Requirements for entry into venues, large and small businesses are a better solution than mandates but I don't believe that will do enough soon enough.
I'm still for federal mandates that are based on a level of infection in a given area, a trigger point. If all states and local governments followed the recommended guidelines it wouldn't be necessary but they clearly don't. Keep the state rate of infection below a threshold or mandates kick in. If a state can control the level of infection without mandates that's great. If they can't or won't more extensive measures are appropriate anyway. Trigger point is when the rate of infection exceeds 1 person infecting more than 2 two others. IMO, mandates with trigger points should be a bill voted on by congress and see which way it goes. A national health crisis should not involve politics but it seems clear that if politics were removed from the table we would have be in far better place than we are now. For the most part, the COVID us verses them, the tribal behavior, is political party based.
I am not in the camp of each to their own, whatever will be will be. While this nation has been arguing and postering and spitting out overwhelming misinformation and lies without any consequences, attacking political competitors based on their COVID position, etc, we have lost 3/4 of a million citizens. Put one coffin in each X5 and they would stretch almost coast to coast. Will a million take the politics out of it? 1.5? 3? Will there be enough X5s to put coffins in? The freedom of those that have been vaccinated is restricted not only because of the non vaccinated but because our political tribes have taken the issue outside of any concept of how a successful democracy works. IMO waiting for the natural order of things, time or only the strong survive to decide what prevails is out of the question.
I hear loud and clear the anti-vaccine 'rationale' about why they aren't vaccinated. What I would like to hear from them is what we should do to get COVID under control. The easy part is to disagree with vaccination. The hard part is to have an alternative solution that has merit. Since they are so adamant about not being vaccinated, what is their solution to get COVID under control?
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...irus-vaccines/