California and New York have announced that government employees will need to be vaccinated or regularly tested in order to come into work.
as people try to protect themselves against the more transmissible Delta variant now spreading through many parts of the country, only a pitiful 0.1% or so of Americans are currently getting their first dose every day. That’s a far cry from the urgent scramble that Delta demands, especially given that only about half the country is fully vaccinated—and some places, like Louisiana and Arkansas , are lagging woefully behind.
So far, the U.S. vaccination drive has largely relied on carrots—the idea has been to sell people on the notion that, when you’re vaccinated, you can more safely see loved ones, go out to eat, and so on. But it’s become clear that about half of Americans don’t feel they need to be vaccinated to enjoy those things.
It’s time, then, to switch to the sticks—namely, vaccine mandates. Mandates are working wonders in France, where vaccination appointmentsafter President Emmanuel Macron announced earlier this month that only vaccinated people would be allowed to visit restaurants, cafes and more.
It’s hard to imagine a nationwide vaccine mandate flying in the States, where we’ve never even come to a national consensus on things as simple as wearing a mask. But private and public employers largely can require workers to be vaccinated to come back into the office—and some already are. Just today, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasiothat all city workers must either get their shots by mid-September, or be tested for the virus weekly.
“If people want freedom, if people want jobs, if people want to live again, we have got to get more people vaccinated and obviously, it’s time for whatever mandates we can achieve,” de Blasio told WNYC’s Brian Lehrer last Friday. (California
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