And what the fuck are they gonna do, quit their jobs in protest? Lord knows there’s enough people, vaccinated or not, to fill in the labor gaps. The frothing at the mouth pro-mandate crowd seems to be largely concentrated online from what I can gather. Regular people with jobs and households to take care of don’t like being inconvenienced with excessive public health measures that solve nothing.
I can’t imagine restaurant owners and venues in Boston, Chicago, NYC etcetera are happy that they have to enforce vaccine mandates cause refusing customers cuts into their profits, and with inflation spiking coupled with the exorbitantly high cost of living and omicron being a big nothingburger, I can’t imagine many of them will be sad to see the mandates go.
The pushback to the feds telling blue states they can’t enforce vax mandates anymore would be coming from the people you would expect: aging liberals with office jobs or careers in academia, TikTok nurses, local politicians drunk on power, the list goes on.