The Carmine’s COVID altercation was preventable but I predict we’ll see more of this

“…Also on Monday, Black Lives Matters protesters descended on Carmine’s to protest what they say was discrimination by the restaurant. In a city that was inflamed by protests over inequity and racism in the summer of 2020, it’s amazing that so little conversation ensued over the obvious bias of this vaccine mandate. As of today, only 38% of Black New Yorkers are vaccinated.

The fact that over 60% of the Black community in New York City can’t eat inside Carmine’s is, of course, discrimination. But it’s not discrimination by Carmine’s. It was forced on them by an out-to-lunch Mayor Bill de Blasio and a complacent city that does not question directives that make no sense.

Restaurants were never a major spreader of COVID. And if you’re vaccinated, why do you care if others are not?

When a state wants to require identification to vote, that state gets a barrage of abuse from the left. The state is labeled as racist. Activists pressure corporations to stop doing business in the state. Hollywood threatens to pull production.

But that same identification, coupled with private medical information, being required to dine inside a restaurant brings silence. Speaking out might get you labeled a racist yourself or, worse, a Republican.

People can’t say what they know to be true, that requiring restaurants to demand vaccination proof should not be their role, that altercations will inevitably continue to happen, and that we’re a worse city for it. But it’s quiet. It’s the age of conformity on the left and no one wants to step outside the line…”