Letter to the editor: Mandates vs. freedoms

I recently heard a friend say that company owners should have the freedom to mandate vaccines for their employees; after all, it is their company. This means that they should have the right to fire employees who are not vaccinated.

If you agree with this, you should also agree that employers should have the right to not hire or even fire employees that are vaccinated, since it is their company. Why stop there? Couldn’t you then also discriminate over religion, race, sex … ?

The same could be said for universities and schools. Students are being sent home for not being vaccinated. Couldn’t a student also be sent home if they are vaccinated? What about the millions of people who have the most beneficial immunity of all, natural immunity (because they had covid)? Should they be forced to get the vaccines or get fired/sent home?

Only time will tell who’s truly right in this battle against covid.

Mandates undo personal freedom. Freedom is still a civil right, isn’t it? These are challenging and divisive times where applying common sense and having discernment is critical. Personal freedom was mandated by our Founding Fathers, not the other way around.

Greg Weidner

New Kensington