I feel really sad for your entire pilot group that United has chosen to further divide you. I am hoping that ALPA will come forward and fight to exclude the pilots from this decision.
If you are arguing that this vaccine is a social responsibility, I encourage you to log off Facebook and look at legitimate medical research studies. The one I included
here shows that the viral load is similar between the unvaccinated and the vaccinated. Which means regardless of your vaccination status, you can transmit the virus. The vaccine and any medical procedure for that matter, should be a personal decision.
For those of you saying that it is a privilege to work at a private company, you are right. It was also a privilege of nearly every airline to receive billions of dollars of taxpayer money so that they didn't have to close their doors. I would expect the same level of compassion be offered to their employees. Your fellow pilots have worked their entire lives to get where they are at. The decision to abandon their careers because you think they should get a shot should not be taken lightly and you should offer a little more respect to your peers.
The 7 day average of new cases is 100,199 (at the time of this post). That means (assuming you are infectious for 10 days) their are currently 1,001,990 infectious people in the US right now. The population is 330,000,000.
1,001,990/330,000,000=0.3% of the US population which is 1 out of every 300 people.
The only viable argument here is that of reducing symptoms and mortality in infected patients. That has absolutely nothing to do with you or your company. Neither you nor United leadership will be standing next to them during their last breaths. The decision to get vaccinated is a personal one with personal consequences.
Educate yourselves with facts. Stop being so hostile to people who don't think like you. Stop letting them divide you.