Sounds a lot like the Ministry of Truth

Expect it was not done by a ministry but by the judiciary which roles over against revoking a bann by the city administration.

Not OP but if he has not gotten it so far with his lifestyle in 16+ months then it could be easy to think you won't get it for another 16+.

Other's just don't care, me for example. I lived in a heavily lockdown country and then said fuck it, travelled to somewhere with (near) 0 covid rules and went nightclubbing almost daily till I got it. Wasn't that bad for me. And my preference is to have it again than being coerced into putting something I don't want into my body.

If my employer makes that decision for me, then that is fucked up and I am quitting, or better yet, questioning the legality of it.

The thing missing from this perspective is the additional people you come in contact with while contagious (potentially while asymptomatic). Saying, “I don’t care if I get sick” ignores the others you may spread the virus to.

This is why folks are pointing out the public health aspect as opposed to a focus on individual health.

> it could be easy to think you won't get it for another 16+.

And the relevance of 16 months would be? At this point it's pretty much a given that covid will become endemic. Due to general idiocy we've missed our chance of eradication.

In the 16 months you cited Covid has become both more virulent and almost twice as infectious. We'd now need around 85% population immunity to stop it from spreading, and the best vaccines only have below 90% effectiveness against symptomatic infection, and less against asymptomatic it seems. And evolution likely still has more low hanging fruit to find to make a virus that only made the jump to humans very recently better adapted to its new host.

So even if OP only has a 20% chance of contracting Covid in any one year interval (and it's likely higher), over 10 years that's a 90% chance (and 99.5% over 25). I have no idea what OP's belief that they have a extremely low chance of contracting covid is based on (that's why I asked, but unsurprisingly received no answer).

If an employer mandates it, then the employer is liable for anything bad that happens, the employers don't have immunity like the vaccine manufacturers. This of course assumes that there is rule of law.

Lets say you have two passports. One Irish and one Russian. If you use Russian passport to enter Iraq, will you still have trouble with ESTA with your Irish passport?

You're asked to fill in a questionnaire when entering the US as a foreigner. I think lying at the 'did you visit...' questions would be grounds for the US to declare you 'persona non grata', so it's not a risk you'd want to take if want to keep the possibility of entering the US again.

You can do this in the office too, assuming it has an office gym

Been there, done that. Not the same. Unless your company is fancy I guess? I just have a really cozy bathroom with everything I need =]

We use Octopus Deploy. On commit it autodeploys to dev and sends the team a slack message ([environment] version x (previous was y) deployed by z). Prod deployments are also done through octopus but "manually" by the team when we are ready to make a release. Usually every week or two.

Not OP but I do..

> Stupid cunts

This is uncalled for. In my experience _any_ skepticism about lockdowns get met with name calling, labelling, jokes about 5g. All this is doing is pushing the skeptics further away. I am yet to see a healthy discussion between a pro-lockdowner and and anti-lockdowner. More often than not its the pro-lockdowner that stoops to a low level of name calling etc