NYC Will Require Proof of Vaccination for restaurants & gyms

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I am fully vaccinated. However I don't see how they'll staff this to ensure. I mean what about fraud cards? I'm sure those are going to start circulating.

I'm on a shot for asthma where I can't get the flu shot (or any live vaccine) so if that becomes a mandate, I guess I'll have to carry a doctor's note with me.

I was the one who made the "tables are turned" ironic point with humor. I do find it funny that the words they spoke are now back to haunt them. I wasn't offended by their statements, I was offended by their actions. In almost every case where someone around me made a stupid decision in regard to Covid, they suffered consequences. I hated to see that. I have two friends with long Covid right now who thought it would be a good idea to throw a graduation openhouse last summer and an wedding last fall. Both events ended up being Covid spreaders. And both of the people in question were right on top of getting vaccinated. My aunt's sister-in-law just lost her life to Covid. She and her husband were anti-vax. I had met her over the years at family gatherings and honestly, I feel very sorry for her kids now having to grow up without a mother. I don't feel any of that is funny. I don't find any humor in people suffering from Covid whether they made poor decisions or not. In fact, it is this suffering around me which leads to extreme sadness and empathy for people making stupid decisions. And if it affected only them, that would be one thing. But it affects all of us.

I had two weeks worth of neurological side effects from my second vaccine. I already have a mental illness and reading the reports of the number of people suffering mental defects post-Covid scares the hell out of me. Frankly, I'll tell you that managing my mental health is already a full-time job and I can't possibly handle making things worse for myself. The fact that I can have empathy for an anti-vaxxer who lost her life and left her children behind but others do not have empathy for the fact that I'm already impaired and could suffer worse impairment, is causing my resentment.

I did just stay home. I sacrificed Thanksgiving and Christmas with my family while I watched the pictures on Facebook of other families getting together. I'm not an introvert. Social distancing was difficult but I did it. And I practically skipped into my office a few weeks ago to begin a hybrid work situation. I know I have missed out on human interaction. And I really do feel like I did everything I could to get through this as unscathed as I possibly could. I want my life back now. And while there are outliers like luckyexwife who is nervous about possible cardiac effects from being vaccinated (understandable completely), most of the people who aren't getting vaccinated at this point are able to be lumped together as a group-think situation. Just as pre-vaccination times, everyone's actions here impact everyone else. I chose what I chose to protect my friends and family. I think it's a cry out to other people, "protect me too. My life has value too." If I posted here about someone threatening my life in another way, there isn't a pea here who wouldn't say that person is toxic, cut them out of your life, avoid them, etc. Why is this different? Why am I to be understanding of them? All these people dead, all these people permanently disabled by this virus. They can see this and it's not important to them. Getting to go out to eat is more important?

The case remains, I have empathy for people that don't have any single concern for my well-being. If this were another issue, peas would be slapping me silly for continuing to interact with these people.

How do people who consider themselves to be anti racist square this policy with the fact that significantly fewer black people in New York are fully vaccinated compared to white people, often due to distrust in medical institutions because of institutional racism? I guess its the same reason people say that they think black lives matter, but have no objection to the fact that less than 1% of people in many low income (predominantly non white) countries have recieved even one vaccine, while low risk young people in rich (predominantly white) countries have already had two.

You don't know what my point is because the republican party oppose targeted outreach at the black community? Thats hardly a suprise to me, someone who is (much) more left wing than even the democrats. However, i still don't understand why that means it's okay to put in mandates that we know will disproportionately affect black and minority people? Surely it does the opposite if anything, as it makes it even more understandable why these communities have lower vaccine takeup than their white counterparts.

And it's way too little, too late for people to say that they have been pressuring Biden to give more vaccines to countries abroad, when theres been no real pressure to consider whether we should have even started vaccinating teenagers when elderly people and health care worker abroad remain largely unprotected. We should have had equitable access from the start, not rich countries buying up all the vaccines in the hopes that they would later donate them.

around here. businesses are getting more business enforcing masks, etc. the vast majority are vaccinated, and they want reassurance that they can go out where people are vaccinated. we don't like putting the mask on perhaps, but most never took them off.

I am happy private businesses are doing this.and the city mandated employees also vaccinate.

I'm sorry it felt like i was lashing out, i genuinely have just found it quite disconcerting to be on such a differnt page regarding covid to people I normally agree with wholeheartedly on political issues. I just fundamentally believe that mandating vaccines to this extent will do nothing but make people more hesitant and further disenfranchise those who are on the margins of society. Especially undocumented people, the homeless and those who are distrustful of medical institutions (all of which are disproportionately non white people)

When the mask mandates were lifted a few weeks ago, those unvaccinated were expected to continue to wear a mask---a HUGE majority did NOT. If they had, we might still be in the same situation but I doubt it would have been as bad as it is.   

Using a gym or eating out is not a right---it's a privilege. If you want those benefits--get the F------ shot or stop whining.