Posted on 08/15/2021 5:18:33 AM PDT by george76
Some New York City restaurants will defy Mayor Bill de Blasio's (D.) order to ban unvaccinated people from entering businesses.
De Blasio's mandate, which officially takes effect next week but will start being enforced Sept. 13, requires anyone who enters an indoor business in New York City to show proof of vaccination. The proof can come in the form of either the city's "Key to NYC Pass," the state's "Excelsior Pass," or a vaccination card.
But Pasticceria Rocco in Brooklyn won't be requiring any passes from its customers, manager Mary Josephine Generoso told CBS New York. The award-winning Italian pastry shop and restaurant posted a sign in its window that reads: "We do not discriminate against ANY customer based on sex, gender, race, creed, age, vaccinated or unvaccinated."
"Whether you're vaccinated or not, you are welcome," Generoso said. "I just don't think that we're going to be the vaccination police."
Other New York restaurants are also striking a note of protest against regulations they consider government overreach.
Michael Musto, the owner of Cargo Café in Staten Island, told the Associated Press that he will return to all-outdoor dining, to which de Blasio's mandate does not apply.
"I just don't see myself doing that, asking for proof," Musto said.
Critics, including city councilman Joseph Borelli (R.), have noted that the mandate will be especially tough on black and Latino New Yorkers, who have low vaccination rates and will thus be banned from restaurants, gyms, theaters, concerts, museums, and other indoor businesses under de Blasio's order. Only 43 percent of Latinos and 32 percent of blacks in New York City are fully vaccinated, according to city health department data.
How the city will enforce the mandate is unclear. City officials have suggested that businesses that do not comply will be fined.
That will change when NYC picks out a couple of restaurants that have been determined to be in violation of the order and shuts them down.
Yes...
I knew my Italian Americans would RISE to the occassion.
They cant arrest all.
The answer is to BAN ALL Public Employee’s from these establishments, and I mean EVERYWHERE!!
Damned Radical Violent Extremists!
Then we will see how strong the will to fight for freedom is from these business owners.
Hopefully they unite or find other ways to keep businesses going. Maybe pack up and LEAVE the hell hole that is NY.
Move to a FREE STATE. Leave NYC with nothing but bums and rats.
I like that. “Oh, you work for the city or state? Pound sand, mofo.”
We could start seeing “speakeasy” restaurants in basements—need to get past the bouncer and use the secret hand-shake to enter...
In times of unjust laws, the “black market” is the real market.
A restaurant runs on a razor thin profit margin (probably even worse in an expensive city like New York) they aren’t going to turn away 40% of potential customers
And they aren’t going to ask their skinny 20 something year old waitress to try and turn away a group of black people , since they are 80% non-vaxxed.
I’d say you’ve identified the two big pieces here —
Profit margin is a big deal, yes.
And the black population, which might react badly if the lunch counters (so to speak) suddenly act like blacks are less welcome than whites. I see property damage and other bad effects from such enforcement. Restaurants can’t afford that.
Oh cry me a river. Why bring “people of color” into this? The measure will “be especially tough” on them because they (like me), have chosen not to take the jab. The writer makes it sound like minorities are being deprived of their opportunity to have their dna code rewritten.
This is just a Jim Crow reaction taken by white supremacists to suppress blacks from eating in their restaurants. Cannot put up a White Only Sign at the front of a restaurant so they keep blacks out with this discriminatory action! Way to go Libs! We always knew you were racists.
It’s not the responsibility of restaurants to check vax status.
This keeps changing. They allow us a little freedom, then they clamp down hard. Like good torturers, they let up a bit to make you think it’s over, but it isn’t.
Alternating pain and relief is what good SS/gestapo/KGB do. You eventually collapse and can’t go on any longer.
First the mask, then no mask, then severe penalties for no mask, alternating indefinitely. This started March 2020. It will not end anywhere democrats are in control.
They will be designated Domestic Violent Extremists by DHS
DoVEs
In a way they are. ID must be required to get a VAX card and we all *know* how impossible it is for minorities to obtain such documentation in order to vote.
How the city will enforce the mandate is unclear. City officials have suggested that businesses that do not comply will be fined.
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All that leftists offer is “stick”. No “carrot”. It’s tiresome. Perhaps this is one small sign people are reaching a breaking point and just saying “enough”! Any government can lose its ability to control the populace once enough people stand up to it.
In CA last year, we literally had speakeasy youth sports. Soccer games were meeting not outdoors in fresh air (where they should be) but in indoor crowded literally underground arenas.
Unintended consequences.
I work there and I will not do business with any establishment that asks for documentation of vaccination. I will turn on my heels and walk away forever. Many others feel the same way, even though they will not admit it publicly.
Prohibition returns, courtesy of the Democrats.
I can see it now, where establishments that resist being the vax police announce their view: "Jim Crowe is so last century. We do not discriminate."
Moreover, there is science -- or perhaps more accurately no science -- to back up the stance to avoid discrimination. Where is the "gold standard" science that masks work? Where is the "gold standard" science that show that the vaccine actually prevents one person from infecting another?
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