Posted on 02/19/2022 6:30:30 AM PST by Kaslin
Boston’s new mayor, Michelle Wu, took the city by surprise yesterday when she announced that Beantown’s requirement for proof of vaccination to enter most indoor businesses was being lifted “immediately.” This was particularly good news for bars and restaurants in the city which have struggled to enforce the mandate and seen their customer traffic (and profits) tanking over the course of the pandemic. The reason she gave was yet another “following the science” speech, noting that the city’s positivity, hospitalization, and ICU occupancy rates had all fallen below the previously defined limits. Since that means that even the unvaccinated will now be able to go about their lives a bit more normally, Wu really should answer one pressing question. What about all of the people who wound up getting vaccinated against their will? (CBS Boston)
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has lifted the proof of vaccine requirement for indoor businesses effective immediately. The announcement was made Friday evening.The city just fell below the third metric it needed to hit in order to loosen the restrictions.
Public health data reported on Friday shows Boston has a 4.0% community positivity rate; 90.7% occupancy rate of adult ICU beds, and a 7-day average of adult COVID-19 hospitalizations at 195.9 per day.
At the Boston restaurant Sonsie, the manager went out front and took down the mandate poster that had been in the window for more than a year. She also informed her staff to stop asking to see immunity passports “immediately.”
The one thing that didn’t change on Friday night was the city’s face mask mandate. Officials said they will be reviewing that policy “in the coming days.” Of course, as we’ve discussed here previously, a mask mandate in a bar or restaurant is nothing more than idiotic posturing and virtue signaling. Customers take off their masks as soon as their beverages and food arrive at the table, so the only people being punished are the employees.
Returning to the question I posed at the top of the article, this ending of vaccination mandates is taking place all over the country now. Those who refused to accept the vaccines will now finally be allowed to mix with the rest of the public like normal human beings. But what of all of the people who didn’t want to be vaccinated but gave in and took the shots just to gain some measure of freedom of movement or keep their jobs? They can’t turn around now and be “de-vaccinated.”
The latest numbers from the CDC tell us that 64.4% of the people in the United States are now “fully vaccinated.” (That means three shots at this point for all but the hangers-on who waited until the last possible moment.) So more than a third of the country – including a majority of young children – are only partially done with getting their shots or are entirely unvaccinated. They will get to return to whatever passes for “normal” these days while those who took the shots against their will carry their lingering resentment of the government mandates with them.
If you weren’t paying attention to the politics involved, you might be surprised at how quickly we went from “the mandates are the only thing that will save us” to “never mind.” But that’s because all of these politicians are able to read their own polling numbers and those numbers look like a dumpster fire at the moment when it comes to COVID mandates. These are political decisions far more than medical decisions. And at least some of these officials are going to be held accountable later this year.
They’ll be back in mid November
It’s a miracle!!
A Boston attorney sued Wu in Federal court yesterday over the
Vaccine passports.
Riiiiiight...
yep, exactly.
5 hours, lawsuit filing to wu’s cave.
No coverage on ANY ‘news’ outlet... gotta dig. One can read about it, and see the suit on BostonBroadside.com.
The only people dumber than these misfits in public office are the voters who put them there.
And at least some of these officials are going to be held accountable later this year.
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Losing reelection is Insufficient.
Forcing medical procedures for a vaxx which didn’t protect, didn’t prevent transmission, and yet had the highest rate of adverse, sometimes fatal, reactions is criminal. Forcing people to take an irreversible medication, under the threat of destroying their livelihood, is criminal.
Remember in November: a snake is still a snake
Arbitrariness and capriciousness are all about being abrupt.
The vaxx is the issue, not the masks.
While I am happy when mandates are lifted, I am disheartened that major public policy is being batted about in such a whimsical process.
“If you weren’t paying attention to the politics involved, you might be surprised at how quickly we went from “the mandates are the only thing that will save us” to “never mind.” “
Emily Litella.
Gilda Radnor was a genius.
They have 8 months to fix the mess the rats got themselves in too. And I guarantee you with the help of the fake mediaVomits it will happen. That is one reason why I do not believe in a red wave because these people are evil they know how to fix the game to their advantage. We are like the truckers in Canada we can stand up to those evil tyrant yet time and time again we get defeated. What breaks my heart is that the truckers were standing alone...That city should have come to a standstill no flights going out no buses on the street etc. This is the way I felt when the presidential election was stolen and every door was slammed on Trump’s lawyers faces. Our complaints were falling on deaf ears, even though the truth was revealed, and mocked by our very own reps and by those who stole it! Yep! They know how to game an election!
Massachusetts prides itself as being smarter than everyone and Bostoners think they are smarter than the rest of Mass, so mandating something that doesn’t work against Omicron will make them look like a pack of idiots, when the truth comes out.
They’re rolling the science. Political Science and polls. It’s too late for them to save themselves come November.
“Discovery”.
Good info about lawsuit. thanks
The science must have changed. Leftist useful idiots are so smart.
Do I have to add the /sarc above? I hope not.
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