Dear Saint Paul bars and restaurants,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I get it. You\u2019re between a rock and a hard place. Many of you know how stupid the mayor\u2019s vaccine mandate is – someone who got the Pfizer vaccine a year ago can come into your establishment, hacking their brains out and contagious as can be, while someone with natural immunity a month old is kept out. And your employees have no vaccine mandate, even though they\u2019re the ones who will be standing around the place for hours at a time – which, the science shows, is where the real risk comes from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it\u2019s not like I don\u2019t take this pandemic seriously. I\u2019ve got very vulnerable relatives. I\u2019ve had Covid, donated all kinds of convalescent plasma, been vaccinated, and take all the care necessary. I\u2019m not laughing this whole thing off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But even the CDC and other public health authorities are starting to admit that vaccine mandates and lockdowns are completely counterproductive, that masks are about as useful at public health as aluminum foil pants, that eventually everyone is going to get Omicron, and that the right approach is likely going to be to protect the vulnerable, but go on living our lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which is the exact opposite of the approach the Mayor is taking with this idiot mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I\u2019ll tell you what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you agree with the mandate? Feel free to make your sentiments public. My response should be obvious by this point. You needn\u2019t worry about making room for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you want to go along with the mandate because you have to, that\u2019s fine. I won\u2019t be patronizing your establishment for the duration. I get the bind you\u2019re in, but at some point people have to say enough is enough. Feel free to tell the mayor, the Chamber of Commerce, and all the other people who support this idiot policy I said so. Do you want me to help you put pressure on them? I\u2019m there. And I hope we can get together when the crazy is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you don\u2019t want to go along with the policy, but you need to be discreet? Pass the word around – under the table, discreetly, obviously. I will do my best to be there, and bring friends. I get it, you don\u2019t want to be made an example of like the places that stayed open last year. \u201cTest cases are for other people\u201d, in public health as in self-defense. I\u2019m not going to ask you to be a hero. But pass the word; I will do my best to make it worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enough is enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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