Opinion | Biden's employer vaccine rule is good policy, but it also shows we need to go even further with mandates. By jbarro.
Some governments are requiring customers of certain establishments to prove vaccination.
This is less widespread than employment-based requirements, but jurisdictions including New York City and San Francisco have begun requiring proof of vaccination to enter bars, restaurants and gyms. This is based on the idea that these are contexts where COVID spread is especially likely. None of these policies is uncontroversial, but they're within the realm of policies being considered and implemented in jurisdictions around the country. TheyIf you combine all the employment- and school-related categories with localized mandates already in place or on the way, you're talking about a really large fraction of the working-age American population that could be subject to a vaccine mandate.
And Biden's proposal is a federal policy, overriding the prerogatives of state and local governments to decide where vaccination should be required. Still, the federal government has valid interstate interests to assert here on behalf of the national public, because what happens in one state doesn't necessarily stay there.
Virus outbreaks travel across state lines. The economic impact can spread even more widely than the virus itself — the Delta wave has produced with high vaccination rates and low incidence rates, likely because that is where members of the public are more concerned about rising case counts. And the federal government is a payer, through the Medicare and Medicaid programs, of costs generated by outbreaks., that vaccine mandates are not an infringement on civil liberties. They are.
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