Why don’t blue states just create and enforce their own vaccine mandate?

I was in Oregon a couple weeks ago. The culture is totally different than where I'm from (midwest). People wore masks everywhere and seemed to take covid pretty seriously. I'll bet most folks are vaccinated and doing everything they can anyway despite any federal regulations.

They are all except NYC:

"New York City’s sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace is now in place."

Divided States of America wrote:

energeticlotuseater wrote:

As far as I can tell these are just targeted vaccine mandates but not a wide scale one like Biden tried to implement for all employers with over 100 employees.

They are all except NYC:

"New York City’s sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace is now in place."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2021-12-27/nyc-vaccination-mandate-for-the-private-sector-takes-effect%3fcontext=amp

This is more what I was looking for. It looks like the enforcement of said mandate is worrisome but the mandate is technically on the books for NYC (not the entire state).

Charles Bukowski wrote:

left wingers don't really care about covid, they just want control.

They can't control the mass exodus of people from the authoritarian hell they created.

They'll have to build a Berlin Wall to keep them in.

And yet Covid seems to be raging regardless of mask/vaccine mandates and regardless of political ideology. So what's this all really about?

pop top wrote:

California has its own mandate. It’s the best back up plan for those states.

State mandates are like having a smoking section of a restaurant. They used to have those in the past.

California has a mandate? And yet they are allowing health care workers with active infections to be around patients? That is a giant double standard. There should be no mandates now that everybody is getting COVID.

joed|rt wrote:

pop top wrote:

California has its own mandate. It’s the best back up plan for those states.

State mandates are like having a smoking section of a restaurant. They used to have those in the past.

California has a mandate? And yet they are allowing health care workers with active infections to be around patients? That is a giant double standard. There should be no mandates now that everybody is getting COVID.

So 25% of our workforce is out w Covid. All double vaxxed and boosted. They are pretty damn ill. Me and another guy are the only ones not vaxxed. It is a small company so pretty noticeable when people are out and word gets around.

I just find this funny. I don’t know why. The vaccine *may* mitigate the course of illness in those who were predestined to get a bad case anyway; I will readily admit that. But it sure as hell isn’t preventing transmission or a still pretty bad course. It would seem that the vaccines are making people more susceptible, which, of course is compatible with logic and immunology. A convalescent patient is going to have a level of immunity that the vaccines can not confer.

Anyway, I find it to be an absolute travesty that we are giving this vaccine to five year olds.

energeticlotuseater wrote:

msoft wrote:

How many states are trying to enact Texas style forced birth laws, Hardlooper?

If by forced birth you mean FORCED BIRTH laws then quite a few.

Forced birth.

Tired of my old handle wrote:

Anyway, I find it to be an absolute travesty that we are giving this vaccine to five year olds.

You obviously do not have any kids. One years get measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines. You can chose to send your future kids, if any, to a private anti-vaxx school.