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The days are quickly ticking down to next Monday's deadline when most Oregon and Washington teachers, health care workers and public employees need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.Especially in more conservative swaths of the Pacific Northwest, elected officials remain fearful of a "mass exodus" of firefighters and health care professionals. They are trying different avenues to get governors Brown and Inslee to back off the vaccination deadline. But there are no signs the governors are open to delays.Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich took to the department's YouTube channel the other day to deliver a 13-minute monologue directed at Washington Governor Jay Inslee."At the height of the pandemic, does it really make sense to terminate our health care workers, our firefighters, our EMS personnel?" Knezovich said.Knezovich said he is vaccinated against COVID-19 and encourages others to get the shot. But the sheriff said he can't stomach dismissals of hard-to-replace emergency responders who refuse the vaccine.Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW, and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic.https://www.kuow.org/stories/pacific-nw-governors-hold-fast-on-vax-deadline-as-more-local-officials-warn-of-worker-exodusSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/seattlerealestatepodcast)