Dear HR:
You propose to fire me because I might be a danger to other federal employees.
These other federal employees walk out the front door and quite often catch a packed Metrobus or a standup-room-only subway car(in a subway station having massive numbers of people who pass in opposite directions). These public transport vehicles are filled with strangers, a large percentage of which are unvaccinated, and often come from all parts of the USA (including from areas where Covid is raging) to visit their national capital and its museums.
My fellow employees have to eat. They often do so by sitting down a quite crowded restaurant where every other table has been very recently or is currently used by strangers, many of whom are unvaccinated and who must unmask for extended periods of time to eat their food. While waiting for their food to be prepared, these often unvaccinated strangers often talk vigorously.
At other times, my fellow employees or their intimate partners buy food from the area’s generally well-patronized grocery stores, each of which often has dozens of unvaccinated fellow shoppers in it. Over a course of a single day, it is quite possible for a single Giant or Harris Teeter grocery store to have had hundreds of unvaccinated persons in it, most of whom walked down the majority of aisles in the store.
The chance that one of my fellow employees catching Covid from me is magnitudes smaller than from strangers in a crowded public transport vehicle, restaurant, store or from one of many unvaccinated strangers walking past.
No logical argument can refute religious zealotry. Only the prospect of 50+% of their workforce forcing their own terminations will make these jokers wise up.