SCOTUS denies religious exemption to COVID vaccine mandate

A while ago I speculated on why there should be a religious exemption from a vaccine mandate, and I didn’t come up with much. I’ve been somewhat surprised that coverage of that topic has been short on explaining exactly how the mandate violates someone’s religious freedom.

Later I heard Dr. Robert Malone (who I’m not sure if I should believe or not) discuss various side effects of the vaccine, which include potentially messing with a woman’s fertility — which could be grounds for a religious exemption, at least for some people.

Now this: Supreme Court Rejects Bid for Religious Opt-Out From COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate.

I don’t have much of an opinion on this because it’s hard to know what to believe with Covid. I’m fairly certain that the government only tells us what it believes will motivate us to do what the government wants us to do. Which is disgusting, but seems to be true.

Various other people are making claims about this and that, and I have no great ability to evaluate those claims — except the application of generic BS-meter reasoning to sort through some of it. IOW, some of it is obviously propaganda, some is obviously tin-foil hat nonsense, but there remains a whole lot of stuff in between, about which I don’t have the time or the training to worry.

This leaves me with a somewhat agnostic perspective on most Covid issues, and a deep disgust of our public health apparatus, many governments and government organizations, the media, and Big Tech.