I had a momentary glimmer of hope for Hochul, when she first got into government she had an "A" rating from the NRA, lots of progressives hated her. She distanced herself totally from Handsy Andy. But as soon as she took over, she went full-tilt commie.
I've been trying to get some info as to when we'll be required to get it, but it seems to always be pushed a little farther into the future. Health care, law enforcment, fire and EMS, education, DMV- everything will be marginally functional, if at all when this hits. Pretty much my entire "chain of command" at work will not get it, and they're already critically short-staffed. I am supposed to have four people working under me, I have one now. Plus we are covering shortages in other areas in addition to our normal duties. Even now, it's unsustainable, those who can are retiring, many leaving after 10 years, so they at least get a partial pension (not that there will be any pensions soon). They can't hire anyone, at least until the extra UI runs out this week. We normally have 100-250 people on the list for new hires, we now have under 25. Out of the last four new people, one worked one night and quit, one is doing fairly well, and two could be replaced by an inexpensive coatrack. Several new hires have been caught flat-out sleeping on the job, and that's unfortunately good because the quality of their work is so bad that we're better off if they don't touch anything!
Here's an article by a student at Cornell who looked at the actual data, something no one in government seems to be willing to do, or admit to doing. Cornell requires vax for all students, faculty, and staff, they claim a 95% vax rate. And now per capita they have five times the infection rate. They're very careful to hide actual hospitalization rates, because "case" numbers are more scarier on the TV.
Extrapolate these numbers to the SUNY system, and they'll have to "go remote" again, which will result in a cascade of student withdrawls and funding loss. Going back online-only would also be one of the only ways they could cover the staffing shortages as well.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/despite-95-vaccination-rate-cornell-today-has-five-times-more-covid-cases-than-it-did-this-time-last-year/All in all, I'm perfectly ready to have them pull the trigger so I can get working on some projects that I have to do.