There’s say a 20 million in one chance that an infection creates a mutation. If we keep the number of infections low enough then there won’t be more mutations. That’s why it is important that everyone gets vaccinated, including young people who have little risk of damage themselves.
I think it helps with innovation to be in-person for meetings, coffee breaks, etc, but the whole "open office" setup some corps have where you're never alone at your desk is purely cost reduction + keeping people working by having eyes on them. Apple in particular also doesn't like secrets getting out, and for good reason.
Cause it also covers doctor visits, and if you have side effects from the vaccine, that's basically like being sick. And if you mean, why should it cover that too, idk. It's just the lines they drew.
It's not really newsworthy. People often already get paid time off for this, especially in these big tech companies. If they don't, whatever, there's unpaid leave.
I'd rather just be paid* a fixed $/day to work and not have all these weird alternate ways of being paid, including via RSUs, HSA, 401(k), free stuff like food, parental leave, and odd benefits I won't mention cause they'd give away where I work, but this is what you get if you're not an independent contractor. A day of paid sick leave is the least of it.
I'm not really sure I understand this.
You have to understand salaries are not never-ending.
Interesting post. I’m not questioning that at all. I think maybe you misunderstood somewhere along the way.
This is a special sick leave that does not count against or take away from the employee’s standard sick leave balance.
medicine.wustl.edu
The bug still has to get from person to person, irrespective of "mutations."https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33423311/
"Out of 10333 spike protein sequences analyzed, 8155 proteins comprised one or more mutations. A total of 9654 mutations were observed that correspond to 400 distinct mutation sites."
This was published Jan. 9th. There are far more mutations/variants than reported in the media. Once the spike protein starts mutating notably (such as in the South Africa variant), current vaccines are far less effective, as discussed here:
New evidence COVID-19 antibodies, vaccines less effective against variants | WashU Medicine
Worrisome new coronavirus variants can evade antibodies that neutralize original virus
Yeah, but people in Germany only pay 49% taxes and have free schools, free universities, free healthcare, and 4 weeks vacation. Idiots in California or NYC pay up to 68% taxes while having nothing and cheer for paying more taxes.
Hey a guy from Denmark here. I haven’t heard if any company pays here for using work time for being vaccinated but our full time is 37 hours a week so everyone got plenty of time for taking care in free time.
I figure why they do it, a combination of retention, wanting to hire younger people who are going to benefit more from most of that stuff, and (when it comes to health benefits) weird tax reasons. Some companies are less about that and do pay mostly cash.
Children don’t transmit much. And vaccinated them is unnecessary. The car ride to the doctor has way higher chance of mortality. Once we vaccinate most the seniors and high risk people this thing is going to disappear in a hurry. Vaccinating children will be unnecessary.
The vaccine stops transmission. It’s irrational to imagine super powers for the vaccine. With every other viral vaccine the vaccine stops transmission. CV19 is not magic so you assume normal behavior until it is proven in the highest level of data to to be otherwise. Extraordinary claims (a vaccine doesn’t stop viral transmission) you need extraordinary evidence not just musings about the possibility.There's currently no definitive, notable reduction in transmission due to vaccination (there are published anecdotes/thories -- but nothing definitive), due in large part to the relative newness of the strain(s), and therefore lack of historical data. There are excellent papers in Science, Nature, and of course other peer-reviewed academic journals.
Sharing this link just as a resource (there are many) where this is discussed:
Fact check: Scientists do not yet know whether the COVID-19 vaccine reduces transmission of the virus
A Facebook post, shared hundreds of times since Jan. 15, claims that the COVID-19 vaccine does not prevent transmission of the disease, meaning vaccinated people will effectively become “silent spreaders”. It uses this as an argument against introducing health passports...www.reuters.com
Conclusion:
"There is no conclusive evidence to claim COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent people spreading the disease. Scientists are not yet sure of how the vaccine affects transmission – and this is currently undergoing research. People are still required to follow restrictions even after vaccination to account for this uncertainty."
Mutations generally result in a virus becoming less lethal over time. Most mutations will still result in cross immunity. That’s why epidemics die out over time. If we had no vaccine the virus would still burn out.
