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States, eg WA, had policies that prevented activities unless you were vaccinated.
by zmgsabst 2y ago
States, eg WA, had policies that prevented activities unless you were vaccinated.
- UncleMeat 2y agoThey consistently had "or wear a mask" options.
- ghaff 2y agoMany private functions/companies required both. It's simply counterfactual to say there were no vaccination mandates--and they weren't limited to healthcare settings.
- UncleMeat 2y agoQuite different from state policies at this point.
- ghaff 2y agoTo pretend that those private mandates were independent of what government at various levels was saying is counterfactual. It's not like individual companies were just making up policies in a vacuum. If governments were saying (almost certainly incorrectly) "Hey, business as usual" companies would have acted differently.
- tzs 2y agoAs someone else said, generally the requirements in Washington that state government imposed on non-government entities was masking. Vaccination was encouraged but not required. It was required for various government employees. Washington ended up being one of the 10 states with the least COVID deaths per capita.