I think it’s time to treat COVID like the seasonal flu: a virus we simply live with normally. Look at how Britain has opened back up completely about a month ago - zero restrictions - and they don’t seem to be any worse off. Right now, it’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated: look at the data out of Texas and Florida. With vaccines widely and freely available in the United States, the choice is merely personal if someone wishes to die.
Those of us who are vaccinated, who have followed every guideline and restriction since the start of the pandemic, are getting rather tired of it. I know it’s only temporary, but to have to show ID and vaccination proof just to eat inside a restaurant is kind of insane. Breakthrough cases are ultra rare for those who got the shot(s), and at worse we likely to only feel some flu-like symptoms. Let us go back to our previously normal lives!
San Francisco State University - with a Fall semester on-campus population that’s 98 percent vaccinated - still inexplicably doesn’t allow public indoor eating. All the campus eateries are open, but you’d have to bring it outside to eat. This is fine and good during this time of the year when the weather is warm (for San Francisco anyways), but what about when it gets cold? I don’t see any heat lamps. What if it ever rains again? Where are the students to eat their lunch?
It all seems a bit draconian given nearly everyone on campus is vaccinated. It’s not the university’s fault: local policy dictates people have to be vaccinated to eat indoors. I suppose SFSU don’t have the resources to perform checks at the entrances to places like the student union building. Much like our local McDonalds, it’s cleaner and simpler to forgo any form of indoor dinning, and do carry-out only.
I hope the rules on that change soon. San Francisco itself is 80% vaccinated! It’s time to get on with it.
Bending to the wind.