I’m vaccinated. I’ve done my part. It seems like new restrictions and rules are forever escalating, and will continue to do so past any reasonable point.
That's fair enough. Personally, I think I'd actually appreciate this kind of quiet and serenity for a bit, completely separate from COVID. A moment of peace, silence, and reflection. I think we could all do with a bit more of that instead of the constant distractions of music, chatter, etc.
Eating ramen is highly individualized and tends to not include miscellaneous side dishes.
The new King County policy _explicitly_ disallows asking for ID to verify the name on the vaccination card matches the person holding it (something about being unequitable for those who don't have an ID).
It's all a power trip, meant to look like leadership is taking decisive action. But they have no idea what they're doing.
To me, getting vaccinated feels like table stakes for participating in society, but it’s necessary, not sufficient.
It’s increasingly obvious vaccination doesn’t prevent the spread. If a restaurant wants to encourage people to visit by discouraging them from spreading the virus while they’re visiting, more power to them. Winter is coming, and eating outside is increasingly challenging in most of the northern hemisphere.
To many people believe "freedom" means "people need to do, and accept what I want"... That is not freedom
the business is free to say "no talking" and I am free to say "no shopping there"....
That is the market at work. The problem is when government attempts to impose requirements on either the business or the customer.
Let the market work, we do not need government mandating in either direction
Political actions like forbidding hospital access to unvaccinated people in France showed long time ago that the purpose of vaccine mandates is not health related.
Saying that there's no need for it because it's not a complete solution is like selling your car because you still have to walk to get from your couch to your car.
I mean they would not fire nurses and doctors if they were critically needed would they?...
Sarcasm aside... from most reports I see in the US, the hospitals are filling up with non-covid people that delayed treatments to mass fear around covid, now all of the other every day illness is catching up to people. good job we did there with the fear propaganda
Current vaccination levels are inadequate to stop the spread, but they do significantly reduce it.
The idea that spread is something that should be stopped at ANY cost is false. Now, what is the price we are willing to pay to stop it? We've already used a novel vaccine. What next? The highest price acceptable by me has been paid.
The amount of draconian authoritarianism people are willing to accept here is insanity to me. I often read Sci-Fi dystopian novels thinking "How could a future like that happen really" Now I know... people are willing to trade every ounce of freedom they have for the perception of safety. Very sad