Political Coffee 10-21-2021

Body integrity: Don’t you have a right to decide what goes in your body? A Fed judge says not really as she dismisses Freedom Foundation’s TRO request to stop Kate’s vaccine mandate for those who have already had Covid. https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/10/20/federal-judge-denies-oregon-workers-request-to-stop-covid-vaccine-mandate-gov-kate-brown/6105488001/

Yet, OHSU says that 85% herd immunity will be achieved in OR by December because of vaccinations and people who have already had Covid. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/covid-herd-immunity-ohsu/283-906f98ac-fd8f-4b43-8076-f2fd0c3b5ad9

Sometimes even Kate gets it right: OR’s state employee religious exemptions are twice WA’s. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/oregon-approved-state-employee-religious-exemptions-at-nearly-twice-the-rate-washington-did/

Has your company been hit with mass exodus of employees because of vaccine mandates? https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2021/10/20/are-employees-quitting-at-your-company-take-our-p.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_portland+%28Portland+Business+Journal%29