thing, and the california recall was something of a turning point because newsome ran aggressively on the need for these restrictions, the need for stronger preventive measures and the need to sort of bring those who were reluctant along by any means necessary, mandate or otherwise. that was a model for what we ended up seeing president biden do after the recall election, when he proposed his own federal mandates, the workplace that was struck down by the supreme court. but the timing is different now. at september, we were at the peak. if you look at the delta charts we re at the very fast receding point of the omicron surge. omicron was much more disruptive to everyday americans even though the administration has emphasized we were not seeing disclosures the way they were sort of mandated closures. they were de facto closures in a lot of cases because the workforce just wasn t there. jared polis from colorado has been leading the example of democratic dpofrs to say essentially all of
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