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My employer is starting to encourage people to come back to work. I'm willing to return to the office if my employer is comfortable with me not wearing a mask. It's just too annoying having to work with a mask while wearing reading glasses that fog up all the time. I've had to go into the office for one or two partial days each week. No matter what mask I wear (currently the KN94, which is a good mask) I just cannot get a good enough seal on the sides of my nose to prevent fogging. It's hard to get stuff done under those conditions.

Until I am allowed to be mask-free at work, I'll work from home. A vaccination mandate would solve the problem. I hope employers consider that masks and glasses aren't a good mix, and factor that into their decision about a vaccination mandate if they want employees to return to the office.

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Those who refuse to get vaccinated are putting our entire community at risk — including children under 12 years old, those with a compromised immune system, and the elderly.

While non-vaxers have a right to refuse vaccinations, employers, particularly small businesses, should require vaccinations as a employment requirement. Many small businesses are hanging by a thread. They can’t afford to be shut down again.

Tim: You include "children under 12" in your list of at-risk people. On what evidence are you basing this claim? I ask because the CDC's own provisional mortality stats showed that in 2020 the total number of children under 15 who died from Covid was just 134. Out of 377,883 total Covid deaths. That's one third of one percent of Covid deaths (.035%). Statistically, children are at greater risk from crossing the street.

Source: Web Link

Is anyone talking about a vaccine exemption for those who have previously had Covid? It is now well-established that prior infection confers equal or greater immunity than vaccination. Given this, a vaccine provides no benefit to those who are previously infected, only risk -- small though that may (or may not) be.
Source: An article by scientists from Stanford, Oxford and Harvard: Web Link

PeaceLove, those scientists are all but disgraced at this point. They've been pushing for "herd immunity" since the beginning, and their studies on infection fatality rate were wildly flawed (to the point where their estimates were lower than the observed fatality rate in NYC if every resident had been infected).

As to "children under 12", death is not the only bad outcome from disease.

Randy: Got a source for your claim that their studies were "wildly flawed," let alone that they are "all but disgraced at this point?" They have disagreed with much of the "official" narrative around Covid but they're all highly credentialed scientists at three of the world's most respected mainstream academic institutions.

Randy: Got a source for your claim that their studies were "wildly flawed," let alone that they are "all but disgraced at this point?" They have disagreed with much of the "official" narrative around Covid but they're all highly credentialed scientists at three of the world's most respected mainstream academic institutions.

Sure! Flaws in their statistics for an expert audience (Web Link and flaws in their methods and ethics for a lay audience (Web Link I hope that helps!