Far From Immune To The Never-Ending COVID Regime, Red States Are A Ripe Target — Unless Their Governors Act Now

On Monday, for example, the Democrat attorney general of Virginia gave private schools the all-clear to demand their mostly teenaged students - a group toward which COVID-19 is virtually non-threatening - get the vaccines, despite nearly zero understanding of its effects on, say, future fertility.

The second thing these three companies have in common - and one worth fighting over - is all three are in states where Republican governors have promised the government will not be issuing any kind of state vaccine passports or requiring vaccination for access to government services.

Many of these state executives don't believe that vaccine passports coming to their states through private business are a threat to liberty, and believe they have neither the authority to restrict businesses and institutions from enforcing mandates, nor the moral duty to protect students, machinists, camp guides, waiters, and the rest of us from private business mandates.

"It's just you can't work at Lastique.'" Thus far, only Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte have banned private businesses and institutions not covered by HIPAA from mandating vaccinations, though Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, in an apparent compromise with the states' influential corporate interests, at least banned private operations that accept government money from mandates.

The parsing of language succeeded in halting St. Edward's University in Austin's mandate, but fails to protect the majority of the state's citizens.

While it's all fine and good to opine that people ought to get a different job or patronize a different business if theirs mandates the vaccine, time, money, transportation, responsibilities at home, and diversity of options all play massive factors in just how mobile - or immobile - many Americans are.

Far from immune, red states are as vulnerable as the rest of the country.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/27/far-from-immune-to-the-never-ending-covid-regime-red-states-are-a-ripe-target-unless-their-governors-act-now/