New York City has been ordered to reinstate with back-pay city employees who were fired for refusing to get the covid-19 vaccine. When I first encountered this story, the quote that was bandied from the judge was “Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19” and my initial impression was of a fringe anti-vax judge. But the judge meant this literally, as in “the vaccine is not 100% effective” and
I live in NY and there were signs in restaurants saying that you needed a state-issued photo ID and CDC vaccine card to take a seat. This was definitely just about compliance given that someone could order at the counter and leave without showing their papers. After the vaccines didn’t end the pandemic the solution became “more cow bell.” They just couldn’t help but double down on stupid.
Was the thinking something along the lines of “I did what I was supposed to do, now I think I should make other people do the same”? There are parents in my school district that wanted to bring masks back in the fall despite an absence of evidence it will do anything against delta or omicron.
I live in NY and there were signs in restaurants saying that you needed a state-issued photo ID and CDC vaccine card to take a seat. This was definitely just about compliance given that someone could order at the counter and leave without showing their papers. After the vaccines didn’t end the pandemic the solution became “more cow bell.” They just couldn’t help but double down on stupid.
Was the thinking something along the lines of “I did what I was supposed to do, now I think I should make other people do the same”? There are parents in my school district that wanted to bring masks back in the fall despite an absence of evidence it will do anything against delta or omicron.
"...thereafter be able to work out with a mask..." -> without a mask?
"...it just needlessly burnished whatever credibility..." -> tarnished?