{"id":1136991,"date":"2021-12-21T09:19:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1136991"},"modified":"2021-12-21T09:19:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T14:19:20","slug":"boston-bans-unvaccinated-from-bars-restaurants-gyms-theaters-sports-arenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boston-bans-unvaccinated-from-bars-restaurants-gyms-theaters-sports-arenas\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bans Unvaccinated from Bars, Restaurants, Gyms, Theaters, Sports Arenas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fboston-bans-unvaccinated-from-bars-restaurants-gyms-theaters-sports-arenas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1136991&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced the city\u2019s new vaccine passport system on Monday, which will ban the unvaccinated from gyms, bars, theaters, and sports arenas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVaccination is the most powerful tool we have to fight this pandemic,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2021\/12\/20\/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-announces-vaccine-mandate-for-restaurants-gyms-sports-venues\/\">said Wu<\/a> when announcing her new policy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>City workers will also have to have received at least one dose of the vaccine by January 15 and two doses by February 15 and will not have the option for weekly testing. The vaccine passport system for patrons at various indoor businesses will have the same deadlines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoughly 90% of the city\u2019s 18,000 employees are in compliance with the current vaccine mandate,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2021\/12\/20\/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-announces-vaccine-mandate-for-restaurants-gyms-sports-venues\/\"> reported<\/a> the <em>Boston Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Boston, 70 percent of adults are vaccinated and 80 percent have gotten at least one dose, but Wu said her stricter policies are intended to boost vaccination and booster rates as cases once again surge and a new highly contagious variant of concern \u2014 omicron \u2014 drives the current spread,\u201d the report continued.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19206586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237356831.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19206586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237356831-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Police Sergeant Shana Cottone (C) protests the new vaccine mandate at City Hall in Boston, Massachusetts on December 20, 2021. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19206602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237357013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19206602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237357013-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Demonstrators, including many first responders, protest the new vaccine mandate at City Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 20, 2021. ( JOSEPH PREZIOSO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Protesters present for Wu\u2019s announcement shouted \u201cUSA!\u201d and sang the National Anthem, to which she replied, \u201cThere is nothing more American than coming together to ensure that we are taking care of each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geoff Diehl, Republican candidate for governor in Massachusetts, denounced the passport system, calling them \u201cclear violations of the civil rights of anyone who lives in, works in or travels to the city, and will make it even more difficult for Boston\u2019s economy to recover from the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boston First Responders United, which represents EMTs, firefighters, and police said they will fight the mandates in court. Likewise, the&nbsp;National Federation for Independent Businesses said in a statement that businesses are already struggling enough and should be forced to do the government\u2019s job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unfortunate that, once again, private businesses are being placed in the unenviable position of having to enforce another government health directive,\u201d&nbsp;said Christopher Carlozzi, State Director for NFIB in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though small business owners are currently struggling to fully staff their restaurants and venues, they will now be responsible for enforcing the city\u2019s newest public health mandate, too,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles and New York City require proof of vaccination to enter certain businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced the city\u2019s new vaccine passport system on Monday, which will ban the unvaccinated from gyms, bars, theaters, and sports arenas. \u201cVaccination is the most powerful &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}