The ultimate stop-gap against an employer mandating tyranny/death was always employees taking their ball and going home -- FIND ANOTHER JOB.

This gov mandate was an attempt to eliminate that option as it incorporated that tyranny/death at every job. It was pure evil and illegal.

Employers can mandate nearly anything they want as long as they can (good faith) claim it impacts productivity or safety. They don't have to qualify that to you or me.

BUT THEY WILL BE LIABLE FOR IT. And that is where the civil courts/system do their work.

Everyone gets this unless you have a learning disability. If an employer doesn't give you any situation you want up-front, you leave/pass on the job. If you are harmed in the course of employment, you sue. Winning a judgement doesn't eliminate the harm you took as a condition of employment!

This is why people needed to stand up against the mandate, no matter the "rules." The ability for employers to be accountable for what they have done doesn't outweigh the risk of the [non-solutiony thing].

You're never going to have a system, in a "free" country, where everyone believes and acts the way you do. The key was being able to associate and work with/for the people you want in your life.