DC adds a vaccine mandate for indoor dining and other activities

[Anonymous]

Also, I'm tired of people I know not getting preventive care because of how the unvaccinated are tying up health care and exhausting frontline workers. Get vaccinated already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of reasons DC will bleed money that we residents are aware of (if our socialist city government doesn't change course) but this is not one. I have not been dining out specifically because there is no vaccine mandate. However, I did book a trip to NY which has one in place for pretty much all entertainment and tourist activities. While I personally think the omnicron surge has overtaken all of this, it's a good precedent and when the surge subsides will encourage me to do more in my hometown of DC. It's beyond time for this. Now Biden needs to impose a vaccine mandate for air, train etc. travel.

Have you been watching the Covid numbers in NYC? How do you think a vaccine mandate makes it safer for you to eat inside at a restaurant.

Vaccines make it so that the person who has been vaccinated is less likely to be hospitalized or die. However, a vaccinated person can still catch and transmit Covid. A restaurant is no ‘safer’ with a vaccine mandate. Despite what Pfizer wants you to believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just heard this on WTOP. Wow. Required for everyone 12+. That’s ballsy.

I’m vaccinated, but my 14yo son is not. Not a chance we’ll be eating anywhere in DC. Either NoVa or MoCo for now (until MoCo passes the same nonsense).

Good. We don't want your infected bodies in our city.Feel free to hang with the other rubes somewhere else. Totally good with it. And don't expect any sympathy when your unvaccinated kid ends up in the hospital.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just heard this on WTOP. Wow. Required for everyone 12+. That’s ballsy.

I’m vaccinated, but my 14yo son is not. Not a chance we’ll be eating anywhere in DC. Either NoVa or MoCo for now (until MoCo passes the same nonsense).

With you. I am vaccinated, but do not support medical coercion, something that I was taught in all of my Medical Ethics classes. - MPH

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MPH as well here and I’m glad DC is finally implementing vaccine mandate. Seems easy to say that we are all looking out for our best interests when most people don’t care about the community and continue to not mask properly or go out with covid symptoms.

A vaccine mandate isn't going to force people to wear masks or modify their COVID behavior. It only affects the rule followers who already do these things.

This. -a rule follower

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just heard this on WTOP. Wow. Required for everyone 12+. That’s ballsy.

I’m vaccinated, but my 14yo son is not. Not a chance we’ll be eating anywhere in DC. Either NoVa or MoCo for now (until MoCo passes the same nonsense).

Good. It worked.

DC will bleed money. Just got asked by a friend to go downtown between the homeless tents, boarded store fronts, and vaccine cards, we don’t need to spend money there. Not sure about PP but I’m rich, so lol sure keep me and my money out. I predict City Center starts shutting down in six months.

You’re delusional, and you’re not one iota as important as you wrongly think you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just heard this on WTOP. Wow. Required for everyone 12+. That’s ballsy.

I’m vaccinated, but my 14yo son is not. Not a chance we’ll be eating anywhere in DC. Either NoVa or MoCo for now (until MoCo passes the same nonsense).

Good. It worked.

Yep. Good for you! You won. Kept me and my money out of DC. Good work. You can pay yourself on the back as you walk by the shuttered restaurants and closed up shops. You can feel good about your ‘win’ but it is a bit sad for the employees and small business owners who have already suffered and now will suffer more.

You. Are. Not. This. Important.

Grow. Up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of reasons DC will bleed money that we residents are aware of (if our socialist city government doesn't change course) but this is not one. I have not been dining out specifically because there is no vaccine mandate. However, I did book a trip to NY which has one in place for pretty much all entertainment and tourist activities. While I personally think the omnicron surge has overtaken all of this, it's a good precedent and when the surge subsides will encourage me to do more in my hometown of DC. It's beyond time for this. Now Biden needs to impose a vaccine mandate for air, train etc. travel.

Have you been watching the Covid numbers in NYC? How do you think a vaccine mandate makes it safer for you to eat inside at a restaurant.

Vaccines make it so that the person who has been vaccinated is less likely to be hospitalized or die. However, a vaccinated person can still catch and transmit Covid. A restaurant is no ‘safer’ with a vaccine mandate. Despite what Pfizer wants you to believe.

I agree--and I won't be eating indoors any time soon. Neither will unvaccinated people in DC, which I'm fine with. It makes them less likely to contract covid (indoors/unmasked) and tie up hospitals (BECAUSE THEY ARE UNVACCINATED). Some of us would like routine medical care to resume, thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just heard this on WTOP. Wow. Required for everyone 12+. That’s ballsy.

I’m vaccinated, but my 14yo son is not. Not a chance we’ll be eating anywhere in DC. Either NoVa or MoCo for now (until MoCo passes the same nonsense).

Nonsense? Seriously? What about the people who work in restaurants? They should have to serve people who are actively flouting public health guidance and common decency?

Who care? They have the option of being vaccinated. If they chose not to get vaccinated, that’s on them. I still don’t understand why we care about others’ vaccination status. You can pass covid on regardless. -fully vaccinated

[Anonymous]

Short-sighted, ill-timed, and ineffective.

It seems some are still under the delusion that vaccinated people cannot get covid or spread covid and that only unvaccinated people can get it and spread it.
That is not the science.

Curious how tourists to the region will take this mandate.

Remember - people do not NEED restaurants. Restaurants, though, NEED people.

Grocery stores, pharmacies, and big box stores are exempt from this mandate.
That, right there, proves this isn't about science, but about retribution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just heard this on WTOP. Wow. Required for everyone 12+. That’s ballsy.

I’m vaccinated, but my 14yo son is not. Not a chance we’ll be eating anywhere in DC. Either NoVa or MoCo for now (until MoCo passes the same nonsense).

Good. It worked.

DC will bleed money. Just got asked by a friend to go downtown between the homeless tents, boarded store fronts, and vaccine cards, we don’t need to spend money there. Not sure about PP but I’m rich, so lol sure keep me and my money out. I predict City Center starts shutting down in six months.

You’re delusional, and you’re not one iota as important as you wrongly think you are.

DP

I agree with PP’s prediction. Come back and let us know how it pans out in 3 months. Life is tough already for business owners in DC. Especially small business owners.

Mostly, this hurts them. And they have unfortunately struggled enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Short-sighted, ill-timed, and ineffective.

It seems some are still under the delusion that vaccinated people cannot get covid or spread covid and that only unvaccinated people can get it and spread it.
That is not the science.

Curious how tourists to the region will take this mandate.

Remember - people do not NEED restaurants. Restaurants, though, NEED people.

Grocery stores, pharmacies, and big box stores are exempt from this mandate.
That, right there, proves this isn't about science, but about retribution.

True.

And takeout doesn’t employ the same number of people - servers, etc.

Anything that keeps patrons of a restaurant for any reason is not good for business.

[Anonymous]

At some point in the not too distant future people will be wondering how they went this far.

Who in DC is going to have the guts to stand up first against this? Anyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At some point in the not too distant future people will be wondering how they went this far.

Who in DC is going to have the guts to stand up first against this? Anyone?

How about you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At some point in the not too distant future people will be wondering how they went this far.

Who in DC is going to have the guts to stand up first against this? Anyone?

Huh. What's your goal in posting this vague attempt at rabble rousing?

For my part, I wonder why idiots politicized, then opposed reasonable containment and healthcare measures for the last two years, leaving us with a pandemic that has gone this far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just heard this on WTOP. Wow. Required for everyone 12+. That’s ballsy.

I’m vaccinated, but my 14yo son is not. Not a chance we’ll be eating anywhere in DC. Either NoVa or MoCo for now (until MoCo passes the same nonsense).

Nonsense? Seriously? What about the people who work in restaurants? They should have to serve people who are actively flouting public health guidance and common decency?

The mandate does not require that those working in those establishments be vaccinated, at this time. Thus the theater comment, perhaps. It encourages vaccination but does not guarantee that most in an establishment, will, in fact, be vaccinated.