Last week was my first visit to New York City since Mayor De-Bottom-De-Barrel imposed a vaccine mandate for museumgoers. No vaccine, no admission, no exceptions. I’m certain no one in City Hall gave this much deep thought since there’s a mandate barring that, too, or so it seems.
I’m happily vaccinated and scheduled for the booster shot that antiques like me can get, but pregnant women and people who’ve already been infected with COVID have reasonable arguments against getting jabbed. There are people with religious objections, too, and American law respects these whether we like it or not. President Biden issued “an order” mandating vaccines for federal employees, but there are no rules managing its implementation, no one’s developing any, so no one’s taking it seriously. Businesses, among them hospitals, are firing people willy-nilly for not getting vaccinated. They’re finding they can’t replace the lost workers.
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