DC drops indoor mask and vaccine mandates tomorrow

[Anonymous]

Wait does my DCPS kid still have to mask outside at recess?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they doing this? The vax mandate was great

It destroys small businesses, especially restaurants.

Why, though? Most of DC is vaccinated, and this should encourage those who aren't to get vaccinated.

Yeah, I don't get the complaint about it hurting restaurants. I know plenty of people who are MORE willing to dine indoors when there's a vax mandate, and it's not like checking the card is all that onerous. No vax mandate for restaurants means we'll probably stop eating indoors again, at least until we see how things shake out with the masking/vax mandates going away.

I love statements like this:

"Checking a card is not all that onerous." It's right up there with "masks are no big deal; no one minds wearing them."

PP, may I politely ask who the hell are you to make general assumptions like this, on behalf of other people, when you have no idea what you're talking about?

So explain how it's so hard. We went out to eat Saturday. The host looked at the photo of the card on our phone, and then led us to our table. It took less than a minute. How is that possibly hard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait does my DCPS kid still have to mask outside at recess?

LOL yes because we are asinine.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they doing this? The vax mandate was great

It destroys small businesses, especially restaurants.

Why, though? Most of DC is vaccinated, and this should encourage those who aren't to get vaccinated.

Yeah, I don't get the complaint about it hurting restaurants. I know plenty of people who are MORE willing to dine indoors when there's a vax mandate, and it's not like checking the card is all that onerous. No vax mandate for restaurants means we'll probably stop eating indoors again, at least until we see how things shake out with the masking/vax mandates going away.

You live in a bubble and an echo chamber.

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Anonymous wrote:Why so sudden? Internal polling or economic troubles?

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2022/02/14/dc-ends-indoor-mask-vaccine-mandate

Why so sudden?

Hmmmmm...could it have something to do with spring tourist season? The concern of tour operators, concert/event/convention planners that people won't book things if the vax mandate is in place?

I'm pro-vax, but DC is a tourist town. And this is the first decent tourist season since 2019...DC wants $$$.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they doing this? The vax mandate was great

It destroys small businesses, especially restaurants.

Why, though? Most of DC is vaccinated, and this should encourage those who aren't to get vaccinated.

Yeah, I don't get the complaint about it hurting restaurants. I know plenty of people who are MORE willing to dine indoors when there's a vax mandate, and it's not like checking the card is all that onerous. No vax mandate for restaurants means we'll probably stop eating indoors again, at least until we see how things shake out with the masking/vax mandates going away.

I love statements like this:

"Checking a card is not all that onerous." It's right up there with "masks are no big deal; no one minds wearing them."

PP, may I politely ask who the hell are you to make general assumptions like this, on behalf of other people, when you have no idea what you're talking about?

So explain how it's so hard. We went out to eat Saturday. The host looked at the photo of the card on our phone, and then led us to our table. It took less than a minute. How is that possibly hard?

And you actually believe that was effective? That really made you "feel" better, PP, that you were in a room of "safe" people, because a 23 year old host glanced at your phone before he seated you? So there is no room for fraud in this process, where an hourly employee who is looking to seat tables can make a "mistake?" It's fair to put all the liability and responsibility for this on the small business restaurant?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they doing this? The vax mandate was great

It destroys small businesses, especially restaurants.

Why, though? Most of DC is vaccinated, and this should encourage those who aren't to get vaccinated.

No. It encourages people (including those who are vaccinated) to not patronize businesses.

I'm vaccinated, and very much against mandates. I won't eat in a restaurant that requires a vaccine. That's absurd--three years ago no restaurant was asking to see proof of a measles shot before they'd let me eat.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they doing this? The vax mandate was great

It destroys small businesses, especially restaurants.

Why, though? Most of DC is vaccinated, and this should encourage those who aren't to get vaccinated.

Yeah, I don't get the complaint about it hurting restaurants. I know plenty of people who are MORE willing to dine indoors when there's a vax mandate, and it's not like checking the card is all that onerous. No vax mandate for restaurants means we'll probably stop eating indoors again, at least until we see how things shake out with the masking/vax mandates going away.

I love statements like this:

"Checking a card is not all that onerous." It's right up there with "masks are no big deal; no one minds wearing them."

PP, may I politely ask who the hell are you to make general assumptions like this, on behalf of other people, when you have no idea what you're talking about?

So explain how it's so hard. We went out to eat Saturday. The host looked at the photo of the card on our phone, and then led us to our table. It took less than a minute. How is that possibly hard?

Lol at the host glancing at a photo on a phone as a measure of safety.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with dropping the mask mandate but the vaccine mandate was good, common-sense public health policy.

What do you think the vaccine mandate in DC accomplished, exactly? Other than helping Virginia restaurants?

Um, The Big Board went out of business? It caused a lot of later in spring tourist bookings for restaurants and hotels to be cancelled, out of town field trips, etc. And then to suddenly do a 180.

[Anonymous]

I live in DC and watching COVID break some of you mentally is hilarious in a sad way. People who think we need mask mandates are the real vaccine science deniers. The vaccines work, masks are not that useful in stopping spread. Also in terms of mandates, the vaccines can stop you from getting very ill but they do NOT prevent transmission. Thus the claims of "I feel safer in places with a mandate" you're just revealing your own ignorance about the evolving science. A vaccine will not keep you from getting COVID from fellow vaccinated people. I say this as someone fully vaccinated. There is a hardcore contingent now of deranged people on the far left grasping at some kind of covid morality identity.

[Anonymous]

Surely a government as progressive and liberal as DC is following the science. Praise be the science.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they doing this? The vax mandate was great

It destroys small businesses, especially restaurants.

Why, though? Most of DC is vaccinated, and this should encourage those who aren't to get vaccinated.

LOL you people are so dense. all I did was take my dollars to VA for the last month.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with dropping the mask mandate but the vaccine mandate was good, common-sense public health policy.

No. It’s a highly unpopular policy that’s toxic to the Democratic Party. Also nit grounded in science, sorry.

It is grounded in science. The vaccinated are less likely to spread/catch covid.

keep telling yourself that!

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they doing this? The vax mandate was great

Because it sucks. And people who are vaccinated are going out of their way to eat in Virginia because they don’t like the mandates. Lots of lost business and headaches for the restaurant owners.

I can't have been the only person who ate indoors in DC for the first time a couple of weeks ago BECAUSE of the vax mandate, and will now not do so.

Probably not. But, you were greatly outnumbered by the (disproportionately non-white) unvaccinated people who took their business to Virginia or Maryland, as well as the people like me who found the mandate offensive and stopped going to DC restaurants.

And, honestly, do you really believe you were somehow safer eating in restaurants with a vaccine mandate?

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In this thread -- a small but sadly misinformed group of people that think being vaccinated means you can't spread or catch covid. News flash: the vaccines can stop you landing in the hospital but are not that effective at preventing transmissions of the more virulent strains. You can still spread and catch covid while vaccinated.