SF News Predictably, SF's Infuriating Catholic Archbishop Is Not Vaccinated Color me unsurprised. San Francisco's homophobic gem of a Catholic Archbishop, who's more concerned with making abortion and gay marriage illegal again than with a silly pandemic, claims that his personal physician has told him he doesn't need a COVID vaccine.
Business & Tech More Than 600 Google Employees Sign Manifesto Opposing Their Workplace Vaccine Mandate This is merely 600 workers out of 150,000, and you know they’re all just going to cave in eventually, but 600 Google employees won’t go down without a tantrum over the company’s vaccination mandate.
SF Politics Butte County Town of Oroville Declares Itself a ‘Constitutional Republic’ in the Latest Anti-Vaccine Tantrum The city council of a small town north of Sacramento is making a big stink that they don’t have to follow vaccine mandates, though the mayor backing the measure admits the resolution “doesn’t change anything.”
SF News Anti-Vaxx Protest on Golden Gate Bridge Snarls Traffic, Leads to Five Injuries Two California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers and three Golden Gate Bridge workers were injured by a vehicle during a chaotic protest scene Thursday evening relating to vaccine mandates in the workplace.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Florida Now Courting In-N-Out Because Ron DeSantis Loves a Vaccine Fight Apparently In-N-Out CEO Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson — the evangelical Christian heir to the company founded by her grandparents — had a phone call with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis because In-N-Out has become a hero of the anti-vaxx right.
SF News 26 States Sue the Federal Government Over Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Last week, OSHA handed down a new rule that every company with 100 or more employees must require everyone to be vaccinated. Within eight hours, 26 states sued.
SF News San Francisco Wastes No Time In Saying Five-Year-Olds Will Soon Need to Show Vaccination Cards to Get Into Restaurants The CDC just approved COVID vaccinations for younger children aged 5 and up like yesterday, but San Francisco's health officer is already saying that the vaccine mandate for dining indoors and attending indoor events will extend to those kids pretty soon.
SF News Latest Count: 836 SF City Employees Unvaccinated, 60 Police Officers on Leave Monday was the deadline for full vaccination for all San Francisco city employees, and the city has already begun the arduous process of holding due-process hearings for all those individuals claiming religious and medical exemptions.
SF News Marin, Alameda, and Contra Costa Counties Drop More Indoor Mask Rules Marin County on Monday becomes the first in the Bay Area to drop the broad indoor mask mandate that went back into effect across the region in early August, as case rates drop and the county's vaccination rate outpaces other counties.
SF News SFMTA Announces a Few Temporary Route Cutbacks Due to Unvaccinated Drivers on Leave As forewarned earlier this month, Muni is having to curtail some bus service due to a number of drivers who have refused to be vaccinated, or who will not be fully vaccinated by the November 1 deadline — but the route cutbacks are fairly minor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now an East Bay In-N-Out Location Has Been Shut Down Over Vaccine Rules, With More to Come The In-N-Out restaurant in Pleasant Hill has now had its food-service permit revoked by the county, and at least two more East Bay locations may be next in line if the company continues openly defying local ordinances about checking for vaccines for indoor dining.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thursday Morning What's Up: Pleasant Hill In-N-Out Also Violating Vaccine Rule An announcement about the family found dead on a trail in Mariposa County is coming today, SF city leaders celebrate the first phase of safety improvements on Geary Boulevard, and the In-N-Out in Pleasant Hill has been fined for not checking vaccine cards.
SF News There Are 40 SFPD Officers Now On Leave Because They Wouldn't Get Vaccinated You'd think that people who work in the San Francisco Police Department or at SF General who interact with the public all day long would have run to get vaccinated the minute they were eligible last winter. But no!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Health Department Is Trolling In-N-Out on Twitter Now An ongoing battle over a vaccination mandate between SF's Department of Public Health and In-N-Out was made public Tuesday, and the department quickly used the opportunity to throw a little shade on social media.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Temporarily Shuts Down In-N-Out After Company Comes Out Against Vaccine Mandates You know that In-N-Out is owned by evangelical Christians, right? Well, the unfortunate crossover between religion and anti-vaccine stances has come to roost at the only San Francisco location of the beloved burger chain.
SF News BART Joins Other Transit Agencies In Requiring Employees to Be Vaccinated BART's board announced Thursday that the agency is instituting a vaccine mandate for all BART employees, saying they must be fully vaccinated by December 13 or risk losing their employment.
SF News While Most of California Has Improving Pandemic Outlook, Rural Pockets Where Few Are Vaccinated Continue to Suffer In the counties in California where most people voted for Trump and where they still believe COVID wasn't a big enough deal to shut down businesses, the Delta surge rages on — and it's a starkly different picture in these counties in terms of deaths and hospitalizations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kaiser Suspends 2,200 Unvaccinated Employees Santa Clara County is giving out $76 million in pandemic "hero pay" to its employees, Kaiser is suspending 2,200 workers for not being vaccinated, and Giants playoff tickets are selling fast.
Bay Area Sports Warrior Andrew Wiggins Still Whining About Having to Get Vaccinated — This Has to Stop Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins' was again complaining to reporters Monday night about the vaccine mandate that forced his hand last week into getting a shot he didn't want. And he whined on expressing unfounded fears of "cancerous cells."
SF News Pandemic Updates: SF Cases Continue to Drop; Monica Gandhi Explains Transition to 'Endemic' COVID COVID-19 continues to show signs of retreat in the Bay Area, even though public health officials will continue to cautiously tell us "we aren't out of the woods" probably for a few months more.
SF News Newsom Announces Vaccine Mandate for All California Schoolchildren (Starting Next Year) California just became the first state in the nation to make getting a COVID vaccine a requirement for all students ages 12 and up in both public and private schools, and this will take effect when full FDA approval happens for this age group.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Allow a Maskless, Unvaccinated Andrew Wiggins to Address Reporters In an atrocious lapse of judgement, the Golden State Warriors allowed the unvaccinated forward to address the media unmasked and indoors. Wiggins' comments promptly made the situation even worse.
SF News San Francisco Plans on Opening 100 Vaccination Sites to Help Inoculate Kids Under 12 This Fall The CDC is expected to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to individuals under 12 years old in October — leaving San Francisco to plan on opening a massive amount of vaccination sites to inoculate these kids, as well as accommodate those eligible for a "booster" dose.
Bay Area Sports Welp, the Warriors Have an Anti-Vaxxer, and This Is Officially a Problem Starting forward Andrew Wiggins has still refused to get vaccinated, and cannot play home games unless he does, leaving your Golden State Warriors in a real pickle less than a month from the season’s start.
SF News If You Got the Moderna Vaccine, You're Less Likely to End Up Hospitalized With COVID Than Those Who Got Pfizer or J&J The Centers for Disease Control has just released results from a head-to-head study of all three COVID-19 vaccines available in the U.S., and Moderna's comes out on top when it comes to effectiveness.
