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Germany plans to make Covid-19 vaccination compulsory for some jobs (channelnewsasia.com)
1 point by mdp2021 on Dec 6, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Namely, «from Mar 16 for people working in hospitals, nursing homes and other medical practices, according to a copy of draft legislation seen by Reuters on Sunday (Dec 5)».

This submission is for a specific general point: after many days of mentions of "mandatory vaccination" (1), a proposal comes out and it is "for some jobs". It is though quite easy to suppose that when such an idea (1) is proposed, the concept of "universal, for all residents" is suspected as implicit - and/because there is a whole world of difference between "specific" and "all", so it is evident that the idea of boundaries should be specified when foreseen.

(There have been plenty of cases in the past two years - e.g., "Country C has imposed a curfew" (which has as a default interpretation, "one shall not leave the house at some hours") where the actual legislation was "Country C has imposed that nobody can intoxicate themselves (e.g. through drinking) at some hours".)

So one is wondering: is it very bad journalism, or very bad communication from the authorities, to advance confusing and unsettling ideas without appropriately defining context?




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