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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with everyone that dropping the vax mandate seems like a bizarre decision right now (I'm fine dropping the masks and also wish they'd at least explore dropping masks in schools), BUT

I frequent three different dining establishments due to some peculiarities of my schedule. One is a restaurant with a substantial bar, one is a coffee shop, and one is a mid-priced neighborhood restaurant (no bar). I am at them the same times every week, the coffee shop multiple times a week.

[b]I do not know why, but they have all been a LOT less busy the last month. [/b]I wouldn't think it's the vax mandate because they are all in DC neighborhoods with a lot of vaccinated people and high mask compliance. If I had to speculate, it's that omicron freaked out a lot of the people who regularly hit up these spots, and that decreased business despite the vax mandate, not because of it.

But if you were an owner or manager of one of these places, you might not be sure what was causing it. The vax mandate was an inconvenience for businesses to implement, so it might be easy to point to it as the problem and lobby for DC to get rid of it. Again, I don't think that's the culprit, and I think likely these places were going to see a surge in business in the spring due to an overall decline in cases anyway. But I'm betting that there is some vocal opposition to the vax mandate among DC businesses, but rather than taking to Twitter and complaining on here, they are quietly lobbying through associations to get rid of the mandate. That's just my guess, because otherwise this seems out of left field.

I think a lot of the businesses who like the mandate will just keep it, now that it's been incorporated into their business practices.[/quote]

Because A LOT of DC got COVID over the past month. We just finally started testing negative this past weekend in our house, kid brought it home from daycare. Now multiply that across a lot of households staying home because they were infected.

Plus, of course, people staying home because Omicron was so transmissible.

In hindsight, July-November 2021 was a lovely respite from the COVID scaries.[/quote]

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