What is with the continued vaccine mandates

 Washington Examiner:

For many people, the pandemic no longer factors into daily life.

But in a handful of liberal cities, universities, and companies, some people are still subject to vaccine mandates that may require as many as four shots to keep their jobs or spots in school.

Some of the mandates are facing growing protests and legal challenges.

Roughly two dozen former firefighters in Seattle filed a lawsuit against the city this week for denying their requests for religious exemptions to the vaccine and firing them.

New York City’s largest police union successfully sued to invalidate the city’s vaccine mandate for its members; a judge ruled this week that the union’s contract with the police department did not include an ability for the department to enforce such a mandate. The judge ordered the reinstatement of all the union-backed members fired under the vaccination requirements.

Even so, New York City officials said they planned to fight the ruling. More than 1,700 city workers across all departments had been fired as of this month over their refusal to comply with the vaccine mandate.

Four fired employees of a retirement care facility in Alabama filed a lawsuit last week against their former employer, alleging religious discrimination. The former employees claim their sincere requests for religious exemptions from the company’s vaccine mandate were denied improperly.

Political support for such mandates has dropped precipitously over the past year, and even some of the most ardent defenders of mandates have rolled back requirements they once championed.
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I do not know why you need a religious objection to a vaccine that is of such questionable efficacy.  I was fulling vaccines and boosted as was my wife and we both still got Covid.  After being vaccinated I suffered extreme blood pressure spikes.  That alone is a good enough reason to avoid it in the future.   

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