This will be interesting. Up until May, masks were mandatory except when you were sitting at your own desk. In May, they made masks optional for people who self-registered into a database that they were vaccinated. After that, mask wearing went from near 100% to less than 10%. Great news, right? Everyone is vaccinated!
Not so fast. Just 2 problems: the company didn’t ask to see your card, so you could lie and register yourself. Second, nobody has access to the database, so there’s no way to check to see if a massless co-worker is lying about being registered.
But it’s a defense company. If you go around lying to the company, that’s a great way to lose your security clearance and therefore your job. Surely nobody would do that, right? Well, in May, we were down to a couple of cases per week (out of 5000 employees), but that spiked right back up with the rest of Florida so we’re now getting like 30 cases per week and over 100 people each week are getting sent home for 2-week “close contact” vacations.
So, there have been a ton of liars in one of the two categories (lying about being vaccinated or lying about registering in the database). If Biden’s new mandate causes the company to shift gears and now ask to see our vaccine cards, they’ll have the data they need to catch the people who falsely registered in the database. It will be interesting to see if they bother to cross-check the database or if they intentionally turn a blind eye to what was surely rampant fraud.
