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Mandates. here's cnn's camilla bernal. >> reporter: living with the virus, turning the page, en endemic. >> i'm tired of it. i think i'm covid tired. >> the fatigue is real. >> reporter: no matter what you call it, many trying to move on. >> just feels exhausting, very tiring. >> it's over. let's move on. >> reporter: this week more democrat-run states moving to end masks man daze, new mexico announcing an immediate end. washington state, too, but starting march 21st. >> we will no longer have a state mandate for wearing masks in indoor spaces. we think that's a very important step in the next...

It isn't clear, though, when the state might ease other masking mandates, like the one requiring face coverings in all schools.

Past two years. that cannot be good science. >> jesse: the theoretical situation you just mentioned, if donald trump had done that, he'd be scorched as a racist show that you, simon, know more about how this country works, then a lot of the people in this country do. thanks for coming on fox news. always welcome. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> jesse: several new jersey republican state members defied a state mandate vax requirement by refusing to leave the assembly floor. denied entry into the chamber for not showing a vax card or negative covid test. that's what you're seein...

Rails in terms of any type of legal authority. this is not the only thing we are doing. we are going to have a special session of the florida legislature to provide protections for people and very likely be litigating against the osha rule, if there ever actually came so don't comes out. >> laura: they will have to determine if that old president from the 1920s and the jacobson case is applicable or if the court finding should be overturned. >> look, laura. i would draw a distinction between a state mandate and a federal mandate. i don't think the state should require covert shots either. in f...

Federal mandate on our employers with a state mandate on our employers. that's just the wrong direction, and i made that point. >> i want to ask you, though, if we've got some evidence here that mandates work. let me show you statistics in your state. on august 1st, 36% of the state was fully vaccinated. after the vaccine mandate was announced and you had companies like tyson and walmart in your state essentially announce their own vaccine mandate, vaccine acceptance went up 30%, got 46% of the state now. is that not evidence that the mandate by tyson's and walmart have had an inpath? >> absol...