Katherine Gregg frames her story about state health facilities’ challenges getting by without unvaccinated employees for the Providence Journal in terms of the government’s incompetence at replacing them:

Despite promises made to the state Department of Health to bring in replacements for unvaccinated staff, neither the state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital nor the Veterans Home has done so. …

When the original deadline took effect on Oct. 1, many unvaccinated health-care workers got a 30-day grace period from the Health Department to allow hospitals and other facilities to make alternate staffing arrangements.

It appears the majority of the state’s unvaccinated health-care workers from Oct. 1 were still working at Slater hospital and the state-run nursing home for veterans as recently as Tuesday – still unvaccinated.

The reader does not find any hint that the reporter or the officials are questioning whether the vaccine mandate was a good idea, but the inability of the state to function well under ordinary circumstances is a major indication that it shouldn’t make functioning even more difficult.