We fall back on our federalist system of governance, whereby states either do or do not assert their own workplace rules for mandatory vaccinations. My state passed laws on this months ago, which unfortunately has not effected federal employees, but has protected other private workers. Other states have done the same.

We are too big and too diverse a country at this point to even dream of applying single rules to every single citizen across every single state, as delegated from the federal government. This is where state governments shine and differentiate themselves, and increasingly we will divorce ourselves from federal authority. They have the illusion of power, which is not the same as actually possessing it. We saw this effect play out when Trump tried to penalize sanctuary cities, and the cities just said fuck off.