‘Word out this afternoon is that half the deputies walked out in protest. Good.’
well, it appears they engaged in exactly the option that the individual you are arguing with suggested doing if you dislike an employment mandate...and you agree with that action...
fwiw I agree with you, regarding overreach by private businesses imposing questionable mandates based on stupid and fallacious government diktats...
“well, it appears they engaged in exactly the option that the individual you are arguing with suggested doing if you dislike an employment mandate...and you agree with that action...”
But it is a government agency. So it is a government imposition. It appears that the walkout was in protest.