The local CBS affiliate reports that the only San Francisco In-N-Out Burger joint was temporarily shut down by the city's Department of Public Health (SPDPH) for failing to check customers' vaccination status, and is now restricted to take-out only. Corporate expressed an interesting take on private enforcement of state mandates:
The company’s Chief Legal and Business Officer Arnie Wensinger said in a statement that the location “properly and clearly posted signage to communicate local vaccination requirements.”
However, Wensinger’s statement went on to disagree with the SFDPH requirement that restaurant employees “must actively intervene by demanding proof of vaccination and photo identification from every customer, then act as enforcement personnel by barring entry for any customers without the proper documentation.”
The statement said that the company believes in serving all restaurant customers and making all feel welcome, and said the company would not comply what it called the requirement to act as “vaccination police.”
“We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government. It is unreasonable, invasive, and unsafe to force our restaurant associates to segregate customers into those who may be served and those who may not, whether based on the documentation they carry, or any other reason,” the statement read. “We fiercely disagree with any government dictate that forces a private company to discriminate against customers who choose to patronize their business. This is clear governmental overreach and is intrusive, improper, and offensive.”
In more disturbing news,
Reuters reports that the White House is out ahead of the science again, preparing for Pfizer jabs for 5–11-year-olds that haven't been approved yet:
[U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek] Murthy said the administration was not looking to get ahead of health regulators but wanted to lay the groundwork to ease distribution to ensure there is ample supply and access to vaccination locations.
PlagueBlog's response to this rush to administer an experimental vaccine to children at no statistically significant risk from the uncommon cold comes from the offGuardian's
Monday morning meme series:
P.S. Massachusetts cases were up two elevenths of a percentage point today.
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