All government employees were mandated as of October 18th; generally those that did not get vaccinated lost their jobs.

That will encompass indoor dining at restaurants, as well as bars, nightclubs, music venues, movie theaters, performing arts venues, gyms/fitness centers, conventions, outdoor events with more than 500 people, and professional and collegiate sports.

Source: King County vaccine requirement for indoor businesses takes effect Oct. 25

This means businesses are delegated to check vaccination records but are not given any law enforcement authority with which to enforce it.  A store employee can ask you to leave but they cannot physically detain you and carry you out of the store if you don’t wish to comply. Police are just as unlikely to respond as they are to a “someone’s not wearing a mask” complaints, which is, not at all.

Observations:

• Last winter, “experts” and leading politicians said they would never mandate vaccinations. They did anyway through de facto mandates via proxy. They lied.
• Why not have the guts to pass a law mandating it everywhere for everyone except medical conditions? Pretending they are not mandates by virtue of mandates via third party proxy is nonsense.

Spain’s equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the government had violated rights of citizens.

As a result, the government will now be refunding perhaps over 100 million Euros:

The decision comes after Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled in July that the government had overstepped its powers and violated the rights of citizens to freedom of movement when it decreed a state of emergency in March 2020.

Source: Covid-19 and Boosters Live Updates: Vaccines, Global Cases and the Latest

Unfortunately, the public health elite viewed themselves above the laws and Constitutions. Courts in many jurisdictions have struck down their illegal rules and mandates on innocent citizens.

(Original text had no paragraph breaks – I’ve added them to improve readability. TL;DR Summary: Public health mitigation measures did not work. Decreasing metrics were occurring prior to the introduction of mitigation measures. In some cases, metrics got worse after the introduction of mitigations.)

In the attempt to counter the second COVID-19 wave in autumn 2020, the Italian government introduced a unique countrywide system of physical distancing measures organized in progressively restrictive tiers (coded as yellow, orange, and red) imposed on a regional basis according to epidemiological risk assessments.

This followed a set of other scattered or limited measures described in full detail by Manica et al.1. This paper concerns the introduction of the tiered restrictions. The data used to evaluate the impact of the restriction system on SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility and hospitalization burden in Italy is from the Italian COVID-19 integrated surveillance system.

The reproduction number R(t) estimated on the onset of COViD-19 symptoms constantly decreased during most of the observation period 04 October 2020 – 06 December 2020 than is centered on the date of introduction of the measures and includes the expected latency to reach an effect.

The fastest decrease of R(t) occurred in the period preceding the introduction of the tiered restrictions. There was no evidence that introducing the tiered restrictions determined the reduction of R(t). An alternative analysis using the daily growth rate of the epidemic curve confirms these conclusions.

Similar considerations are made concerning the health system burden, analyzing hospitalizations at country level. The trend of R(t) tending to increase shortly after the measures became effective does not allow to exclude that the enforcement of such restrictions might have been counterproductive.

These results are instrumental in informing public health efforts aimed at attempting to manage the epidemic efficiently. Planning further use of the tiered restrictions and the associated containment measures should be carefully and critically revised to avoid a useless burden to the population with no advantage for the containment of the epidemic or a possible worsening.

Source: The tiered restrictions enforced in November 2020 did not impact the epidemiology of the second wave of COVID-19 in Italy. | medRxiv

I have observed that in my state, the Reproduction Rate was decreasing weeks (up to 6-8 weeks) prior to public health mitigation mandates. In some situations, the epicurve was decreasing weeks before the mitigation measures began.