The contradictions in COVID-19 rules and regulations continue, even as many have already moved on. The latest example was exposed by a burger restaurant in San Francisco.
San Francisco briefly shut down an In-N-Out Burger location after it refused to check the vaccination card of every customer that entered. The location is now open but is not allowed to return to indoor dining.
In August, the city mandated that all restaurants check for proof of vaccination for indoor diners. San Francisco is a city where 83% of residents over the age of 12 are fully vaccinated. Not only is the city still in a state of overreaction, demanding that fast-food restaurants check vaccine cards, but its panic contradicts its own leaders’ actions.
In August, San Francisco Mayor London Breed put a citywide mask mandate in place for everyone, regardless of vaccination status. Children in San Francisco are mandated to wear masks even though they are at far less risk for contracting or spreading the virus than vaccinated adults. And Breed herself then went and violated her own mandate by going out to party at a bar because she was “feeling the spirit.”
Is San Francisco really saving lives by cracking down on the operations of an In-N-Out location and how it handles indoor dining?
None of these rules make sense. Their contradictions mean that they aren’t protecting vulnerable populations from COVID, and the people putting those rules in place don’t really care. Breed has not cared at all going at least back to her November 2020 dinner at the French Laundry.
In-N-Out was right to reject this ridiculous requirement. This should remind people that the public health bureaucracies overseen by Democratic mayors and governors have overstepped their bounds across the country. Even though COVID is far less threatening now thanks to widespread vaccination, they continue to prevent a return to normalcy in places such as San Francisco.
