Why Are Police Unions Pushing Back Against Vaccine Mandates? - All In - MSNBC

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9. I think any union or labor organization has trouble right now representing ALL its members

I have little science on this, so anyone with more science or direct knowledge. feel free to blast away. But my sense is that, generally, any defined interest work group you care to poll, be it first responders, medical professionals, trade unions, public employees, teachers unions, etc. have somewhere between 25 and 35% of their constituents that have issue with any sort of vaccine mandate. Some of that is based on basic free choice arguments, some is concerns about vaccines efficacy and safety and some is clearly from misinformation rife in the social media. While these groups theoretically have "leaders", in fact most often, those "leaders" bend in whatever direction the wind is blowing. And I think it is no different that the DeSantis and Abbott math equation. I can go "No mask" and immediately garner 35% of the voter base. Boom! Now I only need to find 16% of the rest to support me, even if tepidly, and I win! It is the worst kind of leadership in whatever setting but I think it is the current algorithm for many politicians and other, so called, leaders. This works because the 65 to 75% who follow reason and science are TOO F***ing quiet.