As nil says, time is on your side. Drag it out as far as possible. Since the vaccine requirement is all about politics and not science, the political situation can change quickly. There are lawsuits underway against employers for this very thing that might shed more light on the best approach.
Since what they are doing--forcing you to get a lethal injection--is blatantly immoral, don't have any compunction about doing whatever is needed to keep your job.
I'll likely be in a similar situation sometime soon, so I have given this a lot of thought.
Here are some ideas: - Feign ignorance of the company vaccine mandate until the very last day and only then initiate the process to get a religious exemption. - Find out who is going to be making the final decision for letting you go. Does your immediate manager have any say? - Claim that you have gotten the vaccine but have misplaced the paperwork. This shifts the narrative from you receiving vaccine to you proving that you received it. - Check out this Karen's channel (youtube.com) to get a better understanding on how religious exemptions work and what you can expect. - See if an extension on the deadline is possible (at the very last moment).
Some of these are mutually exclusive. You don't want to tip your hand on being "anti-vax". The longer you can go without committing to a course of action the better off you'll be.
What these companies are doing is extremely dumb. They now have a good fraction of employees, something like 30%, who expect to be fired a month from now. And yet they are allowed to work and have full access to company network. Imagine the havoc this can wreck if even a small fraction of those employees choose to sabotage their work, the company network, or leave backdoors in place. I'm not advocating this, but something to think about.
Delay is definitely the best strategy. Biden's mandate is illegal and immoral, but none of the politicians are following the laws anymore.
I'd still advocate that your best way to keep your job is to say you've already had covid and have natural immunity. It's easy to claim you thought you had it because you developed a cough and lost your sense of smell. You didn't get a test because you were never that sick and didn't want to be exposed to a worse variant when you were already ill. You can also claim you got the test and it was positive but didn't keep the paperwork because that's not how healthcare has ever worked before. Image going to the doctor and saying you're allergic to penicillin then having the doctor say prove it because I don't believe you.
This vastly shifts the dynamic, because you are in fact safer to be around with natural immunity than with the clot shot. This technique has also already worked at several universities. Also, after legal challenge, there is a very good chance natural immunity will be added to Biden's illegal mandate to try to keep it in play.
What if I'm sure I had it the December prior to the fake pandemic starting but there wasn't a fake test yet?
Like FellowPoaler said, what they are doing is blatantly immoral, so you are free to use any method to sidestep that landmine. Claim you got sick in March and didn't want to go to the hospital due to a lack of PPE. It is impossible to prove you didn't and you'd likely pass an antibody test proving immunity as well.
Tell em you already got it but the dog ate your homework. It would be dangerous and selfish to get it again /shrug
This won't work. We have an excess of vaccines and are shipping them/selling them to other countries.
I liked the one person saying the less sense your religous beliefs make the less they can fight them.
That's something I've been pondering over the last few months. What would be the most effective claim for religious exemption.
For example, when claiming religious exemption you absolutely don't want to bring in politics or start explaining how the vaccines are dangerous.
But what about the religious part? The way one youtuber put it, you are already exempt. Employer "granting" you the exemption is just a formality. If approached from that angle, the less you give them the better. Simply declaring that "my sincerely held religious beliefs do not allow me to get the COVID vaccine" should be sufficient.
But then what if the employer tries to dig further into your religious beliefs. What if they start to pry: Do you take Tylenol? Aspirin? Have you ever had a vaccine? In an attempt to trip you up.
By analogy, let's say you broke your leg. You have a cast and rent a wheelchair which you ride to work. There would not be even a discussion whether you can ride the wheelchair around the workplace. But let's say the employer starts asking you something along the lines of: Do you really need that wheelchair? Can't you use crutches? What if you run over someone's foot with your wheelchair? Can you maybe bring it in every other day?
Do you see how ridiculous that would be? That's what they want to do with your religious exemption. It shouldn't fly.
Personally that's my plan. Give them as little info as possible--just enough to claim the religious exemption. If they start fishing for more info then I'll have to think about how to proceed. Keep in mind that freedom of religion is right there in the constitution, the first amendment, and state constitutions have even stronger protections. Your employer DOES NOT get to determine what is and isn't a valid religion. It does not have to be any form of organized religion. You don't need to attend a church. I would even argue that you don't need to be consistent. Who is to say that you didn't have an epiphany yesterday which was the catalyst for your deeply held religious beliefs today?
Religious beliefs have never been questioned before. I thought you give them the first part and nothing else. Hold firm and turn everything back on them over the doubt or needing details.
My God doesn't doubt me he loves me. Nigger!
I would just repeat my mantra of religious exemption. "I'll check with my lawyer" might make them back off.
You may not advocate it. But I for one would think it’s extremely based to do.
tbf it isnt a lethal injection, it is a semi-lethal injection.
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