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In front of a cinema in the neighborhood of Greenwich Village, New York, Thisbe has her entrance ticket in one hand and her vaccination card against covid-19 in the other; since Tuesday that certificate is the “open sesame” for many activities in a place where the pandemic left its mark.
“I feel more comfortable if everyone is vaccinated at the movies“, explains this 17-year-old student, who is waiting for a friend to see Mom, the Chilean drama by Pablo Larraín, then added, “It is your decision if you do not want to be vaccinated, but it is a selfish choice,” explains the young woman who received her first dose in April, as soon as she could stop “protect your family“.
Restaurants, museums, concert halls, bowling alleys, aquariums, discos, closed swimming pools and gyms … From Tuesday it is necessary to show a certificate of having received at least one dose of anticovid vaccine, your photo or a digital pass on your phone to access a long list of indoor activities.
From Broadway to the Met Opera, the most prestigious cultural sites that will reopen from September clearly announce: without vaccine there is no access; meanwhile, in the cities of San Francisco and New Orleans they took similar measures.
In New York, establishments have until September 13 to adapt before the first checks, but from now on the new rules are announced in numerous shop windows.
The manager of the Reggio cafe restaurant, Elena Batyuk, you want to avoid problems during that time. “What I want to avoid is that clients get angry against my team o les griten “, explains.
“Asking people for their medical information (…), telling them what to do is not my thing,” he snorts, “but if it is what they ask of us (…), everyone will be welcome here; only some will be on the terrace“Elena explains.
In the city of more than 8 million inhabitants, about 75 percent of adults have received at least one dose, according to the mayor’s office, which is trying to reactivate vaccination by promising $ 100 for each first dose.
A few kilometers from Greenwich Village, in his little bar in Brooklyn called Paul´s, Jillian Wowak fully supports mandatory vaccinationin a rush to leave the pandemic behind.
“Those who do not get vaccinated, somehow I feel like they are playing with my money“explains this manager who asks her clients to be immunized,” here you cannot keep a mask to eat or drink; if I have to make space between the clients, I can accommodate only four people, “he says.
There are empty shop windows all over the city, despite the resumption of activities in the spring; most foreign tourists have not returned yet and the emergence of the contagious Delta variant raises fears of another blow.
“We were the first and the most affected (in the spring of 2020),” recalls Diane Gnagnarelli, a 62-year-old theater teacher, “aHere we live on top of each other, so with the Delta variant (…) we are obliged to trust science “, he concludes, convinced that some form of compulsory vaccination will end up being imposed.
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