Many making this argument have cited a Washington Post-ABC News poll released over the weekend. It showed that just 18 percent unvaccinated people whose employers don’t currently have mandates said they would likely get vaccinated if their employer required it. About 7 in 10 (72 percent) said that, if they couldn’t get a medical or religious exemption, they would probably quit rather than submit to the requirement.

That would be a big number. When you drill down on the data, fully 16 percent of all Americans who work for employers say they are unvaccinated and would quit if their employer required them get vaccinated.

But there’s some nuance in both these numbers and the actual policy.

One is that there are exemptions in the new policy. The White House said Thursday that people could seek them for religious reasons or if they have a disability. The Post-ABC poll shows that 35 percent of the unvaccinated say they would seek such an exemption, compared to 42 percent who say they would outright quit.

At the same time, it’s not clear how many people in that 35 percent would necessarily qualify for exemptions.