYSE closed the floor to trading and its celebrations of the opening and closing bells in March of last year during the first COVID wave. At the time, city and state officials also began mandating business lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders to stem the spread of the virus. By May 2020, the exchange began allowing some traders back on the floor but with strict social distancing requirements as well as requiring masks. Most floor traders worked remotely through 2020. Even as the exchange began to return to a more normal presence in May of this year with broadcast media returning, as well as the opening and closing bell celebrations, some traders decided not to return to the floor full time. The vast majority of the NYSE’s market-making activity is done electronically, but floor traders provide a much-needed service – and can make some money – by providing liquidity in many stocks, particularly during times of volatility. Some traders who haven’t been vaccinated told FOX Business they would rather forgo the business opportunities the floor provides them because they don’t want to take a vaccine that hasn’t received full approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The available COVID vaccines are widely available but have been approved only on an emergency basis. That said, health officials say they show few sides effects and are extremely effective in preventing severe illness from COVID.
You have proven yourself to have absolutely no understanding of data with respect to Covid. It would be irrational for me to chase down more data in response to a man that embraces this ignorance like a badge of honour. We don't need more data to know that ignorant people are ignoring medical advice and not getting vaccinated. The evidence of this is literally everywhere.
Broadway does not like plague rats either... Broadway superstar Laura Osnes fired from show for not being vaccinated https://pagesix.com/2021/08/12/broa...nes-fired-from-show-for-not-being-vaccinated/
Welcome to your Canadian vaccine mandate... Canada will mandate COVID-19 vaccine for air and rail travel https://thepointsguy.com/news/canada-air-travelers-vaccinated/ Canada to require COVID-19 vaccines for federal workers https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...cines-all-federal-public-servants-2021-08-13/
Let's see what top Big Law firms in Florida are doing... Top-Ranked Florida Biglaw Firm Issues Vaccine Mandate The state may be against COVID safety measures, but the firm is not. https://abovethelaw.com/2021/08/top-ranked-florida-biglaw-firm-issues-vaccine-mandate/
IBM requires employees be vaccinated before returning to offices, report says https://www.wraltechwire.com/2021/0...ated-before-returning-to-offices-report-says/
Nobody likes plague rats.... they should be last in the queue for medical care. The 'Willfully Unvaccinated' Oughta Lose Priority Care https://www.tmz.com/2021/08/14/geor...ccinated-lose-out-priority-health-care-covid/
That is such a cop-out, and I call bollocks. Every one of those traders who say that? Let's see if they pony-up and get the vaccine when it is fully authorized next month. I bet most will not, and come up with some OTHER excuse as to why they won't get it.