Yes.
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Texas doesn’t have statewide guidelines for critical care and triage, which means that caregivers are left to their own local organizing. But tough times like the ones brought on by low vaccination rates and the delta variant require a re-examination of priors. This fourth wave of Covid hospitalizations differs from all the others, because almost everyone who is severely ill is also unvaccinated. In Texas, more than 12,800 people are in the hospital because of Covid-19, and between 93 and 98 percent of them are unvaccinated.
It’s tempting to blame this wave not on the virus but on the people who didn’t get their shots. “This has been bubbling up—this anger, this frustration, this fear, this worry. Every day, we’re seeing the ascent of the curve. Now it’s the steepest it’s ever been,” Fine says. “So I and the other leaders of the task force, we decided, you know, these numbers are not looking good. These questions are coming up."
Good question. Imo the best way to do it is to not actually mandate vaccines but mandate having the vaccine to be able to do things. Concerts, restaurants, schools, bars, government buildings, etc.
That way cops aren't enforcing vaccines, they're enforcing trespassing when an unvaxxed person won't leave after being told they can't be there. I think this gives the cops enough distance that they won't see themselves as forcing vaccination.
We already went thru this with masks and cops have refused to do this. You're not gonna logic-gotcha the cops.
go the other way make it illegal for the venues to host the unvaccinated
So what happens when the unvaccinated won't leave? They'll call te cops and charge them with trespassing
I'm not trying to logic gotcha the cops. Just make it so they don't actually enforce vaccines just existing laws like trespassing.
You make a good point that a lot of cops didn't want to enforce mask mandates