"Oh, it's behind the firewall, so I can just accept the AD defaults."

And that makes my job so much easier

It falls to me to point out the elephant in the living room here on /.:

Geeks don't run the world. MBAs do. MBAs think, "Your cyber see-cure-it-tee thing or my bonus..."

Those of us of a certain age remember infomercial huckster Kevin Trudeau. He published books with titles like "Secrets they don't want you to know" on topics from weight loss to cancer cures to personal finance. All of them were bullshit, of course, and he was ultimately sentenced to 10 years in prison after repeatedly evading court-ordered restitution while maintaining an opulent lifestyle. Before that, he entered into a consent decree with the FTC requiring him to post a $10 million bond before publishing another book.

So, vaccine mandates are the equivalent of Mengele's worthless medical torture^X experiments.

Yup, you're an anti-vaxxer's anti-vaxxer from the word go.

You are an anti-vaxxer because your comment parrots several bits of shopworn anti-vax propaganda.

Absent a positive PCR test, how do you know you previously had COVID? Absent an immune titer test, how do you know you have adequate protection against COVID? And why should the possibility of natural immunity stop you from obtaining the practical certainty of immunity that the vaccines confer? Also, how effective is your "natural" "immunity" against the variants, much less how much more effective is it against the variants?

You're grasping at straws to justify not getting the vaccination. That makes you an anti-vaxxer.

Grasping at straws again. Cherry-picking. And you just contradicted yourself.

So you probably can't get COVID again after having been infected. That's excellent news. I'd rather get the immunity from some shots than risk death or disability from the virus, TYVM.

Yup, there it is, another shopworn anti-vax lie. The health care industry makes a shitload more money treating sick people than it does from prevention. If what you said was true, then the industry would want people to get infected rather than lose money from getting vaccinated.

Translation: "If the former president says the sky is blue, then I'm going to assume it's green unless and until I've had a chance to go out and see for myself that it's blue." Given the former president's record going back the better part of four decades, I'd say that's an entirely reasonable position.

And a cruel, sociopathic idiot at that. Even assuming arguendo that vaccines cause autism (they don't), he'd rather have kids die from horrific infectious diseases than be autistic.

Your mistrust of government seems to be selective. On the one hand, you won't get a life-saving vaccine because of your supposed mistrust of the government, yet here you seem to uncritically accept what the Air Force says about the trillion-dollar boondoggle that is the F-35. So yeah, I think you're just trying to get your rocks off by "owning the libs".

There is no left wing in America. Americans have been propagandized by the likes of Fox News to the point where they see anything to the left of permitting Jeff Bezos to hunt poor people for sport as communism. The debate over whether to unionize Amazon or let it continue to fistfuck you is the mainstream versus the right wing. If the Democrats were truly left wing, they would be calling for Amazon to be nationalized rather than unionized.

Lost me right there. The WaPo and the NYT are legitimate journalistic organisations that actively make an effort to be truthful and objective. Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, and Sidney Powell, OTOH, are trying to avoid being put out of business by Dominion, et al., by claiming in court documents that they are purveyors of entertainment that no reasonable person would take seriously. There is simply no comparison between the two. So yeah, take your false equivalence and stick it where the sun don't shine.

No.

One, some viewpoints are not worthy of serious debate by serious people. Do we need to "look at both sides" of the "debate" on whether the Holocaust happened? Do we take the views of people like David Irving seriously? Absolutely not. Those people are best ridiculed, ignored for their own good and, in some particularly rare and egregious cases, criminally prosecuted.

Two, we're not talking about serious people trying to engage in a serious debate, but rather about deliberate, harmful disinformation promulgated by a small number of people acting in bad faith and with intent to cause harm.

Sounds farfetched? It isn't. Former UK Labour leader and would-be Prime Minister Michael Foot (a/k/a Agent Boot) took money from the KGB to publish Soviet propaganda*.

*Yes, I know The Sun is a tabloid and thus not normally a reputable source, but this article's reporting on the content of Ben MacIntyre's book is accurate. IOW, a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Here's another article about Foot taking money from the KGB.

That's not funny!

You are a selfish ignoramus asshole.

If you get infected, you might very well end up in an ICU and on a ventilator at a cost of north of $100,000 which I'm guessing you don't have, so guess who has to pay for it? Oh yeah, the rest of us. Also, long COVID is very much a thing that exists. It can cause lung damage, cognitive impairment, and a whole host of other problems that could very well hamper your ability to earn a living. Guess what? Then we have to support you on disability. And as mentioned, you then become a vector for mutations that the current vaccines don't work against. That puts us right back to square one, doesn't it? Or, you could get one of the very highly effective vaccines and do the rest of us and yourself a favour, but oh no, you just have to be an American, don't you?

Sometimes, living in a civilised society comes at a price, whether it's paying taxes, (mostly) obeying the law, jury duty, or getting vaccinated so that you're not spreading lethal pathogens.

(Yes, I'm feeling pissy today)