Handing Gov. Gavin Newsom and the prison guards union a temporary victory, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday blocked a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for prison workers from taking effect.
You read that right: Newsom and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association have been on the same side in court, fighting against mandatory vaccines for people who work in prisons — even as the virus has infected more than half of the state’s incarcerated population since the pandemic began last year.
Meanwhile, our pro-science governor has pushed vaccine mandates … unless you’re in the union that oh-so-coincidentally gave him a million and a half dollars to fend off the recent effort to recall him.
How’s that for some clear (as mud) public health messaging?