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Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? 673

HughPickens.com writes According to Joanna Rothkopf Disneyland is already a huge petri dish of disease with tired children wiping their snot faces on Goofy and then riding log flumes through mechanized rivers filled with the backwash of thousands of other sweaty, unwashed, weeping toddlers. Now John Tozzi reports at Businessweek that five workers at Disneyland have been diagnosed with measles in an outbreak that California officials trace to visitors at the theme park in mid-December. The measles outbreak is a publicity nightmare for Disney and the company is urging its 27,000 workers at the park to verify that they're inoculated against the virus, and the company is offering tests and shots on site for workers who are unvaccinated. One thing Disney won't do, however, is require workers to get routine vaccinations as a condition of employment. Almost no companies outside the health-care industry do. "To make things mandatory just raises a lot of legal concerns and legal issues," says Rob Niccolini. Disney has been working with public health officials, and they've already put some employees on paid leave until medically cleared. "They recognized that they were just a meeting place for measles," says Gilberto Chávez. "And they are quite concerned about doing what they can to help control the outbreak."

Comment Re:ATF Ruling 2015-1 Manufacturing and Gunsmithing (Score 1) 573

Which reminds me- is a firearm truly the best way to create a projectile weapon on a 3D printer?

It seems to me that there should be a way to exceed a firearm's muzzle velocity, with a properly designed kinetic spring of some sort, thus building a weapon that requires neither metal nor gunpowder.

Comment Re: How about mandatory felony sentences instead? (Score 1) 420

I know 45 minutes in I was blowing a .00, but I have no idea how accurate the cheapo breathalyzer is (it even feels cheap with a battery case that doesn't quite fit, an LCD screen, and a "detector" behind the grill that looks like it isn't quite mounted straight).

I do know this, it beeps quite loudly at anything over a .06. No way you could miss what it considers a fail. No idea what jurisdiction .06 is considered drunk.

Comment Re: How about mandatory felony sentences instead? (Score 1) 420

My wife gave me a breathalyzer as a joke. I rarely drink away from where I am sleeping for the night, to make the world safer for me.

I decided to try this cheap-ass pocket AAA battery run breathalyzer out. I took a shot of vodka, blew a 0.07. I waited 15 minutes, blew a 0.02. How drunk do you have to be to not pass a breathalyzer?

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