I’m sorry, but this seems so very childish.
I could provide reasons, but I'm afraid it would be construed as "political".
I'll just say that you catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar.
What drives a lot of people to rebel or resist is the simple act of telling them they must.
And forcing people to choose between feeding their children and a government mandate is not a
reasonable choice, rather, as I heard a pro athlete say last night, "
It is not a choice, it is an ultimatum."
And there is a vindictiveness to these mandates: they are removing unemployment insurance (U.I.) benefits from people who are fired over the mandate. Why would this be? U.I. is a system workers pay into during their entire working life - this is
their insurance policy, but it is being denied as an added level of spitefulness. Same with health insurance - many are losing it when fired over the mandate (kind of ironic since the whole issue is a health issue).
And many such as ER doctors & nurses (who were all hailed as "heroes" last year) have reported they are told they will be blacklisted after being fired as a condition of the mandate so they cannot even seek new employment at any other hospitals or in the future.
This mandate is destroying the lives of people, many of whom have had & recovered from the virus and thus have natural immunity, or those who have health concerns or medical exemptions, and may be destroying the lives of people who are perfectly willing to practice mitigation procedures but may never even contract or carry the virus themselves.
Not to mention what it's doing to society as there are now increasing mass shortages of first responders: police, firefighters, EMT's, doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, soldiers, national guard, various military personnel & hospital staff, utility workers and the list goes on & on.
The very thing the initial Covid-19 lockdowns were supposed to prevent (Hospitals becoming overwhelmed) is now occurring not because of the virus, but because of the mandates.
There could have been many alternatives to firings that would have been more compassionate, less destructive, less divisive, more cost effective and less dangerous than trying to find immediate (and potentially unqualified) replacements for people with decades of experience or suffering sudden, severe staff shortages in the most critical areas.