Supes Decline Employee Vaccine Mandate, Push Forward With Testing Policy
By
Thadeus Greenson
on
October 12, 2021 at 4:19PM
Eighteen months into a pandemic that has now killed more than 714,000 Americans, including 106 Humboldt County residents, a majority of the more than two hours of public comment taken on the agenda item this morning was decidedly against the idea of a vaccine mandate for county employees, much of it rife with misinformation about the science of COVID-19, vaccinations and the law. “We know you are being paid to push this agenda,” charged one commenter, intoning baselessly that county supervisors and health officials are somehow in the pockets of pharmaceutical companies and profiting off the pandemic.
