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Old 11th Oct 2021, 18:09
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tdracer
 
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What Chieftp wrote. The vaccination rates in the black community is far lower than the population as a whole. There are large numbers of people who are unhappy with the vaccine mandates - many of them far from Trump loving right wingers - and Washington state is about to pay a big price for it. Washington has mandated all state employees must be full vaccinated by the 18th of October or lose their jobs (which means they needed to have gotten the final dose no later than the 4th since it takes two weeks to be fully effective) and many (some estimates put it as high as 30%) are preparing to quit or be fired, and are simply using up all their sick and vacation leave before they go.
As a result the state ferry service is horribly short staffed and had to cancel hundreds of trips, and law enforcement - already short staffed in areas like Seattle - is taking it in the chin. Things are about to get ugly around here.
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