This is what you are missing- I'm not defending a mandate. I am defending the right a business owner has to make decisions concerning employment requirements.no sir ... I stated it as clearly as I know how.
If you're going to defend a mandate, the mandating authority has to be responsible for the mandate. That includes the liability of an employee's adverse reaction/death/disability. No one is offering that which is why these jabs aren't "FDA approved" but continue under the EUA. (authorized, but not approved)
There's a policy to wear a high vis vest on the ramp at the airport. I don't buy my own, the company provides it. it's their rule, they provide.
There's a rule on some aircraft to have a boom mic for operations in certain situations. They provide the boom mic on the airplane.
See?
Your rejection of the government mandate isn't stripping rights (as you say it) is simply ludicrous. It is the definition of stripping individual rights to make such a requirement.
The government's mandating everyone aspirate is not such an example.
The reason it is "defending" is because business owners have historically had this right and a few socialistic minded anti-covid-vaxers are trying to strip this right from business owners.
They are just using covid to further chip away at our freedoms.