![]() Reader: Look at the COVID stats from Florida. ![]() (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Governor Gavin Newsom has said that the mask mandate in California on June 15th. Department of Health & Human Services says the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act “does not prohibit any person (e.g., an individual or an entity such as a business), including HIPAA-covered entities and business associates, from asking whether an individual has received a particular vaccine, including COVID-19 vaccines.” Riders depart the Orange line metro stop in North Hollywood, CA with a variety of mask adherence Monday, May 17, 2021. Reader: “What happened to HIPAA laws where your medical records are private and only disclosed to those that need to see them?” Vaccination proof has nothing to do with an authoritarian madman whose tyranny killed 6 million Jews and countless others in the Holocaust. I don’t have to show proof of anything to get service with PAPERS!” Supreme Court, if such legal opinions were going to be overturned, this was the moment. ![]() And some of those actions may infringe on “freedoms” otherwise protected. Reply: This nation has two centuries of legal precedents saying the government can make tough choices in health emergencies such as a pandemic. Reader: “California continues to power-grab our civic rights and medical freedom!” and “You should have a spreadsheet that tracks the loss of freedom in this country.” Now people complain about differing local rules. Reply: People complained when California’s pandemic health rules were based on statewide standards demanding local control. Reader: “Why do only three of California’s 58 counties have the vaccine mandate?” Reply: The folks following medical advice and public health urgings to be vaccinated should get the opportunity to dine inside - not those who ignore the advice and didn’t get their shots. If they fear COVID-19, they can go through the drive-through and never get out of their car.” Reader: “Adults can decide for themselves if they want to go inside. That location is currently only offering to go orders. San Francisco health officials shut down the Fisherman’s Wharf location for several days earlier in the month for the same issue. Contra Costa county health officials shut down an In-n-Out restaurant in Pleasant Hill on Tuesday after the popular burger chain ignored repeated warnings to check the vaccination cards of customers who wanted to dine indoors. Yes, we’ve seen folks emphatically and sometimes physically object to pandemic requirements such as masks and vaccines.īut should mob rule set health policy or any other important issue? Cars line up at an In-n-Out restaurant Oct. These same employees also take certain workplace risks, including falling on the job to hot cooking grease to robberies. Reply: Restaurants ask these same workers to demand payment from the customers or IDs if they want alcohol. ![]() Reader: “In this crazy world, why should a fast food restaurant assume the liability of having a $15-to-$18-per-hour employee question customers about their vaccination status.” But other challenges include customers and employees staying home, mandates or not.Įmployment in California’s leisure and hospitality industries remains 19% below pre-virus levels. Yes, some of the industries’ woes are from business restrictions. Reply: The business of gathering people - restaurants, entertainment or tourism - won’t do well when the cure to curbing a pandemic is keeping people apart. Reader: “Leave these real entrepreneurs alone they have already been through a lot because of stupid mandates.”
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