[shadowgovt]

What I find most interesting is the private-sector scenarios and how they're playing out.

I have relatives who work in healthcare and refuse to get the vaccine. They're at risk of losing their jobs because regardless of external pressure, the hospital employing them is incentivized to let them go by the patients. They're a hospital focused on physical therapy, which is does as much elective business by volume as prescribed... And very few patients are willing to work with a physical therapist who isn't vaccinated, so they're simply losing business as word-of-mouth gets around that they don't require vaccines and patients sign up for their PT regiments with other hospitals in the region.

By the same token that the government (absent a law from Congress) perhaps can't force organizations to employ vaccinated staff, the government may have no say if an individual employee is fired because an organization requires vaccinated staff of their own accord.

This would be a good time for Congress to show some leadership and lay down some legal guidelines.

[q1w2]

I'm not sure I agree that it's a good time. The current vaccine probably has very limited efficacy against the new omicron variant.

Better to wait for the updated booster before forcing more people to take it.

[shadowgovt]

Oh I didn't mean pass a law authorizing the executive to force vaccines.

I mean this would be a good time for Congress to show leadership in general. As in, make a decision. Really, any decision that shows some reasoning behind it. Entirely too many people in the service of legislature are more worried about their electability than doing a good job. There's a reason that branch has, on average, a mid-teens approval rating most of the time.