I wish there would have been a feasible way to require all Americans to get the COVID shot. We'd have 800,000 more Americans walking around today. What a horrible, tragic loss for all those affected families.
1) No you don't. That is simply a lie. Your "empathy" is an extension of political cuckoldry we saw that were at the root of all of civil unrest and fiscal irresponsibility of 2020 - 2022.
2) It doesn't matter if it gave you wings and let you fly (which it didn't, it was a developing pfizer pharmaceutical therapeutic to protect elderly, obese, and immune vulnerable from croaking from a respiratory virus and did jack shoot about transmission) - a private employer mandate of any kind is detestable and an awful precedent. Not even worth debating.
The good the shots did and the hilarity of an executive order employer mandate by hijacking OSHA are not mutually exclusive. Anyways, don't care to reflect on it anymore. It made me scared for how vulnerable the populous is in times of hysteria, and how divisive propaganda in the media and social media is. You read about it in history books, but it was a very real first-hand perspective. And that doesn't even take into account the global turn-of-a-blind-eye to China's malevolent role.
The height of Covid will look like a child's birthday party in contrast to sheer financial, pandemic, or modern wartime fallout in the United States that are very real prospects in our generation.