The muddle Tennessee legislators created with the omnibus bill they passed in their special session late last week may be worse than the issues they were trying to address.
Time will tell.
The Republican Party-dominated body, which prides itself on keeping government out of the way in most situations, decided instead that state government should be the arbiter of most things COVID-19 mask- and vaccine-related.
But their actions left conundrums such as these:
– It bans many private businesses from making vaccine requirements of their employees but offers a slew of exceptions (which are a boon to employers such as Ford Motor Co., which just agreed to spend billions and employ more than 5,000 people in West Tennessee).