This Should No Longer Be A Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated
Conservatives deserve to be marginalized, if not ignored altogether
If you have any doubt as to how thoroughly politicized the COVID-19 pandemic has become, the above two tweets should bring things back into focus for you. In the wake of the Supreme Court striking down the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for companies with more than 100 employees, Carhartt has decided to keep their mandate in place. Listen to Conservatives, and you could be forgiven for thinking that Carhartt has contracted with Dr. Josef Mengele and is subjecting its employees to enforced medical experimentation.
The simple truth is that if everyone who’s able to get vaccinated were vaccinated, we’d be well on our way out of the pandemic by now. But, instead, it’s the know-it-alls more concerned for their rights than for the greater good who’ve prolonged the pandemic- now headed into its third year.
Carhartt has decided to value a healthy workplace over individuals who are only concerned for themselves and can’t be bothered to think of the common good.
Carhartt, the Michigan-based workwear company, is facing a wave of conservative backlash after its CEO announced that it will keep its vaccination mandate, despite a recent supreme court decision to block a federal mandate that would require businesses with over 100 employees to get vaccinated or take weekly Covid-19 tests.
In an email sent to employees last Friday, Mark Valade said that Covid-19 vaccinations remain mandatory. “We put workplace safety at the very top of our priority list and the supreme court’s recent ruling doesn’t impact that core value,” Valade wrote.
“We, and the medical community, continue to believe vaccines are necessary to ensure a safe working environment for every associate and even perhaps their households. While we appreciate that there may be differing views, workplace safety is an area where we and the union that represents our associates cannot compromise,” Valade added.
Ultimately, Carhartt has the right to determine what it feels is best for its bottom line. Maintaining a vaccine mandate makes perfect sense if its business model requires people to work together in close proximity. It’s first and foremost a workplace safety issue, and if there are employees who can’t get behind that…well, then perhaps they need to consider seeking alternate employment.
The past two years have devolved into a pandemic of the unvaccinated, and it doesn’t do a company’s bottom line any good to have workers falling ill- or worse- in the workplace. At some point, a company has to look out for its workforce and its bottom line. Absenteeism does nothing to enhance profits, and an infectious disease that a vaccine could minimize shouldn’t be allowed to run rampant.
As for butthurt Conservatives boycotting Carhartt, at some point they’re going to have to come to grips with the reality that they’re on the wrong side of the equation. They’re going to need to recognize that selfishness and arrogance don’t mean their views should be respected and obeyed. In fact, they really should be ignored and marginalized because their ignorance and self-absorbed arrogance do nothing to make things better.
Let Conservatives boycott all they want. In the end, it won’t make any difference, not in a country where 75% of people are vaccinated. Anti-vaxxers are becoming an ever-more-marginalized, if distressingly whiny, segment of the population who deserve to be ignored.
I think Carhartt deserves to be applauded for doing what it believes is right for its business and its employees- and for not caving into the ninnies and the cranks. It’s time that doing the right thing for the right reasons became the norm and that marginalizing and ignoring anti-vaxxers became the order of the day.
Enough is enough.
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