States should be more aggressively setting out worker protection and guidance to companies against mandates, especially where there are no approved drugs. It is wrong to say there is one, which turns out to not be in production and not available in the US.
States could more aggressively aid in helping with religious and medical exemptions--our civil rights, our medical privacy, and our medical choice.
Yes, they need to do more and their inaction speaks volumes. These discussion of lawsuits is a bit of CYA.
Threat of non legal based termination ARE in and of themselves... material damages. They could and should be pursued at multiple vectors under criminal and civil aspects by any means possible. Coercion is not at will choice or consent, rather it is harrassment for religious purposes and is in fact a predefined HOSTILE abusive work environment. Prosecutable in most states via state and federal laws. But the bad guys have this gamed out... and have tested their planned pathway to push this to the judges who will fully back their plays. The Supreme Court.
Only God can save us now.