Biden administration tells federal agencies they should not require employees to be vaccinated

SMH

I kind of understand. While vaccinated employees get to basically return to normal, if you choose to not be vaccinated you still are required to work, you just have to wear a mask and social distance yourself as required pre-vaccinations. This might actually spur more employees to just go ahead and get vaccinated...seeing your maskless coworkers faces enjoying time closer together might change some minds...after all, Trump got vaccinated, etc. Why not just go ahead and do it and join your coworkers.

a) The Biden administration has told federal agencies that they generally should not require their employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to work on-site in federal buildings or to disclose whether they are vaccinated.

b) Employees who disclose they are unvaccinated or refuse to answer a voluntary question about vaccination status should be subject to safety requirements such as mask-wearing and social distancing, new guidance says.


Are they allowed to ask and is it voluntary or not?

Not required to answer. BUT if you don't voluntarily disclose, you are treated presumptively as if you are not vaccinated. If you don't want to wear a mask, have the option of disclosing, and being mask free.

Pretty much what i suggested. Flip the presumption: Everyone is required to wear a mask. BUT you can buy your way to freedom by proving you are vaccinated.

That completely avoids the presumption that you are permitted to go mask free, and eliminated the need to rely on the honor system. Sometimes, framing is everything.

If you're vaccinated, you can work with no mask and no social distancing.

If you're not vaccinated, you can still work, but you have to wear a mask and observe social distancing. It's your choice.

themselves to greater risk. That's their own fault.

"See, I'm not getting vaccinated, the government isn't even making its own employees get it. They must not think it is very important"

Up to this point, everyone was wearing a mask to protect them, now they've got to enter environments where they don't know if the maskless person sitting next to them is vaccinated or an antivaxer asshole like them. The responsibility has shifted to them finally.

It’s the only position to hold considering some states are under 30% vaccinated. No requirement but safety procedures put in place to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated.

... and then not making it a requirement for your own people ? (that have to abide by your own workplace rules)

Seems like very poor messaging to me. It would have been a perfect opportunity to set a good example.

Which is presumptively no making.

Here the presumption is that you will mask, until you choose to prove you are vaccinated.

Imploring people to get vaccinated and employment are two completely different things. There is no overlap. It’s not a method of “imploring” people to get vaccinated.

That and you just can’t do it.

So this makes everyone safer? How about this? No Vaccine, no work for USG.

What's going on here? Fauci is on television, worried about the Delta variant, the CDC has allowed anti-mask anti-vax people to run around maskless, and now this.

It’s confusing for sure.

WTF?????????