Posted on 12/21/2021 11:58:43 AM PST by simpson96
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced new COVID mitigations Tuesday, including a vaccine requirement for indoor dining at restaurants for patrons and workers.
People going out to eat will have to bring in more than just their masks and wallets starting January 3.
The city of Chicago will start requiring customers and restaurant workers to also provide proof of vaccination or proof of a negative COVID test.
This new mitigation effort is aimed at stemming the spread of the omicron variant, which the CDC now says is responsible for 73% of all new COVID cases.
"I think it'll make people feel safe," said customer Larry Knight. "It makes me feel safer. So I would think there are a lot of likeminded people out there like me.
The "get tested" or "show proof of vaccination" requirement may indeed make more people feel comfortable going out to eat. But one restaurant owner is concerned that it could also have the opposite effect and further hurt their business.
"It is frightening thinking about how can this affect our business and even more than it already has, so it's a little bit frightening. But on the other end of that as just a civilian of Chicago, right, it is comforting because with the omicron cases sweeping through the United States now, I think it gives people a sense of security that when you're dining out you will be a little bit safer," said Niki Flores of Chicago's Pizza.
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what is wrong with these people?
the vaccine doesn’t prevent spread!
self imposed autocracy ?
what next ?
digital collars with built in kill switch ?
“what is wrong with these people?”
They’re stuck on stupid.
Will they require tests for drive by shootings too?
This is going to help bring in a lot tourists. Combined with the BLM smash and grabs? Yeah, pack up the kids, Honey, we’re going to downtown Chicago!
Remember when Liberals insisted that requiring IDs at the polls was racist?
How long does a declared emergency last? It’s been 2 years.
I am having more and more trouble caring about the hellish conditions these cities have brought on themselves. The truth is, at least for me, city life has come to suck on its best day.
The tourists do not need to show proof of vaxxes or masks for smash and grabs.
Crime tourism.
Win win!
They have thousands of kids dying of gunshot wounds every year. Far far fewer die of covid.
So what does Lightweight do? Outlaw covid.
And the Southern Border’s still open.
The death knell for Shitcago restaurants. Was in Chinatown yesterday, no mask, no F’n Vaccine.
How long before Pritzker institutes this in Illinois state wide???
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