I don’t want to see the re-opening of the economy tied to mandatory testing.
I suspect a lot of businesses will require testing of prospective job applicants, and of customers. They don’t want to be petrie dishes for virus outbreaks. They don’t want to be the next carnival cruise.
In fact, sport league executives are already talking about quick-testing fans before letting them in the stadiums.
You’d be free to not take the test. They’d be free not to let you in. Freedom goes for business owners too — just like they’re free to keep people out who don’t wear shirts or shoes. Or they’re free not to hire somebody who refuses to take a drug test.
Oh, yeah -- that will go over well. Civil rights and labor rights attorneys will be all over that first one.
And just wait until the full racial profile of COVID-19 patients is published, showing that racial minorities make up a disproportionate number of COVID-19 cases. Yeah, that will really help that mandatory testing stand up in a court of law.
And on top of all that, just consider that the Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities Act may even be used to REQUIRE employers to hire COVID-19 patients.
You clearly haven't thought this thing all the way through.
As a business owner who has worked in senior management roles in the past, I can tell you that the LAST thing I generally ever want is to know the medical condition of my staff ... because once I know someone is defective, I am: (1) forced by law to do something about it, or (2) prohibited by law from doing something about it. And what makes the whole legal landscape so infuriating is that I usually find myself in a position where I am PROHIBITED from doing something under one law that I am FORCED to do under another law.
'Eff that sh!t. Go away.