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sarahsweets · Aug 27, 2021, 02:08 AM

Hey @ArtleyWilkins the link and excerpt I posted here i had in another thread. This is one of the best basic overview/summary's I've read so far regarding privacy and Vax status, or how to ask about it from providers.
It validates why you want to know and deserve to know.

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Originally Posted by ArtleyWilkins

Absolutely not. I am already forced into the position of teaching students face-to-face without knowing their vaccination status, students who are not required to mask, in a state that isn't required to even let me know if I have students who out on quarantine awaiting testing results. I would not see a therapist or doctor who I was aware of not being vaccinated - no matter what their reasoning. I'm vaccinated but I'm not bullet-proof. Sorry, but I spent 100 days watching my husband being tortured by Covid and I watched him die in front of my eyes. Call this the anger stage of grief perhaps, but I am beyond the point of tolerance. (Sorry, but this rant comes as I have received an email from a student who believes he has Covid, is awaiting test results, and no one in this school has bothered to inform me. Last school year, I would have known.)

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Getting vaccinated is more than a good idea. It’s an act of civic responsibility.
So clinicians who tell you that vaccination is a “personal decision,” as if it doesn’t affect, and therefore concern, anyone else, are making an all-too-common mistake. Your chiropractor thinks the current health of his own family is all that’s relevant, because he’s not considering that he might infect an elderly stranger and cause her death. (One C.D.C. study suggests that a majority of Covid cases were transmitted by people who weren’t symptomatic at the time.) He isn’t very likely to do that at work, of course, assuming he’s taking the proper precautions, including masking and ensuring proper ventilation in the small room where he works. Even so, his clients would be still safer if he and his assistant were vaccinated. That’s why it isn’t a personal decision, in the intended sense. Getting vaccinated, for those without medical contraindications, is more than a good idea; it’s something we owe one another. It’s an act of civic responsibility.

And note that the C.D.C.’s recent “at ease” guidance for the vaccinated is predicated on the unvaccinated’s maintaining proper vigilance. When an unvaccinated health care worker caused an outbreak in a Kentucky nursing facility this March, residents who were vaccinated enjoyed a relatively high level of protection, but 18 became infected nonetheless, and one died. The elderly seem at particular risk for “breakthrough infections,” to be sure. Still, when people choose to be unvaccinated, they have chosen to increase the risk to others.

Is It OK to Ask Health Care Providers if They’re Vaccinated? - The New York Times